Congratulations to Alena Yakhnenko on receiving a personal scholarship from the Mayor of Irkutsk!

Congratulations to Alena Yakhnenko for being awarded a personal scholarship by the Mayor of Irkutsk in the domain of science and technology, aimed at promoting the socio-economic development of the city of Irkutsk. This recognition is for her research project titled “Investigating the population-genetic structure of Baikal endemic sponges in relation to the mass diseases and mortality events that have been observed in recent years.”