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The 39th PhD cycle in Biotechnology has started on Nov 1, 2023 and will end on Oct 31, 2026.


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)

Pasquale Chiaiese
Plant and microalgae biotechnology for environmental remediation and food biofortification

 

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

 

David Turrà
Comprehension of how environmental signals (chemical/physical) are transduced in fungal cells and impact the physiology, infectivity and interaction of soil-borne plant pathogenic fungi with the plant host and/or the associated microbiome

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

Raffaele Velotta
Electrochemical and optical biosensors for environmental monitoring, food safety, and medical diagnostics

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 39th cycle. (Courses provided to PhD students of the 39th cycle over three years)

Notices and communications from teachers will be published on the dedicated page (Notices)



Borse di Ateneo

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Student

Project

 

Tutor

Andrea
Coletti

Towards the industrial use of Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125 as cell factory of difficult-to-express proteins: development of novel genetic tools, improved strains, and more effective production processes

M. L. Tutino,
C. Lauro,
M. Calvanese






This PhD scholarship is dedicated to the memory of Giulio Regeni
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Marina
Tanga

Development of sustainable bioprocess for destructurization and valorization of biomass

 

P. Salatino,
A. Marzocchella



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Borse PNRR


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Studente

Project

 

Tutor

Alessia
Di Fraia

Thermophilic bioprocesses for the sustainable production of molecules with high added value

G. Fiorentino






Giulia
Fichera

Fungal biomolecules: from nature to biotechnological products across protein engineering

 

A. Piscitelli,
P. Cicatiello



Talayeh
Kodjazi

Waste biopolymers as components of edible films

 

L. Mariniello,
O. F. Restaino



Diana
Olimpo

Innovative strategies for prevention and treatment of microbial biofilms in the industrial and medical fieldsof optical biosensors for the detection of environmental DNA

E. Parrilli
C. D'Angelo 

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Ida
Palumbo

Innovative strategies for the biotechnological exploitation of "Host defense peptides" (HDP)

 

E. Notomista



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Borse PNRR Pubblica Amministrazione 


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Student

Project

 

Tutor

Sefora
Esposito

Novel bio-pesticides for crop protection

C.V.L. Giosafatto,
V. Scala




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Alfonso
Ferrara

Use of carbon anhydrases to promote carbon capture by microalgae and the production of high value-added molecules from microalgal biomass

 

M.D. Monti



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Borse PNRR Transizioni digitali ed ambientali  


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Student

Project

 

Tutor

Maria Rosaria
Chianese

Biopesticides from natural antagonists of insect

F. Pennacchio




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Esther
Pirozzi

Discovery and characterisation of carbohydrate-active enzymes from hyper(thermophilic) microorganisms for biotransformations

 

M. Moracci,
G. Perugino 



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Borse Marie-Curie 'Shine'


 

Student

Project

 

Tutor

Guillermo
Gargallo Climent

Impact of subsurface microbiology on hydrogen storage and reservoir storage efficiency

M. Moracci,
D. Giovannelli




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Papers published by students of cycle XXXIX

Avitabile M, Mirpoor SF, Esposito S, Merola G, Mariniello L, Tancredi Patané G, Barreca D, Giosafatto CVL.

Manufacture of Bioplastics Prepared from Chitosan Functionalized with Callistemon citrinus Extract.

2024, Polymers, Vol. 16: 2693.

https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16192693

 

Carbonaro M, Aulitto M, Mazurkewich S, Di Fraia A, Contursi P, Limauro D, Larsbrink J, Fiorentino G.

Genomic mining of Geobacillus stearothermophilus GF16 for xylose production from hemicellulose-rich biomasses using secreted enzymes.

2024, New Biotechnol, Vol. 82: 14-24.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nbt.2024.04.002

 

Imbimbo P, Ferrara A, Giustino E, Liberti D, Monti DM.

Microalgae Flocculation: Assessment of Extraction Yields and Biological Activity.

2024, Int J Mol sci, Vol. 25: 19.

https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms251910238

 

Imbimbo P, Giustino E, Ferrara A, Alvarez-Rivera G, Annaz H, Ibáñez E, Di Meo M C, Zarrelli A, Monti DM.

Unveiling the potential of Pseudococcomyxa simplex: a stepwise extraction for cosmetic applications.

2024, Appl Microbiol Biotechnol, Vol. 108: 390.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-024-13229-9

 

 







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