Dr Tetiana V. ANDRIANOVA Gender: female Nationality: Ukrainian Date of birth: 27 December 1960, was born in the family of bioscientists Profession: mycologist Institution/company address: Department of Mycology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Tereshchenkivska Street 2, Kiev, 01004, Ukraine Email address: tand@darwin.relc.com Employment: 2017-present, 2011, Acting Head of Mycology Department & 2010-present, Principal Scientist of Mycology Department, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. 2016-present, Associate Professor of Mycology & Microbiology etc., Biotechnology Department, National Aviation University, Kiev, Ukraine (part-time job). 2008-2010, Scientific Secretary and 2010-2015, Senior Scientist of the Academician V.I. Vernadsky Scientific Heritage Commission, Presidium of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine (part time job). 1997-2004 (part-time job), Senior Lecturer of Plant Pathology, Biology Department, International Solomon University, Kiev, Ukraine. 1992-2010, Senior Scientist & 1989-1992, Scientific Researcher, Department of Mycology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. 1987-1989. Young Scientist, Department of Mycology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine & V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg, Russia. 1983–1986. Post-graduate student in Mycology at the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St-Petersburg, Russia. PhD (1987), thesis work: “Fungi of the Genera Septoria Sacc. and Rhabdospora (Dur. & Mont.) Sacc. from the Crimean peninsula (taxonomy, diversity, cultivation, ecology)”. 1978-1983. Student in Biology, especially Mycology, Botany and Zoology. Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University, Kiev, Ukraine. MSc (1983, diploma with distinction and Medal of the National Academy of Scientists for Young Researchers). Honorary posts: 2016-present, Vice-President of the European Mycological Association. 2014-present, Executive Committee Member, International Mycological Association. 2008-2014, Member of the Editorial Board (Mycology) of the Central European Journal of Biology. 2002-2014, various positions at the board of the International Mycological Association. 2001-2008, BioNET INTERNATIONAL Contact Scientist for Ukraine. 2003-2011, Secretary, European Mycological Association. 2003, Secretary; 2007 & 2011, Member of Organizing Committees of XIV, XIV & XVI Congresses of European Mycologists (Ukraine, Russia, Greece). 1990-present, Secretary of Mycology & Phytopathology Branch of the Ukrainian Botanical Society.

Level of expertise: About 30 years’ experience in systematics and identification of conidial (anamorphic) fungi, including critical revision of type and other specimens from B, BP, ERE, IMI, KW, LE, NY, PR, PRC and WRCL fungal reference collections. Extensive fieldwork experience in Ukraine, and collecting on northern Russia, Altai, the Caucasus, different European and tropical countries, having spent several months on a Soviet research ship visiting the Seychelles, Madagascar, Indonesia, Namibia, Singapore, Egypt, the Canary Islands and mangrove swamps of Guinea (1991); a member of the Second Polar Expedition (Komarov Botanical Institute, Leningrad, 1989), and the Royal Geographical Society's first Ralph Brown Expedition (1998) [http://www.minter.demon.co.uk/brown/index.htm]. About 10 years’ experience of computerized biological recording, with particular expertise in handling cyrillic alphabet data, as a key member of the team responsible for the conventional publication Fungi of Ukraine, an Annotated Checklist (Eds Minter & Dudka, 1996, CABI Bioscience & Kholodny Institute of Botany, 331 pp.) and several major mycological websites [http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/ukramaps, http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/redlists, http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/lists]. During last five years have extensive interest in Medical Mycology and is a lecturer in Mycology, Microbiology, Immunology and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. Co-author as a specialist in Fungi of academic course in Medical Microbiology, Virology and Immunology (two editions, Ed Shirobokov, 2011 & 2016 (2015), Nova Knyga, Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 952 pp. & 856 pp.). .