News

10
February
2025
First detailed study of millipede viruses
Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics have led to a breakthrough in the study of viral diversity, but viruses of most soil animals (except ants) remain largely unstudied.
08
February
2025
February 8 - Russian Science Day
This holiday was established in 1999 in honor of the 275th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) by Peter I in 1724.
16
January
2025
New data gives bloodsucking flies another genus
Hippoboscidae bloodsucking flies have a large number of unique morphological and physiological adaptations, most of which are closely related to their ectoparasitic lifestyle.
31
December
2024
Happy New Year!
May the new year fulfill all your dreams and wishes, bring confidence, hope, health and well-being to every home!

Announcements

08 — 09 October
All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation "Russia in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Coastal Zone: Science, Ecology, Culture, Education"

The conference is being organized by the Russian National Committee for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development/Interdepartmental National Oceanographic Commission of the Russian Federation (INOC) in collaboration with the Institute for Integrated Studies of National Marine Policy of the Russian Technical University MIREA and the Museum-Reserve "Museum of the World Ocean," with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the Russian Ministry of Culture. The conference will be one of the official events of the UN Decade of Ocean Science and Sustainable Development.

13 August
Applications are now open for the All-Russian Prize "For Loyalty to Science"

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation announces the XII All-Russian Prize "For Loyalty to Science," one of the key events of the Decade of Science and Technology declared by the President of the Russian Federation.

20 — 22 October
VIII International Scientific Conference "Humic Substances in the Biosphere"

Saint Petersburg State University, the Soil Science Department of Lomonosov Moscow State University, the Subcommission of the Interregional Public Organization "Soil Organic Matter," the V.V. Dokuchaev Soil Science Society, and the CIS Regional Branch of the International Humic Substances Society (IHSS) invite you to participate in the VIII International Scientific Conference "Humic Substances in the Biosphere," to be held in Saint Petersburg from October 20 to 22, 2026.

24 — 27 September
School for young scientists "Objects and methods of developmental biology: genomic, molecular, and morphogenetic mechanisms of development and regeneration"

From September 24-27, 2026, the Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences will host a school for young scientists, "Objects and Methods of Developmental Biology: Genomic, Molecular, and Morphogenetic Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration." The school is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the eminent embryologist D.P. Filatov (1876-1943).

30 — 31 March 2027
III All-Russian Scientific Conference "Aquatic Biological Resources of Russia: State, Monitoring, Management" dedicated to the 95th anniversary of KamchatNIRO

On March 30-31, 2027, the 3rd All-Russian Scientific Conference dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Kamchatka Branch of the State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (KamchatNIRO), will be held in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

29 September
Defense of N.V. Bardukov's dissertation "Formation of the modern range of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)"

On Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 11:00, Council Meeting 24.1.109.02 will be held in the conference hall of the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Leninsky Prospekt, 33). Nikolai Vladimirovich Bardukov, Candidate of Biological Sciences, will defend his dissertation "Formation of the Modern Range of the Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)."