Anna A. Gurina. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia. auri.na@mail.ru
Gurina Anna was born 4 July 1990. She works in the laboratory of phylogeny and faunogenesis, Institute of systematics and ecology of animals, Novosibirsk. A. Gurina is an expert on insect paleoecology and has more than 10 scientific papers.
Roman Yu. Dudko. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia. rdudko@mail.ru
Dudko Roman was born 13 May 1972 in Kamenushka Village, Belovskij District, Kemerovskaya Oblast. He get Ph.D. (Entomology) in Institute of systematics and ecology of animals SB RAS, Novosibirsk, with the dissertation – "Ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae) of Altai Mountains" (1998). R. Dudko studies systematics, zoogeography, fauna, and faunogenesis of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae), and also subfossil Coleoptera in Quaternary depositions. He works as a senior scientific researcher in the laboratory of phylogeny and faunogenesis of the Institute of systematics and ecology of animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch, Novosibirsk. He has more than 70 papers.
Sergey E. Tshernyshev. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia and Tomsk State University, Lenina Prospekt 36, Tomsk 634050, Russia. sch-sch@mail.ru
EDUCATION: Graduated Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation 1993; Ph.D., Institute of Systematic and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian, Branch, 1997. POSITIONS: Leading Researcher in the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian Branch. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Taxonomic entomology, faunogenesis, insect distribution, beetles of the families Malachiidae, Dasytidae, Byrrhidae, Meloidae; paleoentomology; biogeography; insect role in human life. PUBLICATIONS: More than 80 publications (in Russian and English) since 1993 in Russian and European journals.
Eugeny V. Zinovyev. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Vos’mogo Marta Street 202, Yekaterinburg 620144, Russia. zin62@mail.ru
Zinovyev Evgeniy entered the Ural state University, which graduated in 1986. In 1986 he entered the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences (laboratory of paleontology and biostratigraphy), where studied Permian spores and pollen. In 1988 he began to work at the Institute of plant and animal ecology of the USSR Academy of Sciences (later – Uro RAS) in the laboratory of historical ecology. Since that time he has been studying insects from Quaternary deposits of the Urals and Western Siberia. In 1997 he defended his PhD thesis. In 2012 he moved to work in the laboratory of Phylogenetics and biochronology of the same Institute. Zinovyev E. studies sub-fossil insects from Pleistocene and Holocene layers of the Urals and Western Siberia. Published more than 100 articles.
Andrei A. Legalov*. Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk 630091, Russia and Tomsk State University, Lenina Prospekt 36, Tomsk 634050, Russia. fossilweevils@gmail.com
Legalov Andrei has two degrees: Candidate of Biological Sciences (Doctor of Philosophy), Entomology (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk), 1998 and Doctor of Biological Sciences, Entomology (Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Novosibirsk), 2006. A. Legalov is the head of laboratory, laboratory of phylogeny and faunogenesis, Institute of systematics and ecology of animals, Novosibirsk. He studies fossil Curculionoidea, Chrysomelidae, Bostrichidae from different Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits; system of superfamily Curculionoidea, systematics of the primitive Curculionoidea families (Nemonychidae, Belidae, Rhynchitidae, Attelabidae) and Pleistocene sub-fossil insects. A. Legalov has more than 280 publications. He is the head of this research.
