We invite applications for a PhD student to work with Dr Ulisse Cardini, Prof Harald Gruber-Vodicka and Prof Marco Bartoli on the project "Mya arenaria in tidal flats: the role of the Holobiont in an ancient European invader (MarsH)".
We invite applications for a postdoctoral researcher to work with Dr Ulisse Cardini and Dr Francesca Margiotta on "Spatial and temporal variability of gas fluxes and ratios in coastal marine ecosystems".
Marine Symbiomes success: first PhD student successfully defends thesis at viva!
Read about our fieldwork experiments at Schiacchetiello, where we aimed to disentangle an intimate seagrass-sponge relationship.
In our Frontiers in Microbiology paper, we investigated how zebra mussels influence nitrogen processes, focusing on the role of their microbiome at the ecosystem scale. Our findings highlight their impact on nitrogen cycling and reveal, for the first time, their contribution to dinitrogen fixation.
Read about our fieldwork in the Posidonia oceanica meadows off Ischia Island last September and how this is related to stirring Neapolitan coffee.
We demonstrate the importance of diazotrophs in sustaining primary productivity of the invasive marine plant Halophila stipulacea.
Using omics and stable isotopes, we show that the sulfur-oxidizing symbionts of invertebrate animals are also capable of nitrogen fixation.
A photo I have taken of sand bubbler crabs has been selected within the BMC Ecology Image Competition 2016 out of over 140 total entries.
Within the project CANCOR, we show that corals rely on nitrogen provided by diazotrophic bacteria when other sources are scarce.
