Leading Researcher, Head of VKM laboratory of filamentous fungi, All-Russian collection of microorganisms (VKM), G.K. Skryabin Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences (IBPM RAS), Federal Research Center “Pushchino Scientific Center for Biological Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (PSCBR RAS). Svetlana M. Ozerskaya, graduated from the Department of Soil Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. She holds a Doctorate in biological sciences in 2012. Her scientific interests are related to the study of the fungal diversity in culture collections, and the methods of reliable preservation of them. Author of over 260 articles. One of her most significant results is in creation of the database FungalDC (Fungal diversity in culture collections), which connects fungal species worldwide to the main mycological information resources - Index Fungorum, MycoBank, GenBank, WDCM. FungalDC operates in free access modes on VKM website (www.vkm.ru). She is the member of the National Academy of Mycology.