Iuliia (Yuliya) KUTSOKON

I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine Department of Fauna and Systematics of Vertebrates B. Khmelnytsky st. 15 01054 Kyiv, UKRAINE E-Mail: carassius1@ukr.net Phone: +38 044 235 10 70   https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9721-5638 Scopus Author ID: 55843706300 ResearcherID: S-9511-2017

Education

Highest Degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences (16 February 2008), Ph. D.

First Degree: Biology (zoology) 2001

1996 – 2001 student of Biological faculty of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University

2001 – 2006 postgraduate student of Biological faculty of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University

Ph.D.Thesis: “The current status of ichthyofauna in River Ros’ basin”

Grants and Scholarships

September 18 – 24, 1999 – Travel grant to the FEBS Advanced Course «Free Radicals, Nitric Oxide and Antioxidants in Health and Disease», Antalya (Turkey)

June 1 – July 31, 2011 – Research grant of National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic, University of Presov, Slovakia

June 1 – July 31, 2013 – Research grant of National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic, University of Presov, Slovakia

July 1, 2013 – December 31, 2014 – Grant for Young Scientists of NAS of Ukraine "Current distribution and forecasting of alien freshwater fish in Ukraine"

June 15 – August 15, 2014 – Research grant of National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic, University of Presov, Slovakia

May 11-13, 2016 – participant as independent expert on fish species at “Emerald Network Biogeographical Seminar for all habitats and species (except birds) for the Continental Region (Belarus, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation and Ukraine) and the Pannonian and Alpine Carpathians (Ukraine)”, Chisinau, Moldova

May – October 2017 - project: Field research on fish species in Ukraine, project number 11044031 (WWF Germany with Fundacja Dziedzictwo Przyrodnicze)

June 1 – July 31, 2018 Research grant of National Scholarship Programme of the Slovak Republic, University of Presov, Slovakia

2019 – 2020 The Joint Ukrainian-Latvian R&D Project «The ecological and biological triggers of expansion of the invasive fish, Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii), in Eastern Europe», team member (Project leader Y. Kvach); the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine

2020 – 2022 Project “Development of scientific backgrounds of comprehensive monitoring and threats of distribution of invasive fish species by riverine systems and transitional waters of Ukraine (based on parasite, population and genetic markers)” (#2020.02/0171; National Research Foundation of Ukraine), project leader

2020 – 2022 Project 1327/A2864 "Implementation of Danube basin freshwater programme " Living European Rivers. Let it flow!" (donor WWF Netherlands, with WWF Ukraine) team member

2021 – 2022 Project EORP – Bayurivka Dam Removal (with WWF Ukraine), team member

2019 – Mobilization of biodiversity data from Ukraine to GBIF nlbif2018.2019.004, team member (Project leader S.Miteva)

2021 – 2023 Rufford small grants foundation: Open biodiversity data: serving Nature Conservation in Ukraine 34873-1, team member (Project leader O. Vasyliuk)

Current employments:

Head of the Department of Fauna and Systematics of Vertebrates, I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine

Current research interests:

- Present status of fresh water ichthyofauna in Europe

- Alien and vulnerable species

- Fish conservation

Main publications

1. Nanieva, A.V., Kutsokon, Y.K., Chebotaryova, R.D. et al. Estimating the Effect of the Flint Mineral on Water Quality by the Results of Biotesting on Crustaceans. J. Water Chem. Technol. 45, 586–591 (2023).

2. Yuryshynets V, Kvach Y, Syniavska I, Shevchenko O, Kutsokon Y (2023) Parasites as biological tags of divergence of black-striped pipefish, Syngnathus abaster (Actinopterygii: Syngnathiformes: Syngnathidae), populations in their natural and acquired range. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 53: 95-105.

3. Kvach Y., Tkachenko M., Bartakova V., Kutsokon Y., Janac M., Demchenko V., Ondrackova M. 2023. Parasite communities and genetic structure of non-native pumpkinseed, Lepomis gibbosus, in different Black Sea drainages of Ukraine. Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst., 424 (2023) 1.

4. Kutsokon, Y. K., Yuryshynets, V. I., Shcherbatiuk, M. M., Marushchak, O. Y., Zaichenko, N. V., & Dupak, V. S. (2022). Alien Fish Species and Their Parasites of the Zdvyzh River: General Characteristics, Marker Indicators, the Monitoring Scheme. Hydrobiological Journal, 58(6). P. 28 – 45

5. Snigirov S., Kvach Y., Kutsokon Y., Zamorov V., Snigirova A., Sylantyev S. 2022. Ichthyofauna of the Lower Dniester, the Dniester Estuary and the Adjacent Black Sea Area, with Some Ecological Comments. Acta Zool. Bulg., 74 (2), June 2022: 245-254.

6. Vasyliuk O, Prylutskyi O, Marushchak O, Kuzemko A, Kutsokon I, Nekrasova O, Raes N, Rusin M (2022) An Extended dataset of occurrences of species listed in Resolution 6 of the Bern Convention from Ukraine. Biodiversity Data Journal 10: e84002.

7. Kvach Y., Kutsokon Y., Demchenko V., Yuryshynets V., Kudryashov S., Abramiuk I. (2022) Post-invasion spread of Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii) in the Lower Danube drainage (Budjak region of Ukraine). BioInvasions Records, 11(2): 547–559.

