Researcher
Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms Department

Tel. +39 081 5833450
E-mail: rossella.annunziata(at)szn.it
Skype: rossellaannunziata80

Curriculum Vitae

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=Jg00mL4AAAAJ&hl=it

ERC sectors - Systems biology (LS2_13), Marine biology and ecology (LS8_13)

Settori scientifico-disciplinari - Biologia molecolare (BIO/11), Biologia applicata (BIO/13)

Lab Members

Alessandro Tanya

Research Interests

I use multidisciplinary approaches integrating functional genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, molecular and physiological analysis, to explore the biology of marine organisms and investigate the regulation of cell decision making in biological processes as diverse as the development of embryonic structures (i.e.: how undifferentiated cells choose between different fates) and the plastic mechanisms of cell response and adaptation to the environment (i.e.: the regulation of diel cell activity and of life cycle decisions). Exploring the diversity of marine organisms represents a powerful tool to provide new perspectives in the molecular regulation of cellular functions and their understanding has the potential to help explaining the evolution of life on our planet.

Selected Publications

Annunziata, R.*, Mele, B.H., Marotta, P., Volpe, M., Entrambasaguas, L., Mager, S., Stec, K., Ribera d'Alcalà, M., Sanges, R., Finazzi, G., Iudicone, D., Montresor, M., & Ferrante, M.I. (2022). Trade-off between sex and growth in diatoms: Molecular mechanisms and demographic implications. Science Advances, 8(3), eabj9466. *Corresponding author

Annunziata, R., Ritter, A., Fortunato, A.F., Manzotti, A., Cheminant-Navarro, S., Agier, N., Huysman, M.J.J., Winge, P., Bones, A., Bouget, F.Y., Lagomarsino, M.C., Bouly, J.P., Falciatore, A.A. (2019). bHLH-PAS protein regulates light-dependent diurnal rhythmic processes in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116 (26), 13137-13142.

Arnone, M.I., Andrikou, C., & Annunziata, R. (2016). Echinoderm systems for gene regulatory studies in evolution and development. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 39, 129-137.

Annunziata, R., & Arnone, M.I. (2014). A dynamic regulatory network explains ParaHox gene control of gut patterning in the sea urchin. Development, 141(12), 2462-2472.

Annunziata, R., Martinez, P., & Arnone, M. I. (2013). Intact cluster and chordate-like expression of ParaHox genes in a sea star. BMC Biology, 11(1), 11-68.