pietro lancioni

Coordination of the pilot project for tutor activity in Er.go facilities. Formation dealing with working group methodologies and social psychology. Meetings with university associations. Welcome activities, guidance and support to the new students during the first semester of the academic year 2008/2009

Monitoring of the main phytopathological diseases on the regional territory of Emilia Romagna (Sharka, Erwinia amylovora, Xanthomonas fragariae)

Occasional collaboration under the supervision of the Laboratory of Phytobacteriology of the University of Agriculture (BO). Field experiments on pear shoots with chemical and biological agents

Employee at the Data Elaboration Center (CED); responsible for billing and orders with additional duties of bibliographic cataloguing and filing system

Participation as a sanitary operator (volunteer) in the management of a hospital near the village of Andavadoaka, in the province of Tulear, Madagascar. Responsible for laboratory analysis and pharmaceutical archive, with organizational and executive duties. Making aware of the local population about sanitary education, promotion of forms of National and International cooperation with privates, organizations and institutions

Technician and field inspector at Agri 2000 test facility, setting (ARM software) and carrying out trials aimed at checking the efficacy and selectivity of agrochemicals of chemical or biological origin (GEP and GLP). Analysis and reporting of their activity until the final registration by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestal Policies.

Ensuring adequate stocks, quantity and quality for different cereal crops (soft and durum wheat, hybrid barley, rice). Acquiring of multiplication fields for all cereals with tollers. Organize field inspections for certification and production improvement and provide recommendations for growers. Contracts management and lobbying. Support team for ensuring seed availability and quality.

PhD in: "Microbial Ecology and Induced Resistance to phytopathogens". Title of the thesis: "Studies on biotic and abiotic elicitors inducing defense responses in tomato". Supervisor: Prof. Umberto Mazzucchi. Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Bertolini Activities and Societies: In the last twenty years tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill., Solanum lycopersicon L.) has been successfully used as a model plant to investigate the induction of defense pathways after exposure to fungal, bacterial and abiotic molecules, showing triggering of different mechanisms of resistance. The aim of my thesis was to search for general or race-specific elicitors able to determine in Solanum lycopersicon immune responses attributable to the main systems of plant defense.

Supervisor: Prof. Pierre J.G.M. de Wit Activities and Societies: Participation in the project “Perception of Avr proteins by resistant tomato plants” under the supervision of Ing. John van’t Klooster. Studies and localization of a specific interaction between a resistance gene product (R-protein) of tomato and an avirulence gene product (Avr-protein) of the leaf mold Cladosporium fulvum. Techniques: gene cloning, protein tagging with fluorescent dyes, transformation of the yeast Pichia pastoris, SDS-PAGE, large scale protein production with a fermentor

Level in national classification: 105/110 Activities and Societies: MSc Thesis: “Prophylaxis of Fireblight: field experiments on pear shoots with chemical and biological agents”

Regione Emilia Romagna Regional Phytosanitary Service Via di Corticella 133 – 40100 Bologna Activities and Societies: Monitoring of the main phytopathological diseases across the region; field and greenhouse inspections, closely to farmers and privates. Laboratory analysis of the samples and identification of the pathogen through isolation protocols and the modern diagnostic techniques

Level in national classification: 84/100 Activities and Societies: Liceo Scientifico "Augusto Righi" Bologna

Supervisor: Dr. J.D. Janse Activities and Societies: Improvement and widening of laboratory techniques at the Plant Protection Service (Wageningen): isolation from samples, preparation of selective media, immunological (IFAS, ELISA) and molecular assays (PCR) for the identification of phytopathogens