Igor Yakovlev PhD

Dr. Prof, senior research scientist, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research

Igor Yakovlev is a senior researcher and professor at the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Department of molecular biology of plants, Ås (Norway). He received PhD at the Leningrad/Saint-Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy (Russia), studying the population structure of oak stands in the Near-Volga regions of Russia. 

He performed postdoctoral research at the Mary State technical University (Russia), Lower Saxony Forest Research Institute (Germany) and Oregon State University (USA). 

From 2003 started working at the Norwegian Forest Research Institute (recently NIBIO), studying the molecular mechanisms of the epigenetic memory formation in Norway spruce and strawberry. and plant–microbe interactions.

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