Prof. Roberto Bassi

Roberto Bassi (1955) was born in Vicenza (I). He graduated in Biology in Padua (1977), after which, he worked as microbiologist and botanist in the same University till 1983, when he won an assistant professorship in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. He specialized in genetics in Copenhagen, Biophysics in Paris and Molecular Biology in Geneva. He has been teaching Plant Biochemistry, Physiology and synthetic biology in Padua, Urbino, Marseille, Lausanne and Verona.  His research focuses on the structure and function of the photosynthetic systems of plants and algae and the environmental stress physiology with the aim of optimizing the light to biomass conversion efficiency and devise biotechnological solutions for environmental sustainability, with special reference to the management of carbon cycle. He has published more than 300 articles in international journals with an HF of 102 and 28.000 citations. He is a member of the National Academy of Lincei, National Academy of Technology, the EMBO, the European Academy and others. He was awarded theBaccarini-Melandri prize, the Herlitzka prize, for Physiology, the von Humboldt Award, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Award and the Miller Research professorship in Berkeley. He is the P.I of the ERC advanced grant GrInSun (2022-2027). He has been serving as the chair of the scientific advisory board of  the Stazione Anton Dorhn in Naples of which he is now the President.

Segreteria del Presidente

Giovanna Di Gennaro 
Tel.  +39 081 5833215

E-mail: presidenza(at)szn.it

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Supervisor: Dr. Giovanna Romano

Scientific activities

The Laboratory of Chemical Ecology offers instrumentation and support to conduct studies of Chemical Ecology on the marine plankton. The research activities carried out in the laboratory are focused in particular on the study of the effects that secondary metabolites produced by diatoms induce in planktonic organisms and in marine model organisms such as sea urchins. The laboratory is also equipped for the extraction and the first fractionation of bioactive compounds and for the study of their biological activity.

Experimental systems

• Rotating wheel for copepod rearing and experimentation.
• Thermostated chamber for microalgae cultivation and incubation of copepods in controlled conditions.
• Basic facility for microalgae cultivation.

Analysis

• Sorting, isolation and identification of live phytoplankton and zooplankton species from natural samples.
• Determination of ingestion and reproduction rates of marine organisms.
• Biological assays to test diatoms and their metabolites using copepods and sea urchins.
• Analysis of assay results by light microscopy.
• Culturing of microalgae in different media.
• Preparation of algal pellet by centrifugation.
• Extraction and first fractionation of secondary metabolites from algal pellets.
• Biochemical and colorimentric assay to study the metabolism of oxylipins in diatoms.

Equipments

• Chemical hood (total expulsion).
• Stereo-microscopes.
• Upright and inverted microscopes.
• Fluorescence microscope equipped with a PC and video camera.
• Benchtop refrigerated centrifuges.
• Rotavapor.
• Spectrophotometer.
• Sonicator.
• Ph meter.
• Oxygraph.
• Recirculating water bath.