Every 5 years beginning from 1989, Limnological Institute holds an international conference dedicated to the memory of G.Yu. Vereshchagin, an outstanding Russian scientist, who was the head of the first department of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Lake Baikal carrying out complex large-scale studies of the lake. Specialists of different disciplines involved in the studies of Lake Baikal and other water bodies of the world take part in this conference.

In 2010, it is planned to discuss scientific problems and prospects of investigations on the following scientific aspects:

1. Speciation problems in ancient closed systems: molecular and classical approaches and models.
2. Evolution of genes, genomics, meta-genome analysis of biological communities.
3. Cycle and mechanisms of assimilation of silicon and other elements in aquatic ecosystems, morphogenesis of siliceous micro- and nanostructures.
4. Microorganisms: distribution and symbiotic relations in aquatic ecosystems.
5. Transport of natural and anthropogenic substances in atmosphere and on the interface water-air.
6. Hydrophysics and hydrochemistry in deep water bodies, biogeochemistry of benthic communities.
7. Lacustrine, marine and glacial high-resolution records of paleoclimates.
8. Deepwater studies.

Steering Committee:
Chairman - Michael Grachev, Limnological Institute SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Nikolay Dobretsov, Sobolev's Institute of Geology and Mineralogy SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Michael Kuzmin, Vinogradov's Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Alexander Lisitsyn, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Shirshov's Institute of Oceanology RAS, Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Pavlov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, A. Severtsev Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow, Russia
Nikolay Filatov, Institute of Northern Water Problems RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Arnold Tulokhonov, Baikal Institute of Nature Management SB RAS, Ulan-Ude, Russia Michael Panchenko, Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, Tomsk, Russia
Vladimir Fialkov, Baikal Museum Irkutsk Scientific Center SB RAS, Listvyanka, Russia
Lubov Buzoleva, Far-Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia
Akimoto Hajime, General ADORC, Japan
Tae Seok Ahn, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South Korea
David Williams, Botany Department, Natural History Museum, London, UK
Young Han Yim, Korean Polar Research Institute, South Korea

Local Scientific Committee:
Chairman - Tamara Khodzher, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Tamara Zemskaya, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Elena Likhoshway, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Sergey Belikov, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Alexander Gorshkov, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Nikolay Granin, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Sergey Kirilchik, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Valentina Parfenova, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Alexander Suturin, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Oleg Timoshkin, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Dmitry Sherbakov, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Evgeny Goldberg, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Andrej Fedotov, LIN SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

Local Organizing Committee:
Dmitry Babanin, Alexey Gurulev, Oleg Kotsar, Galina Nagornaya, Elena Troitskaya, Tatyana Khodzher, Yury Bukin, Marina Usoltseva,.

Participants of the Conference may register or submit their abstracts at http://lin.irk.ru/5vbc/ru_registration.htm or send by post by e-mail: conference@lin.irk.ru

The official languages of the Conference are Russian and English.

The Local Scientific Committee will try to find possibilities for partial financial support of young researchers (under 35 years).

Abstracts must be written in Russian and English and sent as an MS-Word attachment to conference@lin.irk.ru