Marco Pietrella
ENEA, Casaccia Research Centre
SP 26
via Anguillarese 301
I-00123 Rome (RM)
ITALY
email: marco.pietrella@enea.it
Thematic areas:
Genomics, molecular genetics and and cytogenomics
Biography:
I received the Degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Ancona –now Università
Politecnica delle Marche- in 2001 with a thesis on the association of glycopeptides resistance and
other virulence factors in clinical strains of Enterococci.
I then moved to Germany in the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut with a fellowship to study the function of the
prion protein in vivo with the construction of a transgenic mouse coding for a truncated version of
the protein and to develop an in vitro approach to downregulate prion expression and the replication
of its misfolded isoform via a siRNA-mediated approach.
Since october 2006 I am in the group of Dr Giovanni Giuliano in ENEA with a fellowship on the
sequencing and annotation of miRNA and transcriptome of tomato. I am involved also in different
sequencing projects, among which tomato and potato genomes.
In January 2010 I started a PhD on the identification and functional characterization of candidate
genes controlling ripening characteristics in wild tomato species (green- and coloured-fruited).
Complete publications:
1. Magi G, Capretti R, Paoletti C, Pietrella M, Ferrante L, Biavasco F, Varaldo PE, Facinelli B. (2003)
Presence of vanA-carrying pheromone response plasmid (pBRG1) in a clinical isolate of
Enterococcus faecium. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 47(5): 1571-6 link
2. Lukas A. Mueller, René Klein Lankhorst, Steven D. Tanksley, James J. Giovannoni, Ruth White,
Julia Vrebalov, Zhangjun Fei, Joyce van Eck, Robert Buels, Adri Mills, Naama Menda, Isaak
Tecle, Aureliano Bombarely, Stephen Stack, Suzanne M. Royer, Song-Bin Chang, Lindsay
A. Shearer, Byung Dong Kim, Sung-Hwan Jo, Cheol-Goo Hur, Doil Choi, Chang-Bao Li,
Jiuhai Zhao, Hongling Jiang, Yu Geng, Yuanyuan Dai, Huajie Fan, Jinfeng Chen, Fei Lu,
Jinfeng Shi, Shouhong Sun, Jianjun Chen, Xiaohua Yang, Chen Lu, Mingsheng Chen,
Zhukuan Cheng, Chuanyou Li, Hongqing Ling, Yongbiao Xue, Ying Wang, Graham
Seymour, Gerard J. Bishop, Glenn Bryan, Jane Rogers, Sarah Sims, Sarah Butcher, Daniel
Buchan, James Abbott, Helen Beasley, Christine Nicholson, Clare Riddle, Sean Humphray,
Karen McLaren, Saloni Mathur, Shailendra Vyas, Amolkumar U. Solanke, Rahul Kumar,
Vikrant Gupta, Arun K. Sharma, Paramjit Khurana, Jitendra P. Khurana, Akhilesh Tyagi,
Sarita, Parul Chowdhury, Smriti Shridhar, Debasis Chattopadhyay, Awadhesh Pandit,
Pradeep Singh, Ajay Kumar, Rekha Dixit, Archana Singh, Sumera Praveen, Vivek Dalal,
Mahavir Yadav, Irfan Ahmad Ghazi, Kishor Gaikwad, Tilak Raj Sharma, Trilochan
Mohapatra, Nagendra Kumar Singh, Dóra Szinay, Hans de Jong, Sander Peters, Marjo van
Staveren, Erwin Datema, Mark W.E.J. Fiers, Roeland C.H.J. van Ham, P. Lindhout, Murielle
Philippot, Pierre Frasse, Farid Regad, Mohamed Zouine, Mondher Bouzayen, Erika
Asamizu, Shusei Sato, Hiroyuki Fukuoka, Satoshi Tabata, Daisuke Shibata, Miguel A.
Botella, M. Perez-Alonso, V. Fernandez-Pedrosa, Sonia Osorio, Amparo Mico, Antonio
Granell, Zhonghua Zhang, Jun He, Sanwen Huang, Yongchen Du, Dongyu Qu, Longfei Liu,
Dongyuan Liu, Jun Wang, Zhibiao Ye, Wencai Yang, Guoping Wang, Alessandro Vezzi,
Sara Todesco, Giorgio Valle, Giulia Falcone, Marco Pietrella, Giovanni Giuliano, Silvana
Grandillo, Alessandra Traini, Nunzio D’Agostino, Maria Luisa Chiusano, Mara Ercolano,
Amalia Barone, Luigi Frusciante, Heiko Schoof, Anika Jöcker, Rémy Bruggmann, Manuel
Spannagl, Klaus X.F. Mayer, Roderic Guigó, Francisco Camara, Stéphane Rombauts, Jeffrey
A. Fawcett, Yves van de Peer, Sandra Knapp, Dani Zamir, and Willem Stiekema (2009). A
Snapshot of the Emerging Tomato Genome Sequence: The Tomato Genome Sequencing
Consortium. The Plant Genome 2 (1) 78-92 link
3. Alagna F, D’Agostino N, Torchia L, Servili M, Rao R, Pietrella M, Giuliano G, Chiusano
ML, Baldoni L, Perrotta G (2009) Comparative 454 pyrosequencing of transcripts from two
olive genotypes during fruit development. BMC Genomics 10: 399 link
4. Vitulo N, Albiero A, Forcato C, Campagna D, Dal Pero F, Cattivelli L, Bagnaresi P,
Colaiacovo M, Faccioli P, Lamontanara A, Simkova H, Kubaláková M, Dolezel J, Perrotta
G, Facella P, Lopez L, Pietrella M, Gianese G, Giuliano G, Valle G, Stanca AM (2010) First
Survey of the Wheat Chromosome 5A Composition through a Next Generation Sequencing
Approach. BMC Genomics (submitted).