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She has a degree in Biological Sciences (University of Messina) and a doctorate in Marine Science and Engineering (University Federico II of Naples). She is currently a CNR Researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP), Messina, and was previously a research fellow at the Institute of Coastal Marine Environment (IAMC-Messina).
Her research activity is focused on the study of microbial communities present in deep and/or extreme marine environments, such as Deep Hypersaline Anoxic Basins (DHAB), Hydrothermal vents, as well as in polar environments, with particular interest in biodiversity, mapping of genes of biotechnological interest and bioinformatics analysis. She spent a period of training at the Oklahoma University (USA), at the Institute of Environmental Genomics. She has participated in ten oceanographic expeditions in the Mediterranean Sea aboard R/V Urania. She is co-author of publications in scientific journals. She has collaborated in national and international research projects (KILL SPILL- ULIXES- INMARE- RITMARE- DEEP_C - PON S.A.B.I.E. - COMMODE - MICROB3 - MAMBA - MIDDLE) and has been head of units (IAMC) for the Simply (Structures and IMmunologic Properties of LipopolYsaccharides from Antarctic psychrophilic bacteria) project.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4768-182X Scopus - Author ID: 35620623600 Scholar
She received her Ph.D. in Science and Engineering of sea (2010) at the University “Federico II” in Naples. She is currently a researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (ISP-CNR). Her research is mainly focused on Marine Microbiology and Biotechnology in particular on: i) Structure and function of microbial marine microbial community associated to oil contaminated area; ii) Genetic and physiology of marine bacteria for biotechnological application; iv) Bioremediation and monitoring in marine environment (focus on technology and biotechnology in situ and ex situ). She spent one year at the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Cal State Fullerton University California, United States working on artificial vectors engineering and in vitro techniques for transformation and conjugation of bacteria cells. She had many occasions for international and national collaboration since she has participated to several national research programs (PRIN, PON, PNRA) and international programs (KBBE FP7 es. MAGIC-PAH, KILLSPILL, BRAAVOO)
She is author/co-author of over 30 international peer-reviewed publications, and 4 book chapters
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Education
2010 – PhD (Environmental Science: Marine Environment and Resource) University of Messina Italy
2005 – Degree in Biological Science (110/110 with academic price). University of Messina Italy. Erasmus student at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland).
He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP). He is currently involved in Marine microbiology ecology and Biotechnology in particular:
• Application of omics techniques to study microbial diversity.
• Microbial biodiversity in extreme environment: deep sea, shallow and deep hydrothermal vents, hypersaline environments, Antarctic sea Ice, and subglacial lakes.
• Microbial bioremediations in oil-polluted environments
• Biotechnologies for marine bioremediation.
• Biotechnology application of microbes isolated from extremes environments.
Participant in NSF-sponsored project and different European Union Funded project Participant in several oceanographic expeditions aboard R/V Urania, R/V Europe, R/V Minerva I, R/V L’Atalante, R/V Laura Bassi. Participant in several field-work and 3 Antarctic expeditions.
Reviewer for the peer review journal for Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Microbiology Reports, Journal of Cleaner Production, Marine Genomics, Microorgansims, Marine Science and Engineering, Diversity, Chemosphere. Extreme Microbiology (specialty section of Frontiers in Microbiology).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8385-564X Scholar Scopus - Author ID: 15061770400
He obtained a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin. He serves as a data manager and system administrator for the IT infrastructures of the projects NADC (National Antarctic Data Center) and IADC (Italian Arctic Data Center); he is also involved in the development of software solutions for European research projects such as: POLARIN, ITINERIS, ARICE (Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium), ENVRI-FAIR, and Beyond EPICA. He manages the institutional websites of the Institute and the Italian Arctic Base "Diribile Italia". He is part of international working groups for the development of the SIOS Data Management System and the INTERACT Data Portal. Thanks to his experience in data management, he helps researchers publish and share the data collected from research, making it compatible with modern standards and adhering to the principles of data FAIRness and Open Science. In 2021, he won the SCADM (Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management) award for his work at the Polar Data Forum IV.
