Elena M. Sayenko

Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences,

Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences,

159, prospect 100 let Vladivostoku,

Vladivostok 690022

Russia

Phone: (4232) 312-104

Fax: (4232) 310-193

Email: sayenko@ibss.dvo.ru 

B. EDUCATION

Sept. 1983-June, 1988:M.S., Zoology. Department of Zoology, Far Eastern State University (FESU), Vladivostok, Russia. Supervisors: Prof. Valentin M. Alekseev, FESU, and Dr. Evgenyi A. Makarchenko, IBSS. Main field: Hydrobiology, entomology, systematics. M.S. Thesis: Taxonomic study of Chironomidae (Diptera) from south of Russian Far East.

C. RESEARCH AND WORK EXPERIENCE

Nov. 1989-1994: Engineer, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences (IBSS FEB RAS)

1994-1999: Junior Researcher, IBSS FEB RAS

since 1999 till now: Researcher, IBSS FEB RAS

D. SCIENTIFIC AFFILIATIONS

Member of the Russian Far East Malacological Society

E. FOREIGN LANGUAGE

English: good reading, writing and speaking

F. RANGE OF RESEARCH INTEREST

Freshwater bivalves: systematic, morphology of adult mollusk soft parts, morphology of glochidia, glochidiosis, life-history, reproduction, biology. 

G. PUBLICATIONS (most important)

Sayenko E.M., Bogatov V.V., 2001. New data on freshwater bivalves from Sakhalin Island // Zoologicheskyi zhurnal. Vol. 80. ¹ 11. P. 1297-1301.

Sayenko E.M., Shed’ko M.B., Kholin S.K., 2001. Morphology and feature bionomics of glochidia mollusks of the genus Beringiana (Bivalvia, Unionidae) of Kamchatka and Northern Kuriles // Vestnik zoologii, 35 (4): 59-68.

Prozorova L.A., Sayenko E.M., 2001. On the biology of the anodontine genus Cristaria (Bivalvia, Unionidae) // Ruthenica, 11(1): 33-36.

Sayenko E.M., Ohara M., 2001. The minute shell structure of the glochidium of three species of Unionidae (Bivalvia) from the Kurile Islands // Ruthenica, 11(1): 47-50.

Sayenko E.M., Shed’ko M.B., 2000. Some aspects of reproduction and the glochidia morphology of two Unionidae species from South Primorye // Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society. Vol. 4. P. 101-102.

Sayenko E.M., Minakawa N., 1999. Occurrence of two species of crustaceans, Branchinecta paludosa (O.F. Müller, 1788) (Anostraca) and Lepidurus arcticus (Pallas, 1793) (Notostraca), on the Kuril Archipelago // Crustaceana, 72(7): 710-712.

Bogatov V.V., Sayenko E.M., Starobogatov Ya.I.,1999.Anodontine bivalves of the genus Kunashiria Starobogatov from the Southern Kuril Islands, with descriptions of two new species // Ruthenica, V. 9. ¹ 1. P. 57-62.

Sayenko E.M., Bogatov V.V., 1998 b. A new species of the genus Beringiana (Bivalvia, Unionidae) from Paramushir Island (northern Kuril Islands) // Zoologicheskyi zhurnal. Vol. 77. ¹ 12. P. 1414-1418.

Sayenko E.M., Bogatov V.V., 1996. Morphology of the soft parts of Unionidae from Russian Far East // Problems of continental water bodies hydrobiology and their malacofauna. St.-Petersburg: ZIN RAS. P. 49.

SUBMITTED PAPERS

Bogatov V.V., Sayenko E.M. The history of investigation of the Russian Far East Anodontinae and Pseudanodontinae. (Accepted by Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society)

Bogatov V.V., Sayenko E.M. On the structure and systematic position of the genus Sinanodonta (Bivalvia, Unionidae). (Accepted by Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society)

Bogatov V.V., Sayenko E.M., Starobogatov Ya.I. To the systematic position of the genus Kunashiria (Bivalvia, Unioniformes). (Accepted by Zoologicheskyi zhurnal)