Erica Di Pierro

Environmental Biotechnologies platform

Sustainable Agro-Ecosystems and Bioresources Department

Research and Innovation Centre - Fondazione Edmund Mach

Via E. Mach 1, 38010 - S. Michele all’Adige (TN), Italia

phone +39 0461 615 379

e-mail: erica.dipierro@iasma.it

Education and training

2009-present PhD student, Analysis, management and conservation of biodiversity, Univesity of Insubria

2008-2009 Research Assistant (Fondazione I.R.R.C.S. Istituto Neurologico  Carlo Besta Scholarship), Neurological Institute C. Besta, Milan

2006-2007 Mres Quantitative genetics and Genome analysis (Marie-Curie EST Fellowship), University of Edinburgh

Master dissertation: Phylogenetic analysis in oak gallwasps: patterns of evolution in oak gallwasps (under the supervision of Prof. Graham Stone)

1999-2005 Degree in Biological Sciences (equivalent to BSc. honours Biology plus Mres Ecology), University of Milan

Research activity

My PhD research project is carried on within the ACE-SAP (ALPINE ECOSYSTEMS IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT: BIODIVERSITY SENSITIVITY AND ADAPTIVE POTENTIAL). The aim of my study will be to test a wide array of candidate genes for the most common abiotic stresses (e.g. drought, cold, nutrient availability, illumination), for correlation with environmental parameters characterizing different populations of Picea abies on the Italian Alps.

Research interests

My research interests rely primarily within the field of Molecular Ecology Evolutionary genetics and Behavioural ecology.

PhD data

University and Department: Università dell'Insubria

PhD Schools/Programme: Analisi, Protezione e Gestione delle Biodiversità

PhD project/thesis: Adaptive genetics in natural population of Norway spruce in the Italian Alps

PhD Advisors: dott. Nicola La Porta (FEM), prof. Giorgio Binelli (Università Insubria)