ABBaCo - Restauro Ambientale e Balneabilità del SIN Bagnoli-Coroglio

DIsCO - Diatom life cycles, molecular controls and contribution to ecosystem dynamics

EMSO MedIT - Project financed in the framework of PON R&C 2007-2013 - PAC Enhancement of public research infrastructures

GRASSMET - Climate change effects on seagrass secondary metabolism: ecological implications

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

HighGrass - High-CO₂ effects on seagrass photosynthetic ecophysiology

INBALANCE - INvertebrate-BActeriaL Associations as hotspots of benthic Nitrogen Cycling in Estuarine ecosystems

IRMA - Implementation and Remote Connection for Real Time Moniotoring of Marine Microorganisms - Funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Education (MIUR)

PALEOPARK - Seagrass palaeo-records as a tool for the evaluation, diagnosis and prognosis of the evolution of species, communities, and processes in Spanish insular National Parks

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

OCEAN MEDICINES

PharmaDeep

PharmaSea

PON01_02093 Study of new technologies and technological platforms for the improvement of production processes of active pharmaceutical ingredients of industrial interest and search for new bioactive molecules from natural sources
Leader: Sanofi-Aventis S.p.A.

PON01_02782 New nanotechnological strategies for the development of drugs and diagnostic tools directed to circulating cancer cells (CTC).
Leader: Biogem S.c.a r.l

PON01_00117 Antigens and Adjuvants for Vaccines and Immunotherapy.
Leader: Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Ltd.

RESIGRASS - An holistic understanding of seagrass functioning and resilience to local-scale disturbances: from molecular to biogeographical scales

S&T MED - Financed by the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin 2007/2013 Program of the European Union 

ABBACO SZN - ISS

ABBACO SZN - Conisma 

ABBACO SZN - Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

ABBACO SZN - DICEA

ABBACO SZN - ENEA

ABBACO SZN - IAMC

ABBACO SZN - INGV

ABBACO SZN - ISAC

ABBACO SZN - Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"

ABBACO SZN - Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

ABBACO SZN - Università Politecnica delle Marche

For more information and to book a visit: https://fondazionedohrn.it/home/dadom/

The Darwin-Dohrn Museum

Dedicated to the two giants of science and evolutionary biology, Charles Darwin and Anton Dohrn, the Darwin-Dohrn Museum - DaDoM – promotes the knowledge of the evolution of marine biodiversity.
Inside the DaDoM, visitors will voyage through the oceans through time in the footsteps of Darwin and Dohrn and many other scientists, discovering how organisms became adapted to all marine environments. In this journey through time and research, the public will understand the importance of the oceans in determining the conditions on the planet, will encounter the primordial forms of life that appeared in the oceans over 3 billion years ago, will discover evolutionary theories, and will encounter a series of fossils that show the evolution of forms and functions over the geological eras (walk through time).
Works of art, sculptures and historical biological samples will show how marine organisms move, feed, and reproduce, and the mechanisms that led to current life forms, in a gallery of biodiversity, from the simplest to the most complex organisms, to arrive at the multipurpose room of the DaDoM, housing a large skeleton of a sperm whale (beached along the Campania coasts and recovered by researchers), enriched by models of organisms that feed on the carcasses of these majestic giants of the sea when they arrive in the depths of the sea. The multipurpose room is dominated by a six-meter high wall that houses ten thousand preparations of animals from the Gulf of Naples, set up by the genius of Salvatore Lo Bianco and by those who followed his footsteps in the art of conservation.
The multipurpose room is designed to host thematic exhibits to explore topics of great scientific and popular interest, but also for scientific conferences and seminars, and is available to the cultural world for other initiatives of public interest, such as shows, concerts, exhibitions and film broadcasts. The museum itinerary also includes a journey through the studies and ancient maps of the Gulf of Naples, the discoveries of the over 20 Nobel laureates who conducted their studies in the SZN, up to the current research updated and exhibited month by month.
The Museum includes a large educational laboratory for students of all types and levels designed to carry out practical observation and study activities aimed at discovering the secrets of marine life. The upper floor of the building includes the staff offices, laboratories and organizations hosted by the Center. The Anton Dohrn Zoological Station has returned to the citizens of Naples, Campania and the whole country an asset of the city in its full fruition. This objective will also be extended to the outside of the building, making the garden of the Museum a place of knowledge in the open air. In fact, the garden hosts two scientific submersibles made available by the MareAmico Cultural Association and which have also been used for the exploration of the deep sea environments of the Mediterranean.
Depending on specific needs, the rear lawn or the roof terrace will finally host an open-air summer cinema for documentaries on the sea and for an international competition on scientific cinema and marine documentaries.

Scientific, Educational and Cultural Center in the heart of the city

With the aim of strengthening the so-called "third mission", i.e. the activities of dissemination of scientific discoveries, as well as the opening of research facilities to citizens, with their direct involvement, the Darwin-Dohrn Museum offers opportunities for scientific and educational collaborations, training of teachers and specialists in the sector, educational workshops, cultural meetings, and guided tours for citizens and tourists.
The Museum was inaugurated on December 9, 2021 but its layout will be continuously enriched with new material and new initiatives.

Responsible: Adrianna Ianora

Activities

The Biotechnology Laboratory is a multidisciplinary lab that uses and develops different approaches dedicated to the study of marine drug discovery. Research activities include sampling, isolation and maintenance of marine species of biotechnological interest (especially microalgae), preparation of chemical extracts, testing the potential bioactivity at the gene and protein levels of extracts on human cells and model marine organisms.

Experimental Systems

• Molecular and chemical facilities applied to marine biotechnology.
• Human cell culture chambers (biological hood type 1, incubator for human cells, microscopes).
• Rooms for microalgal growth.
• Room with 2 Bioreactors.

Analysis

• Isolation and maintenance of microalgae for potential biotechnological applications.
• Cultivation of microalgae at the small (flasks), medium (10L carboys) and large scale (photobioreactors 100 L).
• Genotyping of new species by DNA sequencing.
• Bioassays testing biological activity of extracts, fractions and pure compounds on marine model species and human cell lines.
• Antiproliferative and clonogenic bioassays against aggressive tumor cell lines.
• Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory bioassays on normal cell lines.
• Cellular senescence (anti-aging)bioassays.
• Chronic human diseases (diabetes, Alzheimer's, Crohn's disease) bioassays.
• Molecular studies at the gene and protein levels to identify specific pathways activated by bioactive compounds on human cells (retroviral transfection, PCR array, immunoblot, ELISA).
• Transcriptome analysis of microalgal species.

Equipment

• Basic instrumentation for molecular biology and protein analysis (PCR, centrifuges, electrophoresis apparatus, transilluminator, thermostatic baths, spectrophotometer, pH meter, transblot).
• Biological Type 2 hood for micralgal cultures.
• Chemical hood.
• Microscopes.
• 2 photobioreactors (100 L).

National/International Collaborations

Italy

Altergon Italia S.r.l., Avellino, Italy
Areta International S.r.l., Milano , Italy
Biogem S.c.a r.l., Avellino, Italy
CalMED Srl, Catanzaro (CZ), Italy
Ceinge Biotecnologie Avanzate Scarl, CEINGE, Napoli, Italy
Centro Regionale di Competenza in Biotecnologie Industriali BioTekNet SCpA, Napoli, Italy
CNR, Ancona, Avellino e Roma,  Italy (Dr. Vasapollo C., Dr. GianLuigi Russo)
CNR, Avellino (G.L. Russo)
CNR, Istituto di Endocrinologia ed Oncologia Sperimentale (IEOS), Napoli, Italy
CNR, Napoli (C. Verde)
CNR-Ancona (C. Vasapollo)
CNR-Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, Pozzuoli (A. Fontana, G. Villani, G. d’Ippolito)
ENEA-CREA La Spezia (S. Cocito, C. Lombardi, N. Lucey)
Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, fondazione di diritto privato, Genova, Italy
I.S.O. Istituto Superiore di Oncologia, Genova, Italy
IAMC (M. Sprovieri, S. Tamburrini, T. Alcoverro, P. Rumolo, A De Lucia)
IBAF, CNR, Legnaro (C. Calfapietra, A. Scartazza)
IBBR
IBC, CNR, Pozzuoli (G. D’Ippolito, V. Di Marzo)
IBCN CNR, Roma (C. Lanzuolo)
IBF, CNR, Pisa (C. Santinelli)
IBP-CNR. Napoli, Italy (D. DePascale)
ICB-CNR, Napoli, Italia (A. Fontana, C. Verde, G. Peluso, G. d’Ippolito, A. Cutignano)
INBIOS Srl, Napoli, Italy
INGV Napoli (G. Iannaccone)
Institute for Biomedical Technologies, ITB-CNR, Milano, Italy
ISAC, CNR, Roma (R. Santoleri)
ISMAR, Venice (M. Bastianini)
ISPRA, Livorno (I. Buttino)
ISPRA, Livorno, Italia (Dr. Isabella Buttino)
ISPRA, Livorno, Italia (I. Buttino, A. Arcancheli)
Istituto di biostrutture e bioimmagini, IBB-CNR, Napoli, Italy
Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero, Napoli, Italia (Laura Giuliano)
ITALSISTEMI S.r.l., Crotone, Italy
Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics Srl (NVD), Messina e Siena, Italy
OGS, Trieste (A. Crise, G. Civitarese and V. Tirelli)
OKAIROS, Napoli, Italy
Primm S.r.l., Milano e Napoli, Italy
Sanofi-Aventis S.p.A., Brindisi e Milano, Italy (Dott. Tiziano Croci)
SISSA, Trieste (S. Gustincich)
Takis S.r.l., Roma , Italy
Technobiochip, S.c.a r.l., Napoli, Italy

Other Countries

Accademia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (Y.H. Su)
Advanced Chemistry Development Uk Limited Acd/Labs, United Kingdom
AIMS, Townsville, Australia (N. Andreakis)
Aquapharm Biodiscovery Limited Aquapharm, United Kingdom
Asociacion Instituto Nacional De Biodiversidad Inbio, Costa Rica
AWI, Bremerhaven (U. John, V. Smetacek)
Berlin Natural Museum, Berlin, Germany (E. Ullrich-Lueter)
Biobridge Limited Biobridge, United Kingdom
Biocom, Germany
Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
Boston Children’s Hospital, USA (F. Langellotto)
Centre National de la Recherche (CNRS), Observatoire Océanologique, France (Dr.  Remi Dumollard); La Rochelle, France (Dr. Lavaud J.)
Chonbuk National Univ. Jeonju, Korea (U.H. Kim)
C-Lecta Gmbh C-Lecta, Germany
CMIMA-CSIC Barcelona, Spain (J. M. Gasol, F. Peters, M. Estrada, C. Marrasé)
CNRS Montpellier, France (P. Lemaire)
CNRS, Paris, France (S. Planes)
College of Charleston USA (G. Di Tullio)
CRG, Barcelona, Spain (M. Irimia; R. Guigò)
CSIC-Blanes, Spain (Ballesteros  E., Garrabou J.)
CSIC-Blanes, Spain (E. Ballesteros, J. Garrabou, T. Alcoverro)
CSIS, Vigo, Spain (Dr. Garrido J.L.)
Dartmouth College, Hanover NH, USA (K. Peterson)
Dead Sea-Arava Science Center, Central Arava Branch, Israel (G. Winters)
Dead Sea-Arava Science Center, Central Arava Branch, Israel (Winters G.)
Deep Tek Limited, United Kingdom
DTU-Aqua, Denmark (T. Kiorboe, A. Christensen)
EAWAG Zurich, Switzerland (F. Pomati, F. Hammes)
Ecoast Research Centre Ostend Bvba Ecoast, Belgium
ELTE, Budapest, Hungary (I. Scheuring)
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany (V. Benes)
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany (V. Benes)
ENEA-CREA La Spezia, Italy (Cocito S., Lombardi C., Lucey N.)
Fundacion Centro De Excelencia En Investigacion De Medicamentos Innovadores En Andalucia Fundación Medina, Spain (F. Reyes)
GIPREB, Etang de Berre, France (G. Bernard)
HCMR, Crete, Greece (P. Kasapidis, C. Frangoulis)
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany (H. J. Heipieper)
Hubrecht Institute-KNAW, Utrecht, The Netherlands (S. Schulte-Merker)
IEO, Gijon, Spain (M. Latasa); IFREMER, Brest, France (R. Siano)
IEO, Palma, Spain (C. Perales Raya, J. Estefanell, E. Almansa)
Institut J. Monod, Paris France (A. Pierani)
Institute Of Microbiology, Chinese Academy Of Sciences Imcas, China
IOC of Murcia, Murcia, Spain (J.M. Ruiz Fernandez)
IPMA, Lisbon, Portugal (J. Pereira)
IRIBHM ULB, Brussels, Belgium (R. Opitz)
ISIS, Univ. de Strasbourg, France (J.M. Lehn)
Istituto De Dinamica Celular Y Biotecnologia Icdb, Chile
KTH, Stockholm, Sweden (L. Brandt)
Laboratoire Clement, Paris, France (Prof Yves Menezo)
LOV, CNRS, Villefranche, France (L. Stemmann, G. Gorsky, F. d'Ortenzio)
Lund University, Lund, Sweden (D.E. Nilsson)
Macquarie Univ, Sydney, Australia (J.M.P. Joss)
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tuebingen, Germany (G. Jékely)
MBRC, Univ Baltimore, USA (M. Fiorentino)
Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography, Marseille, France (G. Gregori, M. Thyssen, M. Denis)
Meteorological Research Institute, Japan (M. Ishii)
MIT, Boston, USA (M. Follows)
MPI for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany (F. O. Glöckner)
MPIMM Bremen, Germany (F-O.Glockner, M. Richter)
MPIMM, Bremen, Germany (F.O. Glöckner)
National Institute of Sea Sciences and Technologies, Sfax, Tunisia (N. Bradai)
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark (N. Lundholm)
NIOZ, Texel, Netherlands (S. Balzano)
NY University, USA (L. Christiaen)
Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, France (H. Escriva)
Queen Mary Hospital, London, UK (M. Elphick)
RBGS, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, (D.G. Mann)
Research Division Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Canada (M. Poulin)
RIKEN CDB, Japan (J. Pascual-Anaya, S. Kuratani)
SAHFOS, Plymouth, UK (C. Castellani and P. Licandro)
SARS, Bergen, Norway (A. Hejnol)
SBR Roscoff, France (B. Kloareg, N. Simon, I. Probert, D. Vaulot, F. Not, C. De Vargas)
Sealife Pharma Gmbh, Austria (A. Pretsch)
Stanford University, CA USA (F. Micheli)
Station Biologique de Roscoff, Roscoff, France (S. Mazan)
TGAC, Norwich, UK (M. Caccamo)
The Royal Society of Chemistry Rsc, United Kingdom
Tohoku Univ. Asamushi, Japan (K. Kyozuka)
Union Internationale Pour La Conservation De La Nature Et De Ses Ressources Iucn Elc, Switzerland
Univ Adelaide, Australia (M. Lardelli)
Universitat Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (P. Martinez; G. Fernández)
University College London, London, UK (P. Olivieri)
University of Bath, UK (R. Kelsh)
University of California, USA, (N. Holland)
University of Koln, Germany (M. Hammerschmidt)
University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain (L. Puelles; J.L. Ferran)
University of Washington, USA (B.J. Swalla)
UPMC-CNRS, Villefranche-sur-mer, France (S. Tiozzo, C. Hudson, H. Yasuo, R. Dumollard)
UPO, Siviglia, Spagna (J.R.M. Morales)
Vienna University, Vienna, Austria (U. Technau)
Zoologisches Forschungmuseum A. Koenig, Bonn, Germany (T. Krapp-Schickel)

Collaborations with Universities

Italian Universities

Seconda Università di Napoli, Napoli, Italy
U. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy (P. Melià e R. Casagrandi)
UNICAL, Cosenza, Italy (I. Serra)
UniParthenope, Napoli Italy (G. F. Russo)
Univ. Di Messina, Messina, Italy (L. Guglielmo)
Univ. Federico II, Napoli, Italia (S. Cozzolino, C. Agnisola, G. Guerriero, A. Amoresano, L. Tutino, V. Costantini, O. Mangoni)
Univ. of Naples, Caserta, Italy (M. De Stefano)
Univ. of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (F. Bulleri, P. Luchi)
Univ. of Roma ’Tor Vergata’, Roma, Italy (L. Migliore)
Univ. of Sassari, Italy (G. Ceccherelli)
Univ. of Verona, Verona, Italy (M. Delle Donne)
Univ. Padova, Padova, Italy (L. Zane)
Univ. Roma, "La Sapienza"” Rome, Italy (S. Espa)
Università degli studi della Calabria, Rende, Italy (A. Gattuso, M.C. Cerra)
Università degli studi di Padova, Padova, Italy (F. Cima)
Università degli studi di Parma, Parma, Italy (P. Ferrari, L. Fogassi)
Università degli Studi di Salerno, Salerno, Italy (A. Weisz)
Università degli studi di Trento, Trento, Italy (I. Mancini, G. Vallortigara)
Università degli Studi Magna Graecia di Catanzaro, Catanzaro (CZ) , Italy
Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy (Prof. Giangrande A., Lezzi M.)
Università del Sannio, Benevento, Italy (L. Canzoniero, L. Cerulo, M. Ceccarelli)
Università della Basilicata, Italia (Prof. Raffaele Boni)
Università della Basilicata, Italy (R. Boni)
Università di Bari, Bari, Italy (G. Pesole)
Università di Bologna, Bologna (Prof.s Colangelo M.A., Ceccherelli V.U., Goffredo S.)
Università di Genova, Italy (Prof. Canesi L.)
Università di Messina, Messina, Italy
Università di Milano –Bicocca, Milano, Italy
Università di Napoli Federico II, CRIACQ (Portici), Italy (Dr. Graziani G.)
Università di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Farmacia,  Napoli, Italia (Valeria Costantino)
Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy (Vizzini T., Ricevuto E.)
Università di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy (Dr. Caruso T., Dr. Dal Piaz F.)
Università di Siena, Siena, Italy
Università Federico II, Napoli, Italia (C. Arena, L. Corsaro, G. Graziani, A. Amoresano, L. Tutino)
Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy (V. Costantino, L. Cigliano, A. Donizetti, C. Agnisola, L. Fucci, F. Aniello, G. De Vita, G. Guerriero)
Università la Sapienza, Roma, Italy (M. Toni, M. Oliverio)
Università Parthenope, Napoli, Italy (Prof. Russo G.F.)
Università Politecnico delle Marche, Ancona, Italy (Prof. Regoli F.)
University of Bologna: Prof.s Colangelo M.A., Ceccherelli V.U., Goffredo S.
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy (S. Zupo, P. Rivaro)
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy (S Lo Brutto)
University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy (T. Vizzini, E. Ricevuto)
University of Salento - Lecce: Prof. Giangrande A., Lezzi M.
University Parthenope, Napoli, Italy (G.F. Russo, M. Uttieri, E. Zambianchi)
University Politechniche delle Marche – Ancona, Italy (F. Regoli, A. Pusceddu)

Foreign Universities

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Dtu, Denmark
ECIM, Universidad Cattolica de Chile; Chile (P. von Dassov)
ENS, Paris, France (C. Bowler, S. Speich)
EULA Center, Universidad de Concepción, Chile (V. Aguilera Ramos)
Hopkins Marine Station - Stanford University, Ca, USA (Prof. Micheli F.)
Institute of Marine Biology, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan (Jiang-Shiou Hwang)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven K.U., Leuven, Belgium
Lund University, Lund, Sweden (G. Bianco)
National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan (Jiang-Shiou Hwang)
Princeton University, Princeton, USA (K.B. Rodgers)
RUG, Groningen, The Netherlands (J. L. Olsen)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Denmark (T. Ostenfeld Larsen)
Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Lyngby, Denmark (T. Ostenfeld Larsen)
The University Court Of The University Of Aberdeen Uniabdn, United Kingdom (M. Jaspars)
UEA, Norwich, UK (T. Mock)
Univ. Arizona, Tucson, USA (M. Sullivan)
Univ. Barcelona, Spain (J. Romero, C. Canestro)
Univ. of Algarve, Faro, Portugal (J. Silva and R. Santos)
Univ. of Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (A. Estomba)
Univ. of Maine, Orono, USA (E. Boss, L. Karp-Boss)
Univ. of Nizza, France (L. Mangialajo)
Univ. of Stockholm, Sweden (R. Caballero, M. Bjork)
Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia (H. González)
Universidade De Santiago De Compostela Usc, Spain
Università di Pamukkale e DEKAMER Sea Turtle Research Centre, Dalyan, Mugla, Turchia, (Y. Kaska)
Université de Sfax, Sfax, Tunisia (K. Belghith)
Universitetet I Tromsoe Uot,  Norway (J. Andersen)
University Ben Gurion, Beer Sheva, Israel (A. Sagi)
University California Santa Cruz, Ca, USA (K. Kroeker)
University College Cork, National University Of Ireland, Cork Ucc, Ireland (A. Dobson)
University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (C. Canestro)
University of California Santa Cruz, Ca, USA (Kroeker K.)
University of Concepción, Concepcion, Chile (C. Lange)
University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium (W. Vyverman, K. Sabbe, O. DeClerck, L. Clement)
University of Goteborg, Goteborg, Sweden (A. Godhe, E. Selander, L. Turner)
University of Goteborg, Sweden (Turner L.)
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (A. Kremp)
University of Koeln. Koeln, Germany (E. von Elert)
University of Malta, Malta (J-A. Borg)
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA (J.T. Turner)
University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA (J. T. Turner)
University of Quebec Rimouski, Canada (Calosi P.)
University of Rio del Janeiro, Argentina (M. Bastos)
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia (E. Graham)
University Of The Western Cape Uwc South Africa
University of Trento, Italy (Prof. Ines Mancini)
University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain (Dr. Fernandez  F.)
University Of Waikato Uow, New Zealand
University of Wien. Vienna, Austria (K. Wittmann)
University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia (S. Bosak)
University of Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland (F. Jüttner)
University Quebec Rimouski, Canada (P. Calosi)
University Queen Mary, London, UK (Prof. Ruban A.V.)
UPMC, Paris, France (A. Falciatore)
Wuhan University Whu, China 

Tenders and contracts (In Italian Only)

Job calls

Organization of the Institutional research activity (Flagship Projects) among the research sections of the Stazione Zoologica

Grant and Innovation Office Coordinator: Giorgio Carpino

Grant and Innovation Office Staff: Giosuè Zurzolo, Ornella Papaluca, Alberto Corona, Valerio Mattera, Valeria Mancusi

The SZN Grant and Innovation Office (GIO) offers support to SZN members on looking for funding opportunities, developing their ideas and expoiting the results of their research. 

We will help you to take the next step, either for research or for the market. 

Do you need support to delevop your ideas? This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to book an appointment

New opportunities	·	Funding your research	·	Developing your ideas	·	Expanding your network

Strategic advice for your research – funding your research

GIO staff aims at maximising the capacity of SZN researchers to obtain external funding for their research. We provide you with support for:

• Scouting for international and national calls, opportunities, training programmes
• Identifying the most promising funding schemes for your research idea and career stage 
• Maintenance of statistics on research funding at the SZN
• Publicizing opportunities and research related events to the SZN research community

Project Management – funding your research

Based on previous experience of management of large national and international projects, we can help you with:

• Understanding the regulations of the funding agencies
• Developing and establishing research networks
• Preparing the proposal (in terms of budget planning, project management preparation, workplan and impact) 
• Managing the application process, by clarifying inquiries, reading, giving feedback and commenting on applications
• Definition of a Project Management and a Dissemination and Exploitation plan of the project
• Negotiation of terms and conditions for a successful proposal
• Implementation of an efficient project management in all administrative, legal, and financial matters
• Submission of progress reports and financial statements to the funding agency

Patenting, licensing, property right and Innovation advice – develop your ideas

Our innovation advisors have a good knowledge of promotion, commercialization, product development, business development, technology transfer and intellectual property rights. We support you in developing your ideas through the evaluation process towards a possible patent. This means, for example, that we:

• Help you to design, present and formulate your ideas
• Identify potential patents from SZN research results
• Submit to the internal evaluation Commission the potential patenting ideas
• Manage the relationship with SZN administrative offices and external consultants
• Define an Exploitation plan
• Promote and manage the relationship with stakeholders
• Prepare and sign of patents-related contracts
• Manage the patents portfolio of the SZN  
• Maintain statistics on research services and patents by the SZN

SZN has an Industrial Property Regulation implementing the changes introduced by Law No. 102 of July 24, 2023 "Amendments to the Industrial Property Code, referred to in Legislative Decree No. 30 of February 10, 2005" available at the following link: REGULATION

The list of documents on the topics of Protection and Exploitation of Research Results and the templates to be filled out to file a new patent application is in the following:

01. Patent filing request form
02. Disclosure of invention
03. Non Disclosure Agreement - NDA
04. Material and Data Transfer Agreement - MTDA
05. Agreement of joint ownership of Patent

All mentioned documents are available, in Italian and English version, at the following link: FORMS

External contracts - expand your network

Research activities can be conducted in the framework of external contracts with public and private institutes. These contracts can be institutional and involve different entities and structures of SZN. Alternatively, they can be referred to specific research activities. These contracts are not confined to research agreements, but can also cover such things as the exchange of confidential information, datasets, research tools or materials and terms and conditions for research projects. 

