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Marco Barucca

Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente (Di. S.V.A.)

Università Politecnica delle Marche

Via brecce bianche

Ancona 60131

 

  • 1998 degree in Biological Sciences.
  • 2000-2002 PhD in Marine Biology and Ecology, at Polytechnic University of Marche, discussing the thesis entitled " Study of gene sequences for the evolution and phylogeny of bivalves”
  • 2002-2004 Post-doctoral Researcher at Institute of Biology and Genetics, Polytechnic University of Marche.
  • 2003 award for the best young researcher in Cytogenetic from “Unione Zoologica Italiana”.
  • 2004-2014 member of the Italian Project for the Research in Antarctica (P.N.R.A.).
  • 2005-2018 Assistant Professor in Genetics at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences of Polytechnic University of Marche.
  • 2006-2013 tutor of PhD school of the Faculty of Sciences at Polytechnic University of Marche.
  • 2010 “Research award” from Polytechnic University of Marche.
  • From November 2018 Associate Professor in Genetics at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences of Polytechnic University of Marche.
  • He is a member of the Interuniversity Consortium “Biostructures and Biosystems National Institute” (INBB).
  • He is member of the Editorial board of Gene

Teaching activities:

- From Academic Year 2006/07 to date, Bioinformatics.

- From Academic Year 2009/10 to date, Molecular Genetics.

  • Biscotti M.A., Gerdol, Canapa A., Forconi M., Olmo E., Pallavicini A., Barucca M. Schartl M. (2016) The lungfish transcriptome: A glimpse into molecular evolution events at the transition from water to land. Sci. Rep. 6: 21571
  • Biscotti M.A., Canapa A., Capriglione T., Forconi M., Odierna G., Olmo E., Petraccioli A., Barucca M. (2014) Novel Repeated DNAs in the Antarctic Polyplacophoran Nuttallochiton mirandus (Thiele, 1906). Cytogenet Genome Res. 144: 212-9.
  • Biscotti M.A., Canapa A., Forconi M., Barucca M. (2014) Hox and ParaHox genes: a review on molluscs. 52: 935-45.
  • Forconi M.,Biscotti M.A., Barucca, M., Buonocore F., De Moro G., Fausto A.M., Gerdol M., Pallavicini A., Scapigliati G., Schartl M., Olmo E., Canapa A. (2014). Characterization of Purine Catabolic Pathway Genes in Coelacanths.   JEZB (Mol. Dev. ). 322B: 334-341.
  • Pallavicini A., Canapa A., Barucca M., Alfoldi J., Biscotti M.A., Buonocore F., De Moro G., Di Palma F., Fausto A.M., Forconi M., Gerdol M., Makapedua D.M., Turner-Meier J., Olmo E., Scapigliati G. (2013). Analysis of the transcriptome of the Indonesian coelacanth Latimeria menadoensis. BMC Genomics. 14: Article number 53
  • Amemiya C.T., Alföldi J., Lee A.P., Fan S., Philippe H., MacCallum I., Braasch I., Manousaki T.,  Schneider I., Rohner N., Organ C., Chalopin D., Smith J.J., Robinson M., Dorrington R.A., Gerdol M., Aken B., Biscotti M.A., Barucca M., et al. (2013). The African coelacanth genome provides insights into tetrapod evolution. Nature. 12027: 311-316.
  • Canapa A., Olmo E., Foconi M., Pallavicini A., Makapedua D.M., Biscotti  M.A., Barucca M. (2012). Composition and phylogenetic analysis of vitellogenin coding sequences in the Indonesian coelacanth Latimeria menadoensis. JEZB (Mol. Dev. Evol.). 318B: 404-416.
  • Barucca M., Biscotti M.A., Forconi M., Regoli F., Olmo E., Canapa A. (2010). Characterization and phylogenetic analysis of vitellogenin coding sequences in the Antarctic fish Trematomus bernacchii.  JEZB (Mol. Dev. Evol.). 314B: 645-652.
  • Biscotti M.A., Canapa A., Olmo E., Barucca M. (2007). Hox Genes in the antarctic polyplacophoran Nuttallochiton mirandus. JEZB (Mol. Dev. ). 308B: 507-513.
  • Barucca M., Biscotti M.A., Olmo E., Canapa  A. (2006). All the three ParaHox genes are present in Nuttallochiton mirandus (Mollusca: Polyplacophora): evolutionary considerations. JEZB (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 306B: 164-167.

 

Tematiche di Ricerca

Characterization and evolution of gene families (Hox and vitellogenin genes)

Genome and transcriptomes of the living fossil, coelacanths and lungfish

Study of transposable elements and repetitive DNA in marine organisms

Parole Chiave

Evolutionary Genetics

Gene families

Repetitive DNA

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coelacanth, lungfish