Staff

SynBio@UNIPD is powered by a dynamic and multidisciplinary team of researchers and professionals from across the University of Padova.

 

Our team includes leading experts in biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, engineering, medicine, and philosophyworking together to advance the frontiers of Synthetic Biology.

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  • Responsible Innovation and Governance
  • Open Science and Responsible Innovation
  • Normative
  • Nanobiotechnology
  • Microfluidics and microfabrication
  • Industrial Biotech
  • Health and medicine
  • Food and Agriculture
  • Ethics
  • Environment
  • comparative law and regulation
Marta De Zotti

Role/Level: PA

SSD: CHIM/06

Department: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche

Keywords/additional details:
green peptide synthesis, 3D-structure of peptides, antimicrobial peptides, peptides for plant protection, nucleobase-peptide hybrids

Laboratory:
BioOrganic Chemistry (BOC) Group

Web Site

marta.dezotti@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Health and medicine
Laura Orian

Role/Level: PA

SSD: CHIM/02

Department: Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche

Keywords/additional details:
chemical bonding and reactivity, molecular modeling, reaction mechanisms, molecule-protein binding, molecular design

Laboratory:
Computational Chemistry & (bio)Catalysis

Web Site

laura.orian@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Health and medicine
Eleonora Sforza

Role/Level: PA

SSD: ING-IND/25

Department: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale

keywords/additional details:
bioprocess engineering, bioremediation, cultivation, bioreactors

Laboratory:
BiERLab

Web Site

eleonora.sforza@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Energy, Environment, Industrial Biotech
Michela Zottini

Role/Level: PA

SSD: BIO/4

Department: Dipartimento di Biologia

keywords/additional details:
plant microbioma, environmental stress, mitochondria, grapevine, rice, plant physiology, biosensors.

Laboratory:
Plant Molecular biology and Physiology

Email: michela.zottini@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture
Guido Zampieri

Role/Level: RTDA

SSD: BIO/11

Department: Dipartimento di Biologia

keywords/additional details:
genome-scale metabolic modelling, biological networks, machine learning, microbial community, bioprocess modelling

Laboratory: Metabioinfomics Lab

Site web

Email: guido.zampieri@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Data Science/Software dev, Energy, Environment, Industrial Biotech, Mathematical modeling
Francesco Filippini

Role/Level: PA

SSD: BIO/11

Department: Dipartimento di Biologia

keywords/additional details:
biomimetics, bioremediation

Email: francesco.filippin@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, Environment, Health and medicine, Industrial Biotech, Nanomedicine
Laura Treu

Role/Level: RTDB

SSD: BIO/11

Department: Dipartimento di Biologia

keywords/additional details:
biological carbon capture, biological biogas upgrading, microbial community

Laboratory: Metabioinfomics Lab

Web Site

Email: laura.treu@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Energy, Environment, Industrial Biotech
Livio Trainotti

Role/Level: PO

SSD: BIO/11

Department: Dipartimento di Biologia

keywords/additional details:
genetic engineering, plant, crops, synthesis of natural metabolites, regulation of metabolic pathways

Laboratory: Applied Botany

Email: livio.trainotti@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Food and Agriculture, Industrial Biotech
Alessandro Vannozzi

Role/Level: PA

SSD: AGR/07

Department: Dipartimento di Agronomia, Animali, Alimenti, Risorse naturali e Ambiente

keywords/additional details:
plant, crops, grapevine, secoundary metabolites, gene regulation, transcription factors, dCas9

Laboratory:Waste to Bioproducts Lab

Email: alessandro.vannozzi@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Environment, Food and Agriculture
Fabio Vianello

Role/Level: PO

SSD: BIO/10

Department: Dipartimento di Biomedicina Comparata e Alimentazione

keywords/additional details:
nanomaterials, biosensors

Email: fabio.vianello@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Nanobiotechnology
Annamaria Zaltron

Role/Level: RTDB

SSD: FIS/03

Department: Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Galileo Galilei"

keywords/additional details:
single-molecule manipulation, biomolecular interactions, protein folding, DNA/RNA structure, optical tweezers

Email: annamaria.zaltron@unipd.it

Tags:

  • Biomolecular Engineering, DNA Engineering, Health and medicine
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