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
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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 |
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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
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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 for sequencing and genome analysis Genome10K |
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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 for sequencing and analysis of vertebrate 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 for sequencing and analysis of bat 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 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 |
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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 |
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The staff of the Laboratory of Immunogenetics are participants of EuroMAbNet - the European network of laboratories working in the field of monoclonal antibodies |
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IMCB research fellows in the Research Gate network |