Focus: The systematics and diversity of free-living ciliates, particularly marine and brackish forms in costal waters We are focusing our research on the systematics and diversity of free-living ...

We are currently focusing on four aspects of the evolution of eukaryotic microbes: Assembling the Eukaryotic Tree of Life through Analyses of Eukaryotic Microbes Phylogeography of Coastal Choreotrich ...

Petersburg State University was the first in the world to find and describe in detail the symbiosis of ciliaria and yeast from an aquatic environment. These yeasts can infect ciliates in nature, ...