International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms
 
 
 

Dr. Wasser


International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms


spwasser@research.haifa.ac.il

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS

August 2002


Solomon P. Wasser
Born: L'vov, Ukraine
Date of Birth: August 26, 1946
Marital Status: Married, with two children (Esther, 1969; Robert, 1976)
Citizenship: Israeli and Ukraine


EDUCATION, DEGREES AND AWARDS


Higher Education Diploma - the Uzhgorod State University, Department of Botany, (former Soviet Union) 1964-1969 Systematics and Geography of Plants (BSc, MSc) Candidate of Biological Sciences Degree (PhD) - Institute of Botany, National Acad. Sci. Ukraine, Kiev, 1969-1973, Botany Thesis: Higher Basidiomycetes of the Steppe Zone of Ukraine.
Doctor of Biological Sciences Degree (Dsc Biol) - Institute of Botany, National Acad. Sci. Ukraine, Kiev, 1973-1982 – Mycology Thesis:Family Agaricaceae (Fr.) Cohn of the Soviet Union.
Elected Member of the National Acad. Sci. Ukraine - 1988
Professor of Botany and Mycology – 1991.
The N.G.Kholodny National Acad. Sci. Ukraine Prize in Botany - 1982,
concerning the science and practice of commercial mushroom cultivation (Soviet Union) Award from the Alexander H. and Helen V. Smith Fund for 1991 (USA)


PERMANENT POSTS


Head of International Center for Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa (1994 from) – Israel
Scientific Head of the Department of Cryptogamic Plants, N.G.Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciemces of Ukraine (from 1975)
Med Myco Ltd (Israel) Innovative Technologies Ltd Director Science and Technology


TEACHING EXPERIENCE


Professor in Biology, Lecture course in A.A.Bogomoletz Medical University (Kiev) in General Biology with Principles of Medical Genetics (1988-1994).
Professor in Biology. Lecture course in Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa in Systematics and Evolution of Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi (from 1995).


PUBLIC ACTIVITIES


The founder and editor-in-chief of - "Algologia", the International Journal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine)
The founder and editor-in-chief of - “International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms” ( Begell Publ. House, NY,USA).
The founder and editor-in-chief of - “International Journal on Algae” (Begell Publ. House, NY, USA)
A member of the editorial board of the International Journal – “Cryptogamic Bo- tany” (The Netherlands)
A member of the editorial board of the “International Journal of Medicine and Complementary Medicine” (New Zealand).
A member of the editorial board of the International Journal “Ecology and Noosphe- rology” (Ukraine, USA).
Member of the editorial board of the Journal “Boletin de la Sociedad Micologica de Madrid” (Spain).
Honorary Member, Regensburg Botanical Society (Germany)
Member of the American Mycological Society (USA)
Member of the Israeli Botanical Society
Member of the Israeli Microbiological Society
Member of the Israeli Ecological Society
Member of the Explorers Club, Corresponding Fellow (USA)
Elected member of the Executive Committee of the International Mycological Association (1990-1994)
Elected member of the Executive Committee of European Commission of Mushroom Conservation (from 1994).
Vice-President of the XIV Congress of European Mycologists (from 1999)
Vice-President International Congress “Medicinal Mushrooms in Health Care and Nutrition” (Kiev, 2001)



PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS


XII International Botanical Congress, Leningrad, USSR, 1975
IV Congress of European Mycologists, Budapest, Hungary, 1978
Congress of Mushroom Cultivation, Prague, CSSR, 1980
X Congress of European Mycologists, Tallinn, Estonia, 1989
IV International Mycological Congress, Regensburg, Germany, 1990
XI Congress of European Mycologists, London, England, 1992
XII Congress of European Mycologists, The Netherlands, 1995
VII International Congress on Culture Collection, The Netherlands, 1996
VIII International Congress of Bacteriology and Applied Microbiology division, Israel, 1996
Ist European Phycologycal Congress, Germany, 1996
4th International Marine Biotechnology Conference, Italy, 1997
8th International Mycologycal Congress, Israel, 1998
13th Congress of European Mycologists, Spain, 1999
International Congress on Algae Biodiversity, Ukraine, 1999
International Conference on Cultivation of Edible Mushrooms, The Netherlands, 2000
International Conference of Medicinal Mushrooms, Ukraine, 2001
44th Annual Mushroom Industry Conference, Penn State University, USA, 2002
International Mycological Congress 7, Oslo, Norway, 2002



KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGES


Russian
Ukrainian
English
German
Hungarian
Hebrew



SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS


  • Theoretical comprehension of the vast amount of material collected in nature and studied in the laboratory made it possible to create an original complex approach in studies of Higher Basidiomycetes.
  • A comparative study of the family Agaricaceae and the order Amanitales with the use of various methods and criteria serves as a model for greater clarification of general problems of systematics and phylogeny of Higher Basidiomycetes.
  • An original system of the family Agaricaceae has been created which has merited universal acknowledgement.
  • Studies on geometric peculiarities of basidia of Higher Basidiomycetes were carried out for the first time in world science, and peculiarities.
  • An original hypothesis was put forward on the time and origin centres of the order Agaricales.
  • The critical study of the family Agaricaceae of Ukraine, the former Soviet Union, Far East of Russia, Vietnam, a number of USA States and Israel are performed.
  • The critical study of Bacillariophyta algae of Ukraine is performed.
  • The critical and systematic study of cryptogamic plants and fungi of Israel has begun.
  • A number of investigations have been performed on the development of scientific principles of commercial cultivation of edible and medicinal mushrooms. Five patents for new strains of edible and medicinal mushrooms are received.
  • Original approaches in studies of biodiversity and environmentalism and the role of cryptogamic plants and fungi are proposed.
  • The fungal coefficient (FC) introduced into science made it possible to suppose the role of fungi in ecosystems of definite territories and total number of fungi existing in the terrestrial globe.
  • Dynamics of accumulation of radionuclides in various cryptogamic plants and fungi of different ecosystems in Ukraine influenced by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station accident.
  • The introduced 226 new scientific names for fungi including 42 species new for science and 184 new for science nomenclature and taxonomic combinations.
  • Authored, co-authored or edited 400 scientific papers, 12 patents and other contributions on mycology (including lichenology) and algology, systematics, ecology, biodiversity, protection, commercial cultivation of edible and medicinal mushrooms, and environmental topics, these include 34 books.



    NEW SCIENTIFIC NAMES INTRODUCED


    (to June 2002)
    Order: 2
    Families: 2
    Sections: 18
    Species (new): 49
    Species (combinations and new names): 118
    Intraspecific ranks: 57



    EPONYMOUS NAMES:


    Agaricus wasseri Bon et Court., Bon M. & R.Courtecuisse. Doc. Mycol., 16, 60, 1985: 7
    Lepiota wasseri Bon, Bon. M. Doc. Mycol., 38, 95, 1994: 56
    Lichenochora wasseri S. Kondr.,Isr. J. Plant Sci., Vol.44, 1996.


    PUBLICATIONS


    Author and co-author of 400 scientific publications including 34 books, 12 author's certificates (patents) of the USSR and USA for inventions (new strains of edible and medicinal valuable mushrooms for the commercial cultivation).