Prof. Dr. Alexander Rapoport is the Head of the Laboratory Institute of Microbiology and Biotechnology at the University of Latvia. He received a Doctor of Science in the former USSR at the Institute of Microbiology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in 1988. His research interests include cell biology, cytology of microorganisms, physiology of microorganisms, molecular biology of microorganisms, biochemistry and biophysics of microorganisms, and biotechnology of microorganisms.
