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Department of Evolutionary Morphology


Research Direction:

Correlational systems of the vertebrates' organism: developmental and evolutionary dynamics.


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History of the Department

Comparative anatomical studies have been conducted in the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1922. They were initiated at the Chair of Experimental Zoology and at the Omelchenko Biological Institute. Since 1930 this studies have been conducted at the Departments of Experimental and Comparative Morphology of the newly established Institute of Zoology and Biology (renamed into Institute of Zoology of Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR in 1939, now Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine). The studies were initiated and led by I. I. Schmalhausen (the first Director of the Institute and Head of the Department of Experimental Morphology) until 1941.

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Stuff of the Department:

 

Igor Dzeverin

Dr. Sci., Head of the Department

 

Scientific interests: evolutionary theory, mammalogy, biostatistics, history and philosophy of biology.

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Pavel Gol'din

D. Sci., Prof., Leading Researcher

 

Scientific interests: Comparative anatomy, evolution and ontogeny of marine mammals. Paleontology of marine mammals. Populations of marine mammals: dynamics, morphology, mortality factors. Age, growth, and life history of mammals. Zooarchaeology. Conservation of marine and coastal areas. Marine mammals of the Azov and the Black Seas.

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Lilia Popova

Cand. Sci., Senior Researcher, Senior Research Scientist

 

Research interests: Pleistocene palaeoecology. Evolution of the Pleistocene communities. Changes of palaeogeographical barriers and species ranges during the Pleistocene. Evolution and palaeobiogeography of the Pleistocene ground squirrels. Evolution and palaeobiogeography of the Pleistocene voles.

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Maria Ghazali

Cand. Sci., Senior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: morphology and evolution of skeletal elements of mammals and birds.

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Oksana Shatkovska

Cand. Sci., Senior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: Morpho-functional adaptations of the bird skeleton, evolution of birds, and bird ontogenesis.

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Natalia Akulenko

Cand.Sci., Senior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: Evolutionary peculiarities of amphibians’ and reptiles’ hemopoiesis under normal conditions and anthropogenic pollution impacts. Development of the pollution indicators comprising histological and hematological methods on animals of anthropogenically transformed habitats.

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Svitozar Davydenko

PhD, Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: Adaptations to aquatic lifestyle in secondary aquatic tetrapods, work with museums collections (ordering, identification, three-dimensional digitalization), field search of new materials. Skeleton research with comparative morphology, paleohistology, morphometrics.

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Hanna Sheverdyukova

Cand. Sci., Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: reptiles development, morphology and phylogeny.

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Nadiya Zolotova-Haydamaka

Cand.Sci., Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: studying structural and functional characteristics of osteocytes bone of mammalian in connection with a different support load on the bone skeleton and under modeling hypokinesia in experiments

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Julia Ivanchikova

PhD, Junior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: marine biology and cetacean ecology. Acoustic monitoring of cetaceans; ecology and behavior of marine mammals; assessment of abundance and spatial distribution; methods of automated bioacoustic monitoring.

Valeriia Telizhenko

PhD, Junior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: genetic basis of morphological evolution, animals lifespan, computational biology, biostatistics, machine learning

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Pavlo Otriazhyi

PhD, Junior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: comparative anatomy, evolution and ontogeny of Pinnipedia, paleobiology of marine mammals, 3D technology in scientific researches, analysis and collection conservation

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Anna Romaniuk

Cand.Sci., Acting Junior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: morpho-functional and biomechanical features of masticatory apparatus of the Carnivora (in particular, Mustelidae) in view of feeding strategy.

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Oksana Vertsimakha

Junior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: statistical methods in biology; networks in biological modelling, methods of clusterization and community detection algorithms, non-parametric statistics

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Vladyslava Andrushchyk

Junior Research Scientist

 

Scientific interests: morphology and functional integration of the skull in carnivorous mammals, particularly representatives of the family Canidae.

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Igor Bogdanovich

Cand. Sci., Senior Researcher, Leading engineer

 

Scientific interests: origin of birds locomotor apparatus, flight and birds as class.

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Ivan Shevel

Leading engineer

 

Activity: Transmission electron microscopy

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Natalya Slutska

Leading engineer. Technical supply.

 

Scientific interests: morphology and evolution of skull anurans.

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Marina Vysotskaya

First category engineer. Technical and material supply.

 

Scientific interests: spinal column functional morphology of sharks different systematic groups, cetacean hind limb embryogenesis.

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Viktoriya Ryazantseva

Second category technician

 

     

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2026