Ph.D. Student

Valeria Imperiale

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Phone

(+39)3271678129

E-mail

valeria.imperiale@unipa.it

Orcid ID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-4627

Location

Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Science (SAAF), Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, Entry H.

Profile

-          Internship as a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Davis (October 2023 – July 2024).

-          Workshop “Introduction to the Command Line for Bioinformatics” at the University of California, Davis (June 2024).

-          Training Programme “Affordable Phenotyping (EMPHASIS)” in Matera – Metaponto (Italy – 2023).

-          Tutor in the disciplinary field "Horticulture (AGR/03)" at the University of Palermo (March 2022 – July 2023).

-          Summer School "CROSSLAND Cross-disciplinary spatial approaches to study long term landscape dynamics" organized by The Department of Human Geography of Stockholm University in the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain - July 2022).

-          Scholarshipat the University of Palermo, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Science (SAAF) concerning the “Optimization of agronomic management of superintensive olive trees (Olea europaea L.) using smart technologies” (July 2021 – October 2021).

-          National qualification to practice as a Dr. Agronomist (June 2021).

-          Master's Degree in Agricultural Production and Technologies at the University of Palermo (October 2020).

-          Tutor in the disciplinary field "Agricultural Hydraulics (AGR/08)" at the University of Palermo (July 2019 – July 2020).

-          ERASMUS+ program for Higher Education "Sustainable Management of Cultural Landscape (SU.M.CU.LA)" held at the University of Gothenburg (Pécs, Hungary - October 2019).

-          Stage at National Research Centre CREA-OFA in Rome, where the activities were carried out with the research group on genetic improvement in the breeding of fruit plants (July 2019 – September 2019).

-          Bachelor's Degree in Agricultural Science and Technologies at the University of Palermo (July 2018).

Expertise

-          Molecular genetics

-          Plant abiotic stress

-          Proximal sensing

-          Plant Ecophysiology

Advisor

Prof. Francesco Paolo Marra

Co-advisor

Dott.ssa Annalisa Marchese

Thesis topics

Gene expression associated with abiotic stress in olive trees (Olea europaea L.)

Research interests

-          Plant Ecophysiology

-          Plant Abiotic and Biotic Stress

-          Molecular genetics

-          Horticulture

-          Precision farming

-          Sustainable Agriculture

-          Climate modeling

-          Climate change

Link to publications

• Massenti, R., Ioppolo, A., Carella, A., Imperiale, V., Lo Bianco, R., Servili, M., Selvaggini, R. and Caruso, T., Growth, yield and oil quality of adult pedestrian olive orchards grown at four different planting systems. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15, p.1416548 [Provisionally accepted].

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2024.1416548/abstract

• Marchese, A., Balan, B., Trippa, D.A., Bonanno, F., Caruso, T., Imperiale, V., Marra, F.P. and Giovino, A., 2023. NGS transcriptomic analysis uncovers the possible resistance mechanisms of olive to Spilocea oleagina leaf spot infection. Frontiers in Plant Science, 14, p.1219580.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1219580

• Marchese, A., Bonanno, F., Marra, F.P., Trippa, D.A., Zelasco, S., Rizzo, S., Giovino, A., Imperiale, V., Ioppolo, A., Sala, G. and Granata, I., 2023. Recovery and genotyping ancient Sicilian monumental olive trees. Frontiers in Conservation Science, 4, p.1206832.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2023.1206832

• Imperiale, V., Cutuli, M., Marchese, A., Trippa, D.A., Caruso, T. and Marra, F.P. (2022). Estimation of chilling and heat requirements of six sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) cultivars. Acta Hortic. 1342, 115-122.

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2022.1342.16