Ilya A. Udalov

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/P-1840-2015
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9880-0505
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Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Ilya.Udalov@zin.ru
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Educational background: Master in biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, 2011.
Dissertations: “Naked lobose amoebae of the genus Korotnevella Goodkov, 1988 (Amoebozoa, Paramoebidae): systematics, biodiversity and DNA-barcoding.” (PhD)
Research interests: Protistology, in particular: Systematics and molecular phylogeny of naked lobose amoebae; DNA-barcoding and species problem in naked lobose amoebae; Metagenomics and genomics of protists.
Professional membership: International Society of Protistologists https://protistologists.org
Pedagogical activity: Teaching at the Faculty of Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University: Protists: Evolution and Ecology of Microbial Eukaryotes (online course on Coursera learning platform); Fundamentals of zoology: insects (4th year bachelor students); Summer fieldwork in invertebrate zoology (1st year bachelor students).
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 18-34-00595_mol_a, supervisor; “Cell coverings evolution and a problem of scales origin in the composition of cell coverings of amoebae of the order Dactylopodida”.
  • The Czech Science Foundation (Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, GAČR) 18-28103S, participant; “Diplomonads as a model system for evolution of parasitism”.
  • RSF 17-14-01391, participant; “Evolution, phylogeny and systematics of Amoebozoa”.
  • RFBR 16-04-01454_a, participant; “Evolution, phylogeny and systematics of amoebae of the class Tubulinea (Amoebozoa, Lobosa)”.
  • RFBR 15-29-02749_ofi_m, participant; “Complex revision of the amoeboid protists’ biodiversity on the territory of the Russian Federation”.
Selected Publications:
  • Udalov, I. A., Völcker, E., Smirnov, A. 2017. Korotnevella novazelandica n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Discosea, Dactylopodida) — a new freshwater amoeba with unusual combination of scales. Protistology, 11 (4), 238‒247.
    https://doi.org/10.21685/1680-0826-2017-11-4-5
  • Udalov, I. A., Zlatogursky, V. V., Smirnov, A. V. 2016. A new freshwater naked lobose amoeba Korotnevella venosa n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Discosea). J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 63, 834‒840. https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12345
  • Zlatogursky, V.V., Kudryavtsev, A., Udalov, I. A., Bondarenko, N., Pawlowski, J., Smirnov, A. 2016. Genetic structure of a morphological species within the amoeba genus Korotnevella (Amoebozoa: Discosea), revealed by the analysis of two genes. Eur. J. Protistol., 56, 102‒111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2016.08.001
  • Udalov, I. A. 2016. Pseudoparamoeba microlepis n. sp., Korotnevella fousta n. sp. (Amoebozoa, Dactylopodida), with notes on the evolution of scales among dactylopodid amoebae. Eur. J. Protistol., 54, 33‒46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2016.03.001
  • Udalov, I. A. 2015. Cyst-forming amoebae of the genus Korotnevella Goodkov, 1988 (Amoebozoa: Dactylopodida), with description of two new species. Eur. J. Protistol., 51, 480‒493. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2015.08.001