CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Date and place of birth: January 4, 1953, Leningrad, USSR
Citizenship: Russian Federation
Marital status: married, one son
Address: Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russ.Acad.Sci., Gubkin St. 3, 119991 Moscow, Russia

EDUCATION

2008 Doctor of sciences thesis “Biodiversity rules in common wheat Triticum aestivum L. on storage protein genes” defended. “Закономерности формирования биоразнообразия вида мягкой пшеницы Triticum aestivum L. по генам запасных белков».

1983 PhD thesis “Genetic differentiation of the local nerka (Oncorhynchus nerka Walb.) Population from Azabachye Lake” Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russ.Acad.Sci., Moscow, Russia

1976-1979 Post graduate studies, N. I. Vavilov Institute of General Genetics RAS, Moscow, Russia (advisor Acad. Yu. P. Altukhov)

1970-1975 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Biology, Vladivostok State University, Vladivostok, USSR

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

1980 – 1991 Research Scientist, Plant Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russ.Acad.Sci, Moscow, Russia

2000 – present Senior Researcher, Department of Plant Genetics, Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russ.Acad.Sci, Moscow, Russia.

Professor. Technological Department, Russian State Agrarian University – MTAA
named after K.A.Timiryazev.

SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS

Biochemical enzyme polymorphism, genetics of common wheat storage proteins, genetic diversity of common and durum wheat, evolution and migration of common wheat during its history and domestication, phylogenetic relationships among wheat species, origin and diffusion of common and durum wheats, molecular genetic markers (retrotransposons, microsatellites, …) of plant genomes, structure of the genetic code.