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Carlo Viti was born on 21.01.1964 in Montespertoli (FI), he got the degree in Agricultural Science on 1991. From 1996 to 1999 he participated at a PhD school in "Soil Science" and he obtained the PhD title, on 2000, under the supervision of Prof. L. Giovannetti, with a thesis entitled "Study of microbial communities of soil characterized by different levels of chromium".From 2002 to 2014 he was Researcher at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology (Florence University).From 2014 is Associate Professor at the Department of AgriFood Production and Environmental Science (Florence University).
***Main research topicsHe collaborated to researches dealing with the ecology and taxonomy of several microbial groups (i.e. cyanobacteria, lactic acid bacteria, yeast, anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria). In his first study (1993), he pioneered the Total DNA fingerprinting technique for the characterization of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae. Since then, he exploited -omics molecular techniques for the classification and the characterization of microorganisms. Moreover, Carlo Viti applied molecular fingerprint technology to the analysis of the microbial communities in several disturbed and undisturbed soil environments. Recently, he started a study on the microbial interactions in the phycosphere in collaboration with the research group of Prof. De Philippis (University of Florence) and Prof. Kaplan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and he is being involved in the researches on rumen microbioma in order to study the microbial species involved in the biohydrogenation pathways and methanogenesis. In 2014, he pioneered the use of electrical signaling as a possible driver in bacterial biofilm sociobiology. The group head by Carlo Viti is the international reference group for the application of the Phenotype Microarray technology.The scientific activity is certified by more than 200 papers (64 of them recognisez in ISI Web of Knowledge - Journal Citation Reports, H index 18, citations 880).
***International research activitiesHe was involved in the UE Concerted Research Action 831 "Biotechnology of soil: Monitoring, Conservation and Remediation".He collaborated in the organization of several international conferences. Moreover in 2008, 2010 and 2015 he was the chairman of the “Florence Conference on Phenotype MicroArray Analysis of Microorganisms-The Environment, Agriculture, and Human Health”.From 2010 he is the scientific coordinator of the laboratory “Genexpress” that is a technological facility of the Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Science (University of Florence) focused on genomics, gene regulation and post genomics including phenomics, structural biology and computational biology (http://www.genexpress.unifi.it/).
***Main international collaborationsInes Mandic-Mulec - University of Ljubljana, SloveniaMarco Rinaldo Oggioni - University of Leicester United KingdomAaron Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelJosé Luis Martínez - Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, SpainGoyer Claudia, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, CanadaBarry Bochner, Biolog Inc., USAChristl, Iso Iso, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandEnrico Tatti - National University of Ireland, Ireland
***Research projectsFrom 1990 he has been involved in several national and international research projects. He was Principal Investigator in the following research projects: 1) Analysis of biodiversity in microorganisms useful for agricultural, industrial and environmental applications (Fondi Ricerca di Ateneo- UNIFI, 2003-2009); 2) Interaction between soil microbial community and biosurfactants in bioremediation strategies of soil polluted with petroleum (Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, 2004); 3) SOFILVU – Using compost in agriculture (Regione Toscana-ARSIA 2008-09). He was Person in charge of Florence Unit in the EU-project BIOHYPO - Confronting the clinical relevance of biocide induced antibiotic resistance (EU FP7-n° 227258, 2009-2012). He is currently Principal Investigator in the project Study of the microbial interactions in the algal blooms for preventing their development (Fondi Ricerca di Ateneo - UNIFI, 2014-2015)He is currently involved in: a) the national project NUTRIFOROIL (DD 6107/2013, Regione Toscana - Progetti integrati di ricerca in agricoltura a favore di Università ed Enti di Ricerca operanti in Toscana), b) two LIFE plus projects (LIFE After-Cu Anti infective environmental friendly molecule against plant pathogenic bacteria for reducing Cu. LIFE12 ENV/IT/000336; LIFE EVERGREEN – Environmentally friendly biomolecules from agricultural wastes as substitutes of pesticides for plant diseases control. LIFE13 ENV/IT/000461), c) a bilateral Italy/Israel project (Israel-Italy Call for Proposals 2013, A novel methodology for hindering toxic cyanobacterial blooms formation and for preventing water contamination, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale- Maeci).
