Current Collaborators

Federica Savazzini

Position	Researcher
Safecrop project acronym	QUANTI TRICHO
current site of work	Istituto agrario di S. Michele all'Adige IASMA
street, number	via Mach, 1
city	S. Michele all'Adige TN
postal code	38010
country	Italy
e-mail	federica.savazzini@iasma.it
phone	+39 0461 615418
mobile phone
degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis	PhD; 1997; Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Facolty of Agriculture, Botany and Plant Genetics Department; Molecular Biotechnology; "Production of transgenic plants resistant to insect"
expertise	plant molecular genetics, plant cell culture
professional societies
research experience, training, professional stages	Previous work experiences: 2003-2005: Biotechnology laboratory, IASMA (San Michele-Italy), research contract: IZSUM project (Italian Ministry of Health), DNA traceability in grape and grape products and OSSERVA3 Project (Trento Province), OGM traceability in food and feed, using quantitative real-time PCR methodology. 2000-2003: Plantechno srl (Cremona-Italy) and Institute of Botany and Plant Genetics (University of Piacenza-Italy), research contract: phytoremediation in heavy metal contaminated soil with the use of transgenic plants; heterologous expression of proteins in yeasts; transformation technique improvement in kenaf plants; 1998 -1999: Epigenetic Laboratory, National Institute of Agrobiological Resources (Tsukuba-Japan), two-year Post-doc fellowship of Japan Science and Technology Agency: virus gene silencing in melon plants; phytocromes and phototropism in rice plants using comparative studies with mutants; 1997: ASIPO-AINPO (National Ass. Tomato Producers, Parma –Italy), research contract: production costs study in Parma and Piacenza provinces. 1992 -1997: Institute of Botany and Plant Genetics (University of Piacenza-Italy) and Biochemistry and Physiology Department, Rothamsted Experimental Station (Harpenden-United Kingdom), post-lauream research contract and PhD: plant cell culture and transformation, molecular biology, use of natural antinutritional factors for insect-resistant transgenic plant production; promoter trapping and functional genomics; improvement of transformation techniques for dicots (tobacco, arabidopsis, chrisantemum and tomato) and monocots (mais, wheat and triticum spp); teaching experience as Botany assistant. 1990-1992: Institute of Economy (University of Parma-Italy), Emilia-Romagna Region (Italy) fellowship: research on the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese economic filiere.
languages (level: mother tongue, fluent, basic)	Italian (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (intermediate level)
current research area	Development and implementation of molecular technologies for genetic characterization, monitoring and quantification of the risk for the Biocontrol Agent Thrichoderma spp and Thrichoderma atroviride strain 122F

Publication List:

Full papers on International Reviews

Marchetti S., Delledonne M., Fogher C., Chiaba' C., Chiesa F., Savazzini F. and Giordano A. "Soybean Kunitz, C-II and PI-IV inhibitor genes confer different levels of insect resistance to tobacco and potato transgenic plants", Theor. Appl. Gen. (2000) 101:519-526

S. Salgueiro, M. Matthes, J. Gil, S.Steele, F. Savazzini, A Riley, H.D.Jones, P.A.Lazzeri and P.Barcelo. "Insertional tagging of regulatory sequences in tritordeum, a hexaploid cereal species", Theor. Appl. Gen. (2002) 104:916-925

F. Savazzini, L. Dalla Costa, L. Martinelli. "Evaluation of exogenous DNA by quantitative Real-time PCR in transgenic grape". Acta Horticolturae n° 689, Proc. of the VII Int Symp. Grapevine Phys Biotech, Davis USA (2004) 499-504

C. Pecorini, F. Savazzini, P.A. Martino, E. Fusi, C. Fogher and A. Baldi. "Heterologous Expression of Biologically Active Porcine Lactoferrin in Pichia pastoris Yeast", Veterinary Research Communications (2005) 29 (Suppl.2): 379-382

F. Savazzini and L. Martinelli. "DNA Analysis in Wines: Development of Methods for Enhanced Extraction and Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Quantification", Analytica Chimica Acta (2006), in press

