Silvia Blumenfeld facts for kids

Silvia N. Blumenfeld is an expert on mycology. From 1986 to 2004, she was a Professor of Mycology and Biotechnology of Filamentous Fungi at the National University of Comahue, in Río Negro, Argentina. She emigrated to Israel in 2002, where she became the curator of the Tel Aviv University fungi collection, specializing in medicinal mushrooms. She has over 50 articles, books, and patents to her name, and has received academic honours. In 1995, she was awarded the Argentine National 'José Antonio Balseiro' Prize for her work.

Career

Silvia Blumenfeld is a professor and researcher specializing in mycology, plant pathology and forest pathology. She is an expert in the biotechnology of mushrooms, wood rotting fungi, and culture collections of mushrooms. She has managed projects in genetic selection and strain improvement of edible and medicinal mushrooms. Blumenfeld has worked 20 years in the formulation of mushroom inoculants and industrial production of mushroom inoculants and mushroom biotechnology.

• Professor of Phytopathology, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Faculty of Agronomy, Cinco Saltos, Rio Negro, Argentina, 1986–2004.
• Professor of Biotechnology of filamentous mushrooms, the master's degree course in Chemical Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, 1995–2004.
• Member of the "Carrera del Investigador Cientifico y Tecnologico" of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), 1985–2002.
• Worked as a researcher in the Hagolan Research Institute in 2003.
• Worked at Tel Aviv University as the curator of the fungal culture collection, 2006–2010.
• She has been invited to teach at many Universities and Institutes in Canada, Spain, France, the USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil and Uruguay.
• In 2010 she established Mycolo, a company specializing in medicinal mushrooms cultivation and processing them into medicinal mushroom extracts.

Academic degrees and honours

• Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires.
• Degree: Licentiate in Biological Sciences.
• Post Graduate Degree: Dr. in Biological Sciences.
• Professor of Plant Pathology and Biotechnology of Mushrooms

1995 – Argentine National 'José Antonio Balseiro' Prize, as Director of Group of work for the results of technological transfer and extension work with the productive sector in the field of edible mushrooms, granted by the Ministry of Education and the Forum of the Science and Technology. It was awarded on April 26 by the President of Argentina, Dr. Carlos Menem, in the White Room of Government's House.

• Member of the Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, since 1977.
• Member of the Mycological Society of America, 1985–1995.
• Member of the Canadian Phytopathological Society, 1987–1995.
• Member of the Asociacion Argentina of Micología, since 1987.
• Member of the Sociedad Chilena de Fitopatología, since 1991.
• Member of the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Micología, since 1994.
• Member of the Asociacion Micológica Carlos Spegazzini, since 1994.
• Beer Sheva, Israel, August 2008

See also

In Spanish: Silvia Blumenfeld para niños