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Giovanni Del Frari. Completed the Doutoramento in Biologia in 2019/07/26 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Is Contracted Researcher in Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Participates and/or participated as PhD Student Fellow in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Agrarian Sciences with emphasis on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries with emphasis on Plant Breeding and Plant Protection, Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Ecology and Natural sciences with emphasis on Biological Sciences with emphasis on Molecular Biology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: grapevine trunk diseases; metabarcoding; biological control; chemical control; esca; microbial ecology; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Giovanni Del Frari

Citation names

  • Del Frari, Giovanni

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
CA13-7B80-687B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4811-714X

Knowledge fields

  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Plant Breeding and Plant Protection
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology
  • Natural sciences - Biological Sciences - Molecular Biology
  • Agrarian Sciences - Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries - Soil Science

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Friulian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2015/09/01 - 2019/07/26
Concluded
 Biologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
"Frontiers in the control of pathogenic fungi associated with the esca disease complex" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado com distinção e louvor
2011/10/15
Concluded
 Evolutionary Biology (Laurea Specialistica)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2008/09/15
Concluded
 Biology (Laurea)
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/11/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2012/07/01 - 2014/06/30 Research Assistant (Research) James Cook University, Australia
James Cook University, Australia
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/03 - 2023/02 The influence of pruning wound protection on grapevine wood microbial ecology and secondary metabolites.
LEAF exploratory grant
Principal investigator
2021/04 - 2022/03 Leaf Symptoms in Grapevines Affected by Esca: Exploring the Microbiome Hypothesis
Internal grant
Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
Ongoing
2017/02 - 2017/02 Short-term scientific mission - Mobility grant. COST Action FA1303 - manaGTD Sustainable control of grapevine trunk diseases.
COST Action FA1303
Invited Scientist Fellow
Staatliches Weinbauinstitut Freiburg, Germany
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/11/01 - Current SuberPhyto - Unconventional approaches in our struggle against Phytophthora in the cork oak forest. Zooming in on the microbiome
PTDC/ASPSIL/29776/2017
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2015/09/01 - 2018/08/31 Marie-Curie ITN MicroWine - ESR12 - Detection and treatment of esca infected grapevines
643063
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Giovanni Del Frari; Helena Oliveira; Ricardo Boavida Ferreira. "White Rot Fungi (Hymenochaetales) and Esca of Grapevine: Insights from Recent Microbiome Studies". Journal of Fungi (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/jof7090770.
    10.3390/jof7090770
  2. "Microbial blends: terminology overview and introduction of the neologism “Skopobiota”". Frontiers in Microbiology (2021): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659592/full.
    10.3389/fmicb.2021.659592
  3. Del Frari, Giovanni. "Precise nondestructive location of defective woody tissue in grapevines affected by wood diseases.". Phytopathologia mediterranea (2020):
    Accepted
  4. "Precise nondestructive location of defective woody tissue in grapevines affected by wood diseases". Phytopathologia mediterranea (2020): https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/pm/article/view/11110/11938.
    10.14601/Phyto-11110
  5. Del Frari, Giovanni; Gobbi, Alex; Aggerbeck, Marie Rønne; Oliveira, Helena; Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg; Ferreira, Ricardo Boavida. "Fungicides and the Grapevine Wood Mycobiome: A Case Study on Tracheomycotic Ascomycete Phaeomoniella chlamydospora Reveals Potential for Two Novel Control Strategies". Frontiers in Plant Science 10 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01405.
    10.3389/fpls.2019.01405
