Olena S. Kudlai

Department of Parasitology, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street Kyiv-30, 01601 Ukraine   Tel.: +38044 526-33-80 E-mail: Alena[et]izan.kiev.ua

BIRTH DATE AND PLACE

June 05, 1985, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Diversity, ecology, biology and morphology of larval and adult stages of trematodes.

- Life cycles of trematodes.

- Participation of marine and freshwater mollusks in transmission of trematodes.

CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS

- Larval trematodes from water mollusks in Ukraine.

- Trematodes of wetland birds of south Ukraine.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

- Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv. Candidate of Biological Sciences (equivalent of Ph.D.), specialization: parasitology, helminthology (December, 2011).

Dissertation:"Trematode fauna of Gastropoda from water bodies in Northern Priazovye".

- Melitopol State Pedagogical University, Ukraine (highest honors). Biologist, psychologist. (June, 2007).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010 – present - Engineer. Department of Parasitology, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.

2007 – 2010 - Postgraduate student. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv.

SHORT RESEARCH VISITS

- Pracownia Biologii i Ekologii Pasozytow, Katedra Zoologii i Pszczelnictwa, Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie, Szczecin, Poland, June 2010.

- Zaklad Parasitologii Lekarskiej, Panstwowy Zaklad Higieny, Warszawa, Poland, August 2011.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

Ukrainian Scientific Society of Parasitologists

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

PhD Thesis: Kudlai O.S. 2011. Trematode fauna of Gastropoda from water bodies in Northern Priazovye. – Thesis for the scientific degree of candidate of biological sciences. - Kyiv, 2011. – 23 p. [In Ukrainian].

Articles:

Kudlai O.S. 2009. The discovery of the intermediate host for the trematode Moliniella anceps (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae) in Ukraine. Vestnik zoologii, 43 (4): 351–353.

Kudlai O.S. 2009. Biology of Neoacanthoparyphium echinatoides (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae) in north-western Priazov’ye (Ukraine). Vestnik zoologii, Supplement, 23: 102-106. [In Russian]

Kudlai O.S. 2010. First record of Asymphylodora progenetica (Trematoda, Monorchiidae) in Ukraine. Vestnik zoologii, 44 (6): 543–546.

Conference abstracts:

Kudlai O.S. 2008. On the parasites of Gastropoda from waters of north-western Priazovye. Proceedings of the Conference of young researchers-zoologists, Kyiv. - Zoological Courier, 2: 14-15. [In Ukrainian].

Kudlai O.S. 2009. On the parasites of Gastropoda from small rivers of north-western Priazovye. Proceedings of the Conference of young researchers-zoologists, Kyiv. - Zoological Courier, 3: 36-37. [In Ukrainian].

Kudlai O.S. 2009. Multiple infections of larval trematodes in Gastropoda from water bodies in Northern Priazovye. Proceedings of XIV Conference of the Ukrainian Society of Parasitologists, Kiev: 60. [In Ukrainian].

Kudlai O.S. 2009. Evaluation of infection of molluscs Viviparus viviparus by larval trematodes in The Molochna River. Abstracts of VI International research-and-practical conference of the young scientists devoted to the problem of water ecosystems “Pontus Euxinus – 2009”, Sevastopol: 156-157. [In Ukrainian].

Kudlai O.S. 2010. Chaetogaster limnaei (Annelida: Oligochaeta) - parasite of freshwater molluscs. Proceedings of the Conference of young researchers-zoologists, Kyiv. - Zoological Courier, 4: 31. [In Ukrainian].

Kudlai O.S. 2010. Trematode fauna of the mollusks Planorbis planorbis (Pulmonata, Planorbidae) from freshwater reservoirs in Northern Priazovye. Proceedings of V International young scientists’ conference, Kharkiv: 356-358. [In Russian].

Kudlai O.S. 2012. Larval trematodes of molluscs of the family Lymnaeidae from water bodies in Northern Priazovye. Proceedings of III International Conference “Present-day problems of biology, ecology and chemistry”, Zaporizhzhya: 185-186. [In Russian].

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, 2004-2009