Our postdoc Dr Artem Lisachov got governmental funding for the screening of ranavirus infection (Ranavirus sp.) in ectothermic vertebrates in West Siberia. Our lab is going to be the first in Russia to carry out large scale screening of emerging diseases affecting wild populations of reptiles, amphibians and fish.

_{Rana amurensis | Siberian wood frog in the picture © Evgeniy Simonov}