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Hanna V. Sheverdyukova

Cand. Sci., Researcher   Department of Evolutionary Morphology I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology 15 Bogdan Khmelnitsky Street Kyiv-30, 01030, Ukraine E-mail: Hstramontana [et] gmail.com

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Reptiles embryology, morphology and phylogeny. Skull evolution in vertebrates. Features of the skull development in the vertebrates’ embryogenesis.

CURRENT INVESTIGATIONS

Sturgeon chondrocranium development.

Heterotopy and heterochrony in skull development in some reptiles species.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATION

Sumy State Pedagogical University. Specialty: Biology, Psychology. June, 2006.

Master degree in Biology. Sumy State Pedagogical University. June 2007.

Degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (equivalent of Ph.D.), Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv. Dissertation entitled "Skull development in the prenatal period in Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) ontogenesis" (specialization: zoology) was defended on the 18-th of December, 2012.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2006-2009 – Laboratory assistant, Chair of Zoology, Sumy State Pedagogical University.

2007-2009 – Part time assistant of chair of Zoology, Sumy State Pedagogical University.

2009-2012 – postgraduate student, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv.

2012-2016 – Junior Research Scientist at Department of Evolutionary Morphology of Vertebrates, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv.

2016 - present time - Research Scientist at Department of Evolutionary Morphology, I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv.

SCIENTIFIC AWARDS

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Scholarship for young scientists, years 2012-2014.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

PhD Thesis: Sheverdyukova H.V. 2012. Skull development in the prenatal period og Grass snake’s, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) ontogenesis. – Thesis for the scientific degree of candidate of biological sciences. - Kyiv, 2012. – 21 p. [In Ukrainian].

Articles:

Sheverdyukova H. V., Kovtun M. F. 2020. Variation in the formation of crista sellaris and basisphenoid in the skull of the grass snake Natrix natrix embryos (Serpentes, Colubridae). Journal of Morphology 281(3): 338-247. DOI:10.1002/jmor.21102

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2019. Development of the Osteocranium in Natrix natrix (Serpentes, Colubridae) Embryogenesis II: Development of the jaws, palatal complex and associated bones. Acta Zoologica 100(3): 282-291. DOI:10.1111/azo.12253

Sheverdyukova, H.V. 2018. Development of the osteocranium in Natrix natrix (Serpentes, Colubridae) embryogenesis II: Development of the jaws, palatal complex and associated bones vault // Acta Zool. Early View. DOI: 10.1111/azo.12253

Sheverdyukova, H.V. 2017. Development of the osteocranium in Natrix natrix (Serpentes, Colubridae) embryogenesis I: development of cranial base and cranial vault // Zoomorphology 136 (1): 131-143.DOI: 10.1007/s00435-016-0333-8

Kovtun M. F., Sheverdyukova H. V. Early stages of skull embryogenesis in the grass snake, Natrix natrix (Serpentes, Colubridae) // Russian Journal of Developmental Biology, 2015, Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 222–230. DOI:10.1134/S1062360415040025

Kovtun M. F., Sheverdyukova H. V. 2015. Ontogeny And Phylogeny. To The Problem Of The Relation Of Individual And Historical Development In Organisms // Vestnik Zoologii, Vol. 49(4): 291-298. DOI:10.1515/vzoo-2015-0030

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2012. Development of the ethmoidal region of the chondrocranium in the Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) embryogenesis. Vestnik Zooligii,46(3): 247-257. [In Russian].

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2012. Polar cartilages and formation of crista sellaris in Grass snake Natrix natrix (Opidia, Colubridae) chondrocranium at the early stages of embryogenesis. Vestnik Zoologii, 46(5): 461-468.

Kovtun M.F., Yarigin A.N., Sheverdyukova H.V. 2011. Embryology: the history and the present, tasks and perspectives. Vestnik Cherkasskogo Universiteta., 24: 57–63 p. [In Russian].

Kovtun M.F. Sheverdyukova H.V. 2011. Formation of prootic foramina in chondrocranium at the early stages of Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) embryogenesis. Vestnik Zooligii, 45 (6): 561-565. [In Russian].

Conference abstracts:

Sheverdyukova H.V., Merzlikin I.R. 2011. Features of reproductive biology and development in the Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae). Abstracts of the IV International research-and-practical conference “Theoretical and practical aspects of oology in modern zoology”, Kyiv: 81-83. [In Russian].

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2011. Peculiarities of planum antorbitale formation in ethmoidal region of chondrocranium in the Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) embryogenesis. Abstracts of the VI International conference of young scientists “Biology: from molecule to biosphere”, Kharkiv: 485 - 486. [In Russian].

Sheverdyukova H. 2012. The Formation of the ethmoidal region's structures of the chondrocranium in Grass snake's, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) embryogenesis. Abstracts of the VIII International research-and-practical conference of young scientists “Youth and Biology”, Lviv: 204 - 205.

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2012. The early stages of skull embryogenesis in Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae), previously undescribed structure and their expected nature. Abstracts of the XIX International conference of students and young scientists "Lomonosov-2012", Moscow: p. 20. [In Russian].

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2012. Appearance and development of basic structures in the Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) chondrocranium embryogenesis. Abstracts of the V Congress of Russian Herpetological society, Minsk: 354-356. [In Russian].

Sheverdyukova H.V. 2012. Formation of crista sellaris in the Grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) chondrocranium. Proceedings of the International research-and-practical conference “Ecology, Evolution and systematics”, Ryazan, 2012. – P. 393-394. [In Russian].

Sheverdyukova H. V. Complex origin of some bones in the grass snake Natrix natrix skull embryogenesis // Program and abstracts of 17th European Congress of Herpetology (22-27 August 2013, Veszprem, Hungary), P. 289.

Sheverdyukova H.V.The peculiarities of some dermal bones formation in grass snake, Natrix natrix (Ophidia, Colubridae) osteocranium // Modern herpetology: problems and ways of their solutions. Collection of papers of the First International Conference of the Young Herpetologists of Russia and neighboring countries (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 25–27 November 2013) / Zoological institute of RAS. Saint-Petersburg, 2013. – P. 163-166.

Sheverdyukova H. Variability in the development of some skull bones in Grass snake // International Zoological Congress of "Grigore Antipa" Museum - Book of abstracts. "Grigore Antipa" National Museum of Natural History. – Bucharest, Romania, 2014. – P. 144.

Sheverdyukova H. V. Formation of the osteocranium in Natrix natrix embryogenesis. Abstract book of the Conference of young zoologists – 2016 (Kiev, Institute of zoology, November 16, 2016). – Kiev, 2016. – 21 p. – (Zoological courier, № 10.) – P. 20.

Шевердюкова А.В. Особенности формирования crista sellaris и базисфеноида в черепе эмбрионов ужа обыкновенного. Матеріали Х Міжнародної конференції Українського герпетологічного товариства (16-18 вересня, 2019 р., Кам’янець-Подільський). – Київ, C. 62-63. >>>

LANGUAGES

Russian (native), Ukrainian (native), English (understanding, reading and speaking).

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