8. Kvach Y, Kutsokon Y, Janac M, Dykyy I, Dzyziuk N, Dudliv I, Nazaruk K. 2022. Parasites of the invasive Chinese sleeper Percсottus glenii (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) in the region of the first introduction of the Carpathian population // Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies. Volume 51, No. 1, March 2022, p. 1-9.

9. Podobailo A., Shukh A., Kutsokon Y. 2021. Age and Growth of the European Bitterling Rhodeus amarus (Cyprinidae, Actinopterygii), in the Uday and Perevod Rivers (Dnipro basin, Ukraine) // Zoodiversity, 55(5): 361-368.

10. Roman, A.M., Afanasyev, S.O., Kutsokon, Y.K., Lietytska, O.M., Hupalo, O.O. Pecularities of the Fish Fauna Forming in Different River Types of the Right-Bank Polissia by Example of the Sluch River Basin // Hydrobiological Journal, 2021, 57(6), pp. 31–48.

11. Kutsokon I, Tkachenko M, Bondarenko O, Pupins M, Snigirova A, Berezovska V, Ceirans A, Kvach Y (2021) The role of invasive Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 in the Ilgas Nature Reserve ecosystem: an example of a monospecific fish community. BioInvasions Records (2021) Volume 10, Issue 2: 396–410.

12. Kutsokon Y., Roman A., Kvach Y., Shcherbatiuk M. 2021. Fish Communities in Three Rivers of the South Podolia, Black Sea Basin, Ukraine. Acta Zool. Bulg., 73 (3): 385-391.

13. Kvach Y, Kutsokon I, Roman A, Ceirans A, Pupins M, Kirjusina M. Parasite acquisition by the invasive Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877) (Gobiiformes: Odontobutidae) in Latvia and Ukraine. J Appl Ichthyol. 2020; 36, Is 6: 785-794.

14. Grabowska J, Kvach Yu, Rewicz T, Pupins M, Kutsokon I, Dykyy I, Antal L, Zieba G, Rakauskas V, Trichkova T, Ceirans A, Grabowski M (2020) First insights into the molecular population structure and origins of the invasive Chinese sleeper, Perccottus glenii, in Europe. NeoBiota 57: 87–107.

15. Fedorcak J, Smiga L, Kutsokon I, Kolarcik V, Koscova L, Oros M, Kosco J. 2019. Parasitic infection of Cobitis elongatoides Bacescu & Mayer, 1969 by zoonotic metacercariae Clinostomum complanatum (Rudolphi, 1814). J Fish Dis.; Vol.42, Is. 12:1677–1685.

16. Kuybida, V. V., Nekrasova, O. D., Kutsokon, Y. K., & Lopatynska V.V. 2019. Summer Fish Kills in the Kaniv Reservoir // Hydrobiological Journal. Vol. 55 (1). P. 103-106.

17. Rubtsova N.Yu., Kutsokon I.K. 2018. First note on fish parasites in Polissky nature reserve, northern Ukraine // Vestnik Zoologii, 52 (1): 53 – 58.

18. Kutsokon I., Kvach Y., Dykyy I., Dzyziuk N. 2018. The first report of the brown bullhead Ameiurus nebulosus (Le Sueur, 1819) in the Dniester River drainage, Ukraine // BioInvasions Records, Vol.7, Is. 3: 319 – 324.

19. Kvach Y., Ondrackova M., Kutsokon Y., Dzyziuk N. 2018. New record of monogenean parasites on non-indigenous fishes in the Ukrainian Danube Delta // BioInvasions Records, Vol.7, Is. 1: 65-72.

20. Kvach Yu., Kutsokon Yu. 2017. The non-indigenous fishes in the fauna of Ukraine. A potentia ad actum // BioInvasions Records. Vol. 6 (3): 269–279.

21. Kutsokon I. 2017. The Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877) in Ukraine: new data on distribution // Journal of Applied Ichthyology. 33: 1100-1107.

22. Kvach Y., Kutsokon Y., Stepien C.A. and Markovych M., 2016. Role of the invasive Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) in the distribution of fish parasites in Europe: New data and a review. 2016. Biologia 71/8: 941—951.

23. Kutsokon Yu., Tsyba A., Kvach Yu. 2014. The occurrence of the Chinese Sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski 1877 in the basin of the Southern Bug River, Ukraine // BioInvasions Records. Vol. 3. Is. 1: 45–48.

24. Drobiniak O., Kutsokon Y., Kvach Y. 2014. Trichodinids (Ciliophora: Peritrichida) of Perccottus glenii (Actinopterygii: Odontobutidae) in three Ukrainian rivers // Vestnik Zoologii. Vol. 48, 3. P. 231 – 238.

25. Kvach Y., Drobiniak O., Kutsokon Y., Hoch I. 2013. The parasites of the invasive Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii (Fam. Odontobutidae), with the first report of Nippotaenia mogurndae in Ukraine // Knowl. Managt. Aquatic Ecosyst. 409, 05. 11 p.

26. Karabanov D.P., Koduhova Yu.V., Kutsokon Yu.K. Invasive range of stone moroko Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck et Schlegel, 1846) at inland water of Eurasia // Vestnik Zoologii, 2010. N2. P. 115 – 124.

27. Kutsokon Y.K. 2010. Distribution and Morphological and Biological Traits of Alien Fish Species in the Ros River Basin (Tributary to the Dnieper) // Russian Journal of Biological Invasions. V.1, №2. P. 106 – 113.