Yuriy (Yurii) Kuzmin
Department of Parasitology,
I.I.Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
15 Bogdana Khmelnitskogo Street
Kyiv
01030 UKRAINE
Tel.: +38044 526-3380
E-mail: rhabdias@izan.kiev.ua
Web-site:http://izan.kiev.ua/ppages/rhabdias/
BIRTH DATE AND PLACE
May 17, 1969, Kyiv, Ukraine.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Systematics, phylogeny and biology of animal-parasitic nematodes.
CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS
- Biology, morphology, molecular phylogeny and ecology of the nematodes from the family Rhabdiasidae.
- Morphology, systematics and biology of Filarioidea (Nematoda).
- Nematodes of the family Rhabdiasidae from Eastern Amazonia.
- Helminth communities of amphibians and reptiles.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION
1993 - Diploma of the Biological Department of Kyiv State University (highest honors). Biologist, zoologist, specialist in invertebrates.
1993-1996 - Postgraduate course, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
1996 - Degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (equivalent of Ph.D.), Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv. Dissertation entitled "Nematodes of the family Rhabdiasidae of the Palaearctic region" was defended on the 24-th of December, 1996.
2014 - Degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1993 - 1996 - postgraduate student, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
1996 - 2002 - junior researcher at Department of Parasitology, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
2002 - 2009 - researcher at Department of Parasitology, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
2009 - 2012 - senior researcher at Department of Parasitology, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
2012 - present time - leading researcher at Department of Parasitology, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
SCIENTIFIC AWARDS
President of Ukraine Scholarship for young scientists, years 1998-2000 and 2000-2002.
SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
FELLOWSHIPS AND RESEARCH VISITS
1998
(two weeks) - Central Laboratory
of General Ecology, Sofia, Bulgaria. Work on joint project.
Host: Dr. V. Biserkov.
1999 (four weeks) - W. Stefanski Institute of Parasitology, Warsaw, Poland. Study of TEM and SEM methods and their application to investigation of helminths. Host: Professor Z.P. Swiderski.
2000 (two months) - National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. Study of collection material. Host: Dr. M.-C. Durette-Desset.
2004 (four weeks) - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA. Molecular studies of helminths. Hosts: Dr. Robert Newman, Dr. Vasyl Tkach.
2005 (two weeks) - W. Stefanski Institute of Parasitology, Warsaw, Poland. TEM of dilepidid cestodes' larvae. Host: Professor Z.P. Swiderski.
2007 (five weeks) - University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA. Identification of nematodes from Australian turtles. Host: Dr. Vasyl Tkach.
2011 (two months) - National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France. Joint investigation on Rhabdiasidae and Filarioidea (Nematoda) in collaboration with Odile Bain and Kerstin Junker. Host: Dr. O. Bain
2014, 2015, 2016 (two months each year) - Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil. Joint studies on Rhabdiasidae from amphibians and reptiles in Pará (Brazil) supported by PVE-CNPq project. Host: Dr. Jeannie Nascimento dos Santos.
2019 (three weeks) - North-West University (Potchefstroom, South Africa). Field and laboratory studies on nematodes parasitic in amphibians and reptiles. Hosts: Dr. Roman Svitin, Dr. Louis H. du Preez.
SERVICES
Referee in "Parasite", "Comparative Parasitology", "Acta Parasitologica", "Systematic Parasitology", "Zootaxa", "ZooKeys", "Journal of Parasitology", "Journal of Helminthology", etc.
LANGUAGES
English (fluent), Russian (second native), Ukrainian (native).
HOBBIES
Wildlife photography.
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