Name: Bellis Kullman
Contact:
email: bellis[at]zbi.ee
phone: +372 7 383 027
Position:
Head of the Department of Mycology, Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences,
Estonian University of Life Sciences
Date of birth: May 12, 1947
Educational history:
| 1965-1970 | The University of Tartu / Diploma of higher education Faculty of Biol.-Geogr. (Biologist-genetician) |
| 1972-1976 | Postgraduate course
at the Inst. of Zool. & Bot. of the Est. Acad. of Sc. |
Research and professional experience:
| from 1970 | Inst. of Zool. & Bot. Dept. of Mycology | Senior engineer |
| 1970-1972 | sen. lab.ass. | |
| 1972-1976 | postgrad. st. | |
| 1976-1980 | sen. engineer | |
| 1980-1986 | jun. researcher | |
| 1986-2001 | researcher | |
| from 2001 | sen. researcher |
Academic degrees:
1983 - Cand. Sc. (Ph.D.) in biology from the University of Tartu for the dissertation "A revision of the genus Scutellinia (Pezizales) in the Soviet Union"
Research-administrative experience:
Member of the Estonian Naturalists' Society affiliated to the Estonian Academy of Sciences (ELUS), Member of the International Mycological Association (IMA).
Current research program:
biosystematics, morphology, polyploidy and evolution of the Pezizales.
Current grant funding:
"Role of gene and genome mutations in speciation of sibling species in Pezizales (Fungi)" (grant of the Estonian Science Foundation).
Visits to the Federal Republic of Germany sponsored by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) 1998, 2002 and by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) 2000.
Dissertation advised:
Aivo Jakobson. Studies of the genus Octospora (Pezizales) in Estonia and Finland. (M.Sc. thesis), University of Tartu, 1995.
Maarja Öpik. Pure cultures character in the systematics of the order Pezizales. (M.Sc. thesis), University of Tartu, 1998.
Heidi Tamm. Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Geopora (Pyronemataceae, Pezizales) on the basis of rDNA ITS region. (M.Sc. thesis), Estonian University of Life Sciences, 2006.
Supervised Ph.D. theses:
Aivo Jakobson. Genus Octospora (Ascomycetes, Pezizales).
Irja Saar. Polyploidy and speciation in selected taxa of Agaricales s.l., Chantarelleles and Pezizales. - Supervisors K. Kalamees, B. Kullman.