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Macro and Microfungi and their Applications

Research area: Botany - Mycology - Agriculture

Coordinators: Elena Savino, Carolina Elena Girometta, Marco Cartabia, Simone Buratti, Lorenzo Goppa, Anthea Desiderio, Rebecca Michela Baiguera

ERC sectors: LS8_2 Environmental biology, ecology and evolution; LS9_11 Biotechnology and biosystems engineering; LS7_12 Health care, including care for the ageing population

Plant Pathology laboratory
Research topics

1. Lignicolous Macrofungi

Search for basidiomata and isolate strains, including for ex situ biodiversity conservation. Maintenance of the research collection of fungal strains.

2. Medicinal Mushrooms

Extraction and characterization of active ingredients. Research to evaluate the effects of some medicinal mushrooms on aging processes.

3. Degradation and recycling of agro-industrial substrates

Search for optimal conditions to promote the degradation of various substrates, including to optimize their recycling. MicoDEP and CE4WE projects.

4. Collaboration in the research and development of mycomaterials

MATER project and collaboration with MOGU srl.

5. Analysis of superficial and skin mycoses

Search for etiological agents of the most common mycoses in the population and their sensitivity to antifungal agents.

Projects

1. MATER Project (BIO Unit, University of Pavia, P.I., Chemistry Department)

2. CE4WE Project (WP1.2 lead)

3. MicoDEP Project (co-scientific lead and collaboration with two major wastewater treatment plants in Lombardy)

4. REBUS Project (lead S. Tosi)

5. Antarctica Project (lead S. Tosi)

Publications

Carolina Elena Girometta, Laura Rovelli, Francesco Bracco, Francesca Brescia, Rebecca Michela Baiguera, Gianpasquale Chiatante, Anna Maria Picco, Elena Savino (2021). The Medicinal Wood-Decay Species Laricifomes officinalis in the Alpe Veglia–Alpe Devero Natural Park (Italian Alps): Spatial Analysis and Growth Tests of Pure Cultures. Acta Mycologica, Volume 56, Article 569

Girometta C. E., Bernicchia A., Baiguera R. M., Bracco F., Buratti S., Cartabia M., Picco A. M., Savino E. (2020). An Italian research culture collection of wood decay fungi. DIVERSITY, vol. 12, ISSN: 1424-2818, doi: 10.3390/d12020058

Girometta C., Dondi D., Baiguera R. M., Bracco F., Branciforti D. S., Buratti S., Lazzaroni S., Savino E. (2020). Characterization of mycelia from wood-decay species by TGA and IR spectroscopy. CELLULOSE, vol. 27, p. 6133-6148, ISSN: 0969-0239, doi: 10.1007/s10570-020-03208-4

Girometta C, Picco A, Baiguera R, Dondi D., Babbini S, Cartabia M., Pellegrini M., Savino E. (2019). Physico-Mechanical and Thermodynamic Properties of Mycelium-Based Biocomposites: A Review. SUSTAINABILITY, vol. 11, ISSN: 2071-1050, doi: 10.3390/su11010281

Valentina Cesaroni, Maura Brusoni, CUSARO, CARLO MARIA, Carolina
Girometta, Claudia Perini, Anna Maria Picco, Paola Rossi, Elena Salerni, Elena Savino (2019). Phylogenetic Comparison between Italian and Worldwide Hericium Species (Agaricomycetes). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOMS, vol. 21, p. 943-954