Students presenting parasitology and biology research at the international symposium of Amur State Medical Academy

Amur Medical Academy Hosts Biology Symposium

May 27, 2026

The Student Scientific Spring, which began with the 78th conference of the SSS of the Amur State Medical Academy, continues. In May 2026, the discipline Biology of the Department of Histology and Biology held a symposium with international participation, which discussed the problems of Parasitism that are relevant for the Far East and all of Russia. The participants of the event (about 100 first-year students) were convinced that infections and invasions in the 21st century take not only a regional, but also an interstate scale. The guest of the symposium was an experienced parasitologist, an employee of the Amur Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Roman Nikolaevich Podolko. The topics of the presentations concerned experimental parasitology and its current objects, as well as biological and medical aspects of popular helminthiases in the Far East and Russia and common infections (borreliosis).

The experimental work (supervised by Associate Professor A.A. Perminov) was preceded by an interesting report on the time-consuming and important classical microscopic technique of making a histological specimen, which was mastered by 1st year students G. Abasov, A. Korniltsev, A. Kuporosov (histological "wiring", a method of staining preparations with hematoxylin-eosin). Young scientists also plan to master histochemical reactions. The demonstration of photographic documents of the authors' applied works aroused keen interest among the student audience. The study of tissues of axolotl, fish and mollusks infected with larvae of Far Eastern helminths should make a significant contribution to unraveling the secrets of the parasite-host relationship, which was noted in subsequent reports.

An active participant of the event was a student from India Raj Rohit with the report "DANIO RERIO as an object of study of "parasitic-host" relations in metagonimiasis", as well as his co-author and translator Lapteva E. (supervisor Associate Professor A.A. Perminov). A unique experimental study "AMBYSTOMA MEXICANUM as an object of study of "parasite-host" relations in metagonimiasis" was presented by A. Korniltsev, A. Kuporosov (supervisor: Associate Professor A.A. Perminov). They demonstrated a documentary video confirming the priority registration of the process of ambystoma invasion by a Japanese fluke in the experimental conditions of the Biolab laboratory. The report: "Dirofilariasis in my dog" was made by Karplyuk A., a 1st year student (supervisor Associate Professor Perminov A.A.). She presented a special case of a disease of a beloved pet that ended in death. Dirofilariae were found in the eyeballs posthumously. Associate Professor Perminov A.A. supplemented the report on the wide spread of this disease in the Amur Region among people.

In the words of Academician K.I. Scriabin, said almost 100 years ago that "one of the most interesting sections of the study of parasitic worms is helminth geography – the distribution of individual species of helminths in zoogeographical regions, different latitudes and longitudes of the globe", his report "Parasitosis of the native territories of Russia: Kirov Region and Sakhalin" (supervisor Prof. E.N. GordienkoThis important aspect of medical geography was presented by the authors with a story about various parasitosis of remote climatic and geographical regions of Russia - Sakhalin and the Kirov region, which are a small homeland for the authors. The same principle of medical geography, which studies the natural and socio-economic conditions of infections on the example of current borreliosis, formed the basis of the report "Motivation for the study of ticks" by students Simbirtsev A., Kovalev E., Danilenko P. (supervisor: prof. Gordienko E.N.). The authors presented the case histories of patients with borreliosis developed as a result of tick bites on the island territory of Sakhalin and in the extreme conditions of the western region of Russia. Such forms of research work from the 1st year expand the boundaries of biology in the system of fundamental knowledge about the basics of parasitism, including experimental parasitology, as well as ideas about medical geography with clinical manifestations of natural focal infections and invasions. The symposium was concluded by Roman Nikolaevich Podolko, an employee of the Amur Regional Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, who summarized the students' reports with examples of their own research and data from the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service on the parasitological situation in the Amur Region

 

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