Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals


The Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals located in Novosibirsk is one of the oldest research organization in the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Institute was founded in 1944 as Biomedical Institute, the first Siberian academic establishment working in biology. The Siberian Zoological Museum of the ISEA SB RAS has the third-largest coleopteran collection in Russia. Some Siberian research organizations as the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS and the Institute of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry SB RAS were derived from the Institute former laboratories.

General background

The Institute research mission is the study of animal populations and communities structural and functional organization along with community ecology and biodiversity.
The ISEA international activities include collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, Japan and China.

History

The Institute was formed as Biomedical Institute in 1944 due to the special Order of the USSR Sovnarkom. It was renamed a few times:
There are seven laboratories, one special research team, three research stations and one affiliated research and production unit in the Institute.

Laboratories

; Special research team
The Museum appeared in 1960 as a separate laboratory of the Institute. Now it is curated by the researchers of the Invertebrate Systematics and the Philogeny&Faunogenesis Laboratories. The Siberian Zoological Museum has a vast scientific collection including the third-largest coleopteran collection in Russia as well as some permanent exhibitions.

The Euroasian Entomological Journal

The Euroasian Entomological Journal started in 2002 due to the Siberian Zoological Museum of the ISEA SB RAS and the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University joint efforts. The Journal publishes original and qualitative scientific papers on insect taxonomy, fauna, ecology, physiology etc. A Head Editor of the Journal is Prof ScD Victor V. Glupov, the Director of the ISEA. His three deputies are PhD Sergei E. Tshernyshev, PhD Kirill G. Mikhailov and ScD Andrei A. Legalov. There are competent entomologists from recognised research establishments and universities of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the United Kingdom in the Journal editorial board. The Journal periodicity is six issues per year.

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