Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
Genomic approaches for the analysis of arthropods biodiveristy and phylogenetics
Arthropods and molluscs evolutionary genomics
Analysis and applications of phylogenetic methods
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
First cycle degree programmes dissertations
- A low coverage Whole Genome Sequencing approach to study Italian ants biodiversity
- Analisi di famiglie geniche in relazione alla stasi morfologica nei generi Triops e Lepidurus (Crustacea; Branchiopda)
- Assemblaggio de-novo e analisi filogenetica del genoma mitocondriale di due specie di termiti sotterranee: Reticulitermes urbis e Reticulitermes lucifugus corsicus (Blattodea, Termitoidae, Rhinotermitidae)
- Caratterizzazione e filogenesi di specie italiane di formica, tramite l’utilizzo di marcatori mitocondriali e nucleari.
- Caratterizzazione molecolare di diverse specie di Formicidae a scopo tassonomico
- De-novo assembly and phylogenetic analysis of two Spinicaudata (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) mitochondrial genomes
- Uso di marcatori genetici nucleari e mitocondriali per identificare la biodiversità degli insetti formicidi
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- A comparative analysis on stridulatory signals in burying beetles
- Do sampling effort and season make a difference? Empirical test of an optimized sampling protocol for monitoring spider communities
- Evaluation of different calibration methods on branchiopod phylogeny
- Evolutionary Drivers of P450 Diversity in Polyneopteran Insects: Environmental Response at the Molecular Interface
- Pipeline optimization for the de novo assembly of bacterial genomes from ancient metagenomic data
