Vera Hayova
Dr (PhD), Senior Scientist
E-mail: v(dot)hayova(at)gmail(dot)com
Personal data. Born 1961, Ukrainian.
Main scientific interests. Fungal taxonomy and diversity (Ascomycota, Basidiomycota); tree-inhabiting microfungi (Sordariomycetes); fungi of Ukraine; conservation of fungi; fungal Red Listing; scientific management of editorial workflow; data entry and data editing for computerized fungal recording; environmental issues.
Education and qualifications
Diploma with honours, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 1982;
PhD / Candidate of Biological Sciences (Mycology), Kyiv, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1986;
Senior Scientist (Mycology), 2003.
Current position
Senior Scientist, Department of Mycology, M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NASU;
Deputy Head of the Department of Mycology.
Editorship and related activities
Associate Editor, Ukrainian Botanical Journal (since 2015);
Editorial Board member, Ukrainian Botanical Journal (since 2009);
Maintainer, Ukrainian Botanical Journal website (since 2013).
Current membership in Committees and Councils
Member, IUCN Species Survival Commission, Cup fungi, Truffles and their Allies Specialist Group;
Secretary, European Council for Conservation of Fungi;
Member, National Commission on the Red Data Book of Ukraine;
Member, Scientific Council of the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, NAS of Ukraine.
Membership in Scientific Societies
Founder member, European Mycological Association;
Member, International Society for Fungal Conservation;
Member, Ukrainian Botanical Society.
Research projects (continued and past)
Participant, several (ongoing, recent and past) projects Fungi of Ukraine (supported by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine); 3rd edition of the Red Data Book of Ukraine project; several projects on habitat conservation (supported by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine); several projects on fungal diversity (supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine).
Participant, four UK Darwin Initiative projects: Conservation of microfungi: a voice for unprotected and vulnerable organisms (2007-2010); Recovering Ukraine’s lost steppe (2002-2005); Biodiversity information in the former Soviet Union (1999-2002); Fungi of Ukraine (1994-1996).
Ukrainian co-ordinator and scientific manager, UK DFID SEPSII project Planning management & educational sustainability on Ukraine’s military sites (2005); Ukrainian co-ordinator, UK DEFRA project Encouraging sustainable development of the Crimean south coast (2004-2005); Ukrainian co-ordinator, UK DFID SEPS project An Environmental Action Plan for Balaclava (2001-2002); Ukrainian co-ordinator, UK Royal Society project Electronic distribution maps of Ukrainian fungi (1998-2000).
Field experience
Belgium, France, Georgia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom; extensive fieldwork in Ukraine.
Selected publications
Heluta V.P., Hayova V.P. 2025. Which species of Sawadaea (Erysiphaceae) parasitise Acer negundo in Ukraine? Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 82(5): 398–406. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj82.05.398
Hayova V.P., Boiko G.V., Mosyakin S.L. 2024. Toward the Madrid Code: nomenclatural proposals of Ukrainian botanists. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 81(5): 374−380. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj81.05.374
Hayova V. 2024. Artomyces microsporus (Auriscalpiaceae), a rare species that may be confused with A. pyxidatus. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 81(4): 271−277. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj81.04.271
Heluta V.P., Prydiuk M.P., Tykhonenko Yu.Ya., Zykova M.O., Hayova V.P., Andrianova T.V., Shevchenko M.V. 2024. Fungi of the Right Bank Polissya of Ukraine. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka. 403 pp. [In Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.15407/978-966-00-1953-9
Jiménez-Mejías P., Manzano S., Gowda V., Krell F.-T., Lin M.-Y., Martín-Bravo S., Martín-Torrijos L., Nieto Feliner G., Mosyakin S.L., Naczi R.F.C., Acedo C., Álvarez I., Crisci J.V., Luceño Garcés M., Manning J., Moreno Saiz J.C., Muasya A.M., Riina R., Meseguer A.S., Sánchez-Mata D., and 1543 additional co-authors. 2024. Protecting stable biological nomenclatural systems enables universal communication: A collective international appeal. BioScience, 74(7): 467–472. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biae043
Hayova V.P., Boiko G.V., Mosyakin S.L. 2023. Proposal to add a new Recommendation to Art. 38, with the advice to report local/indigenous vernacular names (if available) of new taxa and to use such names, if appropriate, in scientific nomenclature. Taxon, 72(2): 455. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12907
Heluta V.P., Zykova M.O., Hayova V.P., Prydiuk M.P., Shevchenko M.V. 2022. An update to the species list of fungi in the Red Data Book of Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 79(3): 154–168. [In Ukrainian]. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj79.03.154
Lytvynenko Yu.I., Hayova V.P., Akulov O.Yu., Dzhagan V.V., Romanova D.A. 2022. An update on the occurrence of the Sporormiaceae (Pleosporales) in Ukraine. Czech Mycology, 74(2): 195–226. https://doi.org/10.33585/cmy.74206
