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The laboratory's current research spans a wide range of topics, including:
- Evolutionary ecology (ecological mechanisms of speciation and morphogenesis, ecological and genetic aspects of reticulate speciation, intra- and interpopulation variability of different trait systems in fish as a basis for the emergence of adaptations);
- Ecology of individual fish species and the structure of fish populations in aquatic communities (variability of life and reproductive cycles, fish reproductive ecology, growth, feeding, and the dynamics of commercial fish populations);
- Anthropogenic impacts on fish, including commercial fishing and aquaculture (invasion ecology, reproductive and developmental disorders, ecotoxicology, assessment of commercial stock status and their rational use, improvement of aquaculture technologies, including the development of original technologies for producing clonal sturgeon lines);
- Conservation of biodiversity (phylogeny and systematics of individual fish groups, faunistics and zoogeography, development of measures to protect rare and endangered species).
