ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Philosophy
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Saint Petersburg Scientific Center
St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of the History
of Science and Technology named after S.I. Vavilov
Library of the Academy of Sciences
Komarov Botanical Institute
Zoological Institute
Institute of Cytology
Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry
VAVILOV SOCIETY OF GENETICISTS AND SELECTIONERS
ST. PETERSBURG ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS
ST. PETERSBURG BRANCH OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE OА THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
CHARLES DARWIN AND CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE
Two International Conferences:
I. CHARLES DARWIN AND MODERN BIOLOGY
(September, 21-23, St. Petersburg)
II. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY: BETWEEN SCIENCE AND IDEOLOGY. HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT
(September, 23-25, St. Petersburg)
President of the organizing committee:
Vice-President of RAS, Chairman of the Presidium of the SPbRC RAS, Noble Prize winner, Academician Zhores I. Alferov
Chairmen of the organizing committee:
Chief Pro-Rector for Academic Affairs and Research, Dean of Faculty of Biology, Professor Igor A. Gorlinsky
Vice-Chairman of the Presidium of the SPbRC RAS, Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Head of Department of Genetics and Selection of SPSU, Academician Sergei G. Inge-Vechtomov
Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology named after S.I. Vavilov, Professor Eduard I. Kolchinsky
Chairmen assistants:
Mikhail B. Konashev PhD
Tatiana I. Yusupova PhD
Academic secretaries:
Ludmila A. Dzhaparidze PhD
Anatolii V. Polevoin PhD
Anastasia A. Fedotova
Conferences are financially supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (projects 09-06-06086-g; 09-04-06078-g)
Book exhibitions devoted to 200-years anniversary of Charles Darwin and 150 years of his book “The Origin of Species” are being held in the Library of the Academy of Sciences and its Division in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of the History of Science and Technology named after S.I. Vavilov.
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