Name
Stefano Del Duca
Current
status Full
Professor in Botany, School of Sciences,
University of Bologna;
Place of
work Department
of Biological, Earth and Environmental
Sciences, University of Bologna, 42 Irnerio,
40126 Bologna-Italy
phone: ++39
051 209 1283 FAX: ++39 051 242576
e.mail: stefano.delduca@unibo.it
Place of
birth Bologna,
Italy
Education Degree
in Biological Sciences, July, 1987
Academic career
1994 Ph.D.
in “ Cellular Biology & Physiology ” , Faculty of science,
UniBo
1994:
Assistant
technician at the “Istituto di Anatomia e Istologia Patologica”,
Faculty of medicine, UniBo
1994-1996
Post-doctoral fellowhip, UniBo
1996-1997
Assistant technician at the Dip. clinico di Scienze radiologiche e
istocitopatologiche
1997
to present: Researcher
in Botany, Dip. BES, Faculty of science, UniBo.
From
2005:
Aggregate
Professor
From
2008:
Professor
Academic duties outside teaching and
research
2001 to present: member of the Executive board of
the Dept. BES
2002-2005:
member of the Teaching board of the Dept.
BES
2004-2009: member of the FID commission of the Dept. BES;
blame for the Botanical Area of the BES.
2007: Member of the board for the final
examination of the Ph.D course in “Scienze e tecnologie
applicate all'ambiente” (XIX ciclo), University of Siena.
from 01.11.2013 to 01-11-2019: Coordinator of the Biological Science degree course (first and (second term)
2014: Erasmus exchange manager with the University of Leon (ES) and in 2019 with Poznan University (Poland)
from 2016: Chairmen of the degree program in Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Bologna
From May 2018 to 2021: Chairman of the Didactic Committee of the BiGeA Department
Teaching activity
2000-2001:
Postgraduate
school in teaching about Natural Science for the secondary schools
(s.d. Evolutive biology & teaching of biology).
2000-2002:
Plant Biology (5 CFU) in the I.C. of Animal and Plant
Biology, in the graduate course of Pharmacy, UniBo.
2001-2006:
Plant Biology (5 CFU) in the the graduate course of
Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, UniBo
2002:
Supervisor of an european master thesis in biotechnology (supported
by European Science Foundation ) at the Nottingham Trent University
(UK).
From 2002-:
Plant Biology Laboratory (1 CFU) for the I level degree in Biology,
UniBo.
From 2004 : Advanced Plant Biology (3
CFU) for the II level degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology,
UniBo.
From 2009: Advanced Plant Biology (4 CFU) for the II
level degree in Molecular & Cellular Biology, UniBo.
From 2006 up to date: General Botany (6
CFU) for the I level degree in Technologies for the Conservation
and Restoration,
UniBo.
2005 e
2006:
Lectures for PhD schools at Torino and Siena Universities.
2007:
Lectures for the Master course in Pediatric Allergology and
Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, UniBo.
2008:
Plant Biodeterioration (3 CFU) in the I. C. of Biodeterioration and
degradation of bioarcheological materials for the the II level
degree in Science for the Conservation and Restoration,
UniBo.
2010:
Plant Biology (M-Z) (C.I, 8 CFU) for the I level degree
in biological sciences
2011:
Plant biology and diversity (M-Z) (10 CFU) for the first year of
the degrre course in biological sciences
from 2013: Plant,
Nutrition and Environment (6 CFU) for the third year of the
degrre course in biological sciences
from 2019: Laurea magistrale internazionale in Global Change Ecology; responsabile del Modulo 1 (3 CFU) del coso "Plant Interactions with Global Change" (6 CFU)
from 2020: Laura magistrale DICOSN; responsabile del modulo di "FONDAMENTI E DIDATTICA DI BIOLOGIA VEGETALE - 6 cfu
Research fellowships
1995, January-December, Chiba (Japan): One year post-doc
fellowship from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS),
at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical science, Chiba
University.
2001, May-June, Nottingham (UK): Short Term Scientific Mission
(COST-Action 844) Department of Life Sciences, Nottingham Trent
University.
2002, March-May, Nottigham (UK): Marco Polo fellowship (UniBo),
at the Department of Life Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
(Nottingham, UK).
2003, March, Schmallenberg (Germania): a fellowship from the
European Project “Programma Leonardo” at the Fraunhofer.
2005, June, Lleida (Spain): Short Term Scientific Mission
(COST-Action 844), at the Departament de Producció Vegetal i
Ciència Forestal, Universitat de Lleida.
2006, September, Nottingham (UK): Italia-UK Project, at the
School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent
University.
Scientific activity as Reviewer
Reviewer of : Plant Physiol, Plant & Cell
Physiol, Plant Physiol & Biochem, Plant Cell Tissue & Organ
Culture, Plant Biosystems, Frontiers in plant science;
Invited speaker
2002: “7th International Conference on transglutaminase
and protein crosslinking”, Ferrara.
2003: “8th International Congress on Amino Acids and
Proteins”, Roma.
2005: “8th International Conference on protein crosslinking and
transglutaminase”, Lubeck (Germany).
2005: "XXXI Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di
Istochimica", Pisa
2007: “9th International Conference on transglutaminases and
protein crosslinking”, Marrakech (Morocco)
2009: ""Biogenic amines: Biochemical, Physiological and clinical
aspects", Bertinoro (Forlì)
2009: "55° convegno GEI", Certosa di Pontignano, Siena
2010: "Transglutaminases in Human Disease Processes", Davidson
(NC, USA)
2010: "2nd International Conference on the role of polyamines
and their analogs in cancer and other diseases", Tivoli (Roma)
2011: Workshop “floral biology and self-incompatibility in fruit
species”,San Michele all'Adige (Trento), 21-25 June
2011.
2011: International Congress: Biogenic Amines: Biochemical,
Physiological and Clinical Aspect, Alberè di Tenna (Trento),
ITALY, September 21–25
2011: International Congress: Biogenic Amines: Biochemical,
Physiological and Clinical Aspect, Alberè di Tenna (Trento),
ITALY, September 21–25,
2012: Polyamine in Istanbul 2012; Polyamine: biological and
clinical perspectives, September 2-7, 2012
2013: 2nd International APLE-APLF Congress in Madrid, 17-20
September 2013
2014: Società Botanica Italiana “INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE” 109° Congresso, Firenze, 2-5 settembre 2014
2015: Medpalyno. Mediterranean Palynology Symposium GPSBI-APLE. Rome 8-10 September 2015
2019: Relatore al MACFRUIT 2019 “Selezione di mele ipoallergeniche per un’alimentazione di qualità e attenta alla salute dei consumatori”
2022: Società Botanica Italiana “INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE” 117° Congresso, Bologna, 7-10 settembre 2014
Organizer of International Scientific
Meetings
2002: “7th International Conference on Transglutaminase and
Protein Crosslinking”, Ferrara (in the framework of the
ESF).
2004: “Programmed cell death across kingdoms, similarities
and differences”, Bertinoro (Forlì), (in the framework
of the European COST action 844).
2009: "Biogenic amines: Biochemical, Physiological and
clinical aspects", Bertinoro (Forlì), with support of Società
Italiana di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, CeUB and
UniBO.
2017: "MEDPALYNO 2017 ", international Mediterranean Palynology Symposium 2017 that will be held in Barcelona city center (UPF School of Management, Balmes 132-134), in September 4 - 6, 2017.
2022: Società Botanica Italiana “INTERNATIONAL PLANT SCIENCE CONFERENCE” 117° Congresso, Bologna, 7-10 settembre 2014
