Oleksandr Zinenko

Ph.D.

Description of the field of scientific research:

Oleksandr researches herpetology, systematics, evolution, protection of reptiles and amphibians, animal diseases, DNA barcoding, genomics, and population genetics.

List of duties:

Oleksandr is a researcher and teacher. He studies zoology, ecology, phylogenetics, animal population genetics, fauna changes under climate change and global factors, invasive species, and animal diseases.

Professional experience:

Oleksandr has been a researcher at the Museum of Nature of Vasily Karazin Kharkiv National University since 2000, a teacher at the Faculty of Biology of the same university since 2015, has experience in foreign internships in Germany and the USA, and expeditionary work in Asia and Africa. In addition to zoology and molecular taxonomy, he worked in environmental protection and biotechnology.

In addition, Oleksandr is a reviewer of Oryx, Plos One, Viruses, Evolutionary Systematics, Herpetozoa, Amphibia-Reptilia, Zookeys, Vertebrate Zoology, Molecular Ecology, Journal of Heredity, Folia Biologia, Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution, Scientific Reports, and scientific projects. He is also the editor of several Ukrainian scientific publications.

Keywords:

• Ecology

• Zoology

• Genetics

Scientific projects:

• Biodiversity Genomics Europe

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  The comprehensive application of genomic science to biodiversity research will drive fundamental advances in conservation science and policy.

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• Reptile and amphibian genomics to unravel evolution and biodiversity. Continuing Genomic Research Collaborations During the War. The Opportunities of Remote Bioinformatics and Museomics

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  The project is being implemented at the School of Biology and aims to support collaboration in the field of genomics between Ukrainian researchers and their colleagues from the European Union and Horizon-associated countries.

  Role: Project manager

Basic scientific publications:

• Hybrid origin of European Vipers (Vipera magnifica and Vipera orlovi) from the Caucasus determined using genomic scale DNA markers

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  Zinenko O., Sovic M., Gibbs H. L., Joger U., BMC Evolutionary Biology. 2016. 16:76.

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• PLA2 Inhibitor Varespladib as an Alternative to the Antivenom Treatment for Bites from Nikolsky’s Viper Vipera berus nikolskii

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  Zinenko, O.; Tovstukha, I.; Korniyenko, Y. Toxins 2020, 12, 356.

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• Mitochondrial phylogeny shows multiple independent ecological transitions and northern dispersion despite of Pleistocene glaciations in meadow and steppe vipers (Vipera ursinii and Vipera renardi)

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  Zinenko O., Stümpel N., Mazanaeva L., Bakiev A., Shiryaev K., Pavlov A., Kotenko T., Kukushkin O., Chikin Y., Duisebajeva T., Nilson G., Orlov N. L., Tuniyev S., Ananjeva N. B., Murphy R. W., Joger U. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. (2015), 84, 85-100. Автор

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• Phylogenomic insights into the diversity and evolution of Palearctic vipers

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  Christophe Dufresnes, Samuele Ghielmi, Bálint Halpern, Fernando Martínez-Freiría, Konrad Mebert, Dusan Jelić, Jelka Crnobrnja-Isailović, Sven Gippner, Daniel Jablonski, Ulrich Joger, Lorenzo Laddaga, Silviu Petrovan, Ljiljana Tomović, Judit Vörös, Naşit İğci, Mert Kariş, Oleksandr Zinenko, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Phylogenomic insights into the diversity and evolution of Palearctic vipers, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 197, 2024, 108095, ISSN 1055-7903

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• Countrywide screening supports model-based predictions of the distribution of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Ukraine

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  Jakóbik J, Drohvalenko M, Fernandez Melendez E, Kępa E, Klynova O, Fedorova A, Korshunov O, Marushchak O, Nekrasova O, Suriadna N, Smirnov N, Tkachenko O, Tupikov A, Dufresnes C, Zinenko O, Pabijan M (2024) Dis Aquat Org 159:15-27

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