Editorial staff - ALEXANDER SHESTEPEROV

Russian Journal of Parasitology - Shesteperov A.A.ALEXANDER SHESTEPEROV
Editorial Council

Research associate of All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fundamental and Applied Parasitology of Animals and Plants named after K.I. Skryabin, doctor of biological sciences, professor.

Date and place of birth:  March 27, 1942 (village Petukhovo of Nagoryevsk district, Yaroslavl region)

Background: agronomists in plant protection. In 1968 he graduated from the All-Union Agricultural Institute of Distance Education.

Main research fields: plant protection, phytohelminthology, epiphytotiology, parasitology.

Employment details: senior technician (1966), junior, senior research, leading research associate, Head of the Laboratory for phytohelminthology of All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fundamental and Applied Parasitology of Animals and Plants named after K.I. Skryabin until 2014. Objects of his research are phytohelminths – causative agents of globoderosis of potatoes and tomatoes,   meloidoginosis in vegetable cultures of the open ground, ditylenchosis of onion, garlic and potatoes; aphelenchoidosis of rice, pratylenchosis of clover. His research is focused on the study of fauna, biology, ecology, harmfulness of parasitic nematodes, elaboration of methods for diagnostics, registration of phytohelminthiasis and struggle measures against them.

Shesteperov A.A. was the first one who has developed and implemented the  methods of distance diagnostics of phytohelminthiasis in agricultural plants. These methods enable to detect new foci of globoderosis in potatoes – a parasitic disease prevalent in two regions of Russia.

The priority of other inventions is confirmed with 5 authorship certificates. With his direct participation, a network of regional and republican phytohelminthological laboratories    for investigation of farmlands, identification of foci of dangerous  phytohelminthiasis  and implementation of scientific recommendations on struggle measures against parasitic nematodes was established  in the Russian Federation.

Shesteperov A.A. pays  much attention to the extension of knowledge in the field of plant protection.

Extracurricular and scientific activities: deputy chairman of the Commission on

nematode diseases of plants of Plant Protection Division  RAAS; member of the Society of Organizing Committee of the Russian Nematologists (RSN); member of Scientific and Dissertation Councils of All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Fundamental and Applied Parasitology of Animals and Plants named after K.I. Skryabin and Russian State Agrarian University  (Distance Education).

Basic publications: more than 260 scientific works have been published, including  5 monographs, 18 recommendations, methodical guidelines and methodics, 7 authorship certifications and patents have been received.

Shesteperov A.A. has a scientific school: 10 PhD and doctoral theses were defended under his supervision.

Awards:  commemorative medal of «100th anniversary of the birth of academician K.I. Skryabin», medals "Veteran of Labour" and «850th anniversary of Moscow».