Biography:
Gelsomina Fico is Associate Professor in the subject of Pharmaceutical Biology (Italian code: area BIO/15), at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences (DISFARM) of the University of Milan. Her research activity includes studies on the morphology and chemistry of secondary metabolites from medicinal plant species. These studies are often in relation to ecological/physiological aspects, also including analyses on the biological activity of secondary metabolite. She also works on chemotaxonomic and ethnobotanical topics. Since 2003 she has been scientific coordinator of the Botanic Garden Ghirardi (Toscolano Maderno, Brescia), which belongs to DISFARM and is focused on medicinal plants. Since 2008 to 2011 she was Vice-President, and further from 2012 to 2015 President, of the Network of Botanical Gardens of Lombardy. From 2009 to 2015 she was member of the Council of the Italian Society of Phytochemistry.
Title : The Mexican Salvia blepharophylla and Salvia greggii in an ecological context: Scents, biotic relationships and exudates