Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics Research Group

		Dr. Evgeniy Simonov Head of the group, Senior researcher E-mail: e.p.simonov@utmn.ru WoS ResearcherID: F-7698-2012

		*Areas of research interest* Use of molecular genetics and bioinformatics tools in systematics, ecology and evolution. Animals population genetics and phylogenetics. DNA barcoding. Member of A.M. Nikolskiy Herpetological Society and IUCN Viper Specialist Group *Education* - PhD in Biology, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (2012). - Diploma with honour in Biology, Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (2009).

Main areas of research

Genetic variability underlying adaptation of ectothermic vertebrates to latitudinal and altitudinal environmental gradients in West Siberia.
Distribution and genetic variability of infectious diseases of fish, amphibians and reptiles.
Evolution of venom gland toxin transcripts in Old World pit vipers (genus Gloydius).
Phylogeographic studies in Siberia and Central Asia.

Awards and fellowships

CIMO Fellowship (Government of Finland) in the Ecological Genetics Research Unit, Department of Biosciences, University of Helsinki (Finland) (2012).

Yggdrasil Fellowship (Research Council of Norway) in the National Centre for Biosystematics, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo (Norway) (2012).

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship in the Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, Heidelberg University (Germany) (2010).

Scholarship of Novosibirsk Region Administration for the excellence in study and research (2008)

Selected publications

Levin B.A., Simonov E., Dgebuadze Y.Y., Levina M., Golubtsov A.S. (2020) In the rivers: Multiple adaptive radiations of cyprinid fishes (Labeobarbus) in Ethiopian Highlands // Scientific Reports 10: 7192. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-64350-4.
Solovyev M.M., Kashinskaya E.N., Bochkarev N.A., Andree K.B., Simonov E. (2019) The effect of diet on the structure of gut bacterial community of sympatric pair of whitefishes (Coregonus lavaretus): one story more // PeerJ 7(12): e8005. doi: 10.7717/peerj.8005.