On April 19, the 33rd youth conference “Russian Civilization: History, Problems, Prospects” was held at Teacher-Training Institute of Irkutsk State University. The 1st year postgraduate students participated in the workshop “Problems of Ecology and Natural Sciences”:

Nikolaeva Tatiana “Identification of organism and individuality in terms of modern genetics”;

Smirnova Daria “Microorganisms found in the bottom sediments of Lake Baikal in the zone of natural oil shows B. Zelenovskaya”;

Tyurnev Ivan “Phytoplankton study in Lake Baikal using a PhycoProbe submersible spectrofluorometer”.

We congratulate the participants with prize-winning places and wish success in further research!