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| Michael Mackay, Curator of the AWCC
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Prior to taking up his current position as Curator of the AWCC in 1983 Michael was Senior Plant Breeder for Cargill Seeds and an oilseed breeder with CSIRO. He has always had an interest in plant genetic resources and was active in introducing world collections of sunflower and safflower into Australia during the 1970s. Michael, together with Ken Street and Paul Brennan (a GRDC consultant), drew up the original proposal for this project. The objective was always a rational approach to searching, identifying and delivering novel genetic variation to breeders and other researchers. The combined collections and expertise of ICARDA, VIR and the AWCC were essential to developing this prototype method of targeting specific genetic resources for subsequent evaluation. In many ways the project represents the culmination of Michael's experience in identifying new genetic variation. Michael proposed a logistical system of identifying germplasm for specific traits in 1995 which involved a heuristic approach - FIGS is an extension of this model. |
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| Dr Kenneth Street, Project Coordinator, Genetic Resource Unit, ICARDA |
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Since then he has worked as a research officer for the University and in 1999 took a position at the ICARDA Genetic Resource Unit, Aleppo Syria where he coordinates projects aimed at collecting conserving and utilizing genetic resources.
He currently coordinates the Project detailed in this web-site.
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| Mr. Jan Konopka
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- Genetic resources documentation officer
Major tasks:
Development and management of the genetic resources databases:
(a) germplasm conserved in ICARDA genebank, (b) Global database of wheat wild relatives maintained in major collections, (c) Global Barley Inventory, (d) Biodiversity surveys of GEF project, etc.
- Assistance to NARS in design and implementation of efficient genetic resources documentation systems
- SINGER coordinator
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| Sergey Alexanian, Vice Director of VIR for International Relations, VIR
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Sergey Alexanian is Vice Director of VIR for International Relations. He has been working at the Institute since 1979. He is in charge of all international research projects carried out by various scientific departments of the Vavilov Institute. In 2005 he was awarded the scientific degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences in the field of Bioresources. He is the author of more than 50 scientific publications, including 2 monographic books. |
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| Olga Mitrofanova, Head of the Wheat Genetic Resources Department, VIR
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Olga Mitrofanova is one of the leading experts in the field of genetic resources and genetics of wheat in Russia . She has been Head of the Wheat Genetic Resources Department at VIR for 8 years and in charge of the Winter Bread Wheat Collection. In 1997, she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences in Genetics. She published about 60 scientific articles. |
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| Evgeny Zuev, Curator of Spring Bread Wheat Collection, VIR
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Evgeny Zuev defended Ph.D thesis "Agronomical and biological characteristics of wheat species - Triticum petropavlovskyi Udacz. et Migusch." in 1992. From 1995 Dr. E. Zuev has been Curator of VIR's Spring Bread Wheat Collection. In the project he is responsible for development of VIR's database on wheat, formation and field evaluation of wheat subsets in ICARDA. |
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| Pjotr Strelchenko, Molecular biologist, VIR
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Pjotr Strelchenko is VIR's leading researcher on plant molecular biology and multivariate statistics. In 1983, he became Ph.D in Biochemistry. In cooperation with some laboratories in Germany , Japan and France he has carried out investigations on genetic diversity of barley and wheat germplasm using DNA markers. He published about 50 scientific papers. In the project he is responsible for molecular characterization of accessions with using AFLPs and microsatellites. |
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| Irina Kosareva, Head of the Plant Physiology Laboratory, VIR
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Irina Kosareva is an expert on edaphic resistance of plants. In 1985, she became Ph.D in Plant Physiology. For more 10 years she is Head of the Plant Physiology Laboratory at VIR. Her main scientific interests are aluminum and salt tolerance. She has more than 60 scientific publications. In the project she is responsible for laboratory evaluation of core and salt subsets with using test of sodium exclusion. |
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| Alla Brykova, Assistant Curator of the Spring Bread Wheat Collection, VIR
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Alla Brykova is an assistant of the Curator of the Spring Bread Wheat Collection at VIR. Areas of her specific knowledge are botanical taxonomy and agro-morphological characterization of wheat. In the project she takes part in field evaluation of wheat subsets. |
