Dr. Manuela Leonardelli
Department of Botany and Plant Biology
University of Geneva, Sciences III
30 Quai E. Ansermet
CH-1211 Geneva 4
Switzerland
Tel.: +41-22-379-3651
Fax.: +41-22-379-3654
Email: manuela.leonardelli@unige.ch
Born in 1988 in Trento, Italy
Nationality: Italian
2018 -
Postdoc, Department of Botany and Plant Biology, University of Geneva
2013 - 2018
PhD, University of Vienna, Austria. Thesis: "Characterization of two novel chloroplast proteins with a potential role in chloroplast development and function" (Supervisor: Dr. Markus Teige, Department of Ecogenomics and Systems Biology, University of Vienna, Austria)
2011 - 2013
MSc in Molecular Biology (University of Padua, Italy & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany). Thesis: "Establishment and evaluation of new aequorin-based calcium indicators for calcium measurements in plants upon abiotic and biotic stresses" (Supervisors: Prof. Lorella Navazio & Prof. Ute Vothknecht)
2008 - 2011
BSc in Molecular Biology (University of Padua, Italy). "Expression of the cellulase CelC2 in Enterobacter agglomerans" (Supervisor: Prof. Barbara Baldan)
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Podolec, R.*, Wagnon, T.B.*, Leonardelli, M., Johansson, H., and Ulm, R. (2022) Arabidopsis B-box transcription factors BBX20-22 promote UVR8 photoreceptor-mediated UV-B responses. Plant J., doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15806. (preprint: bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.14.464399). (*equal contribution)
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Sello, S., Moscatiello, R., Mehlmer, N., Leonardelli, M., Carraretto, L., Cortese, E., Zanella, F.G., Baldan, B., Szabò, I., Vothknecht, U.C., and Navazio, L. (2018) Chloroplast Ca2+ fluxes into and across thylakoids revealed by thylakoid-targeted aequorin probes. Plant Physiol. 177: 38-51.
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Kmiecik, P., Leonardelli, M., and Teige, M. (2016) Novel connections in plant organellar signalling link different stress responses and signalling pathways. J. Exp. Bot. 67: 3793-3807.
