Joseph Dubrovsky

BIOGRAPHY

Joseph Dubrovsky is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member Elena Alvarez-Buylla to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Professor and Head of the Laboratory of Root Development, Department of Plant Molecular Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Campus Morelos (Cuernavaca)

EDUCATION:
• 1980, BSc and MSc, Plant Physiology, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Russia, USSR. Major Professors: Dr Victor B Ivanov and Dr Vitaly A Polunovsky
• 1987, PhD Plant Physiology, Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Major Professor: Dr Victor B Ivanov
• Since 1991, a researcher in Mexico

MEMBERSHIPS:
• 1991, International Society of Root Research
• 1993, Botanical Society of America
• 1996, American Society of Plant Physiologists (now ASPB)
• 1998, Regular member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences
• 1999, La Sociedad Mexicana de Cactologia, AC
• 2009, La Sociedad Mexicana de Bioquímica AC

AWARDS/HONORS:
• 1986, Personal prize of the DI Mendeleev's Chemical Society of the USSR
• 1993-2003, National Researcher of Mexico, Level I
• Since 2004 till present, National Researcher of Mexico, Level II

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Plant developmental biology
• Cellular and molecular bases of plant growth and development
• Meristem organization and functioning
• Lateral root development
• Cell proliferation in plants
• Physiology of growth and development in plants of arid and semi-arid environments