Education
PhD
University of Padova
October 2020 – present
PhD programme in Biosciences – Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Supervisor: Prof. Tomas Morosinotto
Master’s degree
University of Padova
October 2018 – October 2020
MSc in Molecular Biology
Awards and Scholarships
- Seed Grant 2021 by the Italian Society of Plant Biology (SIBV)
- PhD scholarship by the Department of Biology (UniPD)
Talks and posters
Oral presentations
- “Genetic inactivation of mitochondrial complex IV in Physcomitrium patens
3rd-6th July 2023 (Marseille, FR)
Plant Biology Europe 2023 – PBE23, organized by the Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB)
- “Healthy mitochondria are needed for plants optimal photosynthetic performance: the role of respiration in plant bioenergetics and primary metabolism”
22nd-24th February 2023 (Bertinoro, IT)
Workshop on Plant Biology 2023, organized by the Italian Society of Plant Biology (SIBV)
- “Oxygraphy in photosynthetic organisms. Hansatech vs. Oroboros”
26th February 2021 (Padova, IT)
- “Applications of the NextGen-O2k PhotoBiology Module”
15th-16th July 2020 (Innsbruck, AT)
NextGen-O2k Event Photobiology, Oroboros Instruments
Posters
- Vera-Vives AM, Mellon M, Novél P, Zheng K, Gurrieri L, Sparla F, Schwarzländer M, Alboresi A, Morosinotto T. “Healthy mitochondria are needed for optimal photosynthetic performance of plants: the role of respiration in plant bioenergetics”.
May 2022
12th International Conference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology (ICPMB), Malmö, Sweden.
- Vera-Vives AM, Mellon M, Novél P, Zheng K, Gurrieri L, Sparla F, Schwarzländer M, Alboresi A, Morosinotto T. “Consequences of the inactivation of Complex I and Complex IV in the plant model Physcomitrium patens”.
July 2022
Bioblast 2022, Inaugural Conference of Bioenergetics Communications. Innsbruck, Austria.