***Activities in PhD schoolFrom 2003 Carlo Viti joined the teaching staff of the Environmental and Agricultural Sciences Ph.D. school (formerly, Soil Science and Climatology). Carlo Viti was/is tutor/supervisor for Ph.D students of the Ph.D school in “Environmental and Agricultural Sciences”, and he acted as referee for the Ph.D evaluation board in “Medical Biotechnologies - Section of Microbial Biotechnology, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases” in Siena University, and for the Ph.D thesis of Dr. Mary Mangaiyarkarasi of Madras University, India.
***Referee activity He serves as editorial board member of the AIMS Microbiology, Advances in Horticultural Science and Scienze e Ricerche journals, and as Guest editor of the Special Issues for the journal Research in Microbiology entitled “Phenotype Microarray“, that will be published in 2016.He was requested as referee for the following international microbiological journals: Annals of Microbiology, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Applied Soil Ecology, Biodegradation, Biology and Fertility of Soils, Bioresource Technology, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, European Journal of Soil Science, Extremophiles, Geoderma, Italian Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Letters in Applied Microbiology, Microbiology-UK, New Biotechnology, Pedosphere, Research in Microbiology, Science of the Total Environment-STOTEN, Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology.He has been an evaluator for the Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) 2009 and for Progetti Futuro in Ricerca 2010.He was a referee for the call “Assegni di Ricerca Ente Cassa Risparmio Firenze- 2015”.
***Scientific societies From 2002 he is member of the Italian Society of Agro-Food and Environmental Microbiology and from 2004 of the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology. From 2015 is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology.
Legenda
Carlo Viti was born on 21.01.1964 in Montespertoli (FI), he got the degree in Agricultural Science on 1991. From 1996 to 1999 he participated at a PhD school in "Soil Science" and he obtained the PhD title, on 2000, under the supervision of Prof. L. Giovannetti, with a thesis entitled "Study of microbial communities of soil characterized by different levels of chromium".From 2002 to 2014 he was Researcher at the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology (Florence University).From 2014 is Associate Professor at the Department of AgriFood Production and Environmental Science (Florence University). ***Main research topicsHe collaborated to researches dealing with the ecology and taxonomy of several microbial groups (i.e. cyanobacteria, lactic acid bacteria, yeast, anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria). In his first study (1993), he pioneered the Total DNA fingerprinting technique for the characterization of the family Ectothiorhodospiraceae. Since then, he exploited -omics molecular techniques for the classification and the characterization of microorganisms. Moreover, Carlo Viti applied molecular fingerprint technology to the analysis of the microbial communities in several disturbed and undisturbed soil environments. Recently, he started a study on the microbial interactions in the phycosphere in collaboration with the research group of Prof. De Philippis (University of Florence) and Prof. Kaplan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and he is being involved in the researches on rumen microbioma in order to study the microbial species involved in the biohydrogenation pathways and methanogenesis. In 2014, he pioneered the use of electrical signaling as a possible driver in bacterial biofilm sociobiology. The group head by Carlo Viti is the international reference group for the application of the Phenotype Microarray technology.The scientific activity is certified by more than 200 papers (64 of them recognisez in ISI Web of Knowledge - Journal Citation Reports, H index 18, citations 880). ***International research activitiesHe was involved in the UE Concerted Research Action 831 "Biotechnology of soil: Monitoring, Conservation and Remediation".He collaborated in the organization of several international conferences. Moreover in 2008, 2010 and 2015 he was the chairman of the “Florence Conference on Phenotype MicroArray Analysis of Microorganisms-The Environment, Agriculture, and Human Health”.From 2010 he is the scientific coordinator of the laboratory “Genexpress” that is a technological facility of the Department of Agrifood Production and Environmental Science (University of Florence) focused on genomics, gene regulation and post genomics including phenomics, structural biology and computational biology (http://www.genexpress.unifi.it/).