Currently, the Laboratory's main lines of research are the evolutionary biology of development and the study of the patterns and mechanisms of morphological evolution in the onto- and phylogeny of lower vertebrates (amphibians, teleost fishes, and sturgeons).
Complex, multidisciplinary research is carried out under both laboratory and field conditions, combining comparative-morphological and experimental analyses.
The work is conducted in collaboration with colleagues from Lomonosov Moscow State University and the N.K. Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology.
Laboratory staff actively participate in the Joint Russian-Ethiopian Biological Expedition. Research conducted in Ethiopia made it possible to reveal the ontogenetic mechanisms of the explosive morphological diversification of the large African barbs (Labeobarbus spp.) of Lake Tana, which form the largest species flock among living cyprinids.