CURRICULUM VITAE

last update: Oct 15, 1999

Carlo Rosati

Place and date of birth: Rome; October 2, 1966.

Work address: ISF - 2, v. Punta di Ferro - Pal. SME - 47100 Forlì, Italy
tel/fax: +39-(0)543-722.864/692
E-mail: carlo_rosati@hotmail.com

Degrees:

February 25, 1992: BS cum laude in Agriculture, University of Bologna, Italy.
December 11, 1997: PhD Thesis, University of Paris VI, Paris, France.

Awards:

1995: SIGA (Italian Society of Agricultural Genetics) Annual Prize for the best article (Rosati et al., 1994) issued from a BS work in genetics published in an international review.

Foreign Languages and Courses:

Excellent knowledge of English (both spoken and written):

July 1984: four-week advanced English course at Language Studies Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA
1988-89: six-month advanced English course at Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy
July 9, 1993: TOEFL exam (647 points)
March 6, 1997: TOEFL exam (623 points)

Very good knowledge of French (both spoken and written)


Research activity:

1987: 40-day stay as volunteer assistant at USDA-ARS Appalachian Fruit Research Station of Kearneysville, West Virginia, USA (referent: dr. D.L. Peterson). Research activity concerned stone- (peach), pip- (apple) and small- (brambles) fruit harvester prototype experimentation, as well as post-harvest fruit quality analyses.
1989-92: BS thesis on maize in vitro cultures (transl. title: Recurrent selection for regeneration capacity from calli of maize) at Istituto di Agronomia e Colture Erbacee, University of Bologna, Italy (tutors: prof. P. Landi and prof. R. Tuberosa).
1992: preliminary survey at Dipartimento di Colture Arboree, University of Bologna, Italy on agronomic performance of new European and Japanese plum cultivars in the Po Valley and in central Italy. Research activity also concerned fruit quality analyses.
1993: six-month stage at INRA Station of Angers (France) on protoplast technology.
1994: INRA "Pre-Doc" grant at INRA Station of Angers on protoplast technology.
1995-97: INRA PhD thesis on flavonoid metabolism in Forsythia (tutor: Mr. M. Duron).
1995: 10-day stay at INRA Station of Avignon-Montfavet, France (referent: dr. M.-J- Amiot) on HPLC analyses of flavonoids.
1996: 20-day stay at University of Munich at Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany (referent: prof. G. Forkmann) on enzymatic analyses of flavonoids.
1998-99: Post-Doc at ENEA Casaccia, Rome, Italy (referent: prof. G. Giuliano) on molecular biology (gene cloning, gene expression analyses, genetic transformation) of carotenoid pathway of tomato and arabidopsis.
1999-2001: 2.5-year contract at ISF (Experimental Fruit Tree Breeding Station) Forlì, Italy (referent: Dr. W. Faedi) on fruit (apple, pear and strawberry) breeding and research on alternative methods to the use of methyl bromide (POM project).

Published works:

Rosati C., Tuberosa R., Lucchese C., 1992. Selezione ricorrente per capacità rigenerativa in calli di mais. Proceed. XXXVI SIGA Ann. Congr., Metaponto (MT), Italy, 53.
Rosati C., Selli R., Baldassarri T., 1993. Osservazioni su varietà di susino cino-giapponese ed europeo in Emilia-Romagna e Marche nel 1992. Frutticoltura 55 (7-8): 33-40.
Rosati C., Landi P., Tuberosa R., 1994. Recurrent selection for regeneration capacity from immature embryo-derived calli in maize. Crop Science 34: 343-347.
Rosati C., Ochatt S.J., 1994. Establishing strategies for stem-derived protoplast culture in different Pyrus communis L. genotypes. VIII IAPTC Congress, Florence, Italy, S1-88.
Duron M., Rosati C., Renou J.-P., Cadic A., 1995. Genetic transformation of Forsythia x intermedia cv. "Spring Glory" with a DFR gene of A. majus. Proceed. XXXIX SIGA Ann. Congr., Vasto Marina (CH), Italy, 71-72.
Rosati C., Cadic A., Renou J.-P., Duron M., 1996. Regeneration and Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Forsythia x intermedia "Spring Glory". Plant Cell Reports 16 (1-2): 114-117.
Rosati C., Cadic A., Duron M., Renou J.-P., Simoneau P., 1997. Molecular cloning and expression analysis of dihydroflavonol 4-reductase gene in flower organs of Forsythia x intermedia. Plant Molecular Biology 35: 303-311.
Rosati C., Cadic A., Duron M., Simoneau P., 1997. Flavonoid biosynthesis gene expression regulation in Forsythia x intermedia cv. 'Spring Glory'. Proceed. XLI SIGA Ann. Congr., Abbadia di Fiastra (MC), Italy, 196.
Rosati C., Duron M., Simoneau P., Cadic A., 1998. Towards novel flower colors in Forsythia by genetic engineering. Proceed. XIV Eucarpia Meeting (section: Ornamental Plants), Angers, France, 7.
Rosati C., Cadic A., Duron M., Amiot M.-J., Tacchini M., Martens S., Forkmann G., 1998. Flavonoid metabolism in Forsythia. Plant Science 139(2): 133-140.
Rosati C., 1999. Alternatives to methyl bromide for strawberry culture in South Italy. L'Informatore Agrario: 38: 76.
Rosati C., Cadic A., Duron M., Ingouff M., Simoneau P., 1999. Molecular characterization of the anthocyanidin synthase gene in Forsythia x intermedia reveals organ-specific expression during flower development. Plant Science: 149(1): 73-79.

Seminars:

"Theoretical and applied aspects of gene expression analysis in the flavonoid pathway of Forsythia". University of Bologna, May 16, 1996 (referent: prof. R. Tuberosa).
"Expression analyses of flavonoid pathway genes in Forsythia as a tool for molecular breeding". University of Munich at Freising-Weihenstephan, October 23, 1996 (referent: prof. G. Forkmann).
"Regulation of flavonoid pathway gene expression in Forsythia". ENEA Casaccia, Rome, March 26, 1997 (referent: dr. G. Giuliano).

Participation to Courses and Congresses:

Scientific meeting "Recombinant DNA technologies applied to animals, vegetals and micro-organisms of industrial and agricultural interest: state of the art in Italy" Cortona (AR), Italy, October 29-31, 1990.
XXXV SIGA (Italian Soc. of Agriculture Genetics) Ann. Congr.; Pisa, Italy, September 23-26, 1991.
Course Plant Molecular Engineering ; Rome, Italy, November 18-20, 1991.
Course Molecular Biology of Plants ; Cividale del Friuli (UD), Italy, July 5-11, 1992.
XXXVI SIGA Ann. Congr.; Metaponto (MT), Italy, October 5-8, 1992.
VIII IAPTC Congress; Florence (Italy), June 12-17, 1994.
XXXIX SIGA Ann. Congr.; Vasto Marina (CH), Italy, September 26-30, 1995.
XVIII Groupe Polyphénols Congress; Bordeaux, France, July 15-19, 1996.
XL SIGA Ann. Congr.; Perugia, Italy, September 18-22, 1996.
XLI SIGA Ann. Congr.; Abbadia di Fiastra (MC), Italy, September 24-27, 1997.

Translations:

1980's: Translation of english and french scientific articles for Edagricole Press, Bologna, Italy.
1990: italian edition of D. Botting's Great Britain naturalistic guide "Wild Britain" (Sheldrake eds.) for Calderini Press, Bologna, Italy.