The technique opens up new possibilities for monitoring the effects of climate change in the circumpolar region, combining high accuracy with unprecedented speed of analysis.
The monograph “Marine and Brackish-Water Gastropods of Russia and Adjacent Countries: Illustrated Catalog” is available for reading and downloading on the IEE RAS website.
A Jack Russell Terrier named Zhuzha was taught to search for whales by smell. This is the first time such an experiment has been conducted in our country.
Expedition to count birds listed in the Red Book of the Russian Federation confirms the fears of specialists: the species is disappearing in the European part of Russia.
The visit of the Russian specialists attracted a lot of attention, a special report about the work of the delegation was aired on the Chinese Central Television CNR.
The Baikal seal species lives only in Lake Baikal. Due to the specifics of its habitat, this species differs from its relatives and requires separate study.
Cyathocotyle fulicae is a rare and poorly studied species of trematodes, known from two registrations, one of which was not supported by morphological evidence.
In the Moscow part of the Losiny Ostrov National Park, you can find the lesser butterfly-orchid, the marsh helleborine, the coralroot orchid, the bird’s-nest orchid and other interesting species.
Parasitic insects play a huge role in ecosystems, affecting the health, behavior and population dynamics of their hosts. However, many of them remain poorly studied, especially in remote regions.
Birds of prey are reluctant to inhabit large cities, especially large metropolitan areas. Here they find it difficult to find enough food and hide from the 24-hour city bustle.
The journal "Problems of Ichthyology" has been published under the auspices of the RAS since 1953 and is the leading national scientific publication on all branches of ichthyology and biological foundations of fisheries.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:00 in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33) a meeting of the council will be held, at which the dissertation for the degree of candidate of biological sciences Anastasia Vladimirovna Stryuchkova will be defended: "Ecological, spatial and genetic differentiation of the species of springtails Parisotoma notabilis sensu lato".
The Russian Microbiological Congress will continue the series of congresses organized by the Russian Microbiological Society together with the leading universities and research institutes of the country.
OpenBio-2025 is an already recognized federal-level event that brings together leading specialists, scientists, representatives of biotechnological and biopharmaceutical business, scientists and members of the expert community from Russia and foreign countries. The forum is aimed at developing a dialogue between business, science and the state, stimulating the commercialization of scientific developments and business development in the field of life science. One of the basic components of OpenBio is a conference of young scientists conducting scientific research in the field of life sciences.
On September 25, 2025, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host the International Conference for Young Scientists "Genetic Technologies in Biomedicine" with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (in accordance with the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No. 075-15-2025-464 dated May 29, 2025). On September 26-27, 2025, the School for Young Scientists "Transcriptome in Space and Time: New Approaches to the Study of Objects of Developmental Biology" will be held with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (grant No. 21-74-30015-П).
The Academician V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences will hold a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the Academician V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) from February 2 to 6, 2026 in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).
On Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 11:00 in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33) a meeting of the council 24.1.109.02 will be held, at which Sofia Borisovna Rosenfeld will defend her dissertation for the academic degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences on the topic: "Anseriformes of the Northern Palearctic: structure and number of populations, migration routes, problems of protection and sustainable use."