Scientific activity
Since February 2023 Fixed-term researcher type a, the focus of his research is on the regulation of carbon metabolism under physiological and stress conditions, especially water and osmotic, with studies on plant. In vitro work focuses on the study of redox regulation (disulfide bridges and glutathionylation) of enzymes involved in the Calvin-Benson cycle and leaf starch degradation.
Since 2019 2023 research fellow at the Laboratory of Molecular Physiology of Plants of Prof. Paolo Trost, involved in the PON Origami project in for the growth of microalgae of the genus Chlorella on dairy wastes for the production of compounds of interest and the production of cellulo-ligninolytic enzymes for the valorization of plant biomass.
Studies
He graduated in Biological Sciences in 2013 at the School of Sciences of the University of Bologna, then he obtained a Master's Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology in 2015 at the School of Pharmacy, Biotechnology and Sport Sciences of the University of Bologna. Finally he obtained his PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology by discussing a thesis entitled "Study of carbon metabolism in plants: from enzymes to organism, from physiology to stress" in 2019.
Between 2017 and 2018, he served as a Visiting PhD Student at the laboratory of Prof. Alison M. Smith at the John Innes Centre, Norwich (UK).
Teaching
Since 2023 he has been teaching in the Genomics degree and the Molecular and Cell Biology degree with the courses Plant Functional Genomics and Synthetic Biology for Plant Molecular Engineering, respectively.
For the academic years 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, he is an adjunct lecturer for the Plant Physiology course (SSD BIO/04) at the University of Ferrara.
Since 2016 he has worked as tutor for the Plant Biochemistry Laboratory of the Physiology of Stress and Dynamics Redox in Plants (Module 2) within the Master's Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
In 2015 he was Tutor of the Master's Degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Congresses
Selected talk: Potential role of glutathionylation in gas exchange control in plants. Compartmentalized redox biology – German Biochemical Society, 3-5 Settembre 2023, Dusseldorf, Germania.
Selected talk: Increasing phosphoribulokinaseaffinity to improve CO2 flux: testing the approach and first results. XII Congresso nazionale della Società Italiana di Biologia Vegetale, Bari, 11-14 Settembre 2023.
Selected talk: Molecular clues from the redox regulation of the Calvin-Benson cycle. Plant Biology Europe 2021, 28 Giugno-1 Luglio 2021, Torino.
Selected talk: Rearrangements in carbon metabolism under osmotic stress: from central metabolism to stress response. XV° Congresso della Federazione Italiana di Scienze della Vita 18-21 Settembre 2018, Roma.
Awards and recognitions
2018 - Seed Grants Award for research period in a laboratory of the Italian Society of Plant Biology
2017 - Elevator Pitch Award of the Italian Society of Plant Biology
2016 - Young Plant Biologists Award from the Italian Society of Plant Biology
2016 - Degree Award of the School of Pharmacy, Biotechnology and Sport Sciences for the academic year 2014/2015
