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.
OpenBio-2025 is an already recognized federal-level event that brings together leading specialists, scientists, representatives of biotechnological and biopharmaceutical business, scientists and members of the expert community from Russia and foreign countries. The forum is aimed at developing a dialogue between business, science and the state, stimulating the commercialization of scientific developments and business development in the field of life science. One of the basic components of OpenBio is a conference of young scientists conducting scientific research in the field of life sciences.
On September 25, 2025, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host the International Conference for Young Scientists "Genetic Technologies in Biomedicine" with the support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (in accordance with the Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation No. 075-15-2025-464 dated May 29, 2025). On September 26-27, 2025, the School for Young Scientists "Transcriptome in Space and Time: New Approaches to the Study of Objects of Developmental Biology" will be held with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (grant No. 21-74-30015-П).
The Academician V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences will hold a conference with international participation “Mammals in a Changing World: Current Problems of Theriology” (XII Congress of the Academician V.E. Sokolov Theriological Society of the Russian Academy of Sciences) from February 2 to 6, 2026 in Moscow, at the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS).
On Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 11:00 in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33) a meeting of the council 24.1.109.02 will be held, at which Sofia Borisovna Rosenfeld will defend her dissertation for the academic degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences on the topic: "Anseriformes of the Northern Palearctic: structure and number of populations, migration routes, problems of protection and sustainable use."
We invite you to take part in the III International Scientific and Practical Conference in Memory of V.K. Babayan "Modern Methods of Assessment and Rational Use of Aquatic Biological Resources". The conference is scheduled for the period from November 17 to 21, both with in-person (at the VNIRO Central Institute) and remote participation.
The International Conference dedicated to the 55th Anniversary of the Joint Russian-Mongolian Complex Biological Expedition will be held on September 17, 2025, at the Chinggis Khan National Museum (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia). The conference will be devoted to the achievements of the expedition and prospects for further research in the field of biology and ecology.