Cinzia Forni

Associate Professor of Botany. She has experience in Botany, focusing on Plant biotechnology and physiologyVisiting Professor1)September 4th- October 31, 2015, Dept. of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada2)October 2012, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, R. H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot, IsraelFellowships and Stages abroad 1) 2001 fellowship within the Project ?Training and mobility of Researchers? of IHP Program of the European Union for study at Life Science Trace Gas Exchange Facility Laboratory of the Katholieke Universiteit of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)2)1989 fellowship awarded by Italian National Council of Research to study at the Dept Agricultural Botany, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), 3)May 15th,1982 to April 14th,1983 awarded by Valeria Vincenzo Landi Foundation of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, to undertake researches at the International Plant Research Institute of San Carlos, California (USA) 4)July 1st,1981 to March 30th, 1982 fellowship awarded by Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei5)from July 3rd,1979 to Feb. 28th,1981 fellowship awarded by Experimental Cereal Research Institute Main current research projects Extraction and quantification of plant pigments and their use as natural dyes for DSSCProduction of secondary metabolites in plant species used in diet and determination of their antitumor activity. Phytoremediation with higher plants. Abiotic stress response in plants?Germplasm preservation Main Current Scientific collaborations?University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (Prof. Aldo Di Carlo, Prof. Danila Moscone, Prof. Simone Beninati, Dr. Claudia Matteucci)?Fruit Trees Research center (CREA- FRU) and Plant Pathology Research Center (CREA-PAV), Rome, Italy?Prof. Elisha Tel-Or, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, R. H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Rehovot, Israel. ?Prof. Bernard Glick, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, CanadaReferee?She has been Referee of Journal of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Plant and Soil, Water Air and Soil Pollution, Plant Biosystems, International Journal of Phytoremediation.?Reviewer of national research projects for the Italian Ministry of the University and Research (MIUR)Membership ?Member of Scientific Committee of the Research Center ?Landscape and Territory? (Paesaggio e Territorio, PA.TER.) of the University of Rome Tor Vergata?Italian Botanical Society: Member (Secretary) of the Coordination of Cell Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Working Group from 1999 to 2008, Secretary of the Coordinator from 2003 to 2008. From 2008-2014 she was the Coordinator of the Group ?Member of Italian Plant Proteomic Group (GPV) ?Italian Order of BiologistPublications: 74 papers in National and international journals (with Impact Factor), and Proceedings of Congresses, 4 chapters in books and 124 Contributions to National and International Congresses, also as invited speaker.Co-author of two University Text books.