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2985-6202 Where we are
The secondary office of Institute of Polar Sciences of Milan is located at the CNR Area della Ricerca 3 Milano-Bicocca, Via Cozzi 53 - 20126 Milano. Map
How to find us
- by train: Greco-Pirelli Station
- by car: From the Turin-Venice highway (A4), take the "Milano - viale Zara" exit, head towards the center of Milan, then go to viale Sarca, the first street parallel to the one you are traveling on the left side. Continuing along Viale Sarca in the same direction of travel you will meet the University of Milano-Bicocca on your left, after about a kilometer.
- by plane: Linate Airport, take the bus n. 73 (direction S. Babila M1) and get off at Precotto. Then take the tram n.7 and get off at Greco Pirelli. Malpensa Airport: take the Malpensa Express train. From Cadorna station take the M1 line (direction: Sesto 1° Maggio). Then take the tram n. 7 and get off at Greco Pirelli. Orio al Serio airport: take the bus toward Stazione Centrale, then take the bus n. 87.
Geosciences graduate from the University of Trieste, currently pursuing a PhD in Polar Sciences at Ca' Foscari University as part of the Local Glaciers Sisimiut (LoGS) project.
His research interests revolve around the cryosphere in polar and alpine environments, employing a combination of remote sensing, geomorphological and glaciological techniques.
Researcher at the Institute of Polar Sciences (CNR-ISP) since December 2021. MSc. in Biology and Ecology of the Coastal Marine Environment (2012) and PhD in Environmental Sciences: Marine Environment and Resources (2016) at the University of Messina. Her main research fields include marine bioacoustics ecology, distribution, and impact of anthropogenic noise on marine mammals, with a focus on new applications and IT tools for the automated analysis of large datasets from acoustic sensors and integrated underwater systems.
From 2012 to 2018 she participated in various national and international research projects, as a student, doctoral student and as an associate in the research activities of the Institute of Nuclear Physics - LNS of Catania: KM3NeT international collaboration, SMO (FIRB-2008) and EMSO European Research Infrastructure. She conducted a research stay at the Ocean Acoustics Lab of the AWI Institute of Bremerhaven (Germany) in 2015. She was a member of the.
She collaborated on the National Marine Strategy II project, first on behalf of CoNISMa (2017), then as a research fellow at IAMC-CNR (2017-2018). She is founding member of the nonprofit organization eConscience- Art of Soundscape for research and scientific dissemination. She took part in several scientific expeditions at sea. She is co-author of about 20 international publications on ISI scientific journals and over 30 publications among national scientific journals, proceedings, books, and technical reports. She presented and co-authored over 30 presentations at national and international conferences. She is Principal Investigator of the project PRIN PNRR 2022 – KNOWhale - KNOwledge improvement for the conservation of endangered Mediterranean fin Whale in Southern Italy and Research Unit Leader of the project PRIN 2022 – Deep-sea Investigation with a View to protect Elusive cetacean Species (DIVES).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-1249
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PhD in Environmental Sciences from the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, with a thesis on the assessment of Small Microplastics (<100 µm) fluxes and other pollutants from the atmospheric compartment to highways stormwaters run-off. Research fellow (2019-2020) at Ca’ Foscari University with a research project in the development and analysis of microplastics (<100 µm) and plastic additives via MicroFTIR and PyrGC/MS in different environmental matrices, such as water, sediment, biota, snow, aerosol and ice cores also from Svalbard Islands. Winner of an Arctic Field Grant 2020 on the quantification and identification of small microplastics, additives, and plasticizers in snow and aerosol from Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard Island.
Current position: Research Fellow at CNR-ISP on the microplastics and plastic additives analysis and environmental impact assessment in different polar matrices.
Researcher at Institute of Polar Sciences-CNR (CNR-ISP), Venice, Italy. Master graduated in Environmental Sciences in 2011 at Ca’ Foscari University, she obtained the PhD in Environmental Sciences in 2015 at the same University. She was Research fellow at the Department of Environmental Science, Informatics and Statistics of Ca’ Foscari University from 2015 to 2021. Among her main research interests are untargeted metabolomics, applied to the study of plants and environmental matrices, emerging contaminant analysis, the development of analytical methods for the determination of organic compounds with HPLC-HRMS techniques. She participated to national research projects (PNRA, PRIN); she is author of 10 publications on international journals with more than 190 citations (h index=7).
