Lucio Conti is Associate Professor of Genetics. He teaches Biotecnologie vegetali industriali (Bachelor degree) and Molecular Genetics (MSc degree). His research revolves around the mode of action of plant hormones ABA and GA in controlling the switch to flowering under varying environmental conditions.
Beatrice Landoni (Postdoc) uses ecological and genomic approaches to understand why correlations exist between environmental and phenotypic variation by focusing on water availability and life-history traits such as flowering time.
Luca Rabagliati (PhD student in Molecular and Cellular Biology) uses molecular approaches to identify how signals derived from changes in photoperiod and ABA accumulation are integrated at the chromatin levels.
Guido Gallo (Postdoc) uses genomic approaches in Arabidopsis and tomato to understand how ABA signalling is integrated during vegetative to reproductive growth and how this impacts yield traits, stress responses and adaptability.
Muhammad Noman (Postdoc)
Previous Members:
Damiano Martignago (Tenure track researcher – RTDa)
Sara Castelletti , Beata Siemiatkowska, Paolo Korwin Krukowski, Sara Colanero (Post docs)
Alice Robustelli Test (PhD student), Viktoriia Kyrychenko (Graduate student, HFSP ‘S4S’ fellow), Ivan Cubillas (Graduate fellow)
Matteo Riboni and Giulia Castorina (PhD students and then Postdocs), co-supervised with Prof Chiara Tonelli
Eliana Mor, Giada Lavigna, Stefano Messina, Marco Furco, Jasmin Putri Nabila, Elia Mancini, Alessandra Lombardi, Silvia Longo, Joseph Kumar, Aldo Sutti, Petra Merzan, Ibrahim Loukili, Fabio Palmigiani, Simone Sarto (MSc Students)
Christian Ferraro, Silvia Paganini, Andrea Motta, Giulia Pozzi, Erika Fascini, Fabio Boiocchi, Carlotta Ferrario, Aldo Sutti, Andrea Persello, Chiara Arcari, Carlotta Nardi, Sara Cioffi, Alessandra Bosc, Samuele Austoni, Petra Merzan, Mirko Efoglia, Gaia Pilerci, Camilla Iliceto, Federico Lozza, Rebecca Weinrich, Alessandro Masteghin, Elisa Palumbo, Davide La Canna, Simone Bottalico, James Chalmers Dudley (BSc students)
Marziye Rahimi (Visiting PhD student), Daniel Cayuelas Peral (Erasmus Trainee)
Giorgio Perrella is Associate Professor of Genetics. He teaches Genetica/Genetics and Biotecnologia vegetali industriali (Bachelor Degree) and Epigenetics and Epigenomics (MSc degree). His research focuses on the mode of action of histone modifiers in coordinating plant growth and development in response to environmental changes.
Alessio Baldini (PhD student in Molecular and Cellular Biology) is interested in elucidating the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms driving plant perception to light quality.
Sreya Brahmanchari (Master student in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics) is aiming to characterize the function of Histone Deacetylase Complex (HDAC) in crops.
Mahsa Bagheri (Master student in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics) uses site directed mutagenesis to unravel the domain function of plant HDACs.
Previous members:
Filippo Battaglia (Research Assistant)
Weiwei Fang (Postdoc)
Sunaila Khan (Master student in MBB)
Gabriele Locci ( BSc student in Biotechnology)
