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Institute in 1952. He worked at the Krasnoyarsk Agricultural Institute from 1953 to
1957. In 1957, he joined the Physics Institute Krasnoyarsk. In 1961, he headed the
Laboratory of Photo Biology of that institute. In 1981 he headed all laboratories and
in 1985, he was made Director of the Biophysics Institute of the Siberian
Department located in Krasnoyarsk. He is a professor, holding a chair in
physiology and biochemistry of animals and humans at the Krasnoyarsk State
University. He is an Honored Scientist of the former Soviet Union. In April 1991,
the Presidium of the Siberian Department of the RAS established the International
Center for Closed Ecological Systems that is intended to work closely with other
scientists throughout the world working on man-made biospheres--something that
Russian scientists had developed in BIOS-3 in the 1970s and 1980s. Dr. Gitel’zon,
as Director of the Institute of Biophysics is also heading up this new international
research institute.
Il’in, (Ilin) Iurii V., D. Chem S., Head of the Genome Mobility Laboratory of the
Molecular Biology Institute in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State
University Chemistry Department in 1966, and defended his thesis on the study of
the structure of the chromatine deoxynucleoproteids in 1970, and defended his
dissertation on the mobile elements of the Drosophila in 1981. He joined the
institute in 1966. His scientific interests at present are on genome organization,
mobile genetic elements, and the control of gene expression. In 1993, he was
elected an academician in Physical and Chemical Biology Department of the
Academy.
Ivanov, Mikhail V. D. Bio. S., Born in 1930. Corresponding member of Physical and
Chemical Biology Department of the Academy since 1970, and academician since
December 1987. Since 1979, he has been Director of the Microbiology Institute in
Moscow, that was established in 1930. In 1992, it encompassed over 20 laboratories
and research groups. Areas of study and research include the following:
the varieties of the microbial world and new forms of microorganisms--studied in
almost all of the laboratories; ecological and geochemical studies of halophilic,
thermophilic, acidophilic microorganisms in various types of soil, in water depth
and bottom sediments of the World oceans, and in glaciers in the Antarctica--all of
which focuses on their roles in the cycle of substances in the biosphere--in the
processes of formation, and the variation and destruction of the deposits of soil
treasures. These studies have led to the development of a new branch of
biotechnology: the bio-geotechnology of metals that includes the bacterial
enhancement of oil recovery from oil pools; the study of the cytology, physiology
and biochemistry of microorganisms as producers of physiologically active
compounds such as enzymes, lipids, etc., and, the study of viruses that cause
diseases in plants and the development of measures to fight such diseases. He is
currently a Deputy to the Academician Secretary of the Physical and Chemical
Biology Department of the Academy.
Ivanov, Vadim T., D. Chem. S. Born in 1937 in Feodosiia, Crimean Oblast. Russian
chemist. Academician since 1987. He graduated from Moscow State University in
1960. In 1963, he joined the staff of the Institute of the Chemistry of Natural
Compounds of the AN SSSR--now the M. M. Shemiakin Institute of Bio-organic
Chemistry. Since 1971, he has headed the Peptide Chemistry Laboratory of the
institute in Moscow that was founded in 1939. His works are on the synthesis and
structure of biologically active peptides and proteins and the mechanisms of their
reactions. He received the Lenin Prize--with Iurii A. Ovchinnikov--in 1978. He is
currently a member of the governing Bureau of the Physical and Chemical Biology
Institute of the Academy. (LDA 89-89-11358.) (GSE 30, p. 463.)
Kabachnik, Martin I., D. Chem S. Born in 1908 in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk).
Russian organic chemist. Academician since 1958. He graduated from the Second
Moscow Chemical Engineering Institute in 1931. Since 1954, he has been the Head
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