Olga Morozova

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Academic degree, academic title: Ph.D.

Position: Senior Researcher

E-mail: OMorozova@binran.ru

Research interests:

Biodiversity, conservation, systematics, phylogeny, ecology, and distribution of agaricoid basidiomycetes (primarily of the Entolomataceae)

Keywords: Entolomataceae, Boletaceae, agaricoid basidiomycetes, taxonomy, phylogeny, biodiversity, nature conservation

Education and work experience:

1984-1989 — student of the Herzen Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute.
2001 — PhD thesis «Agaricoid basidiomycetes of the southern taiga subzone in the Leningrad region».

1989-1990 — Teacher of biology at School No. 67.
1987-1989; 1993-1999 — Laboratory Assistant, Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS.
1999-2001 — Research Assistant, Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, BIN RAS.
2001-2004 — Research Scientist, Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, BIN RAS.
2004 — until now — Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Systematics and Geography of Fungi, BIN RAS.

Grants and research projects:

Government order:

122011900033-4. Biodiversity, ecology and structural and functional features of fungi and fungal protists.
122011900032-7 Herbarium funds of the BIN RAS (history, preservation, study and replenishment).

Project leader:

2020-2022. RFBR №20-04-00349 «Diversity, polyphasic taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of critical groups of boletoid fungi (Boletales, Agaricomycetes)».
2015-2017. RFBR №15-04-04645 «The systematics and phylogeny of the genus Entoloma s.l. (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) based on the morphological and on the molecular genetic approaches».

Member of research team:

2021-2023. Agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation №075-15-2021-1056, project «Herbarium funds of the biological diversity of plants and fungi of the Collection Fund of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS: modernization, development and networking as a basis for fundamental research and improvement of genetic technologies».
The program of the Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Research and Technological Center on the theme Ecolan E-1.5: «Conservation, restoration and sustainable use of tropical forest ecosystems based on the study of their structural and functional organization", section: "Study of the taxonomic and ecological diversity of agaricoid and boletoids. macromycetes, marsupial mushrooms and myxomycetes in the forests of Vietnam».
2016-2018. RFBR №16-04-01468 «Mixotrophy of pyroloids (Pyrola spp. and Orthilia secunda) and orchids (Goodyera repens) in forest communities: structure and significance of fungal symbionts».
2015-1017. RFBR №15-29-02622 «The estimation of the «hidden diversity» of higher fungi and myxomycetes in soils of vulnerable natural ecosystems on the base of metagenomic approach and classical molecular analysis».
2013-2015. RFBR №13-04-00838 «Solution of topical issues of gene systematics and geography of basidiomycetes (clades Boletales, Agaricales, Dacrymycetales, Auriculariales) based on a multigene approach».
2012-2014. RFBR №12-04-33018 «Main directions of divergence of critical species of fungi and myxomycetes as a result of climatic changes and characteristics of the functional state of the ecosystem».
«Macromycetes of meadow ecosystems in Russian reserves».
«Mycobiota of the natural ecosystem of the Belarusian-Valdai Lakeland».
«Macromycetes of broad-leaved forests of reserves in Russia».
«Revision of the species composition of most groups of basidial and marsupial fungi in Russia using the methods of gene systematics».
Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences «Biodiversity and dynamics of gene pools».
Program of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences «Biological Resources of Russia: Fundamentals of Natural Use».
State contract with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation «Study of the diversity of modern and fossil plants and fungi on the basis of the Collection Fund of the Botanical Institute. V.L. Komarov RAS as a scientific object of confidential collective use».
State contract with the Federal Agency for Science and Innovations «Study of the biological diversity of plants and fungi on the basis of the collection fund of the Botanical Institute. V.L. Komarov RAS».

Professional memberships:

Russian Botanical Society
Saint-Petersburg Mycological Society

Editorial activity:

Editorial Board member of the journal «Mycology and Phytopathology» (Scopus)
Editorial Board member of the journal «Planet of Fungi» (popular science)

Scientific-organizational and teaching activities:

Curator of the Mycological Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Instutute
Secretary of the Collections Council of the Komarov Botanical Instutute
Member of the Council of the St. Petersburg Mycological Society

Selected publications:

Monographs:

Noordeloos M.E., Morozova O., Dima B. et al. Entoloma sensu lato. Subgenera Cyanula, Leptonia, Nolanea, Trichopilus, and the /Rhombisporum clade. Fungi Europaei, vol. 5b. Edizione Candusso, Italy, 2022. 968 p.