Scopus - Author ID: 55480654200 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7092-5963 ResearcherID: K-6496-2016
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He obtained in 2016 his Master’s degree in Applied Earth Sciences at the University of Turin. In 2021, he obtained his PhD at the University of Hamburg (Germany) in the Department of Earth Sciences. For his doctoral project, he investigated the paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental conditions in the Mediterranean area about 6 million years ago, when the Mediterranean Basin became almost completely isolated from the global ocean. To carry out his research, he mostly uses fossil molecules preserved in marine sedimentary rocks that can be assigned to a biological source in the environment, i.e. lipid biomarkers.
Currently, he is a research fellow at the Institute of Polar Sciences of the CNR carrying out his research at the Aldo Pontremoli join-lab of Lecce and in Bologna. His research deals with the use of lipid biomarkers to reconstruct the effects of permafrost thawing on the Arctic Ocean.
She received her Master of Science in Biology, her PhD in Environmental Sciences: Marine Environment and Resources, and specialization and continuing education courses in Applied Microbiology.
She has been a researcher at CNR since 2011, specializing in marine molecular microbiology and biotechnology. Her research activities are mainly focused on the deep sea environment and marine and terrestrial extreme ecosystems in both temperate and polar climates. Her main interests have been focused in studying microbial communities inhabiting extreme environments, their role in functioning of extreme ecosystems, as well as in isolating of new microbial taxa, genes, novel bioproducts and biomolecules for biotechnological applications. She is author/co-author of over 70 international peer-reviewed publications. She has participated in fourteen scientific oceanographic expeditions in the Eastern Mediterranean (several as Chief Scientist) and in two scientific expedition to Antarctica. She has coordinated of and participated in several national research programs (FIRB, PNRA) and international programs (EC, Horizon 2020 and ESF programs).
RESEARCHER ID S-9890-2017 Scopus - Author ID: 6507507411 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3306-4938 Research Gate: Violetta La Cono
Was born in Saratov, Russia. In 1990 he received his Doctorate Degree (PhD) from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2001, as a CNR employee, he has experience in marine molecular microbiology and has studied the microbial communities thriving in extreme environments, such as deep-sea hypersaline anoxic lakes, shallow thermal vents, crystallizer ponds of solar salterns, Antarctic sea-ice and Antarctic subglacial lakes. He is an internationally renowned expert in isolation and characterization of taxonomically and physiologically new extremely halophilic anaerobes, including sulfidogenic and polysaccharide-degrading haloarchaea, methylotrophic methanogens and previously uncultured representatives of the candidate phylum Nanohaloarchaea. He was the first to isolate the psychrophilic hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium, Oleispira antractica. He is the author of over 180 peer-reviewed publications (Google H index 58, almost 12,000 citation as of October 2021), including articles in Nature, Nature Biotechnology and PNAS. He has co-authored 11 patents. He is editor on board or ad hoc editor of several microbiological journals. Over the past 10 years, he has coordinated four projects and participated in many projects financed by the European Union and other international and national structures, including active Horizon 2020 Project FUTURENZYME (2021-24). He was Chief Scientist during nine Mediterranean oceanographic expeditions and participated in six Italian expeditions in Antarctica. He was co-supervisor of seven PhD Thesis.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL VALUATION COMMITTEE:
2007-currently: Referee in Peer Review Evaluations of the European Research Council (ERC). EMM Registration Number: EX2006C118906.
2018-currently: Expert in Faculty 1000 Prime Opinions: https://facultyopinions.com/prime.
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
2012-currently: Italian Society of Agro-Food and Environmental Microbiology (SIMTREA).
2016-currently: Society for General Microbiology, SGM, UK.
2017-currently: The Interregional Russian Microbiological Society, IRMS.
RESEARCHER ID H-1829-2016 Scopus - Author ID: 7005111470 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1418-363X Google Scholar
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