Elena Ambros. EDUCATION: 2012 Degree Candidate of Biological Sciences (Ph.D. equivalent), Higher Qualification Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, thesis “Formation process in Fragaria × ananassa Duch. through unreduced parthenogenesis”; 1992-1997, Diploma in Plant Breeder (equivalent of MS degree). Title of the dissertation: “Experimental apomixis in industrial strawberry cultivars”. PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS: Micropropagation of rare and resource plants; development of technologies for obtaining secondary metabolites with antimicrobial, antiviral and antitumor activities in callus, suspension and hairy root cultures of medicinal plants; reproduction systems and methods of Fragaria × ananassa Duch.; application of in vitro techniques for obtaining interspecific hybrids Fragaria × Potentilla; application of biostimulants in horticulture. EXPERIENCE: 2024-present, Deputy Director for Research, Central Siberian Botanical Garden of the Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia (CSBG SB RAS); 2023-present, Head of Laboratory of Biotechnology, CSBG SB RAS; 2020-2024, Senior Researcher of Laboratory of Biotechnology, CSBG SB RAS; 2013-2020, Researcher of Laboratory of Biotechnology, CSBG SB RAS; 2009-2013, Junior Researcher of Laboratory of Biotechnology, CSBG SB RAS; 2000-2009, Senior Lecturer of Novosibirsk Agrarian State University; 1998-2001, PhD student of Novosibirsk Agrarian State University.