Organizing Committee Member
Patrizia Galeffi
senior scientist at ENEA
Italian National Agency for New Technologies
Italy
Biography
Patrizia Galeffi, PhD, senior scientist at ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development. Her main scientific activities are focused on Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology area: molecular study of genes in durum wheat responding to abiotic stresses; functional genomics, transcriptomics and gene expression profiling in plants; plant biodiversity, in particular cereal diversity; plant transformation and transgenic plants; bioinformatics and statistics applied to agronomical and molecular data; triticale as biomass for bioenergy and bioethanol; antibody molecular biology; antibody engineering; antibodies for plant pathogen resistance; plants as a biofactory to produce antibodies for pharmacological use; molecular design of stable engineered antibodies; nanomaterials. Author of around 40 publications in peer-reviewed journals, active reviewer of several international scientific journals and member of the Panel Editors of “Food, Agriculture and Environment†Journal. Author of 5 Patents, certified Agent for Technology Transfer and member of ENEA Patent Commission.
Research Area
Her main scientific activities are focused on Biotechnology, Plant Genetics and Molecular Biology area