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Claudia
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Vannini
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Researcher
at the University of Pisa, Department
of Biology,
Protistology-Zoology
Unit Via
A. Volta 4/6, 56126
Pisa
,
Italy tel.
+390502211358 fax
+390502211393
E-mail:
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Studi e formazione:
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1999:
Degree (Master equivalent) in Biological Sciences at the
University
of
Pisa
with the mark 110/110 cum laude.
2000:
Qualification for Biologist freelance activity.
2000:
Qualification for secondary school teaching (Chemical, Physical,
Natural Sciences and Geography).
2004:
Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Evolutionary Biology at the University of
Pisa.
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Incarichi, attività didattica
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2001-2003:
Fellowship from the
University
of
Pisa
for the PhD course in Evolutionary Biology.
2004:
Research period at the
Limnology Institute of the
Austrian
Academy
of Sciences.
2004: EMBO (European
Molecular Biology Organization) fellowship
for a research period at the Microbiology Institute of
the Technical University of Munich (
Freising
,
Germany
).
2004-2005:
Fellowship of the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung for a research period at the Microbiology Institute of the Technical
University of Munich (
Freising
,
Germany
).
2007:
Research period at the Limnology Institute of the
Austrian
Academy
of Sciences.
2007:
Research activities for the Civil Engineering Department of
University of
Florence
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2007-present:
Ricercatore in Zoology at the Faculty of Sciences (Department of
Biology),
University
of
Pisa
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Sintesi delle
attività
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Current
research interests: Symbiosis
between prokaryotes and ciliate protists; phylogeny of symbiotic
bacteria and of protist hosts; microbial communities’
characterization from wastewater treatment plants or polluted
environments.
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Pubblicazioni recenti selezionate
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Vannini
C.,
Schena, A., Verni F. & Rosati G. 2004. Euplotes magnicirratus
(Ciliophora, Hypotrichia) depends on its bacterial symbionts
"Candidatus Devosia euplotis" for a
successful digestive process. Aquat.
Microb. Ecol., 36 (1): 19-28.
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Vannini
C.,
Petroni G., Verni F. & Rosati G. 2005. Polynucleobacter
bacteria in the brackish–water species Euplotes harpa
(Ciliata, Hypotrichia). J.
Eukaryot. Microbiol., 52(2): 116-122.
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Vannini
C., Petroni G., Verni F. & Rosati G.
2005. A
bacterium belonging to the Rickettsiaceae family inhabits the
cytoplasm of the marine ciliate Diophrys appendiculata
(Ciliophora, Hypotrichia). Microb. Ecol., 49:
434-442.
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Vannini,
C., Pockl, M., Petroni, G., Qinlong, W., Lang, E.,
Stackebrandt, E., Schrallhammer, M., Richardson, P. &
hahn, M. 2007. Endosymbiosis
in statu nascendi: close phylogenetic relationship between
obligately endosymbiotic and obligately free-living
Polynucleobacter strains (Betaproteobacteria). Environm.
Microbiol.,
9 (2): 347-359.
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Vannini,
C.,
Lucchesi, S. & Rosati, G. 2007. Polynucleobacter:
Symbiotic bacteria in ciliates compensate for a genetic
disorder in glycogenolysis.
Symbiosis, 44: 85-91.
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Vannini,
C., Munz,
G., Mori, G., Lubello, C., Verni, F., Petroni, G. 2008. Sulphide
oxidation to elemental sulphur in a membrane bioreactor:
Performance and characterization of the selected microbial
sulphur-oxidizing community. Systematic and Applied
Microbiology, 31: 461-473.
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