Happy Cervone
Ordinary Professor
Department of Biology and biotechnology
University La Sapienza
Italy
Biography
19-12-1970: Degree at the University of Naples. 1971-1972: MPI (Public Education) scholar at the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (CNR) of Naples 1972-1980: Assistant Professor of Plant Physiopathology, University of Naples. 1977-1978: EMBO Fellow, Department of Botany, Imperial College of Science and Technology in London. 1980-1990: Associate Professor of Plant Physiology, University of Rome "La Sapienza". 1987-1988: Sabbatic Year at the "Complex Carbohydrate Research Center" at the Department of Biochemistry and Botany at the University of Georgia (USA). 1987: Fulbright scholar at the University of Georgia (USA) 1990 to present: Ordinary Professor of Plant Physiology at "La Sapienza". 1996-98: Associate Editor of the International Journal "Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions". 1999-02: Member of the Scientific Council of the Molecular Biology Center (CNR), Rome. 2002-04: Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Forestry and Environmental Biology (CNR), Porano. 2004-06: Member of the Armenise-Harvard Foundation Scholarship Advisory Committee, Boston. 2004: President of the X Cell Wall Meeting 2004-2010: President of the Italian Society of Plant Biology (already Italian Society of Plant Physiology) 2005-2009: President of the Council of Didactic Area of ​​Biology of Wisdom. 2009: Member of the Biology Panel for the Evaluation of CNR Laboratories on National Territory. 2009: Receives the prestigious "Research Advanced Grant" (€ 2.1 million) from the European Research Council. 2009-2012: President of the International Society of Plant-Microbe Interactions 2011-today: President of the Italian Federation of Life Sciences
Research Interest
Plant Physiology and Biotechnology
Publications
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Casasoli M, Spadoni S, Lilley KS, Cervone F, De Lorenzo G, Mattei B. Identification by 2â€D DIGE of apoplastic proteins regulated by oligogalacturonides in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proteomics. 2008 Mar 1;8(5):1042-54.
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Ferrari S, Galletti R, Pontiggia D, Manfredini C, Lionetti V, Bellincampi D, Cervone F, De Lorenzo G. Transgenic expression of a fungal endo-polygalacturonase increases plant resistance to pathogens and reduces auxin sensitivity. Plant physiology. 2008 Feb 1;146(2):669-81.
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Bonivento D, Pontiggia D, Matteo AD, Fernandezâ€Recio J, Salvi G, Tsernoglou D, Cervone F, Lorenzo GD, Federici L. Crystal structure of the endopolygalacturonase from the phytopathogenic fungus Colletotrichum lupini and its interaction with polygalacturonaseâ€inhibiting proteins. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics. 2008 Jan 1;70(1):294-9.
