Paola Bonfante#
| Membership Number: | 4932 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.dbios.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=pbonfant#profilo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018 Professor Emerita, University of Torino, Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology
- 1984 - 2017 Full Professor of Plant Biology at the University of Torino
- 2006 - 2011 Head of the Department of Plant Biology, University of Torino
- 2006 - 2013 Coordinator of the PhD school in Biological and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Torino
- 2000 - 2005 Coordinator the PhD Course in Biology and Biotechnology of Fungi
- 1995 - 2009 Responsible of the Centro di Studio sulla Micologia del Terreno del CNR- Torino, currently named Sezione di Torino dell'Istituto di Protezione per le Piante
- 1980 - 1981 Post doc stage at the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris (six months)
- 1973 - 1984 Researcher at the Centro di Studio sulla Micologia del Terreno del CNR- Torino
- 1970 - 1973 Fellowship , PhD equivalent at the Centro di Studio sulla Micologia del Terreno del CNR- Torino
- 1984 - 2017 Teaching positions: Natural Sciences (Botany, Plant-Microbe interactions), Biology (Plant-Microbe interactions), Plant Biotechnology
Fields of Scholarship
- Rice, wheat and tomato responses to Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Genomics and Functional genomics in mycorrhizal fungi;
- Cellular and molecular interactions between plants and mycorrhizal fungi
- Plant-Microorganism interactions
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as biofertilisers and bioprotectors
- Bacterial and fungal microbiota in tomato and wheat
- Endobacteria in Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
- Signalling and colonization process in Arbuscular mycorrhizas
Honours and Awards
- 2000 Fellow of Academy of Sciences of Torino
- 2000 Fellow of Academy of Agriculture of Torino
- 2011 Fellow of Academia dei Lincei Rome
- 2018 Fellow of Académie d'Agriculture de France
- 2019 Appointed Commander (“Commendatore”) of the “Order of Merit of the Italian Republic” by the President of the Italian Republic (“motu proprio”).
- 2010, June Award for Plant Biology 2010, Roma, Accademia dei Lincei
- 2010, December Award for for the French Food Spirit- Science – Paris
- Top Italian Scientists- Ranking 5 for the typology Natural sciences
http://www.topitalianscientists.org/TIS_HTML/Top_Italian_Scientists_Natural_Environmental_Sciences.htm
- One hundred Italian Experts: https://100esperte.it
- In the list of Clarivate Analytics: highly quoted researcher 2018
https://hcr.clarivate.com/#freeText%3DPaola%20Bonfante
- Member of Group 2003 https://www.gruppo2003.org
