Vladimir Borisovich Brukhin

Background

Vladimir was born on September 21, 1965.

Education

Dr. Brukhin received his Master in Agricultural Chemistry in 1988 from the faculty of Biology and Soil Science, St. Petersburg State University. In 1993 he earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Biology from Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Career

In 1994 Dr. Brukhin worked as a trainee at the University of Lublin in Poland where he studied plant developmental biology and microscopy. In 1997-1999 He was a postdoctoral researcher in France and Sweden studying somatic embryogenesis, apoptosis and genes specifically expressed during and after fertilization. In 2000-2006 he worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Plant Developmental Genetics, University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he was responsible for coordinating the lab contributions to the multinational EU project EXOTIC (Exon Trapping Insert Consortium) and also he developed an independent research project ‘The Ubiquitin 26S Proteasome Proteolytic Pathway and Plant Reproduction’. At the University of Zurich, Dr. Brukhin was a practical instructor for Plant Developmental Biology course. In 2006-2007 he was invited to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to participate in the project on developmental aspects of posttranslational protein modifications. In 2008-2013 Dr. Brukhin worked in the UK (the University of Aberystwyth and University of Edinburgh) where he studied epigenetics, problems of plant cell identity and specialization. In the UK he was also involved in tuition and supervision of undergraduate and Ph.D. students.

Currently Dr. Brukhin is a Leading Research Fellow at ChemBio Cluster, head of Plant Genomics Lab, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia. The Lab studies genomics and molecular genetic regulation of apomixis

WGS, assembly, and annotation of highly heterozygous plant genomes, phylogenetic and functional analysis of genes, plant extracellular vesicles for therapy and prevention of human diseases.

In 2013-2020 Dr. Brukhin worked as a Leading Reserac Fellow and deputy director at the Dobzhansky Center for Genome Bioinformatics at St. Petersburg State University where he coordinated the Genome Russia project main goal of which was creation of the web-based database containing depersonalised information on the whole-genome sequences many people originating from the different regions of Russia, whose ancestors were indigenous to the region for several generations, as well as description of the genome variations in these groups, detection of the features that affect the spread of diseases and creation of a database of medically-relevant genomic variants characteristic to the Russian population. Dr. Brukhin supervised project on plant genomic, plant reproduction, and study the molecular basis of apomixis the asexual reproduction of plants through seed, that could become a key ‘enabling technology’ of immense benefit to agriculture because it would enable the permanent fixation of heterosis in crop plants.

Achievements

• 2020-2023 RFBR - Tubitak (Turkey) International bilateral collaboration program "Phylogenetic and functional analysis of genes associated with apomixis in representatives of the Boechera genus"
  
  2021-2022 Filbright Visiting Schoolar, University of Florida
  
  2016-2018 RFBR – SNSF (Switzerland) International bilateral collaboration program «Sequencing, Assembly, and Annotation of the Highly Heterozygous Genome of the Apomictic Plant Boechera divericarpa»
  
  2015-2016 RFBR – DST (India) International bilateral collaboration program «Fixing hybrid vigor by asexual reproduction A chemical genetics screen towards harnessing apomixis in flowering plants»
  
  2011-2013 Leverhulme Trust (London, UK);
  
  2008-2011 CRUK (Coca Research UK), Dutch Government for cocoa research;
  
  2003-2006 Kredit zur Förderung des akademischen Nachwuchses Stiefel-Zangger-Stiftung (Zurich, Switzerland); Novartis research grant (Basel, Switzerland);
  
  1999 - 2000 Svenska Institutet fellowship (Stockholm, Sweden);
  
  1998 -1999 French Ministry of Education, Research and Technology fellowship (Paris, France);
  
  1997- NATO fellowship University Bordeux II (France);
  
  1996- Wageningen Agricultural University fellowship (The Netherlands) ;
  
  1997- Grant by the Company of Biologists Limited (Cambridge, UK);
  
  1994-1995 Grant for successful young scientists by the Russian Academy of Science.

Membership

Member Russian Botanical Society, Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders, International Association Sexual Plant Reproduction Research.