Ksenia V. Shunkina

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/R-5760-2017
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=908765
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9257-1078
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=jzEpp0oAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Researcher
E-mail: Ksenia.Shunkina@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-06-12, ext. 213
Educational background: Saint-Petersburg State University, 2010
Dissertations: “Comparative neuromorphology of three freshwater bryozoan species Cristatella mucedo, Plumatella repens and Fredericella sultana (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata).” (PhD)
Research interests: Evolutionary biology, zoology, marine biology, Bryozoa, ecology.
Field studies: White Sea, Barents Sea, Sea of Japan.
Pedagogical activity: Schoolchildren course “Practical genetics”, EBC “Krestovkiy island”
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 16-34-60134 mol_a_dk “Study of the terminal parts of the annelid body in ontogeny and phylogenesis”. PI V.V. Starunov
  • RFBR 15-29-02650 ofi_m. Compilation of open access database collection of microscopic samples: “Model objects diversity for neuroscience, developmental biology and biotechnology”. PI E.E. Voronezhskaya
Selected Publications:
  • Starunova Z.I., Shunkina K.V., Genelt-Yanovsky E.A., Kucheryavyy A.V., Polyakova N.V., Danilova Y.A., Ivanova T.A., Starunov V.V., Zaitseva O.V. 2021. First record of the freshwater bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica in north-west Russia with a description of sensory structures. Invertebrate Zoology, 18(3): 355–368. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.18.3.09
  • Nekliudova U.A., Shunkina K.V., Grishankov A.V., Varfolomeeva M.N., Granovitch A.I., Ostrovsky A.N. 2019. Colonies as dynamic systems: reconstructing the life history of Cribrilina annulata (Bryozoa) on two algal substrates. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 99(6): 1363-1377. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315419000286
  • U. A. Nekliudova, K. V. Shunkina, A. V. Grishankov, M. N. Varfolomeeva, A. I. Granovitch, A.N. Ostrovsky. Varfolomeeva, Andrey I. Granovitch and Andrew N. Ostrovsky. Colonies as dynamic systems: reconstructing the life history of Cribrilina annulata (Bryozoa) on two algal substrates //Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. – 2019. – Т. 99. – №. 6. – С. 1363-1377. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315419000286
  • Aneli N.B., Shunkina K.V., Vays V.B., Plyuscheva M.V. 2017. Ultrastructure and morphology of the elytrum of scale-worm Lepidonotus squamatusLinnaeus, 1767 (Polychaeta, Polynoidae). Invertebrate Zoology, 14(2):99-107. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.14.2.01
  • Shunkina K.V., Zaitseva O.V. 2017. Monoamines and neuropeptides in Bryozoa: localisation and possible functions. Invertebrate Zoology, 14(1): 67-72. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.14.1.10
  • Shunkina K.V., Zaytseva O.V., Starunov V.V., Ostrovsky A.N. 2015. Comparative morphology of the nervous system in three phylactolaemate bryozoans. Frontier in Zoology, 12(1):1-28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-015-0112-2
  • Shunkina K.V., Zaytseva O.V., Starunov V.V., Ostrovsky A.N. 2014. Sensory elements and innervation in the freshwater bryozoan Cristatella mucedo lophophore. Doklady Biological Sciences, 455(1): 125-128. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496614020136
  • Shunkina K.V., Ostrovsky A.N., Starunov V.V., Zaitseva O.V. 2014. Serotonin and FMRFamide imunnoreactive elements in the nervous system of freshwater bryozoans (Bryozoa: Phylactolaemata). Doklady Biological Sciences, 451(1): 244-247. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496613040108