Shevchenko M.V., Heluta V.P., Zykova M.O., Hayova V.P. 2021. Current distribution data for the red-listed species of aphyllophoroid fungi in Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 78(1): 47–61. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj78.01.047
Tykhonenko Y., Hayova V., Ignatov M., Vasilenko D., Perkovsky E.E. 2021. A new species of rust fungi from the middle Eocene Sakhalinian amber. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 66(4): 921–924. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00917.2021
Tykhonenko Y.Y., Hayova V.P., Sukhomlyn M.N., Ignatov M.S., Vasilenko D.V., Perkovsky E.E. 2021. The first record of the rust fungus (Pucciniales) spores from Middle Eocene Sakhalinian amber. Paleontological Journal, 55(1): 105–110. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030121010135
Hayova V.P., Heluta V.P., Shevchenko M.V. 2020. Fomitopsis officinalis (Polyporales): are there any records of the fungus known from Ukraine? Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 77(1): 40–43. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj77.01.040
Hayova V.P., Tykhonenko Yu.Ya., Sukhomlyn M.M., Martynova K.V., Vasilenko D.V. 2019. First record of fungal fruit bodies on a leaf from late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Paleontological Journal, 53(10): 1104–1110. https://doi.org/10.1134/S003103011910006X
Dudka I.O., Heluta V.P., Prydiuk M.P., Tykhonenko Yu.Ya., Akulov O.Yu., Hayova V.P., Zykova M.O., Andrianova T.V., Dzhagan V.V., Shcherbakova Yu.V. 2019. Fungi of Reserves and National Nature Parks of the Ukrainian Carpathians. Kyiv: Naukova Dumka. 215 pp. [In Ukrainian].
Shevchenko M.V., Heluta V.P., Hayova V.P. 2019. Distribution and conservation status of Grifola frondosa (Polyporales, Basidiomycota) in Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 76(2): 144–151. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj76.02.144
Heluta V.P., Assyov B., Hayova V.P. 2019. Distribution and preliminary assessment of a rare fungus Hemileccinum depilatum (Boletales, Basidiomycota) in Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 76(5): 427–433. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj76.05.427
Tykhonenko Yu.Ya., Hayova V.P. 2019. First records of Puccinia bornmuelleri (Pucciniales) in Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 76(5): 445–450. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj76.05.445
Lytvynenko Yu.I., Hayova V.P. 2018. New and noteworthy records of coprophilous species of Coniochaeta and Sordaria (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) from Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 75(6): 538–551. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj75.06.538
Kiss L., Kovács G.M., Bóka K., Bohár G., Bohárné K.V., Németh M.Z., Takamatsu S., Shin H.-D., Hayova V., Nischwitz C., Seier M.K., Evans H.C., Cannon P.F., Ash G.J., Shivas R.G., Müller-Schärer H. 2018. Deciphering the biology of Cryptophyllachora eurasiatica gen. et sp. nov., an often cryptic pathogen of an allergenic weed, Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Scientific Reports, 8(1): [10806]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-29102-5
Hayova V.P., Tykhonenko Yu.Ya. 2017. The first records of Bartheletia paradoxa (Bartheletiomycetes, Agaricomycotina) in Ukraine. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 74(6): 578–581. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj74.06.578
Akulov O.Yu., Hayova V.P. 2016. Immotthia atrograna (Dacampiaceae, Ascomycota), a new for Ukraine fungicolous fungus from the Carpathians. Ukrainian Botanical Journal, 73(1): 84–89. https://doi.org/10.15407/ukrbotj73.01.084
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Cryptosphaeria eunomia. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1921.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Leucostoma auerswaldii. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1922.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Leucostoma translucens. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1923.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsa friesii. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1924.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsa germanica. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1925.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsa melanodiscus. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1926.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsa pini. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1927.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsa viburni. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, set 193: 1928.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsella diatrypa. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1929.
Hayova V.P., Minter D.W. 2012. Valsella rosae. IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria, 193: 1930.
Heluta V., Hayova V., Tykhonenko Y., Dzagan V., Umanets O. 2010. Microfungi on plants from Tendra Island (Ukraine, Black Sea). Polish Botanical Journal, 55(2): 441–449.
Fraiture A., Hayova V., Lickey E. 2008. First record of Artomyces microsporus in Europe. Cryptogamie Mycologie, 29(3): 219–229.
