Chiappetta Adriana Ada Ceverista Curriculum vitae
Birth place: Venezuela
Date of birth: 26th October 1965
Nationality: Italian
Address Office:
Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciente (DiBEST), University of Calabria, Ponte P.Bucci, cubo 6b
e-mail: adriana.chiappetta@unical.it
Education
1989-91 Degree in Natural Science cum laude at the University of Calabria -Italy
Career Summary
Current position: Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Calabria
2002 Full researcher of Botany, Department of Ecology, Univesirty of Calabria, Italy
1992-2002 Researcher, Department of Ecology, University of Calabria, Italy
Teaching
Teaching for the following courses: Botany, Life science, Plant Physiology, In vitro Plant culture.
- Supervisor of PhD studente;
-Supervisor of post-doctoral fellows.
Research field
She works in the field of plant developmental biology and she is author of papers, pubblished on International Scientific Journals. The research interest has been directed towards the cytophysiological aspects of cell proliferation and cell committment and differentiation. The studies have been also focused on cytokinins and auxin availability, distribution and their relationship with the expression of specific homeobox genes in relation to determination of cell fate, to phase transition, shoot and leaf development, embryogenesis and finally adventitious morphogenesis.
Recently, the scientific interest is aimed to agronomically relevant tree plants such as peach and olive. In olive the research are focused on:
i) the role of dehydrins in response to water stress;
ii) to study the genetic diversity of an ex situ olive germplasm collection by nuclear microsatellite markers.
The utilized experimental approaches deal with autoradiographic assay of nuclear metabolism, immunocytochemical detection of specific plant hormones and proteins, DNA methylation pattern, study of genetic structure using nuclear microsatellite (SSRs) markers, gene expression analysis through qRT-PCR, GUS analysis, single- and multi-probe in situ hybridisation.
Projects
Scientific coordinator of Regional projects (PSR 2007-2013)
Responsible of local projects funded by the University.
Partecipation to PRIN projects
Collaboration
• Prof. Oreste Arrigoni e Prof.ssa Rosalia Liso, Dipartimento di Botanica e
Patologia Vegetale, Università di Bari;
• Prof. Camillo Branca e dott.ssa Ada Ricci, Dipartimento di Biologia Evolutiva e Funzionale, Università di Parma;
• - Prof. Paolo Gerola, Università dell’Insubria, Varese, Italia;
• - Dr. Donato Giannino, Istituto di Biologia e Biotecnologia Agrarie del CNR di Roma, Italy;
• Dr. Innocenzo Muzzalupo, Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (CRA)/ Dipartimento di Farmacia Scienze della Salute e della Nutrizione, Università della Calabria Italia;
• Prof. Dennis Francis e Hilary Rogers, School of Biosciences, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom
• Dott. Claudio Pugliesi, Dipartimento di Biologia delle Piante Agrarie, Sezione di Genetica, Università di Pisa;
• Dr.ssa Mieke Van Lijsebettens, Vars Institut vor Biotechnology, Department of Plant Biology System, University of Ghent, Belgium;
• Prof. Harry Van Onckelen, Laboratory for Plant Biochemistry, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium.;
• - Dr. G.G. Vendramin, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Bioscienze e BioRisorse, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italia.
Editorial activities
- Referee activities for different journal i.e. Plant Biosystem, Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Journal of Plant Growth Regulator etc.
