Beatrice Giuntoli

EDUCATION
2010: PhD in Molecular Biotechnologies, Unipi.
2006: Master in Plant and Microbial Biotechnologies, Unipi, Agriculture Faculty.
2004: Bachelor in Agro-industrial Biotechnologies, Unipi, Agriculture Faculty.
2001-2006: Undergraduate student in Agricultural Sciences and Plant Biotechnology, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA, Pisa).

SCIENTIFIC CV
• Previous position: Assistant professor (RTD-B) in Plant Physiology at the University of Pisa, Biology Department, 2017-2020.
•Affiliations: SSSA (Pisa).
•Academic research training: Post-doctoral fellow in Plant physiology (BIO/04) at SSSA (Pisa),2010-2012 and 2014-2017 (topics: investigation of the environmental factors affecting sugarbeet flowering, biotechnological applications of plant oxygen sensing pathways). Post-doctoral fellow in Crop genetics at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), 2012-2013 (molecular mechanisms of plant adaptation to hypoxia).
•Research expertise: molecular biology, molecular plant physiology, plant biotechnologies.
•Research interests: plant stress physiology. Cross-kingdom comparison of hypoxia sensing mechanisms in eukaryotes. Design of synthetic biosensors for plants, yeast and mammals. Hypoxia signaling during plant development. Plants as biofactories for protein production.
•Active collaborations: University of Torino, plant nutritional responses during flooding. Oxford University, cross-kingdoms mechanisms of hypoxia sensing, modulation of oxygen perception. Utrecht University, oxygen as a developmental cue in plants. SSSA, stress improvement in crops. University of Pisa, modeling of protein biosensor components for plants.
•Past collaborations: Universidad Pública de Navarra, molecular responses to herbicide treatments. Nottingham University and RWTH University Aachen, N-degron substrates in plants. UC Riverside, hypoxic regulation in plants.
•Participation to funded projects: 2020-2022, Wh-Italy, NBT for agriculture (CREA). 2017-2022, ETHERNA (Fondazione Pisa). 2014-2016, N-vironment (ERA-CAPS).

TEACHING
Lecturer in Plant Physiology from 2018. Lecturer in Molecular plant physiology from 2019. Lecturer in Plant synthetic biology from 2021. Laboratory trainer in Plant Physiology (Unipi, AY 2017/18). Lecturer in Synthetic biology (SSSA, 2015-2018).
PhD supervision: Yuri Telara (nutritional responses during flooding), Mikel Lavilla Puerta (synthetic N-end rule-dependent pathway in yeast), Luca Piccinini (small molecule biosensors for plants), Haytham Hamedeh (submergence responses in crops), Sergio Iacopino (synthetic oxygen sensors for plants), Vinay Shukla (hypoxia in root development), Liem Bui (molecular regulation of low oxygen responses in plants).

TITLES
Top scientific publications
1.Piccinini (2022) Plant Physiol. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac122
2.Masson N et al (2019) Science. 10.1126/science.aaw0112
3.Puerta M et al (2019) IJMS. 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.05.023
4.Shukla V et al. (2019) Mol Plant. 10.1016/j.molp.2019.01.007
5.Giuntoli B et al. (2017) Plant Cell Environ. 10.1111/pce.13037
6.Weits DA et al. (2014) Nature Comm. 10.1038/ncomms4425
7.Giuntoli B et al. (2014) PLoS Biol. 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001950
8.Licausi F et al. (2011) Nature. 10.1038/nature10536