| Simone Ferrari - curriculum vitae |
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| EDUCATION
2002 Ph.D. in Botanical Sciences, University �La Sapienza� (Rome, Italy). Title of the thesis: �Role of Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins in the Arabidopsis thaliana-Botrytis cinerea Interaction�. 1997 Major degree (laurea) in Biological Sciences with the mark of 110/110 cum laude, University �La Sapienza� (Rome, Italy). Title of the thesis: �Isolation of new Arabidopsis thaliana mutants showing altered primary root growth direction�. |
| RESEARCH ACTIVITY 2004-present Assistant Professor in Plant Pathology, Dipartimento Territorio e Sistemi Agro-Forestali, University of Padova (Italy). 2003-2004 Research Fellow, Dipartimento di Agrobiologia e Agrobiochimica, University �La Tuscia� (Viterbo, Italy). 1999-2003 Research Fellow in Molecular Biology, Harvard Medical School and Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston, MA, USA). 1997-1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Dipartimento di Biologia Vegetale, University �La Sapienza� (Rome, Italy). 1995-1997 Undergraduate Research Assistant, Istituto di Biochimica ed Ecofisiologia Vegetali, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche � Area della Ricerca di Roma (Monterotondo, Italy). |