M.Sc. Gulsamal Askarova

Ongoing Project

1. Evolution of the niche breadth in biotic and abiotic dimensions under constant and fluctuating environmental conditions (National Science Centre grant no. 2021/41/B/NZ8/01703, 2022-2026; Investigator)

Career History

• 2021: MSc Degree in Plant Protection (Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE), Keszthely, Hungary)
• 2019: BSc Degree in Plant Protection and Quarantine (S.Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University, Astana, Kazakhstan)

Internships

• 2024: Research visit to the Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Change (CE3C), Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
• 2022: Erasmus+ Graduate Traineeship in Section of Applied Entomology, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Horticulture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, Warsaw, Poland

Workshops

• 2023: SGroup Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on Doctoral Education – (20-25.09.2023 – online, 02-06.10.2023 – face to face), University of Valladolid, Spain

2024

Puchalska, E., Przybysz, A., Nowak, A., Wójcik-Gront, E., Askarova, G.,  Lewandowski M., &  Moniuszko H. 2024. Particulate matter hinders the development and reproduction of predatory mites of Euseius finlandicus (Acariformes: Phytoseiidae). Scientific Reports 14, 17647.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68570-w

2025

Doctoral Forum – poster: “Effect of temperature fluctuations on life history traits and strategies of phytophagous arthropods – a systematic review” (Best Poster Presentation)

11^th Polish Evolutionary Conference, 8-10.09.2025, Warsaw, Poland – poster: “Life history traits of predatory mites impaired by particulate pollution”

Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB2025), 17-22.08.2025, Barcelona, Spain – poster: “Effect of temperature fluctuations on life history traits and strategies of phytophagous arthropods – a systematic review”

2024

10^th Polish Evolutionary Conference, 11-13.09.2024, Bialystok, Poland – poster: “Effect of temperature fluctuations on life history traits and strategies of phytophagous arthropods – a systematic review”

X EurAAc Symposium, 2-6.09.2024, Athens, Greece – oral presentation: “Trade-off between host-specialisation and thermal niche breadth in global mite pests of cereals”

29^th European Meeting for PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB29), 3-6.06.2024, Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria – oral presentation: “How does evolution in stable and alternating environment shape the host range and thermal niche breadth of global crop pest mite?”

Doctoral Forum – poster: oral presentation: “How does evolution in stable and alternating environment shape the host range and thermal niche breadth of global crop pest mite?”

2023

International scientific and practical conference “Phytosanitary safety: threats and solutions”, 14-15.12.2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan (online) – presentation: “Wheat curl mite (Aceria tosichella) – threat to cereal crops in the world”

IX Polish Evolutionary Conference, 18-20.09.2023, Kraków, Poland – poster: “How does evolution in a stable and fluctuating environment shape the niche breadth of a plant-feeding arthropod?”

8^th Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group “Integrated Control of Plant-Feeding Mites”, 5-8.09.2023, Belgrade, Serbia – oral presentation: “How does evolution in constant and fluctuating environment shape the host range and thermal niche breadth of global crop pest mite?” (Best Bulletin manuscript)

Doctoral Forum (online) – presentation: “Does temperature predictability affect the evolution of body size?”

2022

VIII Polish Evolutionary Conference, 19-21.09.2022, Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń — poster: “Relation between different niche dimensions: positive feedback or trade-offs?”

2021

XXVII Youth Science Forum, 20.05.2021, Keszthely, Hungary – presentation: “Teratogenicity testing of Movento and Mystic 250 EW pesticides in chicken embryos”

External Activities

• 2020 – 2023: Volunteer Manager. Khan Academy Qazaq project
• 2023 November – 2024 June: Member of the organizing committee. The 29th European Meeting for PhD students in Evolutionary Biology (EMPSEB29), Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria