Felice Cervone#
| Membership Number: | 4065 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1990 - today Full Professor (Sapienza, University of Rome)
- 1980 - 1990 Associate Professor (Sapienza, University of Rome)
- 1976 - 1977 EMBO fellowship at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (London-UK)
- 1973 - 1980 Assistant Professor (University of Naples)
- 1971 - 1972 Post-doc fellowship at the International Institute of Genetics and Biophysics (Naples)
Fields of Scholarship
- Plant-pathogen interactions
- Plant cell wall
- Biofuel and bioconversion of plant biomass
Honours and Awards
- 2011 - today President of the Italian Federation of Life Sciences (www.fisv.org)
- 2009 - 2012 President of the International Society for Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (www. ismpmi.org)
- 2009 ERC Advanced Grant
- 2004 - 2010 President of the Italian Society of Plant Biology
- 1988 Fulbright Fellowship at the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (University of Georgia-USA)
- 1976 EMBO Fellowship at the Imperial College of Science and Technology (London-UK)
