Giulia
Cheloni
PhD student
Téléphone:
+41 22 379 0336
Curriculum vitae
| september 2011 | PhD student Institut Forel, University of Geneva, Switzerland “Metal Bioavailability to aquatic photosynthetic organisms in Changing Environment (BioChEn)“ |
EDUCATION
| 2007–2010 | M.S. Degree in Molecular Biotechnoloy (110/110 Magna cum laude), University of Florence, Italy |
| 2003–2007 | Bachelor Degree in Industrial and Environmental Biotechnology (108/110) University of Florence, Italy |
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
| September 2010 - August 2011 | Assegno di ricerca Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Microbiology section, University of Florence.
Evaluation of the influence of different bacterial strain on growth and stability of marine microalgal culture. |
| 2009-2010 | Master student Thesis Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Microbiology section, University of Florence. Characterization of bacterial communities associated to laboratory and outdoor cultures of the microlga Tetraselmis suecica. |
| February 2008 - April 2010 | Junior fellowship Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Microbiology section, University of Florence.
Participation in a privately funded project with two grants entitled “Study of microalgal diversity for industrial and pharmaceutical applications” and “Study of natural algal communities and isolation of strain for agricultural and dietary pourposes” |
| 2006-2007 | Bachelor Student Thesis Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Florence, Lab of Microbial and Molecular Evolution. Identification of transposition events on Acinetobacter venetianus plasmids carrying genes involved in diesel oil degradation. |
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
| 2007-2008 | OpenLab Instructor University of Florence Involved in the Openlab project realized by the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Science of the University of Florence for the disclosure and dissemination of scientific culture among young students. |
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE
| Microbiology: | Basics knowledge of algal taxonomy and classification. Bacteria and Microalgae isolation, culture (from laboratory scale to mass cultures) and growth determination. Optical and fluorescence microscopy utilization. Bench top reactor utilization. |
| Molecular Biology: | DNA extraction and purification techniques, PCR, ARDRA, T-RFLP, plasmid purification, high molecular weight plasmid isolation, restriction mapping, DNA ligation and E. coli transformation, in silico sequence analysis. |
CONTRIBUTION TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
G. Cheloni, N. Biondi, G. Chini Zittelli, G. Padovani, C. Viti, F. Decorosi, E. Tatti, L. Rodolfi, M.R. Tredici. Bacterial Communities Associated to Outdoor Cultures of the Marine Microalga Tetraselmis suecica. Second Florence Conference on Phenotype Microarray Analysis of microorganisms, Florence 13-15 september 2010 (poster presentation).
G. Padovani, L. Rodolfi, G. Cheloni, C. Viti, M.R. Tredici. Characterization of bacterial communities associated with cultures of Nannochloropsis sp. F&M-24. Second Florence Conference on Phenotype Microarray Analysis of microorganisms, Florence 13-15 September 2010 (poster presentation).
G. Cheloni, N. Biondi, G. Chini Zittelli, G. Padovani, C. Viti, F. Decorosi, L. Giovannetti, L. Rodolfi, M.R. Tredici. Community structure and phylogenetic variability of bacteria associated to a Tetraselmis suecica outdoor mass culture. 4th congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology, Halifax 19-24 june 2011 (poster presentation).
G. Padovani, L. Rodolfi, G. Cheloni, C. Viti, N. Biondi, L. Giovannetti, M. Rosso, M.R. Tredici. Characterization of the bacterial community associated with Nannochloropsis cultures: influence on growth and productivity. 4th congress of the International Society for Applied Phycology, Halifax 19-24 june 2011 (oral presentation).
ATTENDED COURSES
2nd SItEMICRO course on “Detection and Quantification of Microbes in Natural Environment”, Rome 18-21 may 2010.
ATTENDED CONFERENCES
- “Second Meeting of Italian Evolutionary Biologists” Florence 4-7 September 2006.
- “Florence Conference on Phenotype Microarray Analysis of microorganisms” Florence 19-21 March 2008.
- “Microbial fuel cell” Symposium, Florence, 8th May 2009
- First EABA (European Algae Biomass Association) Conference, Florence 3-4 June 2009. “Second Florence Conference on Phenotype Microarray Analysis of microorganisms” Florence 13-15 September 2010.
- “Algae Europe 2010” Conference and Expo, Milan, 27th October 2010.
- “11th International Conference on the Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements” Florence 3-7 July 2011.
CERTIFICATES and LICENSES
- Driving license
- SNSI certificated scuba diver