Molecular plant development (root, reproductive organs, seed germination, proline signaling, signalosome); plant genomics; plant biotechnology; plant oncogenes. |
Root development Moubayidin, L., Perilli, S., Dello Ioio, R., Di Mambro, R., Costantino, P. and Sabatini, S. (2010) The growth phase of the Arabidopsis root meristem is controlled by the rate of cell differentiation, Current Biology, 20, 1138–1143.
Dello Ioio, R., Nakamura, K., Moubayidin, L., Perilli, S., Taniguchi, M., Morita, M., Aoyama, T., Costantino, P. and Sabrina Sabatini, S. (2008) A genetic framework for the control of cell division and differentiation in the root meristem, Science, 322, 1380-1384.
Dello Ioio, R., Scaglia Linhares, F., Scacchi, E., Casamitjana- Martinez, E., Heidstra, R., Costantino, P. and Sabatini, S. (2007) Cytokinins determine Arabidopsis root meristem size by controlling cell differentiation. Current Biology, 17, 678-682.
Reproductive organs Cecchetti, V., Altamura, M.M. Falasca, G. Costantino, P. and Cardarelli, M (2008) Auxin regulates Arabidopsis anther dehiscence, pollen maturation and filament elongation. Plant Cell, 20, 1760-1774.
Cecchetti, V., Altamura, M.M., Serino, G., Pomponi, M., Falasca, G. Costantino, P. and Cardarelli, M. (2007) ROX1, a gene induced by rolB is involved in procambial cell proliferation and xylem differentiation in tobacco stamen. Plant Journal, 49, 27-37.
Seed germination Rizza, A., Boccaccini, A., Lopez-Vidriero, I., Costantino P. and Vittorioso, P. (2011) Inactivation of the ELIP1 and ELIP2 genes affects Arabidopsis seed germination. New Phytologist 190, 896-905.
Gabriele, S., Rizza, A., Martone, J., Circelli, P., Costantino, P. and Vittorioso, P. (2010) The Dof protein DAG1 mediates PIL5 activity on seed germination by negatively regulating the GA biosynthetic gene AtGA3ox1. Plant Journal, 61, 312-323.
Proline signaling Mattioli, R., Costantino, P. and Trovato, M. (2009) Proline accumulation in plants: not only stress. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 4, 1016-1018.
Mattioli, R., Marchese, D., D'Angeli, S., Altamura, M.M., Costantino, P. and Trovato, M. (2008) Modulation of intracellular proline levels affects flowering time and inflorescence architecture in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol Biol, 66, 277-288.
Biotechnology Brunetti, P., Zanella, L., Proia, A., De Paolis, A., Falasca, G., Altamura, M.M., Sanità di Toppi, L., Costantino, P. and Cardarelli, M. (2011) Cadmium tolerance and phytochelatin content of Arabidopsis seedlings overexpressing the phytochelatin synthase gene AtPCS1. Journal of Experimental Botany, first published online: August 12, 2011 1 |
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Education 1971Laurea in Chemistry cum laude, University La Sapienza, Rome
Positions Since 1990Full Professor of Molecular Biology, University La Sapienza 1986-1990 Associate Professor of Molecular Biology, University La Sapienza 1979-1986 Eniricerche staff scientist, c/o University La Sapienza 1975-1978 Eniricerche staff scientist, Monterotondo (RM) 1972-1975 Post-doctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CA,USA)
Awards & Honors Since 2007Member, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Since 1996Member, EMBO 1993Gold medal for natural sciences, Italian National Academy of XL 1974 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Award
Appointments & Committees 2010-to date Scientific representative of the Ministry of Research (MIUR) in ERA-Net ERA-CAPS 2009-to dateMember of the MIUR Committee for International Research Strategies 2008-to dateAssociate Editor of BMC Plant Biology 2007-to dateRepresentative of MIUR in the Italian Scientific Platform Food for Life 2007-to dateMember of the Board of Directors of the Italian Scientific Platform Plants for the Future 2007-to dateItalian Delegate for Theme 2, Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology, EU FP7 2004-to dateCoordinator of the Italian Network for Plant genomics (IPGN) 2002-to dateMember of the Board of Directors, Institut Pasteur of Rome 1998-to date Member of the Board of Directors and Scientific Committee of CNBMP 2008-2011Member of the Scientific Committee, Food and Nutrition National Research Inst. (INRAN) 2007-2009Member of the Research Commission, Ateneo Federato della Scienza e Tecnologia 2004-2009Scientific representative of MIUR in ERA-Net Plant Genomics 2005 Member of the EMBO Panel for the evaluation of CNB, CSIC, Madrid 2002-2005Member of the Board of Directors, EPSO (European Plant Science Organization) 2002 Member of the Evaluation Committee, Fundação Ciencia e Tecnologia, Portugal 2001-2005Member of the Scientific Committee, University of Siena 2001-2003Member of the EMBO E-BioSci Committee 1998 Member of the EMBO Panel for the evaluation of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1995-2001 Director of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, University La Sapienza 1995-1997 Member of the Fellowship Committee, Human Frontier Science Program Organization 1992-1998 President of the National University Consortium for Plant Molecular Biology (CNBMP) |