Morozova O.V., Popov E.S., Kotkova V.M., Alexandrova A.V., Svetasheva T.Yu. Fungi of the Pushkinsky Reserve. Saint Petersburg: Marafon, 2022. 128 p.

Nature of the reserve «Severnoe poberezhye nevskoy Guby». Ed. E.A. Volkova, G.A. Isachenko, V.N. Khramtsov. St. Petersburg. 2020. 240 p.

Geltman D.V. (ed.). Red Data Book of Leningrad Oblast: Plant world. Saint Petersburg, 2018. 848 pp. [In Russian]

Geltman D.V. (ed.). Red Data Book of Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg, 2018. 568 pp. [In Russian]

Atlas of specially protected natural territories of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg. 2016. 176 p.

Bulakh E.M., Bukharova N.V., Malysheva V.F., Malysheva E.F., Morozova O.V., Rebriev Yu.A., Svetasheva S.Yu. Basidial fungi // Plants, fungi and lichens of the Sikhote-Alin nature reserve. Vladivostok: Dalnauka. 2016. 393-457.

Popov E.S., Kovalenko A.E., et al. Mycobiota of the Belarus-Valday Lakeland. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, 2013. 399 p.

Environment and biological diversity of Berezovye Islands Archipelago (Gulf of Finland). Ed. E.A. Volkova, G.A. Isachenko, V.N. Khramtsov. Executive ed. N.N. Tsvelev. Ed. E.A. Volkova, E.A. Glazkova, G.A. Isachenko, V.N. Khramtsov. St. Petersburg. 2007. 368 p.

Duderhof Heights — complex natural reserve. Ed. E.A. Volkova, G.A. Isachenko, V.N. Khramtsov. St. Petersburg. 2006. 144 p.

Yuntolovskiy complex natural reserve. Ed. E.A. Volkova, G.A. Isachenko, V.N. Khramtsov. St. Petersburg. 2005. 202 p.

Papers:

Morozova O., Popov E., Alexandrova A., Pham T.H.G., Noordeloos M.E. Four new species of Entoloma (Entolomataceae, Agaricomycetes) subgenera Cyanula and Claudopus from Vietnam and their phylogenetic position. Phytotaxa. 2022. 549(1): 1-21.

Reschke K., Morozova O.V., Dima B. et al. Phylogeny, taxonomy, and character evolution in Entoloma subgenus Nolanea. Persoonia. 2022. 49: 136-170.

Noordeloos M.E., Jansen G.M., … Morozova O. et al. Molecular and morphological diversity in the /Rhombisporum clade of the genus Entoloma with a note on E. cocles. Mycological Progress. 2022. 21: 48.

Crous P.W., Cowan D.A., ... Morozova O.V. et al. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1182-1283. Persoonia. 2021. 46: 313-528.

Crous P.W., Cowan D.A., ... Morozova O.V. et al. Fungal Planet description sheets: 1284-1382. Persoonia. 2021. 47: 178-374.

Dima B., Brandrud T.E., … Morozova O.V., et al. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 7. Sydowia. 2021. 73: 271-340.

Lebeuf R., Alexandrova A.V., … Morozova O.V., et al. Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 8. Sydowia. 2021. 74: 193-249.

Pham T. H. G., Morozova O. V., Alexandrova A. V. Boletoid fungi (Boletaceae, Basidiomycota) of protected areas of Kon Tum Plateau (Central Highlands of Vietnam). Turczaninowia. 2021. 24(3): 65-76.

Noordeloos M.E., Lorås J., ... Morozova O. et al. Three new Entoloma species of the Cyanula clade (Entolomataceae, Agaricales) from (sub)alpine habitats in Northern Norway and Sweden. Sydowia. 2021. 73: 185-196.

Wu G., Wu K., Qi L.-L., Morozova O.V. et al. Psiloboletinus is an independent genus sister to Suillus. Mycologia. 2020. 112(1): 185-196.

Malysheva E., Malysheva V., Alexandrova A., Morozova O. Observations on Pluteaceae in Vietnam. 2. One new record and ten new species of Pluteus. Phytotaxa. 2020. 461(2): 79-107.

Pham T.H.G., Morozova O.V. Boletoid fungi (Boletaceae, Basidiomycota) of the Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park (Vietnam). Turczaninowia. 2020. 23(4): 88-98.

Haelewaters D., Dima B. ... Morozova O.V. et al. Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 6. Sydowia. 2020. 72: 231-356.

Brandrud T.E., Gorbunova I.A., Ageev D.V., Dahlberg A., Dima B., Morozova O.V., Svetasheva T.Yu. New data on Cortinarius funga (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) from Altaiskiy Nature Reserve and Gorno-Altaysk area (SW Siberia, Russia). Mycology and Phytopatology. 2019. 53(6): 325-341.

Malysheva E., Malysheva V., Alexandrova A., Morozova O. Observations on Pluteaceae in Vietnam. 1. New species and new records of Volvariella. Phytotaxa. 2019. 408(4): 233-254.

Crous P.W., Wingfield M.J. ... Morozova O.V. et al. Fungal Planet description sheets: 951–1041. Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 2019. 43: 223-425.

Morozova O.V., Noordeloos M.E., Popov E.S., Alexandrova A.V. Three new species within the genus Entoloma (Basidiomycota, Agaricales) with clamped basidia and a serrulatum-type lamellae edge, and their phylogenetic position. Mycological Progress. 2018. 17(3): 381-392.

Crous P.W., Wingfield M.J., ... Morozova O.V. et al. Fungal Planet description sheets: 785-867. Persoonia. 2018. 41: 238-417.

Pham T.H.G., Popov E.S., Morozova O.V., Nguyen D.H. Basidiomycetous Macromycetes of the Tay Nguyen Plateau in Vietnam: The History of Investigation. Mikologiya i Fitopatologiya. 2018. 52(5): 306-318.

Zhukova E.A., Morozova O.V., Volobuev S.V., Bryantseva Yu.S. Basidial macromycetes and their impact on the state of green plantations of the State Russian Museum gardens (Saint Petersburg). Mycology and Phytopatology. 2017. 51(6): 328-339.

Morozova O.V., Alexandrova A.V., Popov E.S., Malysheva E.F. New data on the agaricoid basidiomycetes of the Tver Region. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2016. 50: 174-186. [In Russian]

Morozova O.V., Malysheva E.F., Popov E.S., Psurtseva N.V., Fedosova A.G., Kovalenko A.E. Macromycetes of the Izborsk-Maly Valley, rare and new to the Pskov Region. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2015. 49: 186-203. [In Russian]

Morozova O.V., Noordeloos M.E., Vila J. Entoloma subgenus Leptonia in boreal-temperate Eurasia: towards a phylogenetic species concept. Persoonia. 2014. 32: 141-169.

Morozova O.V., Voronina E.Yu., Arslanov S.N. Entoloma piceinum, a new lignicolous species of Entolomataceae (Agaricales) from the European Russia. Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rastenii. 2014. 48: 181-187.

Vydryakova G., Morozova O., Redhead S., Bissett J. Observations on morphologic and genetic diversity in populations of Filoboletus manipularis (Fungi: Mycenaceae) in southern Viet Nam. Mycology: An International Journal of Fungal Biology. 2014. 5(2): 81-97.

Morozova O.V., Kovalenko A.E., Rebriev Yu.A., Malysheva E.F. Agaricoid and gasteroid fungi of the Park of the Botanical Garden of the Komarov Botanical Institute. In.: Botany: history, theory, practice (to the 300th anniversary of the Komarov Botanical Institute): Trudy mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii / Geltman DV (ed.). 2014. 142-149. [In Russian]

Morozova O.V., Popov E.S., Kovalenko A.E. Studies on macrofungi of Vietnam. II. Two new species of Lactifluus (Russulaceae with pleurotoid basidiomata). Mycology and Phytopathology. 2013. 47(2): 92-102.

Morozova O.V., Popov E.S., Kovalenko A.E. Studies on macrofungi of Vietnam. I. New species and new records in the genus Entoloma. Mycology and Phytopathology. 2012. 46(3): 184-200.