Irina V. Sokolova
Candidate of Biological Sciences, Researcher of the Department Herbarium of Vascular Plants of the Komarov Botanical Institute RAS
AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION CODES
ResearcherID: H-8745-2013
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5277-6669
Scopus ID: 36770339200
AREA OF SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
taxonomy of vascular plants, Caryophyllaceae, nomenclature, types, typification
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
1980–1985 — Leningrad State University, Biological faculty: M. S.
since 1985 — Herbarium of Higher Plants, Komarov Botanical Institute (1985–1990: laboratory assistant, 1990–1992: junior researcher, since 1993: researcher)
Feb 1992 — Candidate of Science in Biology (= PhD), Komarov Botanical Institute (Thesis: The genus Cerastium L. s. l. (Caryophyllaceae) in the flora of the Caucasus)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Russian Botanical Society
FIELD RESEARCH
1981–1985: Northern European Russia
1986–1989: Caucasus
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Membership in editorial boards:
- Flora Europae Orientalis (1996–2004)
- Novosti sistematiki vysshikh rasteniy (= Novitates Systematicae Plantarum Vascularium) (since 2007)
- Novosti sistematiki nizshikh rasteniy (= Novitates Systematicae Plantarum non Vascularium) (since 2009)
- Conspectus Florae Europae Orientalis (since 2010)
- Catalogue of the type specimens of East-Asian vascular plants in the Herbarium of the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute (LE). Part 2 (China) (2010)
- Catalogue of the type specimens of the vascular plants from Siberia and the Russian Far East kept in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE). Part 1 (2012) — Editor-in-chief
SCIENTIFIC-ORGANIZATIONAL AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2014, 2015: course for post-graduate students in the Komarov Botanical Institute «Modern nomenclature of algae, fungi and plants» (in association with D. V. Geltman)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Sokolova I. V. New for the flora of the USSR species of the genus Cerastium (Caryophyllaceae) from the Caucasus // Bot. Zhurn. 1989. Т. 74, № 6. P. 911–912. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. New species of the genus Cerastium (Caryophyllaceae) from the Caucasus // Bot. Zhurn. 1990. Т. 75, № 10. P. 1449–1451. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Conspectus generis Cerastium L. (Caryophyllaceae) florae Caucasi // Novosti sist. vyssh. rast. 1996. Т. 30. С. 33–47. (in Russ.)
Geltman D. V., Antonova N. N., Byalt V. V., Grabovskaya A. E., Dorofeev V. I., Zolkina L. A., Konechnaya G. Yu., Krasovskaya L. S., Krupkina L. I., Levichev I. G., Medvedeva N. A., Portenier N. N., Sokolova I. V. Flora of the vascular plants of the Russian Federation // Biology Bulletin. 1998. Vol. 25, № 1. P. 78–82.
Byalt V. V., Sokolova I. V. Who is the author of the genus Orostachys (Crassulaceae)? // Taxon. 1999. Vol. 48, № 1. P. 63–65.
Egorova T. V., Geltman D. V., Gubanov I. A., Novikov V. S., Pimenov M. G., Sokolova I. V. On the paper by N. Turland and G. Davidse «Registration of plant names: undesirable, unnecessary and unworkable» // Taxon. 1999. Vol. 48, № 2.
Byalt V. V., Sokolova I. V. Ohbaea Byalt & I. V. Sokolova, a replacement name for Balfouria (H. Ohba) H. Ohba (Crassulaceae) // Kew Bulletin. 1999. Vol. 54. P. 476.
Sokolova I. V. Myosoton Moench // N. N. Tzvelev (ed.). Flora Europae Orientalis. Vol. 11. 2004. P. 155–156. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Dichodon (Bartl. ) Reichenb. // N. N. Tzvelev (ed.). Flora Europae Orientalis. Vol. 11. 2004. P. 156–157. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Cerastium L. // N. N. Tzvelev (ed.). Flora Europae Orientalis. Vol. 11. 2004. P. 157–171. (in Russ.)
Tscherneva O., Roskov Yu., Raenko L., Dorofeev V., Novoselova M., Sokolova I., Jezniakowsky S. Guide to main collections of the LE herbarium: Version 3, 25 March 2006. Mode of access: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/LEguide/; http://www.binran.ru/projects/di_guide/index.htm
Buzunova I. O., Byalt V. V., Grabovskaya-Borodina A. E., Illarionova I. D., Krestovskaya T. V., Mikhailova M. A., Raenko L. M., Sokolova I. V. Type specimens of the Siberian and Russian Far Eastern taxa of Carex L. (Cyperaceae) kept in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE) // Turczaninowia. 2010. № 3. C. 103–124. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Caryophyllaceae Juss. // A. E. Borodina-Grabovskaya (ed.). Catalogue of the type specimens of East-Asian vascular plants in the Herbarium of the V. L. Komarov Botanical Institute (LE). Part 2 (China). 2010. P. 141–146. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Myosoton, Dichodon, Cerastium, Eremogone, Viscaria, Pleconax, Psammophiliella, Dichoglottis, Pseudosaponaria (Caryophyllaceae) // N. N. Tzvelev (ed.). Conspectus Florae Europae Orientalis. Vol. 1. 2012. Pp. 209–215; 217–218; 229; 247–248; 252–253. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Роды Dichodon, Cerastium (Caryophyllaceae) // A. L. Takhtajan (ed.). Conspectus Florae Caucasi. Vol. 3(2). 2012. Pp. 150–151; 153–161. (in Russ.)
Geltman D. V., Sokolova I. V. Ulmaceae A. L. Takhtajan (ed.). Conspectus Florae Caucasi. Vol. 3(2). 2012. P. 487–489. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Zannichelliaceae, Zosteraceae, Najadaceae, Cyperaceae (Isolepis, Kyllinga) // Catalogue of the type specimens of the vascular plants from Siberia and the Russian Far East kept in the Herbarium of the Komarov Botanical Institute (LE). Part 1. 2012. Pp. 65; 67–68; 365; 366. (in Russ.)
Geltman D. V., Sokolova I. V. Botanical nomenclature: specifics and modern tendencies of development // Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 2013. Vol. 317. Appendix 2. P. 230–237. (in Russ.)
Gagarina L. V., Sokolova I. V., Stepanchikova I. S. Nomenclature and typification // M. P. Andreev, D. E. Himelbrant (eds.).The lichen flora of Russia: Biology, ecology, divarsity, distribution and methods to study lichens. 2014. P. 220–229. (in Russ.)
Sokolova I. V. Type concept: historical outline, modern statements and some некоторые aspects od practical use // Botanical collections — the national inheritance of Russia. Penza, 2015. P. 130–132. (in Russ.)
Yakovlev G. P. (ed.). Encyclopaedic dictionary of medicinal plants / Compilers: G. A. Belodubrovskaya, M. Yu. Goncharov, E. V. Zhokhova, L. I. Krupkina, A. A. Mistrova, N. N. Nadel, M. N. Povydysh, N. I. Pryakhina, N. V. Sklyarevskaya, I. V. Sokolova, L. S. Teslov, N. P. Kharitonova, G. P. Yakovlev. 3rd ed. 2015. 759 pp. (in Russ.)