Curicculum Vitae

Education

2004 Ph.D. (Parasitology/Tick Taxonomy) Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation. Thesis: ‘The significance of immature stages in the systematics of ixodid ticks of the genus Hyalomma Koch – vectors of pathogens’.

2000 M.Sc. (Entomology/Acarology) Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Department of Entomology, Russian Federation. Thesis: ‘The significance of immature stages in the systematics of ixodid ticks of the genus Hyalomma Koch.’

1998 B.Sc. (Entomology) Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Sciences, Department of Entomology, Russian Federation. Thesis: ‘Species of the Ecdyonurus subgenus from the Caucasus.’

Appointments

2018-present Professor: Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA

2012-2018 Associate Professor: Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA

2006-present Assistant Curator: United States National Tick Collection, the James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute for Coastal Plain Science (formerly Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology), Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA

2006-2012 Assistant Professor: Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA

2005-2006 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (Onderstepoort, South Africa)

2004–2005 Researcher, Department of Parasitology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Teaching

2014-present Medical and Veterinary Entomology; Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, USA)

2008-present Principles of Biology Lab II; Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, USA)

1999 Entomology (summer class); St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Grants

2011-2014 the National Institute of Health: Systematics of medically important Dermacentor tick vectors (PI D.A. Apanaskevich)

2010-2011 GSU Faculty Research Grant: Most unique and poorly known African ticks (PI D.A. Apanaskevich)

2009-2011 Co-PI; the National Research Foundation (South Africa): Taxonomic revision of Ixodidae (PI C.A. Matthee)

2008-2009 GSU Faculty Research Grant: Rare tick species from rare mammals in Africa (PI D.A. Apanaskevich)

2003-2004 Co-PI; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project codes 03-04-49664 & 03-04-06871): Some aspects of micro- and macroevolution of the bloodsucking acarines of the families Ixodidae and Trombiculidae on the border of these processes (PI N.A. Filippova).

2000-2002 Co-PI; the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Project code 00-04-48881): The sympatry of closely related species of the bloodsucking acarines - vectors of agents of natural foci diseases (PI N.A. Filippova).

2000–2004 “Scientific School of Academician E.N. Pavlovsky”, supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grant code НШ 1664.203, Head of school Y.S. Balashov).

Research work with large scale tick collections at:

2005-present United States National Tick Collection, the James H. Oliver, Jr. Institute of Arthropodology and Parasitology, Georgia Southern University (Statesboro, USA)

1998–2011 Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

2012 Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, China)

2005, 2011 tick collection of Dr. J.B. Walker (Pretoria, South Africa)

2005-2006, 2011 Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria (Onderstepoort, South Africa)

2011 Hebrew University (Jerusalem, Israel)

2007 Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, USA)

2006 Natural History Museum of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

2005-2006 Gertrud Theiler Tick Museum, Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute (Onderstepoort, South Africa)

2004 Zoological Museum, Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia)

Other activities

2011 Presenting one week workshop on identification of ticks of Israel at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

2011 Presenting one week course on identification of the Transcaucasian ticks at the Smithsonian Institution, USA

2010 Presenting short course on identification of the US and Asian ticks, Statesboro, USA

2009 Invited speaker at the Tick Tree of Life workshop, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

2009 Presenting two weeks course on identification of the Transcaucasian ticks at the Smithsonian Institution, USA

2007 Presenting short course on identification of the Afghanistan ticks, Statesboro, USA

2007 Invited speaker at the third annual meeting of the Integrated Consortium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (ICTTD-3), Zanzibar, Tanzania

2006 Invited speaker at the Asian Component of the Integrated Consortium on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases (ICTTD-3), Istanbul, Turkey

Memberships

2013 Entomological Society of America

2013 American Society of Parasitologists

2002 Russian Entomological Society

2009 Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Acarology