Tatyana Mayor – Researcher in the Laboratory of Ichthyology at the Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; PhD, Irkutsk State University (Irkutsk, Russia), Faculty of Faculty of Biology and Soil Studies, graduated in 2008. Scientific interests: Evolution, molecular phylogeny and taxonomy of freshwater copepods, metabarcoding and morphological identification approaches to investigate mesozooplankton’s biodiversity, ecological monitoring of Lake Baikal, transposable elements and their role in speciation processes. More than 15 years of work in the field of molecular phylogeny, with more than 15 publications.