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March 5, 2025
March 4, the Chairperson of the KarRC RAS Young Scientists Council (YSC) was asserted. The position was taken by Svetlana Egorova, Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Precambrian Geology and Geodynamics, Institute of Geology KarRC RAS.
Svetlana Egorova - Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, has been working at the Institute of Geology since 2010. Her way to science started with doctoral studies at the Laboratory of Petrology and Tectonics, her research interests include petrology of Paleoproterozoic magmatic complexes of the Fennoscandinavian Shield.

- I plan to steer the activities of the Young Scientists' Council to primarily focus on expertise sharing and communication between young scientists from different units of the Center. It is important to hold training workshops on preparing presentations, writing articles for scientific journals, initiating and submitting applications for grant support from the Russian Science Foundation, mastering useful services and tools that facilitate the work of a scientist, - said Svetlana Egorova.

The Young Scientists Council (YSC) of KarRC RAS is a collegial advisory body to KarRC RAS Director General. It was established to unite young scientists in search of the most effective forms of involving them in the development of basic and applied science, realization of the scientific potential, upskilling, as well as to help protect their rights, improve their work and living conditions and organize their leisure time.

KarRC RAS YSC Chairperson is a voting member of the KarRC RAS Learned Council.

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April 28, 2025
Karelian biologists ran successful trials of a technique for detecting fish infection with helminths based on traces of their DNA in water

Specialists of the Institute of Biology KarRC RAS were the first in the republic to test the method of environmental DNA analysis (eDNA) to detect a model fish parasite in an area impacted by trout farms. This is especially important in the context of a growing number of fish farms that use the practice of transporting stock (fry) from between water bodies, which creates a risk of new parasites appearing in lakes. Currently, fish have to be captured and examined to detect an infection, and for the output to be accurate the sample should be at least 15 fish. This may be problematic in the wild and costly in cage facilities. The eDNA diagnosis system can detect the presence of parasites directly in water samples.