Università Politecnica delle Marche
Via Brecce Bianche, 60131, Ancona, Italy
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Current position, Post-Doctoral fellow at Università Politecnica delle Marche, Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences. Via Brecce Bianche 60131 Ancona, Italy
- 2005-2007 PhD in “Plant production and environment”, UNIVPM, thesis ‘Genetic diversity and introgression in maize landraces from central Italy', 25 January 2008. Supervisor Prof. R. Papa
- 01-04/2007 Visiting Scientist, BiRC-Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark Supervisor Prof. T. Bataillon
- 2004 Honours Degree in Agricultural Sciences Research; thesis “Genetic diversity in a collection of Italian tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) landraces”, UNIVPM; 14 July 2004, with a mark of 110/110 cum laudem
- 10/2003-01/2004 Practical training on the identification of genes that control the cold resistance in barley at the Genomics Research Centre (CRA-GPG), Fiorenzuola D'Arda, PC, Italy
Member of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics (SIGA) since 2005, the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE) since 2007, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) since 2009
Research interests and activities
Biotechnology, biodiversity and genetic resources, breeding, plant genetics, population genomics, molecular genomics and genetics, evolution, crop domestication, ecology, molecular systematic and phylogeny
- 2005-2007 PhD in “Plant production and environment”, UNIVPM, thesis ‘Genetic diversity and introgression in maize landraces from central Italy', 25 January 2008. Supervisor Prof. R. Papa
- 01-04/2007 Visiting Scientist, BiRC-Bioinformatics Research Center, Aarhus University, Denmark Supervisor Prof. T. Bataillon
- 2004 Honours Degree in Agricultural Sciences Research; thesis “Genetic diversity in a collection of Italian tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) landraces”, UNIVPM; 14 July 2004, with a mark of 110/110 cum laudem
- 10/2003-01/2004 Practical training on the identification of genes that control the cold resistance in barley at the Genomics Research Centre (CRA-GPG), Fiorenzuola D'Arda, PC, Italy
Member of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics (SIGA) since 2005, the Italian Society for Evolutionary Biology (SIBE) since 2007, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) since 2009
Research interests and activities
Biotechnology, biodiversity and genetic resources, breeding, plant genetics, population genomics, molecular genomics and genetics, evolution, crop domestication, ecology, molecular systematic and phylogeny
