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Last Update: FEBRUARY, 2022

University Professors in Experimental Biology (BIO/13)

PROFESSOR

POSITION

AIBG

Daniela Fiocco – Dept. Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale

AIBG Member

Domenica Mangieri – Dept. Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche

AIBG member

Maria Teresa Rocchetti– Dept. Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale

RTD-A

AIBG member

PO (Professore Ordinario / Full professor)
PA (Professore Associato / Associate Professor)
RTI (Ricercatore a Tempo Indeterminato / Assistant Professor)
RTD-A (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato – Junior / Fixed-term Junior Assistant Professor)
RTD-B (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato – Senior / Fixed-term Senior Assistant Professor)

Research

Research Group 1

Daniela Fiocco

Maria Teresa Rocchetti
Giuseppe Spano (PO, AGR/16 Microbiologia agraria) Dip. di Scienze Agrarie, degli Alimenti e dell’Ambiente-DAFNE- UNIFG)
Anna Gallone (PA, BIO/13) Dip. Scienze mediche di base, neuroscienze e organi di senso (SMBNOS)-UNIBA
Pasquale Russo (RTD-A, AGR/16), Dip. DAFNE- UNIFG

Vittorio Capozzi- ricercatore CNR

Research Themes

Host-probiotic interactions. Prebiotics. Stress response mechanisms in probiotics. immune-modulation. Antimicrobial activities of probiotics

Keywords: probiotic, prebiotic, immune-modulation, OGI model, stress genes, bacteriocin, antimicrobials

Research Group 2

Anna Gallone (PA, BIO/13 ) Dip. SMBNOS–UNIBA

Daniela Fiocco

Maria Teresa Rocchetti
Stefania Benvenuti (PA, CHIM/08 Chimica farmaceutica) Dip. Scienze della vita UNIMORE)
Fabio Sallustio (PA) Dip. SMBNOS–UNIBA

Research Themes

Melanogenesis in lower vertebrates, anti-melanogenic activities of natural compounds.

Keywords: melanogenesis; melanin; tyrosinase; pigmented cell; essential oils.

Research Group 3

Domenica Mangieri (RTDB, BIO/13) Dept. Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche- UNIFG
Mariia Zadorozhna (D, Dottorando / PhD Student) Dept. Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche – UNIFG

Research Themes

Neoangiogenesis and metastatic cascade; tumor progression; pathogenesis of soft tissue sarcoma and their progression.

Keywords: extracellular matrix; macromolecular interactions; signal transduction; structure-function relationship. Angiogenesis; chicken CAM; human vulvar leiomyosarcoma; matrix metalloproteinases; EMT andtumour progression;

Research Group 4

Roberto Perris (PO, BIO/06) Centre for Molecular and Translational Oncology (COMT), UNIPR
Dallatomasina Alice (D, fellow BIO/11) Division of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Domenica Mangieri

Research Themes