Яхненко Алёна Сергеевна

Congratulations to Alena Sergeevna Yakhnenko on the successful defence of the candidate dissertation!

Today, on 27 February 2025, Alena Sergeevna Yakhnenko has successfully defended her dissertation at Vavilov Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The topic of her work was “Comparative analysis of intraspecific and interspecific genetic differentiation of Baikal sponges (Porifera: Spongillida)”.

Previously unknown community of 19 microorganisms discovered in the tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory

While analysing samples collected from an unused part of the tunnel of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences (BNO INR RAS), biologists from the Sector of Molecular Genetics of the Cell of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems have discovered a previously unknown community of microorganisms, including new genera of bacteria.