Elide Formentin

Biography:

Elide Formentin has an extensive and documented experience in Plant Molecular and Cell Biology, Bioinformatics and Biochemistry. She is involved in various studies on the physiology of plant stress (salt and oxidative) response, both at single cell and whole plant level, in model organisms (Arabidopsis, carrot) and important crop plants (rice, wheat, grape). Thanks to her experience in different laboratories, she owns a multidisciplinary expertise: RNA profiling by NGS techniques, bioinformatics analysis of –omics data, plants and protoplasts transformation, confocal microscopy, signal molecules analysis by imaging and biochemistry, organellar ion channels characterization.