The main goal of the research is a full-scale census, assessment of the distribution of polar bears and marine mammals using instrumental (photo and infrared aerial photography) and aerial visual methods.
Ivan Vladimirovich Sotnikov, a graduate student of the IEE RAS, received a scholarship from the President of the Russian Federation for graduate students and adjuncts.
From May 5 to 12, Corresponding Member of the RAS, Professor of the RAS, A.A. Kotov held a series of lectures for 7th-8th grade schoolchildren of the "Biological Shift" at the Sirius Educational Center.
An international team of scientists has studied the consequences of global warming in the Arctic, combining a large pool of long-term data on 12 populations of 9 bird species.
Senior researcher at the Laboratory of Behavior and Behavioral Ecology of Mammals, PhD in Biology Anastasia Antonevich took part in the Naukogradostno festival, which was held in Chernogolovka on May 17-18.
The atlas contains the first full account of information on all 202 species of animals belonging to 37 families from 7 orders living in the western part of our country.
From April 11 to 16, 2025, the final round of the All-Russian Olympiad in Ecology was held for high school students from all over Russia, in which 294 schoolchildren from 86 constituent entities of the RF took part.
The history of the Great Patriotic War is shocking not only because of the colossal destruction in the places of military operations and the death of a huge number of people.
From April 24 to 30, 2025, the final stage of the All-Russian School Olympiad in Biology was held, in which about 500 schoolchildren from 87 regions of the country took part.
Kommersant-Nauka spoke about this with Maria Solovyova, head of research on Baikal seal research programs, senior researcher at the IEE RAS, and candidate of biological sciences.
We bring to your attention the diary entries made in 1941-1943 by a junior research fellow at the Institute of Microbiology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, PhD Sofya Vasilyevna Goryunova (born in 1907).
The event brought together more than 70 schoolchildren and students, including those from the Timiryazev Russian State Agrarian University-Moscow Agricultural Academy, Rosbiotech, and Lomonosov Moscow State University.
We invite you to participate in the 5th International Conference "Preservation and Enhancement of Genetic Resources of Microorganisms" (BRCmicro 2026), which will be held from June 29 to July 2, 2026, in St. Petersburg. The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU), and the All-Russian Research Institute of Agricultural Microbiology (VNIISKhM). The 2026 conference is dedicated to the 135th anniversary of agricultural microbiology in Russia.
The 7th All-Russian Forum "Greenhouse Industry of Russia — 2026" will be held April 23–24, 2026, in Moscow. The Forum is organized by Agribusiness Magazine.
The Organizing Committee for the Symposium "Alien Species in the Holarctic (Borok-VII)" has received over 280 applications from 68 scientific organizations in 5 countries. We are grateful to all our colleagues who registered!
At the request of participants, the Organizing Committee has extended the registration deadline for the Symposium until June 1, 2026, and has begun accepting abstracts submitted according to the rules outlined in the attached second information letter. Also, at numerous requests from participants, the abstract limit has been increased (preferably to no more than 2 pages of text), as well as the working language - English (preferred) or Russian. Abstract submission deadline: July 1, 2026.
On Friday, April 17, 2026, at 3:00 PM, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held in the large conference hall of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (33 Leninsky Prospekt) to mark the pre-defense of Nikolai Vladimirovich Bardukov's PhD dissertation.
The A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS) invites students and high school students to an Open Day on Thursday, April 23, at 2:00 PM.
The program includes:
- Introduction to the Institute's research areas and the work of its laboratories.
- Presentations by the Director, Head of Graduate Studies, scientists, and graduate students.
- Information about opportunities to apply to graduate school, choose a supervisor for your bachelor's, master's, or dissertation, or participate in research as lab assistants or volunteers.
On Friday, April 10th, at 2:00 PM, an interlaboratory colloquium will be held in the IEE RAS conference hall at 33 Leninsky Prospekt. The Laboratory of Soil Zoology and General Entomology, the Laboratory of Studying Ecological Functions of Soils, the Laboratory of Microevolution of Mammals, and the Laboratory of Problems of Evolutionary Morphology will discuss the pre-defense of Ekaterina Yuryevna Yakovleva's PhD dissertation on "Evolutionary Changes and Phenotypic Plasticity of Drosophila Melanogaster Life Cycle Parameters Under the Influence of Various Environmental Factors" (specialty 1.5.14. - Entomology).