From May 1 to May 31, the photo exhibition “Birds of Moscow Parks and Their Singing” is taking place in the Tagansky Park of Culture and Recreation in the children’s area.
The next Arctic season of the RGS has begun - in 2024 it will last from April to September. As part of the first stage of the expedition to Franz Josef Land in the Russian Arctic National Park, six scientific groups worked in parallel.
In a new study employees of the IEE RAS, together with their colleagues studied the feeding habits of carnivorous and ungulate mammals that inhabited the territory of the Northern Black Sea region in the Late Miocene.
It has recently been shown that there has been a widespread decline in terrestrial insect populations over the last century, but trends in other indicators of biodiversity are less clear.
Corresponding member of the RAS, Professor of the RAS Alexey Alekseevich Kotov for the third year in a row has been included in the Research.com ranking of the best scientists in the Animal Science section.
Congratulations to the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and colleagues on Victory Day! This holiday has become a symbol of the courage of our people, their unshakable fortitude and unyielding spirit!
In the Fayum oasis (Egypt), employees of the IEE RAS, together with archaeologists and historians from the Center for Egyptological Research of the RAS, studied the unique joint burial of humans and dogs.
In 2023, employees of the Laboratory of Population Ecology, together with the Voroninsky Nature Reserve, began a project to restore the population of the speckled ground squirrel.
Three scientists from Russia were included in the ranking of the best scientists in the field of ecology and evolution. Two out of three are employees of the IEE RAS.
Employees of the Saratov branch of the IEE RAS Olga and Mikhail Oparin told Rossiyskaya Gazeta journalists how the fauna is changing and why this is connected to more than global warming.
The implementation of the program for the restoration of leopards in the Central Caucasus began with the release of the first animals in the territory of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania in 2018.
The Institute congratulates the Theriological Society at the Russian Academy of Sciences on this significant event - naming it after Academician V.E. Sokolov.
April 23, 2024 marks the 140th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding scientist, world-famous theorist of evolutionary doctrine of the 20th century - Ivan Ivanovich Shmalhausen.
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).