Laura Ravazzolo

city: Padua
master degree: BAL
year of degree: 2014
current job position: Post-doc
organization: University of Padua
fields of interest: Food biotechnology
country: Italy

Laura Ravazzolo obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Padova, Italy, in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Silvia Quaggiotti. Since then, she has been working on two different projects in the Quaggiotti Lab as a post-doc, namely studying (1) the physiological and molecular responses of maize roots to nitrate availability, with a particular focus on the signaling aspects of strigolactones, nitric oxide and auxin; and (2), the optimization of specific secondary metabolite production in different plant cell cultures (i.e., Echinacea purpurea, Croton lechleri) with the aim of selecting predictive marker genes for the production of these active metabolites for use in both the pharmaceutical and food industries.