Laboratory of  Experimental Entomology and BioControl Theory Russia, 199034, St.-Petersburg, Zoological Institute. Phone: +7 (812) 714 0442; Fax: +7 (812) 714 0444; E-mail:  sreznik@zin.ru

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION

• LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS IN INSECT ECOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY: PLANNING AND CONDUCTING.
• EXPERIENCE IN LABORATORY WORK WITH VARIOUS LABORATORY INSECTS.
• EXPERIENCE IN FIELD COLLECTION OF FLIES AND MOSQUITOES.

POSITION:

• Since 2004 Chief Researcher, Laboratory of Experimental Entomology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN RAS).
• 1988 - 2004 Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Experimental Entomology, ZIN RAS.
• 1973 - 1988 Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Experimental Entomology, ZIN RAS.
• 1959 - 1973 Junior Researcher, Laboratory of Experimental Entomology, ZIN RAS.

MEMBERSHIP:

• since 1958 member of Russian Entomological Society.
• since 1990 member of Academic council of ZIN RAS.
• since 1972 member of Academic council for the academic degrees of ZIN RAS.
• since 1980 member of the committee for the post-graduate examination.

EDUCATION AND DEGREES

• 1971 Dr. Sci. Dissertation: "Diapause and its control in bloodsucking mosquitoes".
• 1961 Ph. D. Dissertation: "Photoperiodic reaction of some bloodsucking mosquitoes".
• 1956 - 1959 Post-graduate studentship under the leadership of Prof. A.S.Danilevsky, ZIN RAS.
• 1956 M.s. Graduated (with honor) from St.Petersburg State University, Biological Faculty, Department of Entomology.

MAIN CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS

• Physiology and ecology of Calliphora vicina
• Seasonal cycles in mosquitoes
• Mosquitoes Culex pipiens pipiens: taxonomy, distribution, ecology, physiology, genetics and control

FORMER RESEARCH TOPICS

• 1986-2002 "General regularities of the environmental control of the seasonal development in Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae and Muscidae" (monograph).
• 1984-1988 "Field and experimental study of the seasonal development and diapause in ragweed leaf beetle, Zygogramma suturalis (Col., Chrysomelidae)".
• 1984-1985 "Study of the geographical variation of the winter adaptations in flies".
• 1980-1983 "Calliphora vicina as model object" (monograph).
• 1975-1983 "Pupal, larval and reproductive diapauses in Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae) and their environmental regulation".
• 1970-1983 "Use of flies in the forensic medicine: method of retrospective determination of death time".
• 1968-1974 "Experimental study of the host-parasite relations between the flies and some braconids (Alysia manducator and Aphaereta minuta)".
• 1959-1967 "Experimental study of egg, larval and reproductive diapauses in blood-sucking mosquitoes and their photoperiodic and temperature control".
• 1959-1967 "Experimental and field study of the Culex pipiens complex mosquitoes on the territory of USSR (morphology, ecology, diapause, isolating mechanisms, genetics)" (monograph).

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC GRANTS

• since 2005 "Optimization of rearing and continuous maintenance of insect laboratory stocks: development of theoretical bases" (granted by Russian Academy of Sciences, Department of Biology)

• 2005-2008 "Molecular genetic markers in the study of structure and evolution of closely-related insect species complexes" grant No 05-04-49035 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

• 2002-2005 "Plasticity of genome and control of genetic information in the micro- and macroevolution of eukaryotes" grant No И0035 (Federal Programme "Integration of Science and Higher Education in Russia")

• 2002-2004 "Distribution of the cytoplasmic bacteria Wolbachia in insects" grant no. 02-04-49703 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

• 1998-2000 "The role of endogenous factors in regulation of seasonal development in insects", grant no. 98-04-49684 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).
• 1994-1996 Preparation of the monograph "Mosquitoes of Culex pipiens complex in Russia", grant no. 94-04-12385 (Russian Foundation for Basic Research).

PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

• IVth European Workshop on Invertebrate Ecophysiology (September 9-15, 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia) - presentation.

• International Conference on Medical and Veterinary Dipterology (1988, Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia) - presentation.
• First Dipterological Congress (1986, Budapest, Hungary) - presentation.
• 17th International Congress of Entomology (1984, Hamburg, FRG) - presentation.
• 13th International Congress of Entomology (1968, Moscow) - presentation.
• International Symposium on Ontogeny of insects (1959, Prague, Czechoslovakia) - presentation.

PUBLICATIONS:

The full list of publications includes more than 120 works including 5 monographs.

Main publications

MARITAL STATUS:

Divorced, one child.