Baikalian Research Centre

Baikalian Research Centre is independent research organization focused on scientific and educational environmental studies in Lake Baikal and its area. Centre was established in 2003 as a nonprofit research, technology transfer, and educational organization.

Most of center’s research projects are carrying out on the base of laboratory “Biological systems adaptation” (joint with Institute of biology at ISU). Some research projects are carrying out in partner research organizations. Center primary partners are: Irkutsk State University (Irkutsk) [http://www.isu.ru] , Siberian Institute of Plants Physiology and Biochemistry at SB RAS (Irkutsk) [http://www.sifibr.irk.ru/] , Institute of plants physiology named after Timiryazev RAS (Moscow) [http://www.ippras.ru/] .

Researchers have close and successful collaboration contacts with several Russian and international research centers. From them: Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) [http://www.hu-berlin.de/] , Leibniz institute of Freshwater ecology (Berlin, Germany) [http://www.igb-berlin.de/] , Christian-Albrechts-Universität (Kiel, Germany) [http://www.uni-kiel.de/] , Institute of Biophysics at SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia) and Moscow State University’s biological faculty (Moscow, Russia).

Baikalian research centre is a member of “Brandenburg Institute for Technology and Innovation Transfer” (Brandenburg, Germany) [http://www.miti-ev.de/] .

Research projects of Baikalian research centre financed by grants of Russian Foundation of Basic Research (RFBR) [http://www.rfbr.ru/] , Federal Agency on Science and Innovation (FASI) [http://www.fasi.gov.ru/] , Administration of Irkutsk region [http://www.govirk.ru/] and personal donations from private persons and organizations.