Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology

of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

IMCB was founded in 2011. As of January 1, 2023, IMCB is home to 71 scientists, of which 49 have an academic degree (PhD or DSc in Biology). Igor Zhimulev and Alexander Graphodatsky are the members of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research program of the Institute covers the following scientific fields:

  • Structure, Function, and Evolution of Chromosomes
  • Genomics
  • Immunogenetics
  • Cell Cycle and Cell Division
  • Genomics of Indigenous People of Siberia
  • Cell Technologies in Biomedical Research

According to the Scopus database, initially as a department of the Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, and later as a separate institute, IMCB has published 551 papers cited 10 501 times (April 1, 2009 - January 1, 2023)

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The list of journals with an impact factor (IF) above 4 (JCR, upd June 2022) that IMCB researchers published during 2009-2022 includes the following titles:
IF   Journal Number
of papers
IF   Journal Number
of papers
69.504   Nature 5 6.081   Front Cell Dev Biol 1
66.850   Cell 1 6.020   PLoS Genet 6
63.714   Science 3 5.955   Aging-US 3
38.079   Cell Discov 1 5.738   Front Oncol  1
24.267   Eur Urol 1 5.714   Int Immunol 1
19.160   Nucleic Acids Res 6 5.683   Expert Rev Vaccines 1
19.100   Nature Ecol Evol 3 5.606   Arthritis Res Ther 1
18.361   Nature Struct Mol Biol 1 5.465   Epigenetics Chromatin 5
18.027   ACS Nano 1 5.351   Eur J Hum Genet 1
17.906   Genome Biology 1 5.347   Cancer Biol Med 1
17.694   Nature Communications 1 5.341   J Mol Diagn 1
17.021   Nature Protocols 1 5.260   BMC Plant Biol 1
13.994   Brief Bioinform 1 5.235   J Biomol Struct Dyn 1
13.341   Annu Rev Anim Biosci 1 5.235   J Cell Sci 1
12.890   Genes Dev 4 5.168   Biology-Basel 1
12.779   Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 5 5.121   Hum Mol Genet 1
10.900   Curr Biol 1 5.062   J Drug Delivery Sci Tech 1
10.618   Rev Aquacult 1 4.996   Sci Reports 15
9.995   Cell Reports 1 4.961   Vaccines 3
9.969   Chem Sci 1 4.912   J Immunol 1
9.593   PLoS Biol 1 4.772   Front Genet 3
9.438   Genome Res 3 4.757   Biomedicines 2
9.399   npj Vaccines 1 4.714   Cytometry A 1
8.800   Mol Biol Evol 2 4.658   Plants-Basel 1
8.786   Front Immunol 3 4.653   BioEssays 1
8.713   eLife 1 4.638   BMC Cancer 2
8.678   Mol Ecol Resour 2 4.620   Chromosome Res 18
8.501   Sci Data 2 4.590   Nucleus 1
7.666   Cells 11 4.547   BMC Genomics 7
7.658   GigaScience 3 4.463   J Clin Pathol 1
7.364   BMC Biology 2 4.402   Genetics 1
7.088   Eur J Med Chem 1 4.310   Genomics 2
6.780   Life Sci 2 4.297   Physiol Genomics 1
6.706   Nutrients 2 4.284   Biogerontology 1
6.671   Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci  2 4.230   Immunol lett 2
6.622   Mol Ecol 1 4.178   Cell Immunol 1
6.575   Cancers 2 4.174   Mol Immunol 1
6.575   Microb Biotechnol 1 4.141   Genes 27
6.525   Pharmaceutics 3 4.136   Oncology Rep 2
6.515   Clin Transl Immunology 1 4.103   Biomed Mater 1
6.208   Int J Mol Sci 14 4.065   Genome Biol Evol 2

According to the Web of Sciences database, as of January 5, 2023, research fellows at IMCB have contributed to 44 research papers, each cited 100 times or more
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IMCB has an extensive collaboration network with national and foreign scientific institutes and universities. The interactive map shows the organizations that IMCB cooperates with in the form of established cooperation agreements, joint publications, scientific material exchange, and working visits

G10K.jpg The staff of the Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes are among the contributors of a large international consortium for sequencing and genome analysis Genome10K
vgp.jpg The staff of the Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes are among the contributors of a large international consortium for sequencing and analysis of vertebrate genomes
bat1k.jpg The staff of the Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes are among the contributors of a large international consortium for sequencing and analysis of bat genomes
APP_logo_small.jpg The staff of the Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes are among the contributors of a large international consortium for sequencing and analysis of avian genomes
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The staff of the Department of the Diversity and Evolution of Genomes are among the contributors of a large international consortium DNA Zoo

BDGP_logo.jpg The staff of the Laboratory of Molecular Cytogenetics and Laboratory of Cell Division are among the contributors of Release 6 reference sequence of the Drosophila melanogaster genome
EuroMabNet.png The staff of the Laboratory of Immunogenetics are participants of EuroMAbNet - the European network of laboratories working in the field of monoclonal antibodies

IMCB research fellows in the Research Gate network