Biography

Date of birth: 01/01/1949 in Gorlovka (USSR)
CURRENT POSITION
Director of All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology, Professor at the St. Petersburg State University
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
*1975 – 1979 Junior Scientist of Biological Research Institute of Leningrad State University, Leningrad
*1979 - 1983 Senior Scientist of All-Union Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology (AURIAM), Leningrad
*1983 - 1986 Deputy Director of AURIAM, Leningrad
*1986 - up to now Director of All-Russia Research Institute for Agricultural Microbiology (ARRIAM), St. Petersburg
*1993 – 1997 Associate Member of Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow
*1997 – up to now Full Member of Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Moscow
*1997 – up to now Professor of Department of Genetics and Breeding at St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg
*2001 – 2009 Head of North-West Region Scientific-Methodolical Centre of Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, SPb-Pushkin
Has international reputation for studying plant-microbe interactions in fundamental and applied aspects. This includes the signal interactions between plants and organisms, partners metabolic interactions and development of novel cellular and tissue structures. The investigation of plant-microbe interactions is of basic importance for understanding the plant development, metabolism and adaptive potential. It also has a strong interdisciplinary orientation and the important connections to neighboring disciplines such as plant genetics, microbiology, plant protection and phytopathology. The research is tightly connected to the construction of novel plant-microbial systems for sustainable agriculture and to the production of microbial inoculants for plant nutrition and biocontrol of pests.