PhD Student
Ecosustainable Marine Biotechnology Department

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Giardini del Molosiglio
80133 Naples - Italy
Tel: +39 327 0362546
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Curriculum Vitae

Director of Studies: Daniela Coppola
Internal Supervisor(s): Donatella de Pascale
External Supervisor: Nunziacarla Spanò
Program: University of Messina, XXXVII cycle;

Research Interests

My research activity is focused on two main topics. The first one aims to develop a low cost and sustainable pipeline to produce high value compounds, such as collagen from waste biomass of the fish supply chain. Recently, marine organisms are receiving attention as promising sources of collagen, as they have no religious barriers compared to bovine and porcine, and there are no reports of possible transmissible diseases. Moreover, every year a significant amount of fishing by-caught (jellyfish or undersized fish) as well as by-products from fish processing industries (skin, bones, scales, fins) is discarded, causing huge economic and environmental concerns. Therefore, the main point of my research activity is to research new and more environmentally friendly collagen extraction protocols, with low solvent/enzyme content and reduced times, by reducing, at the same time, the waste production. Fishing discards represent also a rich source of bioactive compounds. The second main topic of my research activity aims at the functional screening of these discards to identify molecules with antioxidant, anthelmintic, anticancer, antimicrobial activity with potential nutraceutical, cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical applications.

Book chapters

Cordone A, Coppola A, Severino A, Correggia M, Selci M, Cascone A, Vetriani C, Giovannelli D. From Sequences to Enzymes: Comparative Genomics to Study Evolutionarily Conserved Protein Functions in Marine Microbes. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2498:77-88. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2313-8_5.

Cordone A, Coppola A, Severino A, Correggia M, Selci M, Cascone A, Vetriani C, Giovannelli D. From Sequences to Enzymes: Comparative Genomics to Study Evolutionarily Conserved Protein Functions in Marine Microbes. Methods Mol Biol. 2022;2498:77-88. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2313-8_5.