Alexander Eliseevich Kovalenko (born September 13, 1953 ) - Soviet and Russian scientist- biologist , mycologist , corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016).
| Alexander Eliseevich Kovalenko | |
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| Date of Birth | September 13, 1953 (aged 65) |
| A country |  USSR →  Russia |
| Scientific field | mycology |
| Place of work | Botanical Institute named after V.L. Komarov RAS |
| Alma mater | Kuban State University |
| Academic degree | Doctor of Biological Sciences (2006) |
| Academic rank | Professor Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016) |
| supervisor | B.P. Vasilkov |
| Taxonomy of wildlife | |
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The author of the names of a number of botanical taxa . In the botanical ( binary ) nomenclature, these names are supplemented by the abbreviation " Kovalenko " . Personal page on IPNI website |
Biography
Born September 13, 1953.
In 1975, he graduated with honors from the Department of Botany of the Biological Faculty of the Kuban State University (the theme of the thesis: “Agaric mushrooms of the Northern Forestry of the Caucasian Reserve”), where he then worked as a laboratory assistant.
From 1976 to 1980 - graduate school of the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute .
In 1981 - defended his thesis, topic: “Mushrooms since. Agaricales sl of the mountain forests of the Northwest Caucasus ”(supervisor - B. P. Vasilkov ).
In 2006 - defended his doctoral dissertation, topic: “Hygrophoric mushrooms (Hygrophorales, Basidiomycota order): species composition in Russia, phylogenesis, system” [2] .
Since 1981, he has been working at the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute , where since 1986 he has been the head of the laboratory of systematics and geography of mushrooms, and since 2002, he has been deputy director for research.
In 2016, he was elected a corresponding member of the RAS .
Scientific activity
Specialist in the field of mycology .
Research interests: biodiversity, systematics, ecology, evolution and phylogeny of agaricoid basidiomycetes; mycocenology: species diversity and spatial structure of communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi. The greatest attention is focused on the study of fungi of this family. Hygrophoraceae, including using molecular methods (sequencing of 18S, 25S and ITS regions of ribosomal DNA).
The author of 164 scientific works, of which 12 individual and collective monographs, 29 articles in journals.
Scientific and organizational activities
- Editor-in-chief of the journal Mycology and Phytopathology (since 2012)
- Member of the Council of the Russian Botanical Society (RBO)
- Chairman of the Commission for the Study of Macromycetes of the Mycological Section of the Russian Botanical Society
- Co-Chair of the Mushroom Ecology Section of the National Academy of Mycology
- official representative from Russia and member of the executive committee of the European Council for the Protection of Mushrooms
- official representative from Russia in the Council of the European Mycological Association
- Member of the Ecology Council at SPbSC RAS
- co-chair of the St. Petersburg Mycological Society
- participant of many scientific conferences.
- Member of the editorial boards of the international journals Mycological progress (Germany) and Acta mycologica (Poland)
- member of the editorial board of the Ukrainian Botanical Journal
- editorial board member of several book series
- responsible editor of a number of monographs.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Alexander Eliseevich Kovalenko . binran.ru. Date of treatment December 28, 2017.
- ↑ Thesis on the topic "Hygrophoric mushrooms (Hygrophorales, Basidiomycota order): species composition in Russia, phylogenesis, system", abstract . dissercat.com. Date of treatment December 28, 2017.
Links
- Kovalenko, Alexander Eliseevich on the official website of the RAS
- The official page of Kovalenko, Alexander Eliseevich on the VKontakte social network