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Curriculum Vitae

 

Oleksandr Holovachov was born on 15 July 1978 in the city of Lviv, Ukraine. During the study in “53 Lviv secondary school with profound study of English language”, he participated in the biological and ecological olympiads at different levels, and won 2^nd award in the Ukrainian Biological Olympiad in 1994, 1^st award in the Ukrainian Ecological Olympiad in 1994, 3^rd award in the Ukrainian Biological Olympiad in 1995, 2^nd award in the Russian Biological Olympiad in 1995, and, finally, Silver medal in the 6^th International Biological Olympiad 1995. Years of studies at the Department of Zoology, Biological faculty, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv coincided with the first nematological studies under the supervision of Dr. Andriy Susulovsky (State Museum of Natural History, Lviv). They were partly supported by the grants from the International Science Education Programme of the International Renaissance Foundation in 1995-1999.

 

In 2000 he was graduated from the university and received the diploma with distinction of “Master of Science in Biology/Zoology, teacher of biology and chemistry”. In the same year he became employed as PhD student, and in 2002 – as a laboratory assistant at the Department of Zoology, Biological faculty, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. A fellowship from the International Agricultural Centre (Wageningen) and the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries provided the basis for initial collaboration with the Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, where O. Holovachov passed successfully the Nematode Identification Course in 2001 and prepared the PhD thesis entitled “Morphology and Systematics of the Order Plectida Malakhov, 1982 (Nematoda)”.

 

From September 2002 till May 2006 he occupied a position of laboratory assistant at the Department of Zoology, Biological faculty, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine; he gave practicals in invertebrate zoology and field practice on local invertebrate fauna. From January 2005 till May 2006 he was appointed as a managing editor of the “Visnyk of Lviv University, Biology Series” journal, which is published by the Biological faculty of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. An associate editor of the journals “Nematology” and “Russian Journal of Nematology” (published by the Russian Society of Nematology). Associate specialist in the Fauna Europea project (Nematodes). Currently he is employed as a Post Doctoral researcher at the Department of Nematology of the University of California at Riverside (USA).

 

Research interests

My long-term research interests are the morphology, development, phylogeny and taxonomy of nematodes, with particular emphasis on the evolution of aquatic (both marine and freshwater) and terrestrial bacterivorous nematodes.

The research is focused mostly on the reconstruction of phylogenetic relationships between different species on the base of light and scanning electron microscopic observations and with using cladistic methods. New and poorly known species are described when available.

 

 

 

Contact data:

 

E-mail: holovachov@narod.ru

E-mail: oleksandr.holovachov@ucr.edu

 

Current Postal Address

                 Department of Nematology

                 University of California Riverside

                 Riverside CA 92521, USA

 

Previous Business Address

                 Department of Zoology, Biological Faculty

                 Ivan Franko National University of Lviv

                 Hrushevsky str. 4,Lviv 79005, Ukraine