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Jessica Zampolli is a junior assistant professor (fixed-term) in Microbiology at University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Biology and Biotechnology.
Her research interests deal with Molecular, Environmental, and Applied Microbiology.
In recent times, she attended courses about different -omics technologies focused on microbial community composition and expressed functions of single bacterial strains.
Moreover, she participated and won the Crowdfunding program of BiUniCrowd - University of Milano-Bicocca with the project Micro-Val - MICROrganismi per la VALorizzazione dei rifiuti della plastica sustained by Consorzio Corepla.
From 2021 to 2022 she had a Post Doc position for the project "Isolamento e caratterizzazione di enzimi coinvolti nella degradazione e biotrasformazione di polietilene da batteri del genere Rhodococcus" at University of Milano-Bicocca, department of Biology and Biotechnology. At the same University, she worked as a Post Doc researcher on the "Development of New Molecular Tools to detect and enhance Microbial Degradation of Contaminants in Soil Bioremediation" from 2017 to 2020.
In 2017 she obtained a PhD degree in Science at University of Milano-Bicocca with a thesis about the "Assessment of Microbial Degradative Functions for the Evaluation of the Environmental Quality of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils". During the PhD course, she had the opportunity to improve her research on molecular microbiology and biotechnology at Prof. PhD A. Steinbüchel head of Institut für Molekulare Mikrobiologie und Biotechnologie, at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.
She graduated with both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from University of Milano-Bicocca in Environmental Sciences.
The research interests of Dr. Zampolli are focused on environmental microbiology, specifically on the study of bacteria involved in the degradation of main environmental contaminants for the development of eco-sustainable processes for environmental biotechnologies. Different and integrated approaches are applied in her research: genomic, transcriptomic, genetic, phenotypic, and biochemical. To date, her research focuses on microbial enzymatic systems for the development of whole-cell systems and enzyme isolation to use in biodegradative processes for the development of industrial interest technologies. Moreover, another aspect of her research deals with the production of microbial secondary metabolites with activities of industrial interest.
Active Projects
- PI of Crowdfunding Project: Micro-Val – MICROrganismi per la VALorizzazione di rifiuti della plastica
Finished Projects
- 2017 - 2019 Natural and Active Technologies Under Research for Health Aging (NATURHA) sustained by Regione Lombardia. Role: Post Doc researcher.
1. J. Zampolli, A. De Giani, A. Di Canito, G. Sello, P. Di Gennaro (2022) Identification of a Novel Biosurfactant with Antimicrobial Activity Produced by Rhodococcus opacus R7. Microorganisms 10:475. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms10020475.
2. J. Zampolli, A. Orro, A. Manconi, D. Ami, A. Natalello, P. Di Gennaro (2021) Transcriptomic analysis of Rhodococcus opacus R7 grown on polyethylene by RNA-seq. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00525-x.
3. J. Zampolli, A. Di Canito, A. Manconi, L. Milanesi, P. Di Gennaro, A. Orro (2020) Tanscriptomic analysis of Rhodococcus opacus R7 grown on o-xylene by RNA-seq. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1808. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01808.
4. A. Orro, M. Cappelletti, P. D’Ursi, L. Milanesi, A. Di Canito, J. Zampolli, E. Collina, F. Decorosi, C. Viti, S. Fedi, A. Presentato, D. Zannoni, P. Di Gennaro (2015) Genome and phenotype microarray analyses of Rhodococcus sp. BCP1 and R. opacus R7: genetic determinants and metabolic abilities with environmental relevance. PloS One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0139467.
Zampolli’s Lab – #ZampolliLab_BtBs
last update April 2022
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Paolo Biella, is a lecturer of the course ‘Biogeography’ for Master students of Biology. Before, and specifically since 2012, he taught (or took part in teaching of) University courses and practice activities, he held a number of seminars, in Italy and abroad. Since 2019, he has been nominated Subject Expert and Teaching Assistant (“Cultore della materia”) in Zoology and in Biology of Animal Interactions by the University of Milano - Bicocca.
He is Assistant Professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, department of Biology and Biotechnology. Previously, in 2014 he was a research assistant at the University of Pavia, and from 2014 to 2019 at the Biology Centre in Ceske Budejovice (CZ). In recent times, he attended several intensive scientific trainings abroad in Spain, England and Norway and also a number of specialized courses. He is also active in popularization talks on scientific topics.
He was awarded with a PhD degree by the University of South Bohemia (CZ) in 2019. He graduated both bachelor and master degrees at the University of Pavia.
He is a specialist of ecological interactions among species, especially between pollinators and plants that he studied at several levels: taxonomy of pollinators, reproductive biology of plants, nutritional ecology and plant-pollinator interaction networks.
At the moment he is mainly focusing on the impact of anthropic or natural disturbance on the ecosystem services, and the side-effects on functional biodiversity and species interactions. Biodiversity and interactions in urban landscapes and disturbed habitats are the main focus. He studies oceanic islands as models for predicting the effects of disturbance.
He integrates innovative methodologies (DNA barcoding, phytochemistry, morphological analysis) with statistical modelling.
He is also active in the field of species conservation, studying the pollination biology of endangered plants, and the effects of climate change on the ecology and distribution of some bee species. For instance, in 2018 he collaborated at the Red list of threatened Italian bees. Furthermore, he is active in the taxonomy of wild bees.
Biella’s Lab – #BiellaLab_BtBs
last update: March 2022