My research activities is aimed at:
- Phoma sensu lato group of fungi
- endophytic fungi
- fungal symbiont and their relationships with gall midges. Mutualistic interactions between the gall causing species of dipterans from Asphondylia genus (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) and on fungi developing in the inner wall of galls.
- etiology and epidemiology of infectious diseases of MAPs (medicinal and aromatic plants), with special regards of new and emerging infectious diseases (EIDs).

Dr. Yusufjon Gafforov is professor in the New Uzbekistan University. He holds a PhD in Biology from the Institute of Botany, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences and an MSc in Common Biology from Namangan State University, Uzbekistan. His research interests focus mainly on microbiome, mycology, phytopathology, ethnobiology, plant protection and molecular biology. He conducted postdoctoral studies at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, at the Institute of Botany, Sao Paulo, Brazil, at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, as well as than at Ibaraki University, Mito, Japan. Moreover, he has won prestigious fellowships such as the President's International Fellowship for Visiting Professors (PIFI) from the Chinese Academy of Sciences; DAAD, Germany; TWAS-CNPq, Brazil; TWAS-CAS, China, MIF, Japan and OeAD, Austria. He was appointed Uzbekistan's representative to the International Society of Fungal Conservation for Central & Western Asia (2012-2014) and the Asian Mycological Association (2019-2025). He has been appointed as a board member of several organizations such as the International Council for Vine Trunk Diseases, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, and the International Society for the Conservation of Fungi and the European Mycological Association. He has also led as coordinator and partner several international and local research projects supported by the Ministry of Innovative Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan (2015-2017; 2018-2020), the Alliance of International Scientific Organizations, China (2022- 2024), National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, USA (2003-2007). Dr. Gafforov has held several academic positions as a visiting scientist, including Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2021, Bio-Resources and Bio-Technology Research Center, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, Shenyang, China from 2018 to 2019, and the Institute of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Austria from 2015 to 2016, to the Department of Ecology, University of Kassel, Germany in 2013, in 2017, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany in 2009 and as a visiting researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria from 2005 to 2006.Dr. Gafforov is currently associate editor of Frontiers Fungal Biology, Plant Pathology & Quarantine, Ethnobotany Research and Applications, MycoKing, Studies in Fungi and member of the editorial board of Mycology, and is guest editor of Frontiers in Fungal Biology and co-editor of Frontiers in Cellular and Microbiology of infections. Additionally, he has reviewed several articles in peer-reviewed Fungal Diversity; Studies in Mycology; BMC Microbiology; Frontiers in Microbiology; Frontiers in Fungal Biology; Mycological Progress; Mycoscience; Journal of Fungi; Diversity; Life; Phytotaxa; Mycology; Nova Hedwigia; Biodiversity Data Journal; Mycokeys, Turkish Journal of Botany, Heliyon, Flora. Dr Gafforov has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, books including book chapters. He was editor of book "Ethnobiology of Uzbekistan" which was published by Springer Nature.