***Main international collaborationsInes Mandic-Mulec - University of Ljubljana, SloveniaMarco Rinaldo Oggioni - University of Leicester United KingdomAaron Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelJosé Luis Martínez - Spanish National Centre for Biotechnology, SpainGoyer Claudia, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, CanadaBarry Bochner, Biolog Inc., USAChristl, Iso Iso, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich, Zurich, SwitzerlandEnrico Tatti - National University of Ireland, Ireland***Research projectsFrom 1990 he has been involved in several national and international research projects. He was Principal Investigator in the following research projects: 1) Analysis of biodiversity in microorganisms useful for agricultural, industrial and environmental applications (Fondi Ricerca di Ateneo- UNIFI, 2003-2009); 2) Interaction between soil microbial community and biosurfactants in bioremediation strategies of soil polluted with petroleum (Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, 2004); 3) SOFILVU – Using compost in agriculture (Regione Toscana-ARSIA 2008-09). He was Person in charge of Florence Unit in the EU-project BIOHYPO - Confronting the clinical relevance of biocide induced antibiotic resistance (EU FP7-n° 227258, 2009-2012). He is currently Principal Investigator in the project Study of the microbial interactions in the algal blooms for preventing their development (Fondi Ricerca di Ateneo - UNIFI, 2014-2015)He is currently involved in: a) the national project NUTRIFOROIL (DD 6107/2013, Regione Toscana - Progetti integrati di ricerca in agricoltura a favore di Università ed Enti di Ricerca operanti in Toscana), b) two LIFE plus projects (LIFE After-Cu Anti infective environmental friendly molecule against plant pathogenic bacteria for reducing Cu. LIFE12 ENV/IT/000336; LIFE EVERGREEN – Environmentally friendly biomolecules from agricultural wastes as substitutes of pesticides for plant diseases control. LIFE13 ENV/IT/000461), c) a bilateral Italy/Israel project (Israel-Italy Call for Proposals 2013, A novel methodology for hindering toxic cyanobacterial blooms formation and for preventing water contamination, Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale- Maeci).***Activities in PhD schoolFrom 2003 Carlo Viti joined the teaching staff of the Environmental and Agricultural Sciences Ph.D. school (formerly, Soil Science and Climatology). Carlo Viti was/is tutor/supervisor for Ph.D students of the Ph.D school in “Environmental and Agricultural Sciences”, and he acted as referee for the Ph.D evaluation board in “Medical Biotechnologies - Section of Microbial Biotechnology, Vaccines and Infectious Diseases” in Siena University, and for the Ph.D thesis of Dr. Mary Mangaiyarkarasi of Madras University, India.***Referee activity He serves as editorial board member of the AIMS Microbiology, Advances in Horticultural Science and Scienze e Ricerche journals, and as Guest editor of the Special Issues for the journal Research in Microbiology entitled “Phenotype Microarray“, that will be published in 2016.He was requested as referee for the following international microbiological journals: Annals of Microbiology, Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Applied Soil Ecology, Biodegradation, Biology and Fertility of Soils, Bioresource Technology, FEMS Microbiology Ecology, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, European Journal of Soil Science, Extremophiles, Geoderma, Italian Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Quality, Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Letters in Applied Microbiology, Microbiology-UK, New Biotechnology, Pedosphere, Research in Microbiology, Science of the Total Environment-STOTEN, Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology.He has been an evaluator for the Progetti di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) 2009 and for Progetti Futuro in Ricerca 2010.He was a referee for the call “Assegni di Ricerca Ente Cassa Risparmio Firenze- 2015”.***Scientific societies From 2002 he is member of the Italian Society of Agro-Food and Environmental Microbiology and from 2004 of the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology. From 2015 is a member of the Executive Committee of the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology.