Prof. Gianni Barcaccia, PhD

Current position
From 2017 Full Professor of Plant Genetics and Genomics, School of Agriculture Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, University of Padova, Italy (www.unipd.it) and Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding, University of Georgia, Athens, USA (www.uga.edu)

Institutional roles
Principal investigator of the Laboratory of Plant Genetics and Genomics from Breeding of the University of Padova (www.giannibarcaccia.com)
Director of the Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment – DAFNAE
University of Padova, Italy (www.dafnae.unipd.it) for the academic years 2019 - 2023 and 2023 - 2027
Coordinator of the Council of Department Directors of the University of Padova for the academic years 2023 - 2027
Spoke leader of the National Center for Technology in Agriculture - Agritech 2022 - 2026 (https://agritechcenter.it/)

Education
1991 – M.Sc. in Agricultural Science, Plant Breeding Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Perugia, Italy
1992 – 1995 Ph.D. in Crop Science, Genetics of Plant Reproductive Systems, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Padova, Italy
1996 – 1997 Post Doctoral Fellow in Plant Population Genetics, University of Perugia, Italy

Teaching Activities
2001 – present: Professor of Plant Genetics, also in charge of Applied Genomics and Plant Breeding, School of Agriculture Science and Veterinary Medicine, University of Padova (www.agrariamedicinaveterinaria.unipd.it/en)

Scientific Publications
Author of more than 150 peer-reviewed articles (these records are available in both the Web of Science and Scopus databases) of which 70% as first or last author or corresponding author (www.researchgate.net/profile/Gianni_Barcaccia/publications).
Books and Book Chapters: 3 academic books (1st and 2nd editions) and 8 book chapters.
Scientific publications in Italian journals: 25 articles on national journals and 2 monographs.

Research Impact Metrics
Main scientific production statistics: more than 3.600 citations with H-index=34 in Scopus and Web of Science (44 in Google Scholar and 41 in Research Gate), total IF of publications: about 600.

Selected Patents
Discovery and analysis of nuclear male sterility in leaf chicory (Cichorium intybus L). International Patent Application PCT/EP2011/058765 and European Patent EP2713705-B1 (https://encrypted.google.com/patents/EP2713705B1)

Publications
Several original research articles and reviews were recently published in a Research Topic of Frontiers of Plant Science (www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/8183/genetics-and-genomics-of-plant-reproduction-for-crop-breeding), including Galla et al. (2019) Ovule gene expression analysis in sexual and aposporous apomictic Hypericum perforatum L. (Hypericaceae) accessions (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00654), Alagna et al. (2019) The paradox of self-fertile varieties in the context of self-incompatible genotypes in olive (doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00725), Palumbo et al. (2019) Genomics of flower organ identity in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) (doi: org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00316), Palumbo et al. (2019) Construction of the first SNP-based linkage map using genotyping-by-sequencing and mapping of the male-sterility gene in leaf chicory. (doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00276).

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID): https.//orcid.org/0000-0001-74785048.

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