Francesco Spinelli

Associate Professor

Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences

Academic discipline: AGRI-03/A Arboriculture and Fruitculture

Collaborations

Collaboration with:: Cairo University Faculty of Pharmacy,
Country:: Egypt
Description:: I collaborate with Prof. Mohamed Ali Farag on the field of education and crop research. Prof. Farag contributed to the didactic offer of IMaHS starting from 2008.

Collaboration with:: Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Country:: Korea, Republic Of
Description:: We collaborate with Prof. Chong-Min Ryu form the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology for the study of bacterial VOCs and their possible application in plant management and disease resistance.

Collaboration with:: Fondazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all'Adige
Country:: Italy
Description:: We collaborate the Fondazione Edmund Mach di San Michele all'Adige on the study of plant volatile and their biological role in plant ecology. We also collaborate on the study of berry fruit

Formal collaboration with:: Università di Porto
Country:: Portugal
Description:: I collaborate with the group of Plant Biology - Faculty of Science, University of Porto (FCUP) for the study of plant-microbe interaction. The group is led by Prof. Maria Conceição Santos. We currently have 2 PhD studensts, Nuno Ponte and Cristiana Correia in cosupervision with FCUP

Collaboration with:: Università di Girona
Country:: Spain
Description:: We collaborate with Prof. Emilio Montesinos, Prof. Esther Badosa and Prof. Anna Bonaterra on the study of bacterial disease of fruit tree and their control. We had formal excahnges of master and PhD students. We have also been part of the same European Project (DROPSA, Q-detect)

Formal collaboration with:: Plant & Food Research (Māori: Rangahau Ahumāra Kai)
Country:: New Zealand
Description:: We have a long-time collaboration with Plant and Food Research (PFR) in New Zealand. This collaboration started in 2000 when I was hosted in PFR as part of my PhD studies. We primary collaborate on I) the study of kiwifruit physiology and cultivation; II) the biology epidemiology of control of bacterial diseases of fruit trees. The latter field of research has been carried on in strict collaboration with Dr. Joel L. Vanneste. We exchanged several master and PhD students and we participated to common projects (e.g. DROPSA)

Formal collaboration with:: Washington State University
Country:: United States of America
Description:: We collaborate with Prof. Stefano Musacchi group on the breeding of new high quality and stress resistant pear varieties.

Formal collaboration with:: Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
Country:: Australia
Description:: We collaborate on the valorization of peach and kiwifruit cultivars. We exchanged 1 PhD student, Alessandro Ceccarelli

Formal collaboration with:: Libera Università di BOLZANO
Country:: Italy
Description:: We have a long history of collaboration in the field of education, fruit tree management and entomology with the University of Bolzano. Several master students have been co-supervised in the framework of this cooperation

Formal collaboration with:: Università degli Studi di VERONA
Country:: Italy
Description:: We collaborate with Prof. Elodie Vandelle and Prof. Annalisa Polverari from the Department of Biotechnology, University of Verona. The cooperation focus on the study on plant-pathogen interaction include funded national and international projects and the co-supervision of PhD students