Leading Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences, Associate Professor
Areas of activity: 1) identification of mechanisms controlling the development of effective symbiosis of plants with fungi of arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM), including assessment of the effect of AM on the transcriptome and metabolome of the host plant; 2) creation of the first collection of AM fungi in Russia, characterized by signs of symbiotic efficiency and activity, leadership of expeditions to the North Caucasus, Gorny Altai and other regions with the purpose of collecting isolates and assessing the biodiversity of AM fungi using Illumina MiSeq 3) the development of preparations based on AM fungi for agriculture