BRUNDO MARIA VIOLETTA

Professore Associato

Orari di ricevimento

Lunedì, mercoledì e venerdì dalle 09:00 alle 11:00 Codice aula Microsoft Teams: 9wk2fwo

Curriculum

ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Professor of Developmental biology - University of Catania, Italy
- Director of Master course in “Reproduction Biology and Biotechnology”
- Component of PhD in “Earth and Environmental sciences”
- Responsible of the Cytology and Embryology laboratory, Microscopy laboratory and Reproduction Biotechnology laboratory

QUALIFICATIONS AND LONG-TERM WORK PLACES
- 1998: graduate in Biological Sciences - University of Catania, Italy
- 2002: PhD in Biology evolution – University of Catania, Italy
- 2008: specialization in Microbiology and Virology - University of Catania, Italy
- 2007-2020: researcher of Comparative anatomy and Cytology - University of Catania, Italy
- 2020-present: associate professor of Comparative anatomy and Cytology - University of Catania, Italy

KEY LESSONS HELD (current lessons in bold)
- In the "Biological Sciences" degree course: 1) Developmental biology; 2) Cytology and Histology
- In the "Health and Cell-Molecular Biology" Master Degree course: 1)Biology of reproduction and differentiation; 2) Biology of reproduction; 3) Cell biology

TUTORSHIP
From 2007 he was tutor of 5 PhD thesis, more than 100 master degree thesis, and an high number of degree final dissertation.

AREA OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST
- Nanotoxicity evaluation in vivo and in vitro
- Toxicity evaluation of xenobiotics in animal models
- Biomarkers of exposure
- Optical and electronic (SEM, TEM) microscopy techniques
- Histochemical and immunohistochemical techniques

ACTIVE RESEARCH PROJECTS
- PO-FEAMP 2017 - Project “Enhancement of water resources for the optimization of aquaculture in the lake environment: creation of an intensive self-purifying model for fattening in business areas (sAMpEI)”. PO-FEAMP 2014/2020, Misura 2.56. Funded in 2019
- PO-FEAMP 2017 - Project “FISH PATH NET: strengthening of the Sicilian ichthyopathology centers ”. PO-FEAMP 2014/2020, Measure 2.56. Funded in 2019.

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION (bibliometric indicators from Scopus/WOS)
From 2001 she was co-author of many scientific articles published on international journals with referees, and over 150 abstracts presented to scientific national/international meetings. The h-index, until February 2020, is 20. In the last 5 years he was co-author of more than 48 scientific articles.