e-mail: anya.gonchar@gmail.com
+7904 5189829
Scientific interests: parasitology, trematodes, speciation processes, molecular techniques, invertebrate fauna of the White Sea, the new phylogeny of eukaryotes.
Educational background:
2010-2012: postgraduate studies.
St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Department of Invertebrate Zoology.
Scientific interests: investigation in notocotylid trematodes’ life cycle by means of molecular approaches.
Scientific advisor: Kirill V. Galaktionov.
Molecular research is based at “Taxon” Laboratory of Molecular Systematics (Zoological Institute RAS).
2010: BSc in Biology (with Distinction).
St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, Department of Invertebrate Zoology.
Bachelor’s thesis: “Experimental estimation of infection success in Maritrema novaezealandensis – second intermediate host system”.
Scientific advisor: Andrei I. Granovitch
2006-2010: undergraduate studies.
St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science.
Other qualifications:
November 2005: Certificate in Management, New Zealand Institute of Management (grade A+)
August 2008: Austrian Summer College in Saint Petersburg (60 academic hours of German language course).
December 2008: Certificate of Proficiency in English (Cambridge ESOL Examinations)
Field trips:
June 2007: SPSU White Sea Station (basic studies of local fauna).
August 2008: Barents Sea expedition (Microphallid trematodes collections).
August 2010: SPSU White Sea Station (studying invertebrates comparative anatomy).
Workshops:
2009: St Petersburg Taxomony Seminar (the basics of cladistics)
Internships:
July-September 2009: Department of Zoology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Evolutionary and Ecological Parasitology Research Group (supervised by Robert Poulin).
Projects participation:
Genetic and morphological consequenes of microevolutionary processes in sibling species system.
Leader: Andrei I. Granovitch.
Years 2009-2011
RFBR grant 09-04-01728-a
Patterns of trematodes transmission in coastal ecosystems: ecological and evolutionary analysis.
Leader: Kirill V. Galaktionov.
Years 2010-2012
RFBR grant 10-04-00430-a
Organization and carrying out the complex field trip for studying intertidal communities of the White and Barents Seas (Gastropoda and Orthonectida).
Leader: Andrei I. Granovitch.
RFBR grant 10-04-10039-ê
2010-2010
Other experiences:
Secretary of the Organizing Committee (X ISOLBE – International Symposium of Littorinid Biology and Evolution).
Publications:
Koehler A.V., Gonchar A.G., Poulin R. Genetic and environmental determinants of host use in the trematode Maritrema novaezealandensis (Microphallidae). Parasitology, 2010. (pdf, 200 kb)
doi: 10.1017/S0031182010001022
Hobbies: playing piano, traveling, cooking, languages, sports (cycling and swimming).
Languages: Russian, English, German.
