Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology

Research products

Courses

• Astrobiologia (SVB0129)
  Corso di laurea in Scienze Biologiche
• Ecologia dei cambiamenti climatici (SVB0203)
  Laurea magistrale in Biologia dell'Ambiente
• Ecologia dei cambiamenti climatici (SVB0251)
  Laurea magistrale in Biologia dell'Ambiente
• FISIOLOGIA VEGETALE (canale A prof. Vigani/Mannino - canale B prof. Maffei) (SVB0027)
  Corso di laurea in Scienze Biologiche

Research topics

Several research activities are done by the Plant Physiology group:

A) Plant-herbivore interactions (Model system is Phaseolus lunatus-Arabidopsis thaliana-Medicago truncatula/Spodoptera littoralis.Early events in plant-herbivore interaction, signal transduction pathways [Electrophysiology, Calcium, CdPKs, ROS], enzyme activity, gene expression).

B) Plant-pathogen interactions (Model systems Pseudomonas spp./Arabidopsis thaliana; Botrytis cinerea/Arabidopsis thaliana; Magnaporthe grisea/Orhyza sativa.Early events in plant-pathogen interaction, signal transduction pathways [Electrophysiology, Calcium, ROS], enzyme activity, gene expression, metabolomics.

C) Plant-environment interactions (Model plant Arabidopsis thaliana-Mentha piperita. UV-B effect on gene expression of terpenoid pathway and ROS scavenging systems, trascriptomics, genomics, metabolomics).

D) Multitrophic plant interactions (Model systems the simultaneous effect of A, B and C)

E)  Astrobiology: Effects of geomagnetic field on plant growth and development (Model plant is Arabidopsis thaliana, transcriptomics and genomics by means of qRT-PCR and Microarray analyses, Transmission Electron Microscopy, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy)

 F) Chemical , biochemical and molecular characterization of bioactive compounds in toxic, halluginogenic and medicinal plants (Model plants Boswellia spp., Commiphora spp. Isolation and biological activity on new compounds)

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Massimo_Maffei">Massimo E Maffei on ResearchGate</a>

Research groups

• Chemical Ecology

• Chemical Ecology

Research projects

• PRIN 2022 - COD. 2022ENLMBY - TREES MAG - modelling of planT REsponsES to varying MAGnetic fields: the search for a plant magnetoreceptor

Activities in agenda

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Academic bodies

• Department Board

• Commissione Programmazione
• Commissione Spazi della sede di via Quarello
• Consiglio di Dipartimento

• 11. Commissione per l'Innovazione della Didattica
• 7. Commissione Coordinamento Lauree

Academic positions pro-tempore

Third mission

• Spin-Off Accademico
  Da mercoledì 30 novembre 2016 a martedì 31 dicembre 2019

Office hours

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