Ecological Genetics and Metagenomics Lab


The EGM Lab research focuses on:

i) amphibian and reptile population genetics;
ii) interactions in host-parasite systems;
iii) detection of infectious agents in amphibians and reptiles through classical genetic screening and metagenomic analysis;
iv) metagenomics of amphibian skin bacterial communities and parasite metagenomics.

Our research team was founded in 2021 at the Institute of Environmental and Agricultural Biology (X-BIO), University of Tyumen (Tyumen, Russia).

Our overarching mission is to better understand the evolution, ecology of infectious disease in the global climatic changes, evolution and ecology of host-parasite relationships, genetic diversity and phylogenetic of North Eurasian amphibians and reptiles, amphibian skin bacterial communities, their functioning and changes through genetic and metagenomic data.


Head of Laboratory



Dr. Anton O. Svinin
Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD), Senoir Research Fellow, Associate Professor

Research interests: Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Ecology, Cell Biology, Herpetology and Parasitology.

H-index: 7
Number of publications: 21
Full list of my publications you can find here

E-mail: ranaesc@gmail.com
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ORCID: 0000-0002-8400-6826
Scopus ID: 57206674084


Researchers




Dr. Artem P. Lisachov
Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD), Research Fellow
Working in Animal Genomics and Bioresource Research Unit (AGB Research Unit), Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Research interests: Cell Biology, Zoology, Genetics.

H-index: 7
Number of publications: 32

E-mail: aplisachev@gmail.com
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ORCID: 0000-0003-3270-2894
Scopus ID: 55942732600


Laboratory Assistance







Polina I. Chernigova
Postgraduate student, laboratory assistance

Research interests: Cell Biology, Zoology, Genetics.

Number of publications: 2

E-mail: polinachernigova42@gmail.com
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ORCID: 0000-0002-0620-4675








Pavel F. Shmakov
Postgraduate student, laboratory assistance

Research interests: Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Genetics.



E-mail: p.f.shmakov@utmn.ru
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ORCID: 0009-0001-3795-3716






Polina K. Ibrogimova
Undergraduate student, laboratory assistance

Research interests: Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology

Number of publications: 2

E-mail: pibrogimova@bk.ru
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ORCID: 0000-0002-5226-867X






Polina I. Rodenko
Postgraduate student, laboratory assistance

Research interests: Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cell Biology.

E-mail: p.sozonova.2001@mail.ru
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Aleksander A. Zenkin
Undergraduate student

Research interests: Molecular Biology, Zoology, Genetics.

E-mail: zenkin001@outlook.com





PhD Students





Alexander V. Chulkov
PhD student, university lecturer, head of Anatomical Museum at the Mari State University
Working in the Medical Institute at the Mari State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia.

Research interests: Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry.

E-mail: aleksandrchulkow@gmail.com








Munira Botyr-Kyzi Abdurashidova
PhD student

Research interests: Bioinformatics, Molecular Modeling, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry.

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E-mail: muniraxon.91@mail.ru








Victoria A. Puchkareva
PhD student

Research interests: Molecular genetics, population genetics, symbiogenetics, parasitology, evolutionary biology.








Anna I. Shanskikh
PhD student

Research interests: Molecular biology, genetics, genetic engineering, bioinformatics.

E-mail: a.shanskih@yandex.ru

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