Zinaida I. Starunova

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/AAE-6443-2020
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=180216
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-9668
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=ijkhIwUAAAAJ
Academic degree: No degree
Academic title: No title
Position: Junior Researcher
E-mail: Zinaida.Starunova@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-06-12, ext. 213
Educational background: Saint-Petersburg State University, 2009
Research interests: Evolutionary biology, zoology, marine biology, Mollusca, ecology.
Field studies: White Sea, Barents Sea, Sea of Japan, North Athlantic.
Pedagogical activity:
  • Lectures and practical classes “Cell Biology” and “Biology” for 1st and 2nd year students of St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation since 2010.
  • Lectures and practical classes by courses “Biology” and “Biology of the cell” for the students of the medical faculty studying at English language of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University that Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation since 2018.
  • An additional professional training program for doctors “Modern cell technologies and the use of stem cells in medicine” at the Department of Medical Biology of the St. Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation since 2016.
  • Schoolchildren course “Practical genetics”, EBC “Krestovkiy island”.
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 18-04-01213 “Post-translational protein modification (monoaminylation) as a new non-canonical mechanism for modulating the functional activity of locomotor and sensory cilia”. PI E.E. Voronezhskaya.
  • RFBR 15-04-08210 А. “Molecular evolution of the sibling species of marine littoral molluscs: from proteomes towards to the genes localisation on the chromosomes.” PI A.I. Granovitch.
Selected Publications:
  • Старунова З.И., Михайлова Н.А., Гранович А.И. Анализ межпопуляционных и внутрипопуляционных различий формы раковины у представителей видового комплекса «saxatilis» (Mollusca:Caenogastropoda) методами геометрической морфометрии. Biological Communications. Сер.3. 2010. Вып. 4. С. 23-34.
  • Ганжа Е. В., Старунова З. И. Влияние степени заражения партенитами трематод на строение пениальных желез моллюска Littorina saxatilis разного возраста. Паразитология. Т. 45, №6., 2011. С. 425-437.
  • Granovitch A.I. , Maximovich A.N. , Avanesyan A.V., Starunova Z.I., Mikhailova N.A. 2013. Micro-spatial distribution of two sibling periwinkle species across the intertidal indicates hybridization. Genetica. 141 (7). P. 293-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10709-013-9728-3
  • Starunova Z.I., Granovitch A.I. Shape diversity of Littorinid shell morphology by Geometric Morphometric and Micro CT. Proceedings: 4th International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Moskow, 2017. P. 248.
  • Starunova Z.I., Shunkina K.V., Genelt-Yanovsky E.A., Kucheryavyy A.V., Polyakova N.V., Danilova Y.A., Ivanova T.A., Starunov V.V., Zaitseva O.V. 2021. First record of the freshwater bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica in north-west Russia with a description of sensory structures. Invertebrate Zoology, 18(3): 355–368. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.18.3.09
  • Starunova Z.I., Mikhailova N.A., Granovitch A.I. 2021. Geometric morphometric differentiation and allometric growth in the populations of Littorina saxatilis from the White and the Barents Sea. Invertebrate Zoology, 18(4): 502-522. https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.18.4.06