NATO
NATO Advanced Research Workshop
"Artemia Biodiversity in the Newly Independent States:
Current Global Resources and their Sustainable Exploitation"
Moscow, Russia
17-19 July 2002,

Scientific Committee for the study of Artemia resources in NIS countries

This committee was established as a recommendation of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop

Chairmen
  • Patrick Sorgeloos
  • Aleksandr Litvinenko
  • Iskandar Mirabdullayev
  • James Clegg
  • Yuri Mamontov

Members for Russia
  • Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Osmk and Novosibirsk area: Ludmila Litvinenko
  • Kurgan area: Ekaterina Yezhova
  • Altai area: Galina Tsareva and Lubov Vesnina
  • Khakassia area: Yegor Zadereev

Members for Kazakhstan

  • West area: Valeriy Novoselov
  • East area: Sovet Matmuratov

Member for Uzbekistan

 Iskandar Mirabdullayev

Member for Tajikistan

 Firuz Akhrorov

Member for Turkmenistan

 Stanislav Bulatov

Member for Inve

 Brad Marden

Member for the Artemia Reference Center (ARC) and the International Study on Artemia (ISA)

 Gilbert Van Stappen

All members are expected to represent their organisation and to act as an interface with others in the region/organisation who express interest in the Committee. The committee will mainly work through email. Gilbert Van Stappen will set up a mailing list and website in order to facilitate communication.

The committee aims to coordinate and exchange experimental planning and results of ongoing R&D activities with Artemia in the various countries/regions. Through the ARC the committee will have access to results obtained by the EU-INCO Concerted Action "Biodiversity of Artemia strains"

:The following topics will be the main interest of the committee:

  1. Biodiversity studies:
    • identification and characterisation of sites
    • ecological characteristics/population dynamics
    • genetical characterisation
    • life history characteristics
    • characteristics for use in aquaculture
  2. Setting up of reference strains and samples for comparative studies (samples to be made available for the ARC cyst bank)
  3. Standardisation of methodologies in relation to the above listed biodiversity studies: methodologies will be proposed via the committee web site and adopted by the members in function of results obtained