Vladimir Mukhanov (PhD)                                                 

Position: Head, Leading Scientist                                               

E-mail: v.s.mukhanov@gmail.com                                            

Phone: +7 978 72 39 140  

Scientific interests: aquatic microbial ecology, material (production, grazing and viral mortality, etc.) and energy (heat production measured by microcalorimetry) flows through marine plankton communities; microbial and viral loops, epifluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry of marine virioplankton, photoautotrophic and heterotrophic pico- and nanoplankton

   Alexandra Gubanova (PhD)                                                 

Position: Leading Scientist                                               

E-mail: adgubanova@gmail.com                                            

Scientific interests: taxonomy, biogeography and ecology of marine mesozooplankton; invasion of alien species and their effect on the native ecosystems, invasion of copepod Oithona davisae to the Black Sea, long time series and inter-annual trends in the Black Sea zooplankton dynamics in terms of their abundance and diversity

   Olga Rylkova (PhD)                                                 

Position: Senior Scientist                                               

E-mail: v.s.mukhanov@gmail.com                                            

Scientific interests: aquatic microbial ecology, material (production, grazing and viral mortality, etc.) and energy (heat production measured by microcalorimetry) flows through marine plankton communities; epifluorescence microscopy and flow cytometry of marine photoautotrophic and heterotrophic pico- and nanoplankton

   Daria Litvinyuk (PhD)                                                 

Position: Scientist                                               

E-mail: d.lytvynyuk@gmail.com                                            

Scientific interests: zooplankton viability; plankton viability assay, live/dead plankton ratio

   Nelli Gavrilova (M.S.)                                                 

Position: Junior Scientist                                               

E-mail: krinelly@gmail.com                                           

Scientific interests: microzooplankton diversity and ecology, tintinnid taxonomy and abundance in the Black Sea

   Lilly Smirnova (M.S.)                                                 

Position: Leading Engineer                                               

E-mail:                                            

Scientific interests: phytoplankton taxonomy and abundance in the Black Sea

   Evgeniy Sakhon (M.S.)                                                 

Position: Leading Engineer                                               

E-mail: sachon@mail.ru                                           

Scientific interests: aquatic microbial ecology, bacterioplankton

   Olga Lopukhina (M.S.)                                                 

Position: Leading Engineer                                               

E-mail: o.lopukhina@mail.ru                                           

Scientific interests: phytoplankton database