Musa Abdurahman oglu Musayev

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	Place of Birth:	Ganja city, Azerbaijan Republic
	Date of Birth:	27 Desember1921
	Education:	Azerbaijan Agricultural Institute, veterinary doctor.
	Scientific degree:	Sc.D. (Veterinary medicine)
	Title:	Professor
	Speciality code and title for doctoral dissertation:	03.00.19 - Parasitology
	Date of Election as a correspondent member and speciality:	1959, Biology
	Date of Election as Academician of the National Academy of Sciences:	1967, Biology
	Total number of scientific publications:	350
	Number of scientific publications printed abroad:	150
	Number of patents and certificates of authorship:	10
	Main scientific achievements:	Morphology and taxonomy of many parasitic Protozoa were studied, some matters of ecological parasitology were worked up. More than 150 new mammal and bird coccidian species were described, the life cycles were decoded in 15 of them. The biochemical and other mechanisms of the host-parasite relations at cell and organism level by coccidian parasitizing in intestine, blood and other tissues were studied. The results of zoological studies in Azerbaijan were summed up in monographs.
	Prepared:
	of candidates:	30
	of doctors:	6
	Titles of main five scientific publications:	Rodent coccidia of USSR (In Russian), 1965. Biochemical aspects of the host-parasite relations by the poultry coccidioses, 1977 (In Russian); Parasitocenosis and diseases in nutria, 1987 (In Russian); Animal world of Azerbaijan. Vol.1. Unicellular organisms and multicellular organisms (excluding arthropods and chordates), 1995 (In Russian); Prevalence of criptosporidia in farm animals in Azerbaijan, 1996 (In Russian).
	Membership with international and foreign scientific organizations:	Vice president of the All-Union Society of Protozoologists attacted to AS of USSR, a member of the editorial board of Parasitology journal (1967-1988), a honorable member of the Ukraine Parasitological Society.
	Educational activity:	Lectures on parasitology in Baku State University
	Position:	Director of Inst. of Zoology of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
	Place of work and its address:	Presidium of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences/Department of Biological Sciences, 10, Istiglaliyat st.; Institute of Zoology of ANAS, block 504, passage 1128, Baku-370073, Azerbaijan Republic
	Office phone:	(994 12) 4397337 (994 12) 4922835
	Home phone:	(994 12) 4941888