YURI N. ZHURAVLEV

TITLES:

Director, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok; Head, Laboratory of Biotechnology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences: Professor, Department of Physiology of Plants, F ar East State University, Vladivostok.

EDUCATION:

M.S. Plant Physiology, Ural State University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 1963.

Ph.D. Plant Physiology, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1967.

Doctor of Sciences, Plant Physiology, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1981.

POSITIONS:

Junior Researcher, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Center, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1965-1970.

Senior Researcher, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1970-1975.

Head, Laboratory of Pathophysiology of Plants, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1975-1984.

Director, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 1991-present.

Professor, Department of Physiology of Plants, Far East State University, Vladivostok, Russia, 1991-present.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

President of Russian Society of Plant Physiology; Member, Microbiology, Biochemistry Societies, Russia.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Numerous botanical collecting expeditions since 1963 throughout the Russian Far East, including Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and Kuril islands; survey and inventory, southern Kuril Islands, July-August 1994.

PUBLICATIONS:

Approximately 165 scientific papers on biodiversity, population biology, and pathophysiology of plants.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• ZHURAVLEV, Y. N., E. S. Getmanova, T. I. Muzarok, V. P. Bulgakov. 1991. A new method for Panax ginseng plantlets regeneration. Pat. No. 1824114, MKI C 12 No. 5/00.

• Muzarok, T. I., Y. N. ZHURAVLEV, I. Ogigova, and V. Rosenberg. 1992. Conception for wild ginseng diversity preservation in Russian Primorye. Proc. Internat. Ginseng Conf., 10-14 August 1992, 21 pp.

• ZHURAVLEV, Y. N. 1992. The modern state of the flora and fauna of the Kuril Islands. Green Power, 10:4-7.

• Ryseva, I. N., T. I. Muzarok, and Y. N. ZHURAVLEV. 1992. Preparation of callus culture tissue of Gymnostemma pentaphyllum (Thumb) Makino. Plant Resources, 2:73-77.

• ZHURAVLEV, Y. N., I. N. Ryseva, and N. S. Probarova. 1992. The family Cucurbitaceae in the Soviet Far East and in the neighboring countries. Plant Resources, 1:125-137.