Biology

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Iris Aloisi

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Anthropology, Bioarchaeology, Forensic osteology, Funerary behaviour, Neanderthals, Ethics and human remains, Museum
keywords: coastal ecosystems, brackish waters, phytoplankton assemblages, remote sensing, optical sensors

Antonio Bonfitto

Assistant professor

keywords: Mollusca, Taxonomy, Zoological Museum, Gastropoda, Indo-Pacific Region, Biogeography, Mediterranean Sea, malacology

Vanessa Bruzzaniti

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

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Pietro Cacialli

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

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Laura Caligaris

PhD Student

keywords: Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Microbiome
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Alberto Canarini

Associate Professor

keywords: Ecology, Biogeochemical cycles, Microbial Ecology, Soil science, Plant-microbe interactions
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Marco Cantonati

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: taxonomy (botany); limnology; ecohydrogeology; biodiversity conservation; environmental biology; environmental and
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Erik Caroselli

Associate Professor

keywords: Biometry, Sclerochronology, Demography, Growth, Skeletal crystallography, Zooxanthellae photosynthesis, Population
keywords: Fishery, Stock assessment, Models, Antropogenic impacts, Ecology, Population dynamic, Trofic nets
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Michele Casini

Full Professor

keywords: Population dynamics, Ecosystem functioning, Food-webs, Biodiversity, Anthropogenic impacts, Climate changes, Fisheries
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Roberto Cazzolla Gatti

Associate Professor

keywords: One Health, ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, biological conservation, global environmental protection,
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Alessandro Chiarucci

Full Professor

keywords: Biodiversity, Macroecology, Biogeography, Conservation Biology, Species diversity, Community ecology, Species richness
keywords: remote sensing, species distribution models, machine learning, virtual ecology, sampling bias, area of applicability
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Federica Costantini

Associate Professor

keywords: marine invertebrates, connectivity, larval dispersal, population genetic
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Sandra Cristino

Assistant professor

keywords: Risk assestment plan, Water born diseases, Nosocomial infection, Legionella spp, disinfection protocol, citizen
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Valentina Crobe

Research fellow

keywords: DNA barcoding, Population Genetcs, phylogenetic relationships, elasmobranchs
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Federico Fanti

Associate Professor

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Arianna Ferrara

PhD Student

keywords: Human Evolution, Human Genetic Biodiversity, Complex Human Adaptations
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Giobbe Forni

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

keywords: Evolution, Sistematica, Phylogenomics, Comparative Genomics, trait evolution

Valeria Franceschini

Full Professor

keywords: Acoustic system, regeneration, immunohistochemistry, Olfactory system, toxic compounds
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Marta Galloni

Associate Professor

keywords: biodiversity, plant mating system, plant-pollinator interactions, plant conservation, pollination, plant reproductive
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Gabriele Gheza

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Lichenology, Diversity patterns of lichens, bryophytes and vascular plants, Open dry habitats, Dry grasslands,
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Fabrizio Ghiselli

Associate Professor

keywords: Genome Evolution, Comparative Genomics, Biodiversity Genomics, Molecular Evolution, Mito-Nuclear Coevolution,
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Luna Girolamini

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: Risk assestment plan, Water borne diseases, Disinfection protocol, Nosocomial infection, Legionella spp., Citizen
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Cristina Giuliani

Associate Professor

keywords: Population Epigenetics, Human Biodiversity, Molecular Anthropology, Evolutionary Medicine, DNA methylation Variability,
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Stefano Goffredo

Associate Professor

keywords: Biodiversity monitoring, Biomineralization, Bioreactor, Citizen Science, Coral ecology and biology, Demography, growth
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Tiziana Guarnieri

Assistant professor

keywords: inflammation, aryl hydrocarbon receptor, endocrine disrupting chemicals, Network Biology, non steroidal anti
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Jacopo Iaria

PhD Student

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Chloe Alexandra Lee

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

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Polina Lemenkova

Research fellow

keywords: Cartography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, Data Analysis, Satellite Images
keywords: Conservation Biology, Resilience, Tipping points, Ecosystem health, Macroecology
keywords: contaminants of emerging concern CECs, endocrine disruptors, drugs, cell cultures, biological assay
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Andrea Luchetti

Associate Professor

keywords: phylogenentics, genome evolution, animal evolution, reproductive strategies
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Michele Lussu

Research fellow

keywords: Biosystematics, Evolution, Ecology
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Elisa Marchetto

PhD Student

keywords: Community Ecology, Remote Sensing

Federica Marino

PhD Student

keywords: genomics
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Pietro Milanesi

