Vittorioso Paola

Biography

Paola Vittorioso took the degree in Biology at the University of Rome La Sapienza (cum laude) (1986). She was engaged as a researcher at Enichem Agricoltura (1989). She resigned in 1990, and she attended the PhD course in “Human Biology: molecular and cellular bases” at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She took the PhD with the thesis “Isolation and characterization of the Neurospora crassa WHITE COLLAR I gene, an element of the blue light transduction pathway”, carried out in the laboratories of Prof. G. Macino, University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She made a post-doc at the INRA-Versailles, in the laboratories of M.Caboche, PhD, working on the project “Physiological and Molecular Analysis of the pasticcino mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana (1994-1997). Since 1997 she is working at the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology (Department of Biology and Biotechnology), Sapienza University of Rome, in collaboration with Prof. P. Costantino. In 1999, she has been engaged as a researcher in the same Department, and she is responsible of the project “Functional and molecular analysis of the Dof genes in Arabidopsis thaliana“. She has been coordinator of the UE “REgulatory Genes Initiative in Arabidopsis” (REGIA) (#QLRT-1999-00876; ‘99-’02). Past and current she is recipient of national and international reserach programs. She is reviewer of several peer-review scientifc journals.She has been Italian Representative of the MASC (Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee) (2002-2008). She has been member of the Committee of the SIBBM (Italian Society of Biophysics and Molecular Biology) (2002-2006), and secretary-treasurer of the Society. She has been member of the Committee of the “Italian Federation of Life Sciences” (FISV) (2003-2006). She has been University Lecturer of several courses at the University of Rome: and at present she is University Lecturer of “Recombinant DNA technologies”. She has been supervisor of more than thirty Bachelor and Master thesis and of five PhD thesis. She is member of the Scientific Committee and Lecturer of the I level Master “Le scienze della vita nel giornalismo e nei rapporti politico-istituzionali” (SGP). She has been member of the Organizing Committee of the OPEN LAB: theoretical and practical course in genetic-molecular researches for mass media operators” (October 2004), which took place at the University of Rome, Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology.She is member of the Scientific Committee of the PhD Course in “Life Sciences”.

Research Interest

Plant molecular biology, Biochemistry