OceanExpert ID : 63630

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Mr. Riccardo TRENTIN

Researcher

Biology

Università degli Studi di Padova

Work Location

Via Ugo Bassi 58B
35131 Padua Abruzzo
Italy

Nationality

Italy

Email(s)

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Telephone

+393482742602

Profile URL

https://dev.oceanexpert.org/expert/63630

Highest Degree

MSc

Job Type

Research

Subject Area

Marine Biotechnology, Marine Products
Pollution

Sea regions of study

Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin
North Atlantic Ocean
Adriatic Sea
Southern Ocean

Skills

Cell Biology:
- Cell culture setup
- Optical and electron (TEM, SEM) microscopy

Biochemistry:
- Extraction and quantification of fatty acids from cyanobacteria, microalgae and seaweeds through GC-MS
- Evaluation of in vitro antioxidant properties of algal natural extracts and determination of the inhibitory capacity against enzymes involved in different types of diseases
- Qualitative and quantitative analysis of phenolic compounds, chlorophylls and xanthophylls from phototrophs through HPLC and LC-MS/MS
- Untargeted Metabolomics through LC-MS/MS and in silico annotation tools

Molecular Biology:
- Extraction, quantification and amplification of algal DNA
- Phylogenetic analysis (sequence alignment, assessing phylogenetic signal, choosing best-models for phylogenetic analysis, construction of optimal phylogenetic tree, assessing phylogenetic reliability, topology
tests, species delimitation methods, DNA barcoding, ITS-2 analysis)
- DNA metabarcoding (Mothur and Qiime2)

Diving:
-Open Water Diver

Working language(s)

English
Italian
Portuguese

Created: 2023-12-19 | Last Updated: 2023-12-27