Sofia Sadogurska
PhD, researcher at the Department of Phycology, Lichenology and Bryology.
Main scientific interests: ecology, taxonomy, and systematics of seaweeds in the Black Sea, DNA barcoding and molecular-phylogenetic analysis of brown and red algae, conservation of marine habitats and biodiversity.
E-mail: s.sadogurska [at] gmail.com
Education:
2016-2021 – PhD in Biology (Botany), M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of NAS of Ukraine (Ukraine), Department of Phycology, Lichenology and Bryology.
2014-2016 – MSc in Plant Biology, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Institute of Biology.
2010-2014 – Bachelor of Biology, Taurida National V.I. Vernadsky University, Faculty of Biology and Chemistry.
Professional career:
From 2022 – Researcher, Department of Phycology, Lichenology and Bryology.
From 2023 – Scientific Curator of Algotheca (Phycological herbarium) of the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW).
2021-2022 – Junior Researcher.
2015-2016 – Leading engineer at Algotheca.
Selected publications:
Burova O.V., Sadogurska S.S., Mikhailyuk T.I. (2025). Chroodactylon ornatum (Stylonematales, Rhodophyta) in the Flora of Ukraine: Distribution, Conservation and the Data on a New Locality. International Journal on Algae, 27(3). https://doi.org/10.1615/InterJAlgae.v27.i3.10
Prodromus of spore plants of Ukraine: algae. Book 1. (2024) Ed.: Tsarenko P.M. Authors: Tsarenko P.M, Vynogradova O.M., Burova O.V., Bryantseva Yu,V., Borysova O.V., Lilitska G.G., Raida O.V., Berezovska V.Yu., Kryvosheiya-Zakharova O.M., Sadogurska S.S. Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 880 p. [In Ukrainian]
Sadogurska S.S. & Israel Á. (2023) The genus Cystoseira s.l. in Israel (the Levantine basin of the Mediterranean Sea). Book of Abstracts of the 8th European Phycological Congress “Scientific Opportunities for a Global Algal Revolution”. Edited by S. Connan, E. Creis, B. Jacquemin, G. Markov and P. Potin. P. 223. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670262.2024.2317019
Sadogurska S.S. (2023) Brown algae (Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae) in the flora of Ukraine. Abstract book of the 40th International Conference of the Polish Phycological Society “Time of change: taxonomy and ecology of algae in theory and practice” (Bydgoszcz-Wądzyń, 23-26th of May 2023, Poland), 36-37.
Vasylyuk O., Varukha A., Kuzemko A., Moysiyenko I., Kolomytsev H., Spryahaylo O., Lavrinenko K., Sirenko I., Chusova O., Sadogurska S., Bezsmertna O. (2023) Ecosystem well-being: a method of calculating ecosystem services using indirect methods. Series “Ecosystem Services”, Vol. 3. Chernivtsi: Druk Art, 184 p. ISBN 978-617-8129-38-5 [In Ukrainian].
Sadogurska S.S. (2023) Morphological characteristics of Cystoseira s. l. taxa of the flora of Ukraine. Algologia, 33 (1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.15407/alg33.01.003 [In Ukrainian].
Sadogurska S.S. (2023) Storm wrack as a tool for monitoring of rare species of marine macrophytes. In book: Distribution of rare species of biota of Ukraine. Vol. 2. Series: «Conservation Biology in Ukraine», 27 (2). Kyiv, UNCG, 248-253 [In Ukrainian].
Neiva J., Bermejo R., Medrano A., Capdevila P., Figueras D.M., Afonso P., Ballesteros K., Sabour B., Serio D., Nóbrega E., de Deus Soares J., Valdazos J., Tuya F., Mulas M., Israel Á., Sadogurska S., Guiry M.D., Pearson G.A., Serrão E.A. (2022) DNA barcoding reveals cryptic diversity, taxonomic conflicts and novel biogeographical insights in Cystoseira s.l. (Phaeophyceae). European Journal of Phycology, 58(3), 351-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/09670262.2022.2126894
Sadogurska S.S. (2021). Unattached Cystoseira s.l. in the Black Sea: taxonomy of Gongolaria barbata f. repens comb. nov. International Journal on Algae, 23(3), 293-304. https://doi.org/10.15407/alg31.02.150
Sadogurska S.S., Neiva J., Falace A. Serrao E.A. & Israel A. (2021). Taxonomic revision of the genus Cystoseira s.l. (Ochrophyta, Fucales, Sargassaceae) in the Black Sea: morphological variability and molecular taxonomy of Gongolaria barbata and Ericaria crinita f. bosphorica comb. nov. Phytotaxa, 480 (1), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.480.1.1
Sadogurska S.S., Neiva J., Falace A. Serrao E.A. & Israel A. (2021). Morphological variability and molecular taxonomy of the Cystoseira s.l. taxa in the Black Sea. Materials of the 12th International Phycological Congress, Chile. Phycologia. Vol. 60, Suppl. 1: 68-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2021.1922050
Territories proposed for inclusion in the Emerald Network of Ukraine ("Shadow List", part 3) Team of authors. Eds. Vasyliuk O., Kuzemko A., Kolomiichuk V., & Kutsokon Yu. (2020). Territories proposed for inclusion in the Emerald Network of Ukraine (“shadow list”, part 3). Chernivtsi Druk Art. – 408 p. [іn Ukrainian].
Mulas M., Neiva J., Sadogurska S., Ballesteros E., Serrao E.A., Rilov G. & Israel A. (2020). Genetic affinities and biogeography of putative Levantine-endemic seaweed Treptacantha rayssiae comb. nov. Cryptogamie Algologie, 41 (10): 91-103 https://doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-algologie2020v41a10
Territories proposed for inclusion in the Emerald Network of Ukraine ("Shadow List", part 2). Team of authors. Ed. Borisenko K.A., Kuzemko A.A. – Kyiv: "LAT&K", 2019. – 234 p. [In Ukrainian].
Sadogurska S.S. (2019) Cystoseira barbata and Codium vermilara Communities in the Coastal Area of Dzharylgach National Nature Park (the Black Sea, Ukraine). International Journal on Algae, 21 (2): 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1615/InterJAlgae.v21.i2.10
Sadogurska S.S. (2018) Marine habitats of Ukraine. In the book: National Habitat Catalogue of Ukraine. Ed. Kuzemko A.A., Didukh Ya.P., Onishchenko V.A., Scheffer Y. – K.: FOP Klimenko Y.Y. – P. 13–35. [In Ukrainian].
Vasilyuk O.V., Spinova Yu.O., Sadogurska S.S. et al. (2018) Emerald Network of Donetsk Oblast. – Kharkiv. 104 p. [In Ukrainian].
Kuzemko A., Sadogurska S., Vasilyuk O. (2017) The Explanatory Manual for the Habitats of the Resolutions 4 of the Berne Convention, which are in danger and need special conservation measures. The first version of the adapted unofficial translation from English (the third official draft from 2015). Kyiv. – 124 p. [In Ukrainian].
