Dr. V.G. Sideleva

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Dr. Sideleva V.G.

1967-1972 - Dnepropetrovsk State University, Ukraine;
1987 - Candidate of Sciences, Biology (an equivalent of Ph.D.), Leningrad State University;
1997 - Doctor of Sciences, Biology (an equivalent of professor), St.Petersburg;


         Positions Held:

1972-1994 - Limnological Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Laboratory of Ichthyology: junior researcher, senior researcher, had of the Lab. ;
1975-1978 - Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences: postgraduate student.
1996-present - Senior scientist;


          Main fields of scientific activities:

          - Freshwater cottoid fishes of the World: morphology, taxonomy, phylogeny.
          - The fishes of Lake Baikal: biodiversity, ecology and speciation.


          Oral presentations:

          - Third International Congress of European Ichthyologists, Warsaw, Poland, 26-30 August 1991.
          - Combined Meetings of The Society for the study of amphibians and reptiles, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Ann-Arbor, USA, June 24-29, 1988;.
          - Symposium on Biochemical Genetics and Taxonomy of Fish. Queen,s University, Belfast, 22-26 July 1991;
          - Deep-water Fishes. The Fisheries Society of the British Isles Annual Symposium. Aberdeen, Scotland, 1-5 July, 1996;
          - Ninth International Congress of European Ichthyologists "Fish Biodiversity", Napoli-Trieste, Italy, 1997;
          - International Conference on Ancient Lakes: their Biological and cultural Diversities. Shiga, Japan, June 21-29, 1997;
          - International conference "Actual problems of fish taxonomy", St. Petersburg, Russia, 17-19 November 1998;
          - BICER, BDP and DIWPA Joint International Symposium on Lake Baikal. Yokohama, Japan, November 5-8, 1998.


          Grants:

         Principal Investigator:
                   - Endemic fishes in lake ecosystems of the Northern Hemisphere (characteristics of biodiversity and formation of taxonomic structure). Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 97-04-49584, 1997-1999;
                   - Evolution and speciation of freshwater cottoid fishes (Cottoidei) in simpatric and allopatric habitat. Russian Foundation for Basic Research, 01-04-49681, 2001-2003;
                   - Families Cottidae, Comephoridae and Abyssocottidae of Russia. Biodiversity - State Scientific Programme, 1995-1998;
                   - Atlas of freshwater fishes of Russia. Biodiversity - State Scientific Programme, 1999-2000.


         Travel grants of:
                   - Michigan University, Ann-Arbor, 1988;
                   - McMurdo Station, Antarctica, 1990;
                   - Hokkaido University, Hakodate, 1997, 1999;
                   - Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, Washington D.C., 1999;
                   - Field Museum, Chicago, 2000;
                  


         Sideleva V.G. 1979. Morphological characteristics of the system of lateral line organs in Eurasian sculpins of the subfamily Cottinae (Cottidae). J. of Ichthyology, 19, No3: 434- 446.
         Sideleva V.G. 1982. The lateral-line system and ecology of the Baikal sculpins (Cottoidei). ( A.V. Neelov- ed.). Novosibirsk: Nauka. 147 P.
         Janssen J., Coombs S., Montgomery J., Sideleva V. 1990. Comparisions in the use of the lateral line for detecting prey by notothenioids and sculpins // Antarctic J. of US, 25, 5: 214-215.
         Sideleva V.G. 1994. Speciation of endemic Cottoidei in Lake Baikal // Arch. Hydrobiol. Beih. Ergebn. Limnol. 44 : 441-450.
         Sideleva V.G. 1996. Comparative character of the deep-water and inshore cottoid fishes endemic to Lake Baikal // J. of Fish Biology, 49: 192-206.
         Sideleva V.G. 1998. Annotated check-list of Cyclostomata and Fishes of the continental waters of Russia (Cottidae, Comephoridae, Abyssocottidae). Moskow: Nauka: 149-158.
         Sideleva V.G. 1999. New species of endemic genus Batrachocottus from Lake Baikal // J. of Ichthyology, V.39, No 2 : 149-154.
         Sideleva V.G. 2001. List of the fishes from Lake Baikal with descriptions new taxa of cottoid fishes// New contributios to freshwater fish research. Proc. Zool. Inst., St.Petersburg. Vol. 287. P. 45-79.



199034 St. Petersburg, Zoological Institute,
Russian Academy of Sciences
Laboratory of the Ichthyology
phone (work): 328.0612
Fax: 007(812)328.2941; e-mail: ichthyo@zin.ru