M.Yu. Kalashyan: Curriculum Vitae

Mark Yu. Kalashian

Head of Laboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology

• Affiliation & contact information:
  Laboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology
  Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia,
  P.Sevak srtr.,7, Yerevan, 375014, Armenia
  Tel.: +374(2) 28 14 01, +374(2) 24 39 40
  E-mail: barbara@undp.am
  or: georisk@sci.am
• Date & place of birth:
  June 9, 1958
  Leninakan (now Gyumri), Armenia
• Research interests:
  Systematics and faunistics of metallic wood borers (Coleoptera, Buprestidae), adult morphology, zoogeography, ecology of buprestids of the Palaearctic and Oriental region;
  Systematics and faunistics of beetles of Armenia;
  Biodiversity conservation, Especially Protected Natural Areas.
• Education:
  *1987 - Ph.D., Zoology & Entomology (Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad/St. Petersburg)
  *1980 - M.Sc., Zoology (Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia)
• Additional training:
  *1999 - Training course in Environment Impact Assessment (US EPA Training program in Yerevan, Armenia)
  *1981-1983 - Post-graduate course (Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan)
• Professional experience:
  *1999 - present - Head of Scientific Division, Department of Especially Protected Natural Areas, Ministry of Nature Protection, Armenia.
  *1997 - 1998 - Deputy Director, Scientific Center, the same Department
  *1996 - 1997 - Deputy Director, Center of Applied Zoology and Botany, State Forest Service of Armenia "Hayantar"
  *1988 - 1992 - Senior Research Scientist (part time), Khosrov State Natural Reserve, Armenia
  *1988 - present (from 1996 - part time) - Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist (from 1990), Laboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology, Institute of Zoology of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Yerevan
  *1983 - 1987 - Laboratory assistant, Dept. of Zoology, Yerevan State University. Armenia.
• Additional work experience:
  *1997 - National specialist, GEF-UNDP Program "Armenia - country study on Climate Change".
  *1998 - National specialist, GEF-UNDP Program "1-st Nat. Communication on Biodiversity conservation".
• Professional affiliations:
  * 1981 - Russian (All-Union) Entomological Society
• Invited lectures and seminars:
  1996 - 1998 - General Entomology, Dept. of Zoology, Yerevan State University, Armenia.
• Professional awards and Research Grants:
  * 1994-1995 - Grant, International Science Foundation, Long-term research grants program - The Buprestidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Former Soviet Union, Participant Investigator.
  * 1992 - Stipend, International Science Foundation, Biodiversity.
• International conferences and workshops (with oral presentations):
  * 1995 - M. Kalashian. Oral organs of jewel-beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) and their taxonomical consequence. 1st International Symposium on Buprestidae, Visegrag, Hungary, 18-23 September 1995.
• Total number of publications: 50
• Selected publications:
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1993. Material on the fauna of buprestid beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of Vietnam. I. Genus Aphanisticus Latreille. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 72(3): 601-605 (In Russian).
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1993. Two new species of the jewel-beetles from Guinea (Coleoptera Buprestidae). Russian Entomological Journal 2(3-4): 59-61.
  *Volkovitsh M.G., Kalashian M.Yu.,1994. A new subgenus and species of Sphenoptera from Uzbekistan with taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genus Sphenoptera (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 3(1): 99-104.
  *Bily, S., Kalashian M.Yu., 1994. New species and synonymy of the genus Coomaniella Bourgoin (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Folia Heyrovskyana, 2 (5): 57-62.
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1994. Two new species of Sphenoptera Solier, 1833 (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from Turkmenistan and Armenia. Russian Entomological Journal 3(3-4): 81-84.
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1995. Material on the fauna of buprestid beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of Vietnam. III. New species of the genus Endelus Deyrolle from Vietnam and China. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 74(2): 376-382 (In Russian).
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1996 New species of Xenomerius and Galbella from Guinea (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) Folia Heyrovskyana, 4(1): 11-14.
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1997. New subgenus of Endelus (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) with description of three new species from Vietnam and China. Folia Heyrovskyana, 5(2): 73-81.
  *Volkovitsh M.G., Kalashian M.Yu., 1998. New species of Sphaerobothris Semenov & Rikhter (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from Armenia. Zoosystematica Rossica, 7(4): 307-310.
  *Kalashian M.Yu., 1999. The new species of Endelus Deyrolle (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from South East Asia. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 78 (3): 629-635 (In Russian)