F. Savazzini and L. Martinelli. "Development of Real-time Polymerase Chain reaction in Grape (Vitis spp.: evaluation of the Nine-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase2 Gene as a Candidate Endogenous Gene for quantitative Assays", Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry (2006), in preparation

Books, in Italian and International Editions

Corti C., Savazzini F., Fogher C. "Allium Sativum". In "Italian contribution to plant genetics and breeding", ed by G.T. Scarascia Mugnozza and M.A. Pagnotta for the XV Congress of the European Association for research on Plant Breeding-Eucarpia Rome, sept. 1997, (1998) Cap 8 Vegetables: 21-25

Cantarelli F., Savazzini F. "Il comparto lattiero-caseario regionale- l'approccio commerciale -" Istituto di Economia Rurale e Zooeconomia (Universita' di Parma) e ERSA (Ente Regionale di Sviluppo della Regione Emilia-Romagna), (1992) Vol.1-2:1-207.

Full papers on Italian Reviews

Fogher C., Corti C., Savazzini F., Delledonne M., 1993 "Ottenimento di materiale esente da virus in somacloni di aglio" Sementi elette, 40 n°1, pp 13-16.

Fogher C., Delledonne M., Savazzini F., Cervini P., Marchetti S. "Tecniche di ingegneria genetica applicate alle solanacee per la resistenza agli insetti mediante uso di geni per inibitori delle proteasi", Atti Agribiotec (1995) 159-168.

Fogher C., Savazzini F., Pervanov K., 1996. La trasformazione genentica delle piante coltivate. Agricultura, III (4) 12-14.

Marchetti S., Giordano A., Chiaba C., Pfeiffer A., Delledonne M., Fogher C., Savazzini F., Cervini P., Bassi C., Chiesa F., Reguzzi M.C., Cravedi P. "Genetic engeneering of plants for insects resistance using proteinase-inhibitor genes", IPBA, Rogla 5-7 december1994.

Fogher C., Delledonne M., Savazzini F., Cervini P., Marchetti S. "Tecniche di ingegneria genetica applicate alle solanacee per la resistenza agli insetti mediante uso di geni per inibitori delle proteasi", Agribiotec, Milano (I) 19-21 october 1995.

Oral Communications in International and Italian Conferences

Barcelo P., Barro F., Rooke L., Tatham A., Shewry P., Salgueiro S., Gil J., Savazzini F., Steel S., Lazzeri P. "Development and application of genetic manipulation techniques in wheat. 1. Manipulation of breadmaking quality in wheat by the expression of HMW glutenin transgenes. 2. "Isolation of cereal regulatory sequences by insertional tagging", Abs. Denmark Congress, October 1996.

Fogher C., Reggi S., Perfanov K., Savazzini F., Lipreri L., Foroni C., Bottura C., Corradi M., Marudelli M., Bongiorni C. "Molecular farming of pharmaceuticals proteins from transgenic plants", Convegno EuroSalute, Milano (I)11-14 october 2000.

A. Bolchi, F. Savazzini, R. Ruotolo, C. Fogher, S. Ottonello "Increasing the heavy metal remediation potential of plants through the expression of artificial metal chelating peptides", CNB5 5th Italian National Congress of Biotechnology, L’Aquila (I) 13-15 september 2001.

Pecorini C., Savazzini F., Rossi L., Fogher C., Baldi A. " Cloning and expression in Pichia pastoris yeast of full lenght porcine lactoferrin cDNA", Mammary Gland Health and Disease, Gent (B) 13-14 september 2002.

F. Savazzini, L. Dalla Costa, L. Martinelli, 2004. "Evaluation of exogenous DNA by quantitative Real-time PCR in transgenic grape", VII Grapevine Physiology Simposium, Davis (CA-USA) 21-26 june 2004.

