Conducted at the Glubokoye Ozero N.Yu. Zograf hydrobiological station of IEE RAS, the school-conference was a continuation of a series of seminars-schools on the taxonomy and faunistics of cladocerans (the first school-seminar was held in 2008, the second - in 2013, the third - in 2018). On the other hand, it was a continuation of a series of conferences on cladocerans and other crustaceans of continental waters, held on the basis of the I. D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters of RAS. In 2021, it was decided to transform the school-seminar into a school-conference, because of the restrictions due to the COVID19 epidemic, no other large events specifically dedicated to cladocerans are planned in the near future, and the presentation of the latest results on them for fellow carcinologists looks quite appropriate. Unlike previous schools, the 2021 school conference was attended almost exclusively by specialists for whom cladocerans are the primary object of their professional activity.
The school-seminar was attended by 12 people - employees of IEE RAS (M.A. Aksenova, O.S. Boykova, P.G. Garibyan, A.G. Ibragimova, N.M. A. Neplyukhin), the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University (A.Yu.Sinev, E.S. The participants were somewhat contingently divided into “teachers” and “students”, since in many cases the “students” were able to explain important aspects of the cladocera identification process to their colleagues themselves. The main purpose of the event was to acquaint the participants with the latest achievements, problems and methods of work in the field of taxonomy and faunistics of this group of micro-crustaceans.
As part of the school-conference program, lectures were given on the history of the Glubokoye Ozero Hydrobiological Station, the external and internal structure of cladocerans, the taxonomic diversity of cladocerans of Northern Eurasia, their biology, embryology, phylogeny, biogeography and phylogeography. A series of lectures was devoted to the practical issues of identifying taxa of the orders Ctenopoda, Haplopoda, and Onychopoda of different levels, and three lectures dealt with different families of the order Anomopoda.
One of the days of the school-conference was completely devoted to the report of the "students" of the participants and the discussion of the results obtained, as well as promising research, including the joint work of the participants of the school-conference. Based on the results of her work, a collection of brief abstracts has been prepared.
Undoubtedly, in the coming years, new schools-seminars are planned at the Biological Station "Glubokoye Ozero" IEE RAS, and we will be happy to invite colleagues from various universities and institutes of Russia there.
Program and theses of the conference
