CURRICULUMVITAE IGOR G. LOSKUTOV PERSONAL DATA ...

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A EIGOR G. LOSKUTOVPERSONAL DATAFamily nameL O S K U T O VFirst nameI G O RDate of birth March 17, 1956Place of birthSt.Petersburg, RussiaNationalityRussianFamilyWife and daughterKnowledge of foreign languageEnglishEDUCATIONHigh: St.-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, 1978, Diploma of BSdegree in Soil Science and Agrichemistry.1985 - defended Ph.D. thesis "Yield formation and specifics of development of root systemin spring soft wheat under the conditions of the north-west of the non-chernozem region of Russia"at the N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Diploma of Ph.D. in Plant Breeding.2003 – defended Doctoral Dissertation “Specific diversity and breeding potential of genusAvena L.” at the N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Diploma of Doctor of Science in Botanyand Plant Breeding.CURRENT POSITION2001 - PRESENT TIME – Head of Department of genetic resources of oat, rye, barley,curator of oat collection, the N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry2001 - PRESENT TIME – Professor of Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, St.-Petersburg StateUniversity1978 -1981 - Senior technician at the Department of wheat at the N.I.Vavilov Institute of PlantIndustry; 1981-1984 - Ph.D. student at the same Institute; 1984-1988 - Junior research fellow atthe Department of cereals at the same Institute; 1988 - 1994 - Research fellow at the Departmentof cereals at the same Institute1991 - January - August - visiting scientist at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA).1994 - 2001 - Senior research fellow at the Department of cereals at the same Institute2001 - Leading research fellow at the Department of cereals at the same InstituteSCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIESGrant for Biological diversity project by George Soros Foundation (USA), 1993.Award Vavilov-Frankel Fellow by IPGRI (Italy), 1993.Biography profile was published in 19 th edition of Who’s Who in the World, 2001.SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS- Systematic and evolution of cultivated and wild oats- Distribution and diversity of wild and weedy oat species- Genetics of some characters of oats namely: dwarfness, protein and oil content and resistance tocrown and stem rust and BYDV.RECENT ACTIVITIESHave taken part in seed collecting missions as a member to Turkey in 1985 and 1989 and to Nepalin 1988; and in 1987 and 1988 was a head of expeditions for collecting plant genetic resources inGeorgia and Caucasus Regions of Russia;was involved as an plant genetic resources expert in Vavilov-Frankel Fellowship, in framework ofthis project have visited several genebanks in Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany,Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Czech Republic and Australia in 1993-1995;was involved as an oat expert in Russian-multilateral projects from 1999 to present time, for suchpurposes visited over 25 genebanks in the whole world.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPSMember, Avena Working Group of European Cooperative Program for Genetic Resources since1993; Member, International Oat Committee since 1997; Member, Russian Botanical Society since2000; Chair of AEGIS Avena Group since 2004.Member of Editorial Board of Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution since 2008Member of GIGA Group of Bioversity International since 2008PUBLICATIONSTotal 215 scientific papers and from these are 55 papers in English.Loskutov I.G. 1998. The collection of wild species of CIS as a source of diversity inagricultural traits. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, v. 45, 4, 291-295.Loskutov I.G. 1999. N.I.Vavilov and his Institute. History of the world collection of plantgenetic resources in Russia. IPGRI, Rome, 189p.Loskutov I.G. 2001. Influence of vernalization and photoperiod to the vegetation period ofwild species of oats (Avena spp.). Euphityca, v.117, №2, 125-131.Loskutov I.G. 2001. Interspecific crosses in Avena L. genera. Russian Journal of Genetics,v.37, № 5, 467-475.LoskutovI.G. 2007. Oat (Avena L.). Distribution, taxonomy, evolution and breeding value.S-Pb. VIR. 336 p. (Rus.)Loskutov I.G. 2008. On evolutionary pathway of Avena species. Genetic resources andcrop evolution. v. 55, № 2, p. 211-220.Loskutov I.G. 2009. The history of the world collection of plant genetic resources inRussia. S-Pb. VIR. 290 p. (Rus.)Loskutov I.G. 2009. Activities VIR associated with plant genetic resources in the 1930sand 1940s. Michitani Co.Ltd., Tokio. 94 p. (Japaneese)Loskutov I.G., Rines H.W. 2010. AVENA L. Chapter 3. Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic &Breeding Resources. Vol.1. Editor: Chittaranjan Kole. Springer – Heidelberg, Berlin, New York,Tokyo. 77 pp.PRESENT ADDRESS44, Bolshaya Morskaya str., 190000, St.Petersburg, RUSSIA.The N.I.Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry, Department of genetic resources of oat, rye, barleyPhone: (007-812) 571 93 88; FAX (007-812) 571 87 62; E-mail: i.loskutov@vir.nw.ru