Yuriy Kvach

E-mail: quach@paco.net, kvach@interia.pl

Russian version of CV

PERSONAL
Ukrainian Citizen
Married
Home address: App. 3, 11 Myasoyidivska Str.
65007 Odessa, Ukraine
Tel: +(380 48) 7331475

EDUCATION
MSc: Odessa University. Department of Hydrobiology and General Ecology. 1999. Biology. Thesis: Biology and Ecology of some goby fishes (Gobiidae) on two sites of the Odessa Bay.
BSc: Odessa University. 1997. Biology and Chemistry.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, English

EMPLOYMENT
2001-present - Scientific Researcher, Department of Population Ecology of Invertebrates, Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine.
1999-2002 - Post-graduate researcher, Department of Zoology, Odessa University.
1998-1999 - Scientific Researcher, Odessa Branch of Southern Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography.
1998 - Teacher of Biology, Lyceum of Economic and Law.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
1. Helminthofauna of fishes of the North-Western Black Sea. Fauna, systematic. Succession of helminthofauna of some lagoons and estuaries.
2. Parasites of the invasive round goby in the Baltic Sea. Collaborating with Dr. K. E. Skora (Hel Marine Station, University of Gdansk).
3. Morphology of acanthocephalans of the Black Sea fauna. During last time the morphology of Acanthocephaloides propinquus is studying.
4. Identification of Anisakid nematodes using PCR procedure. Collaborating with A. Kijewska (Centrum of Marine Biology, Polish Academy of Science, Gdynia).
5. Biology and Systematic of gobiids. Collaborating with Dr. C. Stepien (Cleveland State University).
6. Feeding preferences of gobiids in the North-Western Black Sea. Collaborating with Dr. V. Zamorov, O. Korenyuk (Dep. Hydrobiology and General Ecology, Odessa University), S. Kudrenko (Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine).

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
1. Otto Kinne Foundation. Fellowship. Biodiversity of Helminthes of Goby Fishes from the North-Western Black Sea Region. 2000-2002.
2. Kasa im. Jozefa Mianowskiego. Fellowship. 2003-2004.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1. Scientific seminar "Present-day ecology and problems of sustainable development of society". UkrDLTU, Lviv, Ukraine, March 18, 1999.
2. International scientific conference "Black Sea ecological problems". OCSTEI, Odessa, Ukraine, October 31 - November 2, 1999.
3. Conference of junior researchers "Pontus Euxinus 2000". IBSS, Sevastopol, Ukraine, May 16-18, 2000.
4. All-Ukrainian conference of junior researchers "Actually questions of modern natural sciences". Tavria University, Simferopol, Ukraine, April 13-15, 2001.
5. Seminar on ecology policy "Water environment safety in example of Dniester River region". Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, Serhiyivka, Ukraine, May 24-26, 2001.
6. All-Ukrainian conference of junior scientists "Ecological and economical studies: results, problems, perspectives". UkrDLTU, Lviv, Ukraine, April 24-26, 2001.
7. International workshop: "Round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) - populations features in various geographical regions". Hel Marine Station, Poland, June 18-19, 2001.
8. 3rd International Symposium "Functioning of coastal ecosystems in various geographical regions". Gdynia, Poland, June 19-22, 2001.
9. Conference of junior researchers "Pontus Euxinus II". IBSS, Sevastopol, Ukraine, September 18-12, 2001.
10. International scientific conference of junior researchers "Problems of aquaculture and functioning of water ecosystems". Institute of Fishery, Kiev, Ukraine, February 25-28, 2002.
11. 6th Pushchino school-conference of junior researcher "Biology - the science of XXI century". Pushchino, Russia, May 20-24, 2002.
12. 12th Conference of Ukrainian Scientific Society of Parasitologists. Sevastopol, 10-13 September 2002.
13. First Hungarian-Ukrainian Fisheries Conference, Szarvas, Hungary, 2 - 4 October 2002 .
14. 2nd International Conference in Aquaculture Economics and Marketing. Institute for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Irrigation (HAKI), Szarvas, 3-5 October 2002.
15. 4th International Symposium "The Black Sea ecological problems", October 31 - November 1, 2002, SCSEIO, Odessa
16. International workshop "Marine Environment - a common approach", Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdansk, BALTDER, Gdynia, 23 - 24 November 2003.

OTHER SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS
1. Goby fishes of Ponto-Azov basin. Lecture for students, University of Zaporizhzhya, November 22, 2002.
2. Metazoa parasites of the round goby, Neogobius melanostomus, in native habitats and in a region of invasion. Scientific Seminar on the Hel Marine Station, Institute of Oceanography of University of Gdansk, Hel, Poland, November 15, 2003.
3. Metazoa parasites of the round goby (invasive and also in natural habitats). Scientific Seminar of the Odessa Branch of the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine, March 18, 2004.

ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS AND FIELD RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1. Sampling of gobiids in the Gulf of Odessa, 1996-1999. During the period the gobiids were sampled for diet study. The data is used for MSc Thesis.
2. Research collection of gobiids and zoobenthos of the Budaksky Lagoon (Black Sea), 1998-2000. The were sampled using commercial fish-nets. The benthos was sampled using Petersen grab onboard the motor-launch. Gobies were examined for helminthes and also its diet.
3. Government commission on problem of phytovorous fish dead in Danube Lakes, May 1999. The limnetic fish species were examined for parasites in Lakes Yalpuh, Kuhurluy, Kahul, Katlabuh.
4. Sampling of helminths of gobiids of the North-Western Black Sea region, 2000-2002. The study was carried supported by Otto Kinne Foundation, project "Biodiversity of Helminthes of Goby Fishes from the North-Western Black Sea Region". The goby fishes were sampled in the Gulf of Odessa, Tyligul, Grygoryivsky, Khadzhibey, Dniester Estuaries, and Budaki and Tuzly's Lagoons.
5. Sampling of helminths of the round goby of the Gulf of Gdansk (Baltic Sea), June 2001. The study was supported by Hel Marine Station. The previous data about the invasive round goby parasites were sampled.
6. Research collection for dreissenid mussels and fishes in the Ukrainian Black Sea region, September 2002. The samples were collected in fresh waters (Danube and Dnieper Rivers, Danube Lakes), brackish water sites (Budaki Lagoon, Sasyk, Dniester, Sukhoy and Bug Estuaries), and sea near-shores (Gulfs of Odessa and Yalta, Zhebriany and Sevastopol Bays, Kerch Straight and North-Western part of the Sea of Azov).
7. Research collection for gobiids of the Ponto-Azov basin, November 2002. The gobiids were sampled in the Sasyk, Dniester and Bug Estuaries, Kahovka Reservoir, Gulf of Yalta and Sevastopol Bays.
8. Sampling of the invasive round goby parasites in the Gulf of Gdansk (Baltic Sea), April 2003, October 2003 - February 2004. the study was supported by Kasa im. Jozefa Mianowskiego and Komitet Badan Naukowych inside the task of Hel Marine Station "Badania nad biologia i ekologia ryb strefy przybrzeznej Baltyku".

SOCIETIES MEMBERSHIP
1. Ukrainian Scientific Society of Parasitologists of NAS of Ukraine
2. Ukrainian Hydroecological Society

PUBLICATIONS
1. Kvach Y. V., Zamorov V. V., Kudrenko S. A. 2000. The infection of monkey goby with Ligula pavlovskii Dubinina in the lower reaches of the Khadzhibey Estuary. Visnyk Odeskogo universytetu (Biology), 5(1): 161-165 (In Ukrainian).
2. Kvach Y. V. 2000. Infection of goby fish (Gobiidae) with nematodes Cucullanellus minutus (Nematoda, Cucullanidae) in the reservoirs of North-Western Black Sea region. Ekologiya morya, 52: 31-33 (In Russian).
3. Kvach Y. V. 2001. Ligula infection of monkey goby Neogobius fluviatilis in some estuaries of North-Western Black Sea region. Vestnik zoologii, 35(1): 85-88 (In Ukrainian).
4. Kvach Y. 2001. The parasites of gobies in the Budaksky Lagoon [In] Functioning of coastal ecosystems in various geographical regions: 3rd International Symposium, Gdynia, Poland, June 19-22, 2001, p. 45.
5. Kvach Y. 2001. Modern data on infection of goby fishes Gobiidae in the Odessa Bay and the Khadzhibey Estuary as indicator of ecological condition of environment. Naukovy visnyk UkrDLTU, 11.1: 35-39 (In Ukrainian).
6. Korenyuk A. V., Kvach Y. V., Zamorov V. V. 2001. Macrozoobenthos of the Budaksky Lagoon and its importance for goby fishes (Gobiidae). Uchenye zapiski Tavricheskogo universiteta (Biology), 14(2): 103-106 (In Russian).
7. Kvach Y. 2001. Helminthes of Gobies from the Tuzly's Lagoons (North-Western part of the Black Sea). Oceanol. Studies, 30(3-4): 103-113.
8. Kvach Y., Zamorov V. 2001. Feeding preferences of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus and mushroom goby N. cephalarges in the Odessa Bay. Oceanol. Studies, 30(3-4): 91-101.
9. Kvach Y., Korniychuk Y. M. 2002. Helminthofauna of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus in different sites of the Black Sea [In] Problemy akvakultury i funktsionirovaniya vodnyh ekosistem: International scientific conference of junior researchers, UkrNIIRH, Kiev, February 25-28, 2002, p. 149-151 (In Russian).
10. Kvach Y. 2002. Helminthes of goby fish of the Hryhoryivsky Estuary. Vestnik zoologii, 36(3): 71-76.
11. Kvach Y. V. 2002. Acanthocephalans of some goby species (Gobiidae) of the Odessa Bay and lagoons and estuaries of the North-Western Black Sea. Ekologiya morya, 61: 21-24 (in Russian).
12. Kvach Y. 2002. The helminthes parasitising gobies and other fishes in the Budaksky Lagoon (Black Sea, Ukraine). Oceanol. Studies, 31(1-2): 59-65.
13. Kvach Y. 2002. Round goby's parasites in native habitats and in a place of invasion. Oceanol. Studies, 31(1-2): 51-57.
14. Kvach Y. V. 2002. Changing of the helminth fauna of gobies (Gobiidae) in the Khadzhibey Estuary [in] XII Conference of Ukrainian Scientific Society of Parasitologists (September 10-12, 2002, Sevastopol), Kyiv, p. 41.
15. Kvach Y. 2002. Biodiversity of gobiids' helminthes in the North-Western Black Sea region and its changing [in] The Black Sea ecological problems, G. G. Minicheva, B. M. Kats (eds.), Collected papers for 4th International Symposium (October 31 - November 1, 2002, SCSEIO, Odessa), p. 84 - 85.
16. Kudrenko S. A., Kvach Y. 2002. Occurrence of fishes new for the fauna of the Khadzhibey Estuary (Black Sea, Ukraine). Vestnik Zoologii, 36(5): 84 (in Russian).
17. Kvach Y. 2003. Long-term changes of helminth fauna of gobiids from Tiligul estuary of the Black Sea due to changes of its salinity. Marine Ecological Journal, 2(3): 80 (in Russian).
18. Kvach Y. 2003. Helminthes of recently established two blenny fishes (Blennidae) from the Odessa Bay (Black Sea). Vestnik Zoologii, 37(6): 64.