
Silvia MAZZUCA
Professori Associati
Botanica generale (BIOS-01/A)
Contacts
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche
- s.mazzuca@unical.it
- silvia.mazzuca@unical.it
- 0984/492967
- 0984 492961
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PERSONAL INFORMATION Silvia Mazzuca
Date and place of birth: April 19, 1964 Cosenza, Italy
Status : married, two daughter
Affiliation
University of Calabria, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies
Ponte Bucci 12, 87036 Rende (IT)
tel +390984492967 +393288818339
email silvia.mazzuca@unical.it
web sites
https://www.unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view.cfm?56109 ¸ https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=toTtasQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Silvia-Mazzuca-2
WORK EXPERIENCE
6/11/2018
National scientific qualification for full professor
Università della Calabria, Dept. Chem. and Chem. Technologies
Business or sector: Pure and applied researches and teaching in plant biology and proteomics
2002-today
Associate Professor
Università della Calabria, Dept. Ecology
Business or sector: Pure and applied researches and teaching in plant biology
2002-today
Head of the Laboratory of Plant Biology and Plant Proteomics(Lab.Bio.Pro.Ve.), Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, Università della Calabria, Italy.Business or sector: Pure and applied researches and teaching in plant biology and proteomics with main interest in marine plants
2011-2016
Research responsible of the “Project1”, partners M&L Laboratoires SA (France), Sederma (Italy), IRB Istituto di Ricerche Biotechnologiche S.r.l. (Italy) and University of Calabria
Business or sector : applied research to develop new products containing extracts of marine plants.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
September-October 2019
Invited visiting scientist at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Sciences Végétales , CNRS Toulouse, France. Research activities on the effect of sea acidification on the Mediterranean marine plants; effects of acidification on cell wall proteomics. Course training and seminars toward master students and general audience.
March 2010 – March 2015
Member of the Management Committee and of Core Committee of the COST Action ES0609 “Seagrass productivity: from genes to ecosystem management”
October 2004 – October 2010
National Coordinator of the Plant Biotechnology and Differentiation group, within the Società Botanica Italiana;Promoting the visibility of the research activities of the italian bonanists through meetings, summer schools and masters organization
WORK ACTIVITIES
Awards.
2015- Distinguished Member of the International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO)
Invited presentations
Toulouse, France,October 9, 2019- Invited speaker at Tulip project seminars : “Ten years of molecular ecology of seagrasses: challenges, achievements, perspective”. INRA Auzeville Campus
Naples, 1-2 March 2011- Invited speaker COST Action ES0906: "Developing the proteomics in seagrasses: what challenges do occur, what technical skills are required, what outputs are expected" Workshop: Linking ecophysiology and ecogenomics in seagrass ecosystems.
Odense (Denmark), 12 -14 December 2016- Invited Key speaker at "EuroMarine Foresight Workshop “Marine Eco-Systems Biology (MESB) – Bridging environmental and ecological data with integrated ‘omics to understand the predict future seagrass ecosystems under global / climate change”
Grants
PI- project « ProSIC-ISCA », FEAMP PO 2014-2020 - PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND COMPENSATION SCHEMES IN THE FIELD OF SUSTAINABLE FISHING ACTIVITIES ART. 40. Project no. 33/RBC/20.
Partner- Project FEAMP «MoSiC» FEAMP PO 2014-2020 - PROTECTION AND RESTORATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND COMPENSATION SCHEMES IN THE FIELD OF SUSTAINABLE FISHING ACTIVITIES ART. 40. Project no. 13/RBC/20
PI – projects “Interventi per la tutela e la conservazione di habitat acquatici e specie nel SIC Foce Neto (IT9320095), Dune di Marinella (IT9320095)”- POR 2014-2020, FESR, FSE, Programma di Azione 2014-2020
PI - project « An integrated approach to the study of the adaptive response of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica to variations in light regimes” PRIN program 2009
Partner - project “HighGrass: High CO2 effects on seagrass photosynthetic ecophysiology” founded by the FTC of the Ministry of Sciences and Technology of Portugal.
Partner - “WG2. Genetics: Develop functional genetic and genomic tools to understand seagrass photosynthetic responses to environmental stressors”, COST Action ES0609 “Seagrass productivity: from genes to ecosystem management”. 2011-2014
Publications
59 total number of publications (47 in Scopus)
267 total Impact Factor (IF) (3.0 average IF/paper),
1487 total number of citations (31/04/2022, Google scholar)
21 H index (31/03/2022, Google scholar)
Scientific collaborations
Prof. Rui Santos and Dr. Joao Silva, Physiology of photosynthesis in seagrasses, climate changes effects on CO2 utilization- ALGAE – Marine Plant Ecology, Center of Marine Sciences (CCMAR), University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Dr. Gabriele Procaccini. Genomics of seagrasses- Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples
Prof. Jeanine Olsen, seagrasses ecophysiology and genomics -Marine Benthic Ecology & Evolution (MarBEE), Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies (CEES), University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Prof. Mats Bjork. Seagrass biology and physiology, photorespiration-Department of Botany, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Prof. Sven Beer, Emeritus. Seagrass biology and physiology.- Department of Plant Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel,
Dr. John Runcie. Photobiology of seagrasses -School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Prof. Sylvie Gobert Seagrass ecology, non destructive sampling of seagrasses-Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution, Université de Liege, Belgium.
Dr.Gaetano Perrotta and Dr. Linda Bianco. Mass spectromery applied to chloroplast proteomics
Laboratorio di genomica funzionale, ENEA Trisaia, Policoro
Dr. Norbert Rolland. Proteomics of chloroplasts, sub-organelle proteomics-Laboratoire de Physiologie Cellulaire Végétale (LPCV),-CNRS (UMR-5168) / CEA / INRA (UMR1200) / Université Joseph Fourier CEA Grenoble
Prof. Ganesh Agrawal, INPPO organization-Biochemistry at Universal Science College, Kathmandu, Nepal
Prof. Piergiorgio Righetti and Dr. Elisa Fasoli, Proteomics of food allergens - Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali ed ingegneria Chimica G. Natta. Politecnico di Milano, Milano
Editorial activity
Academic Editor at Frontiers in Plant Proteomics (Plant Proteomics section)
Associate Editor at PlosOne
Associate Editor at JOMICS
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Contacts
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche
- Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche
- s.mazzuca@unical.it
- silvia.mazzuca@unical.it
- 0984/492967
- 0984 492961