Irina P. BELOFASTOVA

Research biologist of Deparment of Ecological Parasitology
Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol
2 Nakhimov Ave., Sevastopol 99011, Ukraine
FAX: 380-692-557813
E-mail: alviga@ibss.iuf.net

Education:

• Leningrad State University, Russia, St.- Petersburg. 1985 Major: Biology

Major field of training:

• Marine parasitology;
• Diseases of aquatic organisms;
• Mariculture.

Research experience:

• Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, 1979 - Assistant
• IBSS, Department of Ecological Parasitology (1977 - present) - Research biologist.

Scientific interests:

• Marine gregarines.
  • Fauna, systematics, life-cycles; (Look on my the Black Sea Gregarines Site)
• Fish parasites
• Parasites of crabs and molluscs.

Selected publications:

1. Belofastova I.P. Two species of genus Cephaloidophora (Eugregarinida, Cephaloidophoridae) - parasites of Black Sea crabs. // St-Petersburg, "Parasitologia", V. 30, N.3, 1966. - P.- 270-274. ( Russ.)
2. Belofastova I.P. Gregarines of the genus Nematopsis (Eugregarinida, Porosporidae) - parasites of the Black Sea invertebrates // St-Petersburg, "Parasitologia", V.30, N.2, 1996. - P. -159-173. (Russ.)
3. Belofastova I.P. Nematopsis legeri De Beachamp, 1910 (Eugragarinida, Porosporidae) - parasite of Black Sea molluscs. // Sevastopol, "Ecologia morja", 46, 1997. - P.- 3-6. (Russ.)
4. The turbellarians of genus Paravortex (Rhabdocoela: Graffillidae) – parasites of the Black Sea bivalves (with Dmitrieva E.V). "Ecology of the Sea"(Ecologiya Morya) 48 (1999). p.76-78