Institute for Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies – National Research Council of Italy (IRBIM-CNR)
IRBIM conducts scientific research to study life and biodiversity in seas and Oceans. The Institute promotes and carries out fundamental and applied research activities to expand knowledge on marine organisms and ecosystems and their evolution, also in relation to global change and the human impact.
IRBIM will coordinate the project and field activities, project governance, sampling activities, analysis of biomass, abundance and biodiversity of prokaryotes, metagenomics, bioinformatics, interface between the research units and the international collaborators, physical-chemical data collection and interpretation, website, outreach activities and training.
Gian Marco Luna
Senior Scientist in Marine Microbial Ecology and Director of IRBIM-CNR
Grazia Marina Quero
Grazia is a researcher in Marine Microbial Ecology and Microbiology. Her scientific interests mainly concern the ecological and biogeochemical role of Bacteria and Archaea in lagoon, coastal and deep-sea ecosystems, the changes of microbial assemblages as a consequence of anthropogenic activities, as well as the study of microbiome in marine organisms. Aimed at achieve these scientific goals, she uses both High Throughput Sequencing and conventional microbiological and ecological approaches.
Alessandra Campanelli
Alessandra is a Researcher in Chemical Oceanography. Her research focuses on the i) ecological evaluation of the physical and chemical dynamics on the Mediterranean Sea and Ross Sea and ii) Chemical analysis of dissolved nutrients, trace elements (Cations and Anions), chlorophyll, pigments, dissolved organic matter and dissolved oxygen in seawater. She has been member of the development staff in several National and International gear related research projects.
Federica Grilli
Researcher in experimental physical oceanography. Her fields are general circulation, water masses distributions, water and nutrient fluxes, coastal process, deep water formation, marine mucilage process formation, variability and long term trends of physical and biogeochemical parameters. She developed a skill in the following instruments: CTD, XBT, water sampler, current meter, ADCP, salinometer and many sensors. She has gained a strong background in the environmental data processing. She joined to many projects and oceanographic cruises (also chief scientist on board) in Adriatic Sea and Ross Sea (Antarctica) on board national and international research ships. She authored and co-authored of 27 scientific papers ISI and more than 60 papers between articles and technical reports published in scientific national and international journals.
Marco Basili
Marco is a research fellow in Marine Microbial Ecology. He is currently working on the study of the microbiome associated to marine organisms and marine environment, with a focus on innovative bioinformatics tools for analyzing high-throughput sequence data.
National Institute Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS)
OGS is an internationally oriented public research institution.
This institution operates and develops its own mission in the European Research Area (ERA) and internationally, prioritizing the basic and applied research fields of oceanography (under the physical, chemical and biological aspects); geophysics and marine geology, experimental and explorative geophysics.
OGS will be responsible for the measurements of the main prokaryotic activities that define the ecosystem functioning, mainly including prokaryotic standing stocks with flow citometry techniques, respiration rates, primary production (uptake of bicarbonate ions) and heterotrophic production rates, hydrolysis of the main microbially-mediated biopolymers degradation rates.
OGS will be also in charge for the analyses of the main chemical parameters in seawater samples (inorganic macronutrients, dissolved organic C, N and P, particulate C and N).
Mauro Celussi
Mauro is a researcher in Microbial Ecology. His scientific interests focus on marine planktonic Bacteria and Archaea, on their metabolism and on their role in biogeochemical cycles.
Vincenzo Manna
Vincenzo is a post-doctoral research fellow in microbial ecology. His research is focused on microbe-mediated organic matter processing in marine systems, with emphasis on its environmental drivers and biogeochemical implications.
Annalisa Franzo
Annalisa is a researcher in Microbial and Meiofaunal Ecology. Her scientific interests spans from anthorpogenic impacts on coastal environments to organic matter processing in deep-sea waters.
Cecilia Balestra
Cecilia is a technician in marine ecology and biogeochemistry. Her scientific interests focus on community structure, composition and dynamics of autotrophic and heterotrophic picoplankton.
Università Politecnica delle Marche (UnivPM)
The Department of Life and Environmental Sciences (DISVA) of UNIVPM is a center of scientific teaching and training on marine environment issues examined in all its components, including biotechnology. UNIVPM conducts its research not only in the Mediterranen, in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Antarctica. The Department is equipped with cutting edge facilities and infrastructure that can accommodate students and researchers from all over the world and is located in the heart of the scientific-technological pole of Monte Dago Ancona.
UNIVPM will mainly deal with the diversity and impact of viruses on planktonic microbial food web. In more detail, UNIVPM will assess the diversity of viruses, virus-host interactions and impact of viral infections on microbial components, by analyzing their abundance (by epifluorescence microscopy), production (dilution-based protocols), decay and life strategies (through specific incubation experiments of the samples with mitomycin C), diversity (through shotgun metagenomic approach) and virus-mediated microbial mortality (by epifluorescence and transmission electron microscopy).
Antonio Dell’Anno
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Marco Lo Martire
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Emanuela Buschi
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Zaira Da Ros
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Stazione Zoologica “Anton Dohrn” di Napoli (SZN)
The mission of the Stazione Zoologica is the research of the fundamental processes of biology, which include marine organisms and their biodiversity, in close link with the study of their evolution and the dynamics of marine ecosystems, using an integrated and interdisciplinary approach. The study of the resulting biotechnological applications is part of the mission of SZN.
SZN will deal with the analyses of standing stock and biodiversity of eukaryotic plankton. In more detail, SZN will analyse the abundance, biomass and biodiversity of planktonic protists (light and electron microscopy and metabarcoding). Changes in diversity of protists will be analysed in relation with environmental variables and other components of the biological system (viruses and bacteria).
Maria Saggiomo
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Diana Sarno
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Adriana Zingone
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Roberta Piredda
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