Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Francesco Spinelli
Citation names
- Spinelli, Francesco
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2811-64E1-3157
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3870-1227
- Scopus Author Id
- 56358433700
Telephones
- Telephone
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- (+39) 0512096443 (Professional)
Addresses
- viale G. Fanin 46, 40127, Bologna, Bologna, Italy (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/francesco.spinelli3/en (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection
- Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Horticulture
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2002 - 2011
Concluded
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Plant Disease and Management (Pós-doutoramento)
Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy
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2000/01/01 - 2003/05/29
Concluded
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Fruit Tree Physiology (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna Department of Fruit Tree and Woody Plant Sciences, Italy
"“Changes in plant metabolism induced by dioxygenase inhibitors and their effect on the epiphytic microbial community and
Fire Blight (Erwinia amylovora) control”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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1999 - 1999
Concluded
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Biology (Postgraduate Certificate)
Albo Nazionale dei Biology, Italy
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1993 - 1998
Concluded
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Biology (Master)
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna- Faculty of Mathematical, physical and natural sciences., Italy
"“Interaction between soil-borne plant pathogenic fungi and some collembolan species”" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2019/01/02 - Current | Associate Professor (University Teacher) | Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy |
Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy | ||
2011/03/01 - 2019/01/01 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2015 - Current | EUFRUIT
696337
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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2019/03/01 - 2021/09/30 | POR-FESR: Smart, Specialized, Sustainable Orchard / S3O.
Principal investigator
Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
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Regione Emilia-Romagna
Concluded
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2014/01/01 - 2018/02/02 | DROPSA: Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests
and pathogens
613678
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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2008 - 2015 | Q-detect - Developing tools for on-site phytosanytary inspection
KBBE-2008-1-4-01
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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2011 - 2014 | Bacterial Canker of Actinidia
GS1156
Principal investigator
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Concluded
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2006 - 2013 | ISAFRUIT - Healthy Fruits for Healthy Europe
FP6-FOOD–CT-2006-016279
Post-doc Fellow
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Concluded
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2000/02/01 - 2003/05/01 | Induction of pathogen resistance in fruit trees by transiently altering the flavonoid metabolism with specific enzyme inhibitors
QLK5-CT-1999-01583
PhD Student Fellow
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Concluded
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1999 - 2001 | COST864: Combining traditional and advanced strategies for plant protection in pome fruit growing
COST 864
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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Other
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Activities
Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2018 - Current | Fruit associated microbial bioeconosis and its impact on plant resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Conventional and innovative extraction technologies for the recovery of antioxidants from apple by-products
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Employing NIRS for non-destructively analysing the maturity of Hass avocado in postharvest
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Genetic and Functional Characterization of the Bacterial Community on Fruit of Three Raspberry (Rubus ideaus) Cultivars
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Indagine epidemiologica della gestione del cancro batterico dell'actinidia nell'areale faentino
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Kiwifruit vine decline in Northern Italy
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Effect of different truck girdling practices on fruit quality in GOLD3 kiwifruit in Italy
Supervisor
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2018 - 2018 | Different rootstocks and croploads interact with long-term storage of non-structural carbohydrates (NSCs) in young Prunus
persica trees
Supervisor
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2016 - 2018 | Aroma of peaches and nectarines: interaction between maturity at harvest, postharvest conditions and fresh cut processing
Supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
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2017 - 2017 | Effect of hot water treatments on relevant quality parameters of fresh-cut apples
Supervisor
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2017 - 2017 | Molecular tools for specific monitoring of Lactobacillus plantarum PM411: A biological control agent of fire blight disease
Supervisor
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2017 - 2017 | Incisione anulare in Actinidia chinensis: effetti sulla produzione e qualità dei frutti
Supervisor
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2017 - 2017 | Valutazione di differenti portinnesti di melo in condizioni di reimpianto e terreno fumigato
Supervisor
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2017 - 2017 | Ruolo dell’etilene nell’interazione tra Actinidia deliciosa e Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae
Supervisor
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2017 - 2017 | Caratterizzazione del grado di suscettibilità delle principali cultivars di Actinidia a Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae
Supervisor
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2016 - 2016 | Influenza dei microrganismi autoctoni su kiwi come agenti di biocontrollo per il cancro batterico dell’Actinidia da Pseudomonas
syringae pv. actinidiae
Supervisor
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2016 - 2016 | Kiwifruit Degreening
Supervisor
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2016 - 2016 | Characterization of factors modulating the virulence of Erwinia for developing novel approaches to fight fire blight
Supervisor
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2014 - 2016 | Deciphering the Cross-Talk between Actinidia spp. and Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa)
Supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
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2013 - 2015 | Influence of plant structure, cultural practices and environmental conditions on the development of the bacterial canker
of kiwifruits
Co-supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
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2014 - 2014 | Evaluation of different Droskidrink formulates to trap Drosophila suzukii according to the characterization of their specific
biologically active volatile compounds
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Morphological and molecular traits of minor Sicilian olive (Olea europea L.) cultivars and chemical composition of their oil
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Nuove prospettive per la coltivazione del Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis): utilizzo delle coperture permanenti
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Biochemical, molecular biological investigations on phlorizin formation in Malus domestica
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Influence of relative humidity and temperature on the biological control of Pseudomonas syringae pv. Actinidiae
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Modulation of defence responses in host plants by volatile compounds released by Erwinia amylovora and Pseudomonas syringae
pv. syringae
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Control of Arabidopsis Sigma factors by two GATA-type transcription factors during the greening process
Supervisor
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2014 - 2014 | Characterization of Malonyltransferases of Arabidopsis thaliana
Supervisor
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2012 - 2014 | Fruit ripening / scald relationship in apple
Co-supervisor
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Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy
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2013 - 2013 | Emission of volatile compounds in plant pathogenesis: analysis of biological effects and early diagnosis
Supervisor
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2013 - 2013 | Towards efficient fertilizer use: Soil turnover of organic fertilizers
Supervisor
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2013 - 2013 | Effect of apple flower colonization by Erwinia amylovora on the foraging behaviour of honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Supervisor
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2013 - 2013 | Application of the blue-LAMP method for detection of HcrVf2 gene in apple
Supervisor
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2013 - 2013 | Marker-Assisted Development and Evaluation of Near Isogenic Lines (NILs) for Two Major Fusarium Head Blight resistance QTL
in wheat
Supervisor
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2012 - 2012 | Meccanismi fisiologici di difesa di Actinidia spp in risposta a Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae
Supervisor
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2012 - 2012 | Cloning and characterisation of a DFR in Angelonia hybrida
Supervisor
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2012 - 2012 | Gene expression studies in respect to scab resistance in apple
Supervisor
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2012 - 2012 | Modulazione del bilancio ormonale per l’induzione di resistenza Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae
Supervisor
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2015/06/10 - 2015/06/13 | CHAIRMAN OF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
ISHS: II International Symposium on Bacterial Canker of Kiwifruit. Bologna
(https://events.unibo.it/psa2015), 10/13-06-2015
(2015/06/10 - 2015/06/13)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
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Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2018/06/19 - 2018/06/22 | XII Giornate SOI (Società di Ortoflorofrutticoltura Italiana) | |
2017/09/06 - 2017/09/09 | IX International Symposium on Kiwifruit | Porto, Portugal |
2013/11/19 - 2013/11/22 | Ist International Symposium on Bacterial Canker of Kiwifruit | Mount Manganui, New Zealand |
Consulting
Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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2017/01/01 - 2017/12/31 | scientific consultant for the Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand) | Crown Law Office, New Zealand |
2017/01/25 - 2017/08/01 | Scientific Consultant for Crown Law Office (Avvocatura di Stato del Governo Neozelandese) to support Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand) |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2017 - Current | Crop Ecology and crop quality | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy |
2015 - Current | Academic Basecamp | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy |
2013 - Current | Degree Programme coordinator of the ERASMUS MUNDUS International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) – LM | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy |
2015 - 2017 | Yield and product quality Management | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy |
2013 - 2014 | Manipulating Plant Biotic Interactions to Increase Productivity | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy |
2012 - 2013 | Mineral nutrition of fruit trees | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) | Università degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari, Italy |
2010 - 2013 | Ecosystem and environmental stress physiology | International Master in Horticultural Sciences (IMaHS) (Master) |
Evaluation committee
Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/01 | technical expert for the evaluation of ERC proporsal
Evaluator
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European Research Council, Belgium | |
2017 - 2018 | Evaluator for l'Agence Nationale de la Recherche ANR, France for the selection of competitive research programmes
Evaluator
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Journal scientific committee
Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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2017 - Current | The Plant Pathology Journal | |
2017 - Current | Australasian Plant Pathology (1448-6032) | Springer-Verlag |
2006 - 2008 | World Journal of Agricultural Sciences (1817-5082) |
Distinctions
Award
2015 | Award for the oustanding research and extentio for the kiwifruit industry during the Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae
pandemic outbreake
Zespri International Ltd, New Zealand
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2010 | Agmardt Fellowhisp 2010-12-The Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust, New Zealand |
2003 | Premio Goidanich
Universita degli Studi di Bologna Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie, Italy
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2001 | Marco Polo Fellowship for mobility to non-EU countries |