Barbara Conti

PERSONAL INFORMATIONS
Name CONTI BARBARA
Telephone - mobile 338.86343451
E-mail barbara.conti@unipi.it
Nationality Italian
Female
Date of birth 11/08/1956

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
28 April 1980
Master Degree in Agricultural Sciences at the University of Pisa.
15-27 September 1986
CEC/IOBC training course on Integrated Pest Management in protected Crops at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Ghent (B).
5-10 May 1999
Training course for the preparation and determination of Thysanoptera at the Senkenberg Museum (Frankfurt (Germany).

WORKING EXPERIENCE
December 1981
C.E.E Contract. n ° 732 at the Institute of Agricultural Entomology, Pisa University
Survey and data processing of a pilot project of integrated pest management in olive growing.
November 1982 - December 1989
Research grant on “Analytical bio-chemical techniques” funded by CNR at the Institute of Agricultural Entomology, Pisa University
1983-1987
CEC EUROAPHID Project. Head of the OU of Pisa Responsible of the Rothamsted aspirator.
April 1989
Mission for technical assistance in Ethiopia. Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Development Cooperation.
January 1990 - December 2001
Technical coordinator at the Department of plant sciences, pathology and entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pisa.
December 2001 – December 2018
Researcher at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa.
December 2018 until now
Associate professor at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Pisa.

TEACHING
B. Conti has been teacher in the following disciplines:
Agricultural entomology
Urban entomology
Parasitology
Zoology
Biological Control
Entomology of medicinal plants.

LANGUAGES
Italian and French mother tongue;
First Certificate in English (Level B2) by University of Cambridge

PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH PROJECTS (last 5 years)
2015-2020: PRIN “Biopesticides for sustainable insect pest control” (BIOPIC)
2016-2018: Misura 16.2 PIF supported by Europe through the Tuscany region: Innovative technologies for improving the performance of cereal crops (CEREALINNOVA)
2018-2019: Contract and Research Agreement with the company Freezanz (Ponsacco Pisa) "Repellent activity of essential oils against insects of medical-veterinary interest"
2018-2019: Contract and Research Agreement with the King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, entitled "Bioactivity of the latex and extracts of Calotropis procera (Apocynaceae)"
2016-2018: Contract and Research Agreement with the Universidad del Norte (Ecuador) "Repellency bioassays and insecticidal activity of the essential extracted from selected plants from the Ecuadorian flora against Sitophilus zeamais (Coleoptera Curculionidae), Laryophagus distinguendus (Hymenoptera Pteromalidae), and Aedes albopictus (Diptera Culicidae), mosquito of medical interest ”
2019-2021: Contract and Research Agreement with the Universidad del Norte (Ecuador). Repellency bioassays and insecticidal activity of the essential extracted from selected plants from the Ecuadorian flora against mosquitoes”

PARTICIPATION IN EDITORIAL COMMITTEES and REVIEWER ACTIVITY
1984-2013 Barbara Conti was editor in chief of the Scientific Journal "Frustula Entomologica". She is reviewer for more than 30 ISI and non-ISI scientific journals
2014 - Reviewer of MIUR / SIR projects

EXPERTISE
• Bioactivity of natural substances against insects of medical and agricultural interest and against food-stuff pests.
• Laboratory studies on the abiotic factors affecting the development of the harmful insects.
• Field studies on integrated pest management strategies for the control of pests
• Studies on the taxonomy, morphology and biology of Thysanoptera

PUBLICATIONS
Barbara Conti is the author of 126 papers (https://arpi.unipi.it) (H-index = 18 and 846 citations -