  6. Del Frari, Giovanni; Gobbi, Alex; Aggerbeck, Marie Rønne; Oliveira, Helena; Hansen, Lars Hestbjerg; Ferreira, Ricardo Boavida. "Characterization of the Wood Mycobiome of Vitis vinifera in a Vineyard Affected by Esca. Spatial Distribution of Fungal Communities and Their Putative Relation With Leaf Symptoms". Frontiers in Plant Science 10 (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00910.
    Open access • 10.3389/fpls.2019.00910
  7. Giovanni Del Frari; Ana Cabral; Teresa Nascimento; Ricardo Boavida Ferreira; Helena Oliveira. "Epicoccum layuense a potential biological control agent of esca-associated fungi in grapevine". PLOS ONE 14 3 (2019): e0213273-e0213273. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213273.
    10.1371/journal.pone.0213273
  8. Del Frari, Giovanni; João Costa; Helena Oliveira; Ricardo Boavida Ferreira. "Endotherapy of infected grapevine cuttings for the control of Phaeomoniella chlamydospora and Phaeoacremonium minimum". Phytopathologia Mediterranea 57 3 (2018): 439-448. http://doi.org/10.14601/Phytopathol_Mediterr-23515.
    Open access • 10.14601/Phytopathol_Mediterr-23515
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021 Non-conventional strategies for the control of Phytophthora cinnamomi in the Portuguese montado Workshop ‘Sanidade no montado – 3a Edição’
Instituto Superior de Agronomia - Univerity of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/05/16 Il mal dell’esca. Un’introduzione all’eziologia e strategie di controllo. Invited lecture
University of Udine (Udine, Italy)
2019/03/21 Frontiers in the control of pathogenic fungi associated with the esca disease complex. Invited talk
Catena Institute of Wine (Mendoza, Argentina)
2018/06/20 The ESCA disease complex: furthering current understanding through traditional and next-generation techniques Microwine symposium
Citè du vin (Bordeaux, France)
2017/01 ESR 12 – Detection and treatment of Esca infected grapevines Microwine midterm meeting
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2022/01 - Current The influence of fungicides employed in pruning wound protection on grapevine wood secondary metabolites
Supervisor
 Viticultura e Enologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2022/01 - Current Evaluation of non-conventional strategies for pruning wound protection in grapevine
Supervisor
 Viticultura e Enologia (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2019 - Current Protection of grapevine pruning wounds. Effect on esca progression and on wood secondary metabolites.
Co-supervisor
 Master Degree in Engenharia de Viticultura e Enologia – Double Degree (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Universita degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie Forestali e Alimentari, Italy
2020/01 - 2021/02 Plant-pathogens interaction within the esca disease complex.
Co-supervisor
 Master Degree in Engenharia de Viticultura e Enologia – Double Degree (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Universita degli Studi di Torino Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie Forestali e Alimentari, Italy
2016 - 2018 Evaluation of chemicals against esca-related pathogens, in vitro and as pruning wound protectants
Co-supervisor
 Master in Viticulture and Enology (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2017 - 2017 The microbiome of grapevines wood
Co-supervisor
 Biology (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal
2017 - 2017 The microbiome of esca-symptomatic grapevines
Co-supervisor
 Biology (Other)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2018/07/14 - 2018/07/15 Workshop "Taxonomy of Ascomycetes"
Workshop
 International Mycological Congress (IMC11)
2018 - 2018 International Mycological Congress (IMC11)
Conference
 International Mycological Congress (IMC11)
Universidad del Turabo, Puerto Rico
2017/05/01 - 2017/05/05 Workshop '7th Metabarcoding Spring School'
Workshop
 CiBio-InBio
2017 - 2017 10th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases.
Conference
 10th International Workshop on Grapevine Trunk Diseases.
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France
2016/05/26 - 2016/05/27 Sustainable Control of Grapevine Trunk Diseases. Working group 3: Fungus-fungus plant-pathogen interactions.
Workshop
 COST Action FA1303 - manaGTD
2016 - 2016 X Symposium on Grapevine Physiology and Biotechnology
Conference
 X Symposium on Grapevine Physiology and Biotechnology
Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy
Distinctions

Award

2021 Seal of Excellence. Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020.
European Union, Belgium
2018 Best poster award - Microwine symposium