Poster Communications in International and Italian Conferences

Delledonne M., Frigerio L., Savazzini F., Cervini P., Molinari P., Fogher C. "Effects of the overexpression of extensin in transgenic tobacco and tomato plants", Abst. 4th Int. Cong. Plant Mol. Biol., Amsterdam (NL), 19-24 june 1994

Savazzini F., Zaltieri R., Marudelli M., Perfanov K."Trasferimento dell'elemento trasponibile Ac in tabacco e pomodoro", Abst. XXXVIII Congress of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics, Udine (I), 3-6 october 1994, 192.

Tosca A., Pandolfi R., Vasconi S., Frangi P., Savazzini F. "Rigenerazione e trasformazione genetica in crisantemo comune e coreano", Abst. XXXVIII Congress of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics, Udine (I), 3-6 october 1994, 216.

Frigerio L., Savazzini F., Delledonne M., Lorenzoni C., Fogher C. "A molecular approach to the improvement of aminoacid content in cereals", Fifth Int. Sym. Gen. Mol. Plant Nutr., Davis (CA-USA), 17-24 july 1994.

Delledonne M., Cervini P., Savazzini F., Belenchi B., Fogher C. "Effects of overexpression of cell wall proteins in plant-pathogen interactions", 8th Int. Con. Mol. Plat- Microbe Interact. Knoxville, (USA) 1995.

Belenghi B., Savazzini F., Fogher C. "Effetto dell’alterazione dei livelli di proteine di parete sullo sviluppo della pianta", Abst. XL Congress of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics, Perugia (I), 18-21 september 1996, p. 41.

Reggi S., Savazzini F. "Ottenimento di un lievito S. cerevisae geneticamente modificato per la produzione dell’enzima fitasi e suo utilizzo nei prodotti da forno", Abst. XL Congress of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics, Perugia (I), 18-21 september 1996.

Passera R., Marudelli M., Savazzini F., Dal Compare G., Fogher C."Metodi di ottenimento e di identificazione di aploidi nel fungo coltivato Agaricus bisporus", L. Mic. Ital. XXVI (1997), (2) :39-46.

Savazzini F., Tahir M., Kanegae H., Yamamoto K., Yano M., Sasaki T., Kanegae T., Wada M. "Differential expression of two NPH1 homologues from rice, OsNPH1a and OsNPH1b", Abst. Annual Meeting of Japanese Mol. Biol. Soc., Fukuoka (J) 6-10december 1999.

Pecorini C., Savazzini F., Rossi L., Baldi A., Fogher C. "Cloning and expression in Pichia pastoris yeast of full length porcine lactoferrin cDNA", Mammary Gland Health and Disease Multidisciplinary Joint Meeting, Ghent (B) 13-14september 2002.

Savazzini F., Dalla Costa L., Martinelli L. "Qualitative real-time PCR for transgene grape evaluation", SIVB World Congress of the Society of In Vitro Biology, San Francisco (CA-USA), 22-26 may 2004.

Savazzini F., Dalla Costa L., Martinelli L."Toward a valuable traceability approach from grape to wine", Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics, Lecce (I) 10-15 september 2004.

Savazzini F. and Martinelli L. "Ottimizzazione di analisi molecolari per la tracciabilità nei vini", SIVE Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Viticulture and Enology, Piacenza (I) 21-23 march 2005.

F. Savazzini, I. Ciabatti, A. Paternò, U. Marchesi, D. Amaddeo and L. Martinelli "Validation of Real-time PCR Assays for Transgenic Grapevine Analysis", SIVB World Congress of the Society of In Vitro Biology, Baltimora (MA-USA), may 2005.

Savazzini F. and Martinelli L. "DNA analysis in wines: development of methods for enhanced extraction and Real-time PCR quantification", IN VINO ANALYTICA SCIENTIA Symposium, Montpellier (F) 6-10 july 2005.

F. Savazzini, I. Ciabatti, A. Paternò, U. Marchesi, D. Amaddeo and L. Martinelli "Validation of Real-time PCR Methods for Grapevine Detection and Identification: a Practical Approach", Annual Meeting of the Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics, Potenza (I) 12-15 september 2005.