Organizing Committee Leadership

Yury Yulianovich Dgebuadze — Chair, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences; Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Alexander Vitalievich Krylov — Vice-Chair, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Director of the Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

Varos Gareginovich Petrosyan — Vice-Chair, Doctor of Biological Sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Dmitry Pavlovich Karabanov — Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Candidate of Biological Sciences, I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

Fedor Alekseevich Osipov — Secretary of the Organizing Committee, Candidate of Biological Sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Members of the Scientific Committee

Boris R. Krasnov — PhD, Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

David M. Richardson — PhD, Professor, Department of Botany & Zoology, Centre for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

George Fayvush — Doctor of Sciences, Head of the Department of Geobotany and Ecophysiology, A. Takhtajyan Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia

Alexander Y. Karatayev — Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Director of the Great Lakes Center, SUNY Buffalo State University, Buffalo, USA

Maciej Karpowicz — Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Department of Hydrobiology, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland

Michael Y. Kosoy — PhD, Research Biologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Xiufeng Zhang — Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Dean of the Department of Ecology and Director of the Research Center of Hydrobiology, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Zhibin Zhang — Professor, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yu.K. Vinogradova — Doctor of Biological Sciences, N.V. Tsitsin Main Botanical Garden, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

A.Yu. Zvyagintsev — Doctor of Biological Sciences, A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

V.T. Komov — Doctor of Biological Sciences, I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

L.G. Korneva — Doctor of Biological Sciences, I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

A.A. Kotov — Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

A.A. Makhrov — Candidate of Biological Sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

O.V. Morozova — Candidate of Biological Sciences, Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

E.N. Naumenko — Doctor of Biological Sciences, Atlantic Branch of VNIRO (“AtlantNIRO”), Kaliningrad, Russia

M.I. Orlova — Doctor of Biological Sciences, St. Petersburg Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

D.S. Pavlov — Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

V.P. Semenchenko — Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Scientific and Practical Center for Bioresources, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

I.V. Telesh — Doctor of Biological Sciences, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

L.A. Khlyap — Candidate of Biological Sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

T.A. Shiganova — Doctor of Biological Sciences, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

E.N. Yadrenkina — Doctor of Biological Sciences, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

I.Yu. Fenyova — Doctor of Biological Sciences, A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Members of the Organizing Committee

D.P. Karabanov — Candidate of Biological Sciences, I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

S.M. Zhdanova — Candidate of Biological Sciences, I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

Yu.V. Kodukhova — Candidate of Biological Sciences, I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia

R.Z. Sabitova — I.D. Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Russia