Award for Dr Ken Street

Dr Ken Street receives the Memorial N.I. Vavilov Medal from Dr N.I. Dzyubenko, Director, Vavilov Institute of Research. Dr Kenneth Street of ICARDA's Genetic Resources Section has been awarded the Memorial N.I. Vavilov Medal, in recognition of his "exceptional contribution to the Vavilov global collection of crop genetic resources". This highly prestigious honor was given during the celebration marking the 120th anniversary of N.I. Vavilov, the founding father of genetic resource conservation. Dr Street received the medal from Dr N.I. Dzyubenko, Director of the Vavilov Institute of Research (VIR), during the 2nd International Vavilov Conference on 'Crop Genetic Resources in the 21st Century: Current Status, Problems and Prospects', held in St. Petersburg, Russia, 26-30 November. From 1999 onwards, Dr Street has coordinated Australian funded collaborative VIR-ICARDA projects that have led to major outcomes. VIR has donated 8400 accessions to the ICARDA genebank, greatly increasing its ecogeographic coverage. Collaborative projects have enabled VIR scientists to: - georeference their cereal and food legume collections - regenerate and study important parts of their collection under different field conditions - collect over 4500 valuable accessions through a series of collection missions in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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