From August 16 to 26, 2024, an expedition to Lake Baikal took place as part of the Baikal-Evolution-2024 school for young scientists, organized by the Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the RAS.
Scientists from the GC for Chemosensory Research have found that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 and lead to a faster recovery for those who have contracted the virus.
On September 4, Leonid Mironovich Baskin, a zoologist and conservationist, chief researcher at the Laboratory of Mammal Behavior and Behavioral Ecology of the IEE RAS celebrated his 85th birthday.
The leading scientific journal Hydrobiologia has published an article prepared by the staff of the IEE RAS in collaboration with colleagues from Belarus and a number of regions of Russia.
According to Darwin's theory of natural selection, only the most adapted living organisms can survive in the wild, since predators primarily attack weakened or sick animals or those that differ significantly.
How do animals' lives change in the fall? How does hibernation differ from regular sleep? Where do birds fly away? And which animals' brains shrink in the fall?
An expedition to study bowhead whales in the northern Sea of Okhotsk has been successfully completed in Magadan. Among other things, scientists encounter about 15 whales.
An international team of scientists has discovered a new genus and species of polychaete worms in Vietnam and Japan. This marine worm is very similar in appearance to nudibranchs, which have bright, warning colors.
"The Alpina non-fiction publishing house, edited by V.S. Artamonova, a leading researcher at the IEE RAS, has published a book "Dead Lion: A Posthumous Biography of Darwin and His Ideas."
About 800 years ago, the ancestors of the Inuvialuit came to the Mackenzie River Delta (Northwest Territories, Canada), and beluga whales took a central place in their economy and culture.
This year, during the spring and summer, the Central Forest Reserve hosted the filming of the movie "Science of Life" by the "Scientific Film Laboratory" studio.
Scientists from the IEE RAS and the IPAE RAS conducted a study of the daily rhythms of activity of the most common and diverse Arctic terrestrial arthropods in natural conditions of constant illumination.
Mesopelagic fishes, inhabiting the water column in the depth range from 200 to 1000 m, play an important role in the ecosystems of the World Ocean, being an intermediate link in the food webs.
Fish have a wide variety of tumors that can arise from all types of cells. Fish tumors are generally less aggressive and metastasize less often than tumors in mammals.
Pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha is a Pacific semelparous species. The species expanded its range as a result of the invasion into the Great Lakes and introduction to the White Sea basin.
Siberian parasitologists are looking forward to welcoming their colleagues from September 15-17, 2026, at the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located at 11 Frunze Street.
2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of Maxim Grigorievich Sinitsyn, PhD in Biology, the founder and first director of the Kologrivsky Forest Nature Reserve. To commemorate this anniversary, a scientific and practical seminar on the study of protected areas will be held on March 24, 2026, at the Center for Ecological and Practical Forestry of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). The seminar program will include reminiscences from Maxim Grigorievich's colleagues and scientific papers on the monitoring and study of protected natural complexes.
The A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IEE RAS), the I.D. Papanin Institute of Biology of Inland Waters of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBW RAS), and the P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University invite you to participate in the Seventh International Symposium "Alien Species in the Holarctic. Borok-VII."
We invite you to the IV All-Russian conference with international participation "Mechanisms of Microorganism Adaptation to Various Environmental Conditions – MICRAD-2026," which will be held from August 24 to 29, 2026, in Irkutsk and at the Uyuga tourist center on the shore of Lake Baikal.
We invite you to participate in the 25 International Scientific and Practical Conference "Problems of botany of South Siberia and Mongolia". In 2026, the organizers decided to hold the anniversary meeting in person during the summer field season 20 – 23 of July at the Altai State University internship center in the Altai Republic.
The conference "Biological Morphogenesis: Mechanisms of Morphogenetic Processes, Intra- and Interscale Interactions in Developing Systems, and the Potential and Limitations of Formation" opens a series of scientific events dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the publication of W. D'Arcy Thompson's 1917 book "On Growth and Form." It will be held November 11–12, 2026, at the A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.