GIO staff, depending on the case, will support several activities, for example:  

• Preparing the administrative documents 
• Developing and establishing of the partnership participating to the activities (in case of institutional contracts) and its coordination
• Defining the budget
• Defining the contracts

Training and networking events 

• Organizing and conducting workshops on scouting, proposal preparation, patenting and develop new business (spin-off)
• Organizing and conducting workshops on specific funding opportunities
• Contact point with APRE and other Agencies

Contact: gio(at)szn.it

You can download the PDF presentation about us here

Grand and Innovation Office Contacts

Giorgio Carpino: giorgio.carpino(at)szn.it, +39 081 5833231

Giosuè Zurzolo: giosue.zurzolo(at)szn.it, +39 081 5833341

Ornella Papaluca: ornella.papaluca(at)szn.it, +39 081 5833366

Alberto Corona: alberto.corona(at)szn.it

Valerio Mattera: valerio.mattera(at)szn.it, +39 081 5833 367

Valeria Mancusi: valeria.mancusi(at)szn.it, +39 388 800 46 08

AmphioxusNOS - Marie Curie Career Integration Grant (FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG)

Corbel - Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science Services

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

FIRB, MIUR-Cineca - Non-Coding RNA Explosion: Novel Implications in Neurotrophin Biology

MouZeCLINIC - Empowering an integrated platform for the study of human diseases with great impact by means of system phenotyping of model animals: mouse and zebrafish clinic

Neptune - Multidisciplinarity training in evo-devo and neurobiology of marine animal models

PANTRAC - Gut patterning and PANcreas development in evolution and disease: a TRAnsCriptomic approach

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The first public aquarium in Italy

Entering the historic public Aquarium of Naples, the oldest still functioning, designed to show the ecosystems and biodiversity of the Gulf of Naples and more generally of the Mediterranean and their possible evolution in relation to changes, means crossing the threshold of time and diving in the dream of its founder, the zoologist Anton Dohrn, to provide and disseminate knowledge of the underwater world.
The Aquarium, in fact, was inaugurated in 1874 only two years after the foundation of the Zoological Station itself, "the great hotel of scientists", as Benedetto Croce defined it, which took place in March 1872, to fulfill the triple function of live observation of the sea, entertainment and research funding.

Flora and fauna of the Gulf of Naples

Students, scientists and researchers from all over the world came to Naples to analyze and study animals live and in their natural environment. Just a few steps were enough to leave your rented study table, equipped with a very rich instrumentation, to find yourself face to face with the subject of your own research, living or "fixed" by the skilled hands of the conservators of the Stazione Zoologica, first of all Salvatore Lo Bianco.

Located on the ground floor, the Aquarium was connected, and still is today, directly to the sea by an underground channel. The engineering work was entrusted to the English William Alford Lloyd, who had already developed the aquariums in London and Hamburg. The exhibition rooms received natural light from the side windows and skylights and the semi-darkness thus generated made the visit even more immersive.

Today the architectural layout has remained unchanged. The restoration and necessary modernization works, have allowed the maintenance of the ancient exhibition tanks dedicated to the environments of the Gulf of Naples and the peculiarities of its marine life, equipping them with the most modern and sophisticated technological systems to ensure the well-being of the organisms that populate it. At the same time it shows a great novelty, represented by the large central tanks hosting the tropical coral reef, the vision of a possible change in the Mediterranean induced by environmental changes.

Discovering the Aquarium

The journey inside the Aquarium will then lead the visitors to discover the sea, from the coast to the open sea, between caves and ravines, along seagrass meadows, passing from the coralligenous to the abyss, from the pelagic environment, also inhabited by alien species, from Mediterranean reefs to tropical formations. Of particular interest will be the murenarium, which represents the breeding structures of moray eels (murenari) designed by the ancient Romans and well preserved in the submerged archaeological area of ​​Gaiola in Capo Posillipo. Another novelty is the octopus tank, an extraordinary ancient organism that has a life cycle of about two years and an intelligence similar to that of mammals.

The knowledge of the richness of the sea and of the biodiversity it contains, as well as of all its wonders, must lead each of us to the awareness of its importance for our very survival. To protect it and manage it in an eco-sustainable way, we need to know it and even today our knowledge is not complete.
Dohrn's dream has never ceased, the scientific and cultural climate of his Stazione Zoologica, currently the National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, considered in an international ranking among the best 20 Scientific Research Institutes in the world, has reached us and allows us to look at life and the mysteries of the underwater world with open eyes.