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The 38th PhD cycle in Biotechnology has started on Nov 1, 2022 and will end on Oct 31, 2025.


Board of teachers:

Marco Moracci (Coordinator)
Discovery, characterisation and engineering of carbohydrate-active enzymes from hyper(thermophilic) microorganisms for biocatalysis and biotransformation

Members of the Federico II University

Angela Arciello
Characterization of antimicrobial peptides to be applied in food and cosmeceutical fields

 

Eugenio Notomista
Identification, production and characterization of Host Defence Peptides (HDP)

Viola Calabrò
Natural metabolites from plants and fungi: characterization of their biological activities for nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical industry

 

Giorgia Oliviero
Design and synthesis of oligonucleotides and analogues to be used for the obtainment of new biomaterials and the development of bioprobes for theranostics applications (read more)

Rosanna Capparelli
Chronic inflammation and infections: role of Formyl peptide receptors and identification of novel natural compounds of pharmaceutical interest

 

Ermenegilda Parrilli
Biofilm of Antarctic marine Bacteria as a tool for biotechnologies

Gabriella Fiorentino
(Hyper)Thermophiles-inspired molecular strategies to address environmental pollution with biotechnological approaches

 

Francesco Pennacchio
Understanding the mechanisms that underlie the impact of environmental stress factors on honey bee immunocompetence, to set the ground for developing targeted biotechnologies to reduce colony losses

C. Valeria L. Giosafatto
Production and characterization of environmentally friendly bioplastiscs from renewable sources

 

Cinzia Pezzella
Integrated biorefineries for the valorization of wastes and designing of microbial cell-factories for their conversion in bio-based products

Rachele Isticato
Biotechnological applications of halophilic microbes and their functionalization for sustainable agriculture

 

Alessandra Piscitelli
Isolation, characterization and engineering of fungal self-assembling protein biosurfactants, exploitable in (nano)materials functionalization

Loredana Mariniello
Biopolimers from wastes as components of edible films to be applied in the food industry for a sustainable development

 

Rosa Rao
Plant- insect interactions: understanding the molecular events underpinning plant defense responses to insect attacks to develop specific biotechnologies suitable for crop protection

Antonio Marzocchella
Development of bioprocesses - see webpage (link) for details

 

Piero Salatino
Development of advanced bioconversion units - see webpage (link) for details

Daria Maria Monti
Use of microalgae as a source of high added value molecules. A biorefinery approach will be used and the isolated molecules biologically characterized

 

 Maria Luisa Tutino
Exploiting the industrial use of unconventional Antarctic bacteria as host for recombinant production of difficult proteins

Foreign members

 

 

Cesar De La Fuente Nunez

Adam Macierzanka 

Carlos Fontes

Reynaldo Villalonga Santana

Angharad M. R. Gatehouse

 

Thierry Tron

Lars Rehmann




Educational Offer reserved to PhD students of the 38th cycle. (Courses provided to PhD students of the 38th cycle over three years)

The calendar of courses held in the current academic year is available on the dedicated page (course calendar)


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Student

Project

 

Tutor

Marika
Avitabile

Novel active packaging systems obtained from renewable sources

V. C.L. Giosafatto






Alfonso
Cacace

dsRNA production and delivery system based on Lactobacillus engineering: a new tool for controlling the honey bee mite Varroa destructor

 

F. Pennacchio,
A. Becchimanzi



Antonio
Gentile

A natural nutraceutical-based strategy in management and prevention of neurodegenerative diseases

 

R. Capparelli,
G. Tenore,
P. Cuomo



Maria Grazia
Nolli

Nucleic Acid based biomaterials

G. Oliviero

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Ida
Paolillo

Bioactivity testing and generation of reporter cell lines for the primary screening of natural compounds for the pharmaceutical and nutri-cosmetics industry

 

V. Calabrò,
M. Masi



Sara
Pisacane

Production of solvents and commodity chemicals via syngas fermentation

 

P. Salatino,
F. Raganati



Ivana 
Staiano

Extremophiles - green and eco-friendly compounds producers for Next Generation Industrial Biotechnology

R. Isticato

This PhD scholarship is dedicated to the memory of Giulio Regeni

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Positions granted by PNRR

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Student

Project

 

Tutor

Elena
Aurino

Valorization of vegetable biomasses

A. Marzocchella






Elisabetta
Borselleca

Design of bioprocesses for waste valorization into functional polyhydroxyalkanoates

 

C. Pezzella,
G. Santagata



Margherita
 Castaldo

Identification and assessment of alternative pathways for bioremediation of aromatic polyhalogenated compounds polluted matrices

 

M. D. Monti,
M. M. Monti,
P. A. Pedata



Erika
Cavaliere

Development of optical biosensors for the detection of environmental DNA

R. Velotta,
R. Capparelli

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Martina Chiara
Criscuolo

Prosystemin: toward a deeper understanding of the molecular role in plant defense and in crop protection

 

R. Rao,
P. Chiaiese,
S. M. Monti



Tina
D’Aponte

Development of electrochemical biosensors for the detection of environmental DNA with high sensitivity

 

R. Velotta,
R. Capparelli



Marikagiusy
Di Giacomo

Development of biocatalytic processes for CO2 capture and utilization

A. Marzocchella,
M. E. Russo

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Sabrina
Giordano

Bionanomaterials for biomedical applications: design and synthesis of Peptide Nucleic Acid nanomaterials

 

G. Oliviero,
M. Franzese

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Oriana
Sacco
Identification, characterisation and modification of (hyper)thermophilic carbohydrate active enzymes and of new enzymes for biocatalysis and biotransformation processesM. Moracci,
B. Cobucci Ponzano
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Giovanna
Schiavone
Analysis of plant Mother Tinctures: towards the  characterization of new bioactive compounds in herbal extractsD. M. Monti,
M. M. Monti
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