Date of Birth: 24 January, 1986

Place of Birth: Zarechny, Penza obl., Russia

EDUCATION:

2008 – Diploma in Biology; Penza State Pedagogical University.

2011 – Ph.D. in Biology; Moscow State University. Thesis title: “Morphology, systematics and ecology of dominants and some insufficiently studied species of ciliates class KARYORELICTEA from the White Sea and Yellow Sea”. Scientific supervisor Prof. Burkovskii I.V.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sep. 2012 – Sep. 2014: Associate professor. Department of Biology, biochemistry and ecology, Penza State Technological University.

Sep. 2014 – Present: Associate professor, Microbiology, epidemiology and infectious diseases, Penza State University

Jul 2019 – The academic title of associate professor with the qualification of “Microbiology”

Awarded "Young Scientist of the Year of the Penza Region 2021"

Author of more than 40 scientific and educational publications, including 12 articles indexed in Scopus and 14 articles indexed in WoS.

TAUGHT SUBJECTS

Immunology and microbiology

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:

1.    Mazei Yu., Gao Sh., Warren A., Li L., Li J., Song W., Esaulov A. Reinvestigation of the marine ciliate Trachelocerca ditis (Wright, 1982) Foissner and Dragesco, 1996 (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea) from the Yellow Sea and an assessment of its phylogenetic position inferred from the small subunit rRNA gene sequence // Acta Protozoologica. 2009. Vol. 48. №3. P. 213–221.

2.    Xu Y., Esaulov A., Warren A., Lin X., Mazei Yu., Hu X., Al-Rasheid K.A.S., Song W. Studies on five Trachelocercids from Yellow Sea coast of northern China, with notes on descriptions of Tracheloraphis sinica spec. nov. (Ciliophora, Karyorelictea) // Acta Protozoologica. 2011. Vol. 50. P. 205-218.

3.  Burkovsky I. V., Mazei Y. A., Esaulov A. S. Resistance of species structure of marine psammophilous ciliate communities to environmental changes: the importance of physiological, population and community mechanisms //BIOLOGIYA MORYA-MARINE BIOLOGY. – 2012. – Т. 38. – №. 1. – С. 43-56.

4.    Burkovsky I. V., Mazei Y. A., Esaulov A. S. The stability of the species structure of the marine ciliate community to variations in environmental factors: The roles of physiological, population, and cenotic mechanisms //Russian Journal of Marine Biology. – 2012. – Т. 38. – №. 1. – С. 43-55.

5.    Burkovskii I. V., Mazei Y. A., Esaulov A. S. Influence of the period of existence of a biotope on the formation of the species structure of a marine psammophilous ciliate community //Russian Journal of Marine Biology. – 2011. – Т. 37. – №. 3. – С. 177-184.

6.    Azovsky A., Saburova M., Tikhonenkov D., Khazanova K., Esaulov A., Mazei Y. Composition, diversity and distribution of microbenthos across the intertidal zones of Ryazhkov Island (the White Sea) // European Journal of Protistology. 2013. Vol. 49. №4. P. 500–515.

7.    Elisabeth Hehenberger, Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Martin Kolisko, Javier del Campo, Anton S. Esaulov, Alexander P. Mylnikov, Patrick J. Keeling. Novel predators reshape holozoan phylogeny and reveal the presence of a two-component signaling system in the ancestor of animals //Current biology. 2017. Vol. 27. №13. P. 2043-2050.

8.      Tsyganov, A. N., Shatilovich, A. V., Esaulov, A. S., Chernyshov, V. A., Mazei, N. G., Malysheva, E. A., & Mazei, Y. A. Morphology and phylogeny of the testate amoebae Euglypha bryophila Brown, 1911 and Euglypha cristata Leidy, 1874 (Rhizaria, Euglyphida) //European Journal of Protistology. – 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.09.005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2017.09.005

9.     Mazei, Y. A., Tsyganov, A. N., Esaulov, A. S., Tychkov, A. Y., & Payne, R. J. What is the optimum sample size for the study of peatland testate amoeba assemblages? //European Journal of Protistology. – 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.09.004

10.     Tikhonenkov, D. V., Hehenberger, E., Esaulov, A. S., Belyakova, O. I., Mazei, Y. A., Mylnikov, A. P., & Keeling, P. J. (2020). Insights into the origin of metazoan multicellularity from predatory unicellular relatives of animals. BMC biology, 18, 1-24.. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-0762-1

11.    Krashevska V., Tsyganov A., Esaulov A., Mazei Yu, Hapsari K.A., Saad A., Subiham S., Behling H., Biagioni S. (2020). Testate Amoeba Species-and Trait-Based Transfer Functions for Reconstruction of Hydrological Regime in Tropical Peatland of Central Sumatra, Indonesia. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 225. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00225

12.    Tikhonenkov D.V., Mikhailov K.V., Hehenberger E., Karpov S.A., Prokina K.I., Esaulov A.S., Belyakova O.I., Mazei Y.A., Mylnikov A.P., Aleoshin V.V., Keeling P.J. (2020). New lineage of microbial predators adds complexity to reconstructing the evolutionary origin of animals. Current Biology. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.061

13.   Potapov A., Rozanova O., Semenina E., Leonov V., Belyakova O., Bogatyreva V., Degtyarev M., Esaulov A., Korotkevich A., Kudrin A., Malysheva E., Mazei Yu, Tsurikov S., Zuev A., Tiunov A. (2021) Size compartmentalisation of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3421 

14.  Tsyganov, A.N.; Chertoprud, E.S.; Mazei, N.G.; Esaulov, A.S.; Sadchikov, I.P.; Mazei, Y.A. The Effects of Vegetation and the Environment on Testate Amoeba Assemblages in Sphagnum Peatlands in the Northern Caucasus Mountains. Diversity 2023, 15, 258. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15020258

15.  Xiaoteng Lu, Xiaowen Yu, Igor Burkovsky, Anton Esaulov, Xiaolei Li, Yong Jiang, Yuri Mazei. Community assembly and co-occurrence network complexity of interstitial microbial communities in the Arctic (investigation of ciliates in the White Sea intertidal zone). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2023, Volume 188, 114656, doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.114656

16.  Chertoprud ES, Novichkova AA, Tsyganov AN, Vorobjeva LV, Esaulov AS, Krylenko SV, Mazei YA. Species Diversity and Driving Factors of Benthic and Zooplanktonic Assemblages at Different Stages of Thermokarst Lake Development: A Case Study in the Lena River Delta (Middle Siberia). Diversity. 2023; 15(4):511. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15040511

17.   Li, X.; Esaulov, A.S.; Burkovsky, I.V.; Saldaev, D.A.; Mazei, Y.A. Biodiversity of Marine Interstitial Ciliates in the Intertidal Zone of the White Sea: A Dataset from the Chernaya River Estuary, Kandalaksha Gulf. Diversity 2023, 15, 873. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070873

18.    Saldaeva NM, Babeshko KV, Chernyshov VA, Esaulov AS, Komarov AA, Kriuchkov NR, Mazei NG, Saldaev DA, Stojko TG, Tsyganov AN, Mazei YA (2024) Biodiversity of testate amoebae in Sphagnum bogs: the dataset from forest-steppe ecotone (Middle Volga Territory, Russia). Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e125582. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e125582