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Personnel of the Department of Botany

Updated: 4/4/2025

  Ivan Moisienko

Head of the Department of Botany, Doctor of Biological Sciences (2012), Professor (2014)

Teaching standard courses "Botany", special courses "Protection of the Plant World", "Reserve Phytosozology", "Reserve Business", "Fundamentals of Steppe Studies"

Science interests: flora, systematics and geography of higher plants, vegetation and habitats of southern Ukraine; integrated conservation of biodiversity and cultural heritage of burial mounds, hillforts, old cemeteries, ramparts, etc.; protection of the plant world, reserve business, urban floristics, phytoinvasions, fragmentation and isolation of plant cover, systematics of Plumbaginaceae.

Scientific achievements: over 300 scientific publications, including 14 monographs (co-authored), 70 publications in professional publications; 40 - in English, including 15 - in journals indexed in Scopus.

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   Oleksandr Khodosovtsev

Doctor of Biological Sciences (2004), Professor (2006). Laureate of the Prize of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for Special Achievements in the Development of Ukraine (2006). Honored Worker of Education of Ukraine (2009).

Teaches standard courses "Mycology", "Macroevolution and Macrosystems of the Organic World", "Phylogeny of the Organic World", "Methods of Cultivation of Fungi", "Microbiology", special course "Lichenology". Scientific interests: lichenology; mycology, conservation.

Scientific achievements: over 300 scientific papers, including 15 monographs, textbooks and textbooks on biology for secondary school (6th, 7th grades), 55 works in English in leading world journals.

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  Iryna Kartashova

Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences. Associate Professor

Teaching academic disciplines: "Didactics of Biology", "Methodology of Teaching Biology", "Methodology of Teaching Specialized Biological Disciplines in Higher Education Institutions", "Methodology of Teaching Specialized Environmental Disciplines in Higher Education Institutions", "Didactics of Ecology: Theory and Practice of Forming Ecological Culture"

Science interests: problems of activating students' cognitive activity, methods of solving biological problems, diagnosing students' academic achievements in biology.

Scientific achievements: over 100 scientific and methodological achievements, including articles in periodicals and professional publications, textbooks for students and teachers ("Botany for teachers and students (history, amazing, cognitive)", "Biological problem: content, solution, methodology of use" and others), methodological recommendations and workbooks for students of higher education for all disciplines taught.

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  Ruslana  Melnyk

Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor

Teaching standard courses "Botany", "Ecology", "Geobotany". "Pharmaceutical Botany". As well as the special courses "Urban Floristics", "Folk Phytotherapy", "Environmental Science".Science interests: urban flora, adventive flora, plant ecology, plant protection.

Scientific achievements: more than 170 scientific and methodological publications, including articles in periodicals and professional publications, textbooks, methodological recommendations, monographs

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  Zagorodnyuk Nataliya Volodymyrivna.

Deputy Head of the Department. Candidate of Biological Sciences. Associate Professor of the Department.

Teaches the subjects "Plant Physiology" for students of the specialty 091 Biology, 014.05 Secondary Education (Biology and Human Health), the subject "Environmental Monitoring" for students of the specialty 101 Ecology, elective subjects "Monitoring of Biological Diversity", "Morphobiological Features of Medicinal Plants" for masters of the specialty 091 Biology (OPP "Biology", ONP "Botany").

Scientific interests: bryology, biomonitoring, plant physiology, conservation, herbarium.

Scientific achievements: over 100 scientific publications - articles, abstracts, curricula, methodological developments.

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   Дармостук Валерій Вікторович

PhD (Доктор філософії) Біологія

Викладач кафедри ботаніки.

Захистив дисертаційну роботу на тему 'Ліхенофільні гриби степової зони України'.

Коло наукових інтересів включає молекулярну таксономію, різноманіття та поширення лишайників та ліхенофільних грибів Європи та Південної Америки, а також охорону природних біотопів та популяризацію науки через залучення до citizen-science.

Загалом, автор понад 100 наукових та науково-методичних публікацій, серед який більше 20 міжнародних рецензованих виданнях.

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  Daineko Polina Mykhailivna

PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)/ Biology

Teacher of the Department of Botany

Teaching the academic disciplines "Biogeography", as well as elective courses "Zerowaste: from theory to practice" and "Ecoskills: history, principles, approaches".

Scientific interests: flora, plant protection, conservation, integrated conservation of biodiversity and cultural heritage of ancient settlements, historical ecology, species richness of the Carpathian meadows, traditional agriculture, etc.

Scientific achievements: over 30 scientific and scientific-methodical publications - articles in journals indexed in the Scopus National Library of Ukraine and professional publications of Ukraine, monographs and teaching and methodological manuals, methodological developments, abstracts of reports, etc.

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   Zakharova Marina Yaroslavivna.


Lecturer of the department. The topic of the dissertation research is "Rare phytodiversity of the Lower Dnieper Sands".
She teaches seminars and practical classes in the disciplines of "Botany", "Reserve Affairs", "Biology", "Geobotany", "Plant Protection".


Scientific interests: botany, geobotany, herbarium, rare plant species, plant protection.


Scientific achievements: over 30 scientific works, including 2 monographs (co-authored), 8 articles in professional Ukrainian publications, 4 articles in other publications, 17 abstracts of reports.
  Gavrylenko Lyubov Mykolaivna.

Candidate of Biological Sciences

Conducts laboratory and seminar classes in the courses "Microbiology and Virology", "Ecology". Graduated from the department.

Scientific interests: microbiology, virology, lichenology, mycology, laboratory work. Since 2011, secretary of the Kherson branch of the UBT.

Scientific achievements: 37 scientific publications, including 6 articles in professional publications of Ukraine and 2 articles in English.  

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  Borodina Natalia Valeriyevna

Senior laboratory assistant of the department. Secretary of the Department of Botany

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