ABBaCo - Restauro Ambientale e Balneabilità del SIN Bagnoli-Coroglio

Approccio ecosistemico alla pesca ed acquacoltura sostenibile

COCONET - Towards COast to COast NETworks of marine protected areas (from the shore to the high and deep sea), coupled with sea-based wind energy potential

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EMBRIC - European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster

HEATGRASS - Tolerance to HEAT stress induced by climate change in the seaGRASS Posidonia oceanica

RECCAM - Seagrass Meadows resilience to global warming: an analysis based on responses at ecophysiological, population and ecosystem levels

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Restauro Ambientale e Balneabilità del SIN Bagnoli-Coroglio

Summary

Dismissed industrial activities are responsible for persistent environmental degradation, mainly due to long-term accumulation of xenobitic contaminants in the environment. Such a chronic form of pollution represents a major threat for human health, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Necessary environmental remediation practices should however be coupled to restoration plans aiming at revert the degradation trend and give back healthy areas able to provide valuable ecosystem goods and services. Albeit fully integrated into the EU Restoration Agenda, marine environmental restoration is a new challenging issue in ecology, with Italy coordinating MERCES, the first European project in this field. The environmental restoration of Bagnoli-Coroglio Bay is a unique challenge at European level. ABBACO will develop new approaches for the removal and remediation of contaminated sediments and restoration of marine habitats. Actions include: i) identifying the environmental benchmark of the area; ii) assessing its present health status, iii) studying the effects of contaminated sediments on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (MSFD), iv) assessing the combined effects of multiple stress at a hierarchical level; (v) experimenting innovative methods of transplantation and restoration of key species and habitats, and new biotechnological instruments for the remediation of sediments (bioremediation, bioaugmentation) in degraded habitats. ABBACO will provide novel expertise and stimulate new initiatives within the Blue Economy Agenda. The project results will be achieved by the actions of 6 intermingled work packages (WPs): WP1 Historic overview of the environmental status; WP2 Assessment of contamination and multiple environmental impact; WP3 Effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; WP4 Holistic approach to the study of multiple stress and risk reduction; WP5 Pilot studies of restoration and rehabilitation; WP6 Evaluating the effects of restoration and rehabilitation procedures; WP0 Project management

What we do

We are coordinator of the project and play a key role in each of the 6 project’s WPs.

Partners

1) Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli; 2) Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS); 3) Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV); 4-5) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISAC, CNR IAMC); 6) Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l'Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA); 7) Università Politecnica delle Marche; 8-9) Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (DiB, DICEA); 10) Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”; 11) Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope; 12) Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa)

Research Area

Multidisciplinary Science

Project Lifetime

8th March 2017 to 7th March 2020

SZN Role

Coordinator

Principal Investigators

Luigi Musco, Vincenzo Saggiomo

Co-Principal Investigator

Lucia Rizzo

SZN people involved

Researchers: Bertocci I (WP4 co-leader), Bottaro M, Cardini U, Carotenuto Y, Castellano I, Costantini M, Crocetta F, D'Ambra I, Ferrante M, Hochscheid S, Locascio A, Marin Guirao L, Munari M, Pepi M, Rastelli E, Ristoratore F, Sansone C, Stefanni S, Zupo V
Experienced Researchers: Brunet C, Buia MC, Casotti R, Gambi MC, Iudicone D, Mazzocchi MG, Montresor M, Procaccini G (WP5 leader), Romano G, Sordino P, Spagnuolo A, Tosti E (WP4 co-leader)
Senior Researchers: Palumbo A, Ribera D’Alcalà M, Santella L, Zingone A (WP3 co-leader)
Associate Researchers: Badalamenti F, Vicinanza D, Vega Fernàndez T (WP1 leader)
Technologists: Conversano F, Margiotta F (WP3 co-leader), Patti FP, Sarno D, Terlizzi F, Toscano A, Saggiomo M
Experienced Technologists: Cirino P
Technicians: Cannavacciuolo M, Di Capua I, Lanzotti G, Passarelli A, Zazo G
Post doc: Gallo A, Guglielmo S, Morroni L (many others to be involved soon)
PhD Students: Dell’Anno F

Funding Institution

MIUR - Fondo Integrativo Speciale per la Ricerca (determina CIPE - GU n.56 8.3.2017)
Contribution to SZN: €2,000,000 (MIUR contribution) plus €1,700,000 (SZN co-financing contribution)

Animal evolution from a cell type perspective: multidisciplinary training in single-cell genomics, evo-devo and in science outreach

Summary

The aim of EvoCELL is to lay the foundation for a new branch of evo-devo focussing on cell types. We will study fundamental questions in animal evolution and development - eg. how new cell types arise in evolution, how many are in common between different animal groups and how many unique cell types have evolved in different animal lineages- using a new technology, single cell sequencing, which we will for the first time employ outside of lab models to sample the great diversity of animal phyla. EvoCELL will train a new generation of multidisciplinary scientists skilled in exploring the vast breadth of animal differentiation. We will jointly sample data from all major animal lineages, richly represented in the biodiversity of European waters, and develop new tools for comparative analyses, through which we will together pioneer three branches of cell evo-devo: evolution of stem cells; emergence of animal life cycles, and the stunning diversity of neural cell types. Through their excellent interdisciplinary and intersectoral training, from single-cell biology and palaeontology to bioinformatics and public outreach, our graduates will be in prime positions to assume leadership roles in academia, industry, and science outreach.

What we do

We are one of ten partners and are contributing to the diversity and evolution of neuronal cell types.

Partners

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg - DE; Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli – IT; Uppsala University, Uppsala – SE; University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg – DE; University of Exeter, Exeter - UK; University College London, London – UK; Sars International Center for Marine Molecular Biology, Bergen – NO; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Villefranches sur mer, Lion - FR; Non-academic partners: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin – DE; Genomix4Life, Salerno - IT

Research Area

Organismal Biology

Project Lifetime

January 2018 to December 2022

SZN Role

Partner

Principal Investigator

Maria I. Arnone

People involved

2 ESRs to be hired

Funding Institution

European Commission, Horizon 2020 Call for Proposal: H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017. Grant Agrement no. 766053.

Contribution to SZN

€344081,76 (EU contribution)

Dedicated website

https://www.evocell-itn.eu/

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Meet the team

Maria I. Arnone, Researcher
Periklis Paganos, PhD student