Department
Komarov Botanical Institute
Organization
Russian Academy of Sciences
Email
zhurb@mz3838.spb.edu

Location

St. Petersburg
Russian Federation

Bio

I am senior researcher of the lab. of the Systematics and Geography of Fungi of Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. I work in the institute since graduating from the Biology faculty of St.-Petersburg (Leningrad) State University in 1982. My Candidate dissertation (1990) was devoted to the lichen flora of Putorana Plateau in the Siberian Subarctic. Lateron my research interests shifted from lichen floristics to studies of lichenicolous fungi, which has resulted in Doctoral dissertation (2010) on lichenicolous fungi of the Russian Arctic.

Interests

Life Science

Science Specialties

mycology, lichenology, biodiversity

Current Research

Arctic lichens and lichenicolous fungi. Lichenicolous fungi of the Russian Arctic - supported by the Russian Fund for Basic Researchers.

Websites

http://www.endobiodiversity.org/people/mikhail-zhurbenko
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mikhail_Zhurbenko3