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

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Liliana Milani

Associate Professor

keywords: Germline Development, Mitochondrial inheritance, Mitochondrial activity, Mitochondrial genome, Evolution of Unusual

Stefania Monari

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

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Marco Muscioni

PhD Student

keywords: Palaeobiology, Vertebrates, Palaeoecology, Comparative anatomy, Mesozoic, Evolution, Tomography
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Marco Musiani

Full Professor

keywords: zoology, landscape ecology, molecular ecology, and wildlife conservation
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Juri Nascimbene

Full Professor

keywords: Lichenology, Lichen Floristics and Taxonomy, Biodiversity conservation, Historical herbaria, Effects of global change
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Filippo Nicolini

PhD Student

keywords: comparative genomics, genome and molecular evolution, phylogenetics
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Martina Pasino

PhD Student

keywords: Marine mammals, Dolphins, aDNA, Ecological history, Museum collection, Population genetic
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Marco Passamonti

Associate Professor

keywords: Molecular Phylogenetics, RNA interference, Bivalvia, Mitochondrial DNA, Doubly Uniparental Inheritance (DUI)
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Andrea Pasteris

Assistant professor

keywords: ecotoxicology, ecotoxicity, mixture toxicity, toxicity testing, biomonitoring, population dynamics, allelopathy
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Giovanna Pezzi

Assistant professor

keywords: Vegetation Ecology, Landscape Ecology, Historical ecology, Sources and methods in historical ecology, Land use/land
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Lucia Piana

PhD Student

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Rossella Pistocchi

Associate Professor

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Federico Plazzi

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Evolution, Small noncoding RNAs, Phylogeny, Taxonomy, Molecular Biology, High-Throughput Sequencing, Mitogenomics,
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Massimo Ponti

Associate Professor

keywords: Marine Ecology, Anthropogenic impact in coastal marine habitats, Marine biodiversity, Biogenic reefs, Scientific
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Marilin Profita

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

keywords: Endocrine disruptors, Environmental biomonitoring, Drinking water, Emerging Contaminants, Human Health, Cell culture,
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Duccio Rocchini

Full Professor

keywords: Biodiversity analysis at multiple spatial scales, Computational Ecology, Ecological Informatics, Landscape Ecology,
keywords: Biology, Botany, Palynology, Molecular biology
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Miriam Ruocco

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Marine ecology, Molecular ecology, Population genetics, Eco-physiology, Molecular biology, Benthic organisms, Ocean
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Francesco Maria Sabatini

Associate Professor

keywords: Biodiversity, Plant ecology, Macroecology, Old-growth forests, Conservation Biology, Beta diversity, Vascular Plants,
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Francesco Santi

PhD Student

keywords: Vascular flora; plant communities; biogeography of vascular plants
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Stefania Sarno

Senior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Human Biodiversity, Molecular Anthropology, Human population genetics, Human Evolutionary Genomics
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Marco Sazzini

Associate Professor

keywords: Human Evolutionary Genomics, Human Adaptability, Evolutionary Medicine, Human Biodiversity
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Andrea Silverj

Research fellow

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Sonia Silvestri

Associate Professor

keywords: remote sensing, eco-geomorphology, coastal geomorphology, peatlands, coastal vegetation
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Mara Simonazzi

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

keywords: cyanobacteria, microalgae, toxins, algal blooms, drinking waters, marine and freschwaters, microalgae cultivation,
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Rita Sorrentino

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

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Enzo Spisni

Associate Professor

keywords: Nutrition, Gut, Food hypersensitivity, Gut inflammation, Antitumoral effect of nutrients
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Chiara Suanno

Adjunct professor

Research fellow

Teaching tutor

keywords: pollen, allergy, PM, pollution, aerobiology, palinology, ecology, vegetation, botanics, urban greenery
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Annalisa Tassoni

Associate Professor

keywords: proteins, proteomics, agro-industrial by-products, polyphenols, polyamines, phytoremediation, alimurgic plants
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Riccardo Testolin

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

keywords: Macroecology; Biogeography; Biodiversity; Conservation; Plants
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Fausto Tinti

Full Professor

keywords: population genetics, marine population genomics, marine biotechnology, fishery genetics, marine zoology, molecular
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Umberto Valdrè

PhD Student

Teaching tutor

Elisabetta Verderio

Associate Professor

keywords: Extracellular vesicles, Biofluids, Pollen, Allergens, Environmental criticalities, Transglutaminase
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Oscar Wallnoefer

PhD Student

keywords: mitonuclear coevolution, mitochondrial sncRNA, RNAi, mitochondrial inheritance