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SURNAME: Zambonelli NAME: Paolo DATE OF BIRTH: 08th October 1966 NATIONALITY: Italian HOME ADDRESS: Via Pasquino Pigoni, 73/1 Codemondo I-42025 - Reggio Emilia - Italia tel: +39 0522 372 154 e-mail: paloma@comune.re.it WORK ADDRESS: Università degli Studi di Bologna DIPROVAL - Sezione di Allevamenti Zootecnici http://www.stpa.unibo.it/ Via Fratelli Rosselli, 107 Coviolo I-42100, Reggio Emilia - Italia tel: +39 0522 290 514; fax: +39 0522 290 523 e-mail: paolo.zambonelli@stpa.unibo.it HOME PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/paolozambo/ EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS: 1980-85: Undergraduate studies in Agriculture. July 1985 Diploma with 56/60. 1985-90: Course of degree in Animal Production Sciences (Faculty of Agriculture - Bologna University). June 1990: Graduate with an experimental thesis: "Analisi del DNA in animali in produzione zootecnica" ("DNA analysis in farm animals") with 110/110 and honours. November 1990 - October 1993: Postgraduate level (doctoral) studentship in Animal Production. March-August 1992: six months spent at Department of Biochemistry, Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine, Oslo. My work concerned the localization and characterization of porcine genomic cosmid clones containing minisatellites. June 1994: Doctoral degree examination: dissertation of an experimental thesis entitled "Individuazione di marcatori genetici a livello del DNA, Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) nel suino" ("Individuation of DNA based genetic markers, Restriction Fragmenth Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) in pig"). January 1994 - June 1995: grant from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian NRC). The scientific work was done at the Institute of Allevamenti Zootecnici (Faculty of Agriculture - Bologna University) and was aimed to the identification of RFLPs in porcine genome by means of the Southern technique. The polymorphisms detected during this study have been included in the first porcine genetic map (Archibald et al., (1995) Mammalian Genome, 6, 157-75) as part of the work carried out by the Italian group, co-ordinated by Prof. Roberta Davoli, collaboarting to the E.C. funded project "Pig Gene Mapping Project (PiGMaP)" July 1995: permanent position as researcher at the Institute of Allevamenti Zootecnici (Faculty of Agriculture - Bologna University). Presently the Institute name changed in Dipartimento di Protezione e Valorizzazione Agro-alimentare (DIPROVAL), Sezione di Allevamenti Zootecnici. December 1994 - November 1996: worked on a research group co-ordinated by Prof. Roberta Davoli within the E.C. project: "The Pig Gene Mapping Project 2 (PiGMaP 2) - identifying trait genes in the pig". The scientific program within the project concerned the identification and characterization of porcine skeletal muscle genes obtained from a porcine skeletal muscle cDNA library developed in our laboratory. The work was directed mainly toward the myofibrillar and citoskeletal proteins and proteolitic enzymes cloning. Since February 1997 I have been working on a research group co-ordinated by Prof. Roberta Davoli within the E.C. funded INCO COPERNICUS project "Identification and mapping of candidate genes for carcass and meat quality traits in pig". The research utilizes the cDNA clones obtained within the PiGMaP 2 project in order to locate their position on the porcine genetic and physical maps. The physical localization have been obtained by in situ hybridizations in collaboration with other European laboratories and using specific primer- pairs to amplify clones from somatic hybrid cell. The genetic mapping will be done by searching polymorphisms (SSCP, RFLP-PCR) in the 3’-untraslated regions or in intronic regions amplified using primer-pairs obtained form our cDNA sequences. All the detected polymorphisms will be tested on a porcine reference family available within the collaborative project in order to find markers linked or responsible to performance traits and quanti- qualitative characteristic of pig meat products.
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