La Sede Calabria (Calabria Marine Centre-CRIMAC) è un centro interdipartimentale, che nasce con l’obiettivo di realizzare sul versante ionico della Regione Calabria un polo di eccellenza a livello europeo per la ricerca marina e la gestione di infrastrutture dedicate allo studio della biologia ed ecologia degli organismi e alla crescita blu eco-sostenibile. CRIMAC ha lo scopo di valorizzare attraverso un approccio ecosistemico integrato gli studi finalizzati all'uso sostenibile delle risorse per la conservazione e la tutela degli habitat e della biodiversità, realizzare azioni di gestione integrata della fascia costiera per la crescita e la rivalutazione del tessuto territoriale, anche sotto l'aspetto della sostenibilità turistica e intervenire attraverso la ricerca e l'innovazione tecnologica sullo studio e mitigazione degli impatti derivanti dalle attività antropiche del territorio.

Le principali linee di ricerca sono:
• Potenziamento delle infrastrutture per il monitoraggio ambientale marino e per le ricerche in ambienti profondi;
• Valorizzazione della biodiversità e conservazione degli habitat marini per promuovere lo sviluppo di aree protette e la qualità dell’ambiente marino;
• Gestione integrata della fascia costiera per promuovere il turismo blu e le attività turistico-balneari.

Personnel

Director

Silvestro Greco

Researcher

Valentina Costa
Christian Galasso
Cristina Pedà
Chiara Pennesi
Daniela Pica
Nadia Ruocco
Claudia Scianna

Technologist

Lucia Barra
Paolo D’Ambrosio
Veronica Scutari

Technician

Chiara Giommi
Danilo Malara
Gabriele Marino
Roberto Firmanento

Research Fellowship

Blondine Agus
Andrea Bellodi
Giulia Bergamini
Chiara Molino

Scholarship

Davide Bonsignori
Maria Assunta Iovine
Marika Luci
Chiara Magnabosco
Andrea Picciolo
Jessica Vannini

PhD Student

Serena Scozzafava
Faustino Scarcelli

 NEW Program

The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg.

The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.
The course will also include lectures on advanced and recently developed technologies as volume electron microscopy and correlative light-electron microscopy.

The course will be held at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Naples on 6-8 November 2023 and will target in particular researchers and technicians from scientific institutions interested in the field of electron microscopy. No documented experience in electron microscopy is required.

Theoretical lessons

Sample preparation for EM – Chemical fixations
Sample preparation for EM - High pressure Freezing- Freeze substitution
Image formation in TEM and SEM
Use of SEM and TEM in Taxonomy of Marine Organisms

Practical lessons

Sample preparation for SEM: sample sorting, fixation, dehydration, critical point drying, sputtering
High pressure Freezing
Ultramicrotomy
Observation at TEM
Observation at SEM

Lectures

Immunolabeling
Correlative Light Electron Microscopy
Volume Electron Microscopy

Teachers

Giovanna Benvenuto, SZN
Fabio Formiggini, IIT Napoli, SZN
Frédéric Leroux, Leica Microsystems
Paolo Ronchi, EMBL, Heidelberg
Diana Sarno, SZN

Lecturers

Raman Parashuraman, Euro-Bioimaging, Napoli
Roman Polishchuck, TIGEM, Napoli, Italy (to be confirmed)
Paolo Ronchi, EMBL, Heidelberg
Luigia Santella, SZN

Keynote lecturer

Detlev Arendt, EMBL, Heidelberg

Teaching assistants

Filomena Caccavale, Maria Cocurullo, Rita Graziano, Franco Iamunno, Isabella Percopo, Lorenza Rusciano, Eleonora Scalco (SZN), Marinella Pirozzi (CNR)

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Application deadline September, 8th
Accepted participants will be notified by September, 15th
Registration and payment are due by September, 30th

Fee: 200 euro per person (coffee breaks, lunches, and social dinner included)

The course will be open to 14 participants. Preference will be given to strongly motivated applicants.

ORGANIZERS: Giovanna Benvenuto and Paolo Ronchi
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2022

BENTACS - BENthos TAxonomy CourseS - TAXONOMY OF POLYCHAETES - 24-28 October 2022

ISSSB-International Summer School on Systems Biology, The Systems Biology approach to discover marine life: from a big eye to a microscopic picture - 10-14 October 2022

Ecology and Functioning of seagrasses ecosystem of Salina (Aeolian Islands) - 28 Settembre - 3 Ottobre 2022

International Summer School of Blue Biotechnology (ISSBB) - 21-23 settembre 2022

International Summer School in Marine Ecotoxicology - 12-16 settembre 2022

Seventeenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences  - Ischia 2022: Living Relations - 26 June – 3 July 2022

The Evolution of Enzymes and Metabolic Pathways: analysis, understanding and implications for biotechnology - June 28-30 2022

2021

Ecologia e funzionamento degli ecosistemi a fanerogame marine nell’Isola di Salina (Isole Eolie): 1o stage di biologia marina e subacquea scientifica - Salina, 6-11 ottobre 2021

4th edition of the “International Summer School of Natural Products” (ISSNP) - 6th – 8th July 2021

Summer School Schmid Training Course Established and Emerging Model Organisms for Marine Science - 24th May - 4th June 2021

2019

Summer School “Protein Evolution” - 24-26 luglio 2019

International Summer School of Natural Products (ISSNP) - 1-5 luglio 2019

1st International Summer School on Marine Ecotoxicology (SSME1) - 1-5 luglio 2019

2017

International Summer School of Natural Products (ISSNP) - 3-7 luglio 2017

2015

Fourteenth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences - Ischia 2015: Geographies of Life - 27 June – 3 luglio 2015 

International Summer School of Natural Products (ISSNP) - 6-10 luglio 2015

Location: Sicily Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Messina (Italy) 

The ISSEE Summer School will take place in 2023, from September 18 th to 21st, at the Sicily Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Messina. The school is open to PhD students and early career researchers working in the fields of marine ecology and biotechnology. The course will be focused on multidisciplinary aspects involving the study of extreme environments, combining pure ecological issues related to adaptations and diversity of marine organisms (from microbes to marine invertebrates and vertebrates) and the exploration of such peculiar environments as sources for biotechnological purposes. In each day, the school will take care to deal with ecological and biotechnological themes, and the relationships between them. The summer school is a unique occasion to enhance cross-disciplinal collaboration, to improve skills and expertise on the knowledge of extreme ecosystems in taxonomy, high molecular approaches, bioprospecting. Professors and researchers will give lectures about their own research, and will share their experience with the students during group discussion sessions. Practical sessions are envisaged, i.e. observation of mesopelagic species, taxonomy, laboratory experience for the treatment of samples for biotechnological purposes (production of bioactive compounds) and observation of the bioluminescence phenomenon. Social events in Messina will be offered during the School to favoring the sharing of experience and the establishment of new scientific collaborations. Remote participation is allowed.

Detailed information on the program of our course and online registration form for the ISSEE 2023 are available at the following link

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Registration fee: 250 EU (Regular Partecipant); 100 EU (Remote Partecipant) 

Deadlines

10 July: Send CV and motivation letter at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

15 July: After acceptance please complete the registration form as indicated in the communication email  of acceptance

25 July: After communication that the registration form is complete and accepted, please complete the payment within two days