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2022.06.10

Institute of Zoology hosted for a defense of the PhD dissertation

On June 10, 2022 at the FD 1.09 Dissertation Council operating under the Institute of Zoology of ANAS, the employee of the institute's "Parasitology" Laboratory Elnura Kamil gyzy Aslanova defended her PhD thesis in 2429.01 - "Parasitology" specialty on topic "Mice and rodent (Rodentia: Muridae) helmith diversity and landscape-ecological features of their distribution in Lankaran region”. The supervisor of the research is Doctor of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor Gara Fataliyev, and the official opponents are Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor Saleh Maharramov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Rafig Chobanov and PhD in Biological Sciences, Associate Professor Amaliya Hasanova.
The event was opened by the Executive Director of the Institute of Zoology, Chairman of the Dissertation Council, Dr. Biology Elshad Ahmadov who gave the floor to the applicant to report. E. Aslanova said that as a result of research, the species composition of rodent helminths was studied in Lankaran region and 47 species of helminths were parasitized. She also stressed out a complete study of the helminth fauna of rodents and the detection of 47 species, including 7 species of trematodes, 14 species of cestodes, 1 species of acanthocephalus and 25 species of nematodes for the first time in the Lankaran region of Azerbaijan.
Finally, members of the Dissertation Council praised the research work, noting that the work meets the requirements of the doctoral theses put by Supreme Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan for dissertations.