Iurii Lebedev

Research advisor: Professor Mikhail Gelfand

Co-advisor: Dr Konstantin Gongalsky

Program entry year: 2019

Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University,  Faculty of Geography, Department of Biogeography in 2019

Research project: Impact of organic and mineral fertilizers on earthworm-microbiota interaction

Research interests: metagenomics, soil ecology, phylogeography

Industry Immersion:
Company: First Genetics (https://f-genetics.com)

Project: Development and validation of a test system for detecting CGG repeats in the FMR1 gene

Publications:

• A history of study and new records of terrestrial enchytraeids (annelida, clitellata, enchytraeidae) from the russian far east / M. I. Degtyarev, I. M. Lebedev, K. G. Kuznetsova, K. B. Gongalsky // ZooKeys. — 2020. — Vol. 955. — P. 79–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.955.53106
• Rice straw decomposition by woodlice (isopoda, oniscidea) and millipedes (myriapoda, diplopoda) in the soils of kalmykia in a laboratory experiment / Y. M. Lebedev, K. B. Gongalsky, A. Y. Gorbunova, A. S. Zaitsev // Arid Ecosystems. — 2020. — Vol. 10, no. 3. — P. 251–254. DOI: 10.1134/S2079096120030026
• Global distribution of earthworm diversity / H. R.P. Phillips, C. A. Guerra, M. L.C. Bartz, M. J.I. Briones, G. Brown, T. W. Crowther, O. Ferlian, K. B. Gongalsky, Hoogen J. Van Den, J. Krebs, A. Orgiazzi, D. Routh, B. Schwarz, E. M. Bach, J. Bennett, U. Brose, T. Decaëns, B. König-Ries, M. Loreau, J. Mathieu, . . . , I. M. Lebedev, . . . ,  E. K. Cameron, and N. Eisenhauer. // Science. — 2019. — Vol. 366, no. 6464. — P. 480–485. DOI: 10.1126/science.aax4851
• Addition to the fauna of synanthropic woodlice in the south of western siberia, russia (isopoda: Oniscidea) / P. S. Nefediev, K. B. Gongalsky, Y. M. Lebedev, D. A. Efimov // Arthropoda Selecta. — 2018. — Vol. 27, no. 1. — P. 33–36. DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.27.1.04

Conference presentations:

• Biogeography of troglobiont species of woodlice of Crimea and Caucasus. Lebedev Iu.M. Terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the Black Sea region, Novorossiysk, Russia, 2018 April 23-27. Oral presentation (in Russian)
• Terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Agnaridae) from the northernmost limit of isopod distribution in southwestern Siberia, Russia. Gongalsky K.B., Nefediev P.S., Turbanov I.S., Slatina V.Yu., Lebedev Yu.M. 10th International Symposium on the Biology of Terrestrial Isopods, Budapest, Hungary, 2017 August 27-30. Poster presentation

Grants:

• 2020-2021 Skoltech student sequencing grant «The impact of earthworms on soil microbiome»
• 2019-2022 – RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) 19-05-00245 «Geographic peculiarities of functioning of detrital food webs in the soils of plains of Russia»
• 2019-2021 – RSF (Russian Science Foundation) 19-74-10104  «The influence of marine subsidies on taxonomic and functional structure of terrestrial detrital food webs»
• 2019-2021 – RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) 18-29-25067 «Using soil animals for bioconversion of agricultural wastes into products with high added value»
• 2019-2020 – RGS (Russian Geographical Society) 38172-2019 «Reconstruction of human settlement in the Far East of Russia using soil fauna»
• 2013-2016 – RSF (Russian Science Foundation) 16-14-00096 «The role of invertebrates in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving the climate and environmental safety of rice production in Russia»