Researcher profile

GIANNI BARCACCIA

Since 2017 Full Professor of Genetics and Plant Breeding at the University of Padova, Italy. PhD title on Plant Reproductive Systems and Population Genetics at the University of Padova in 1995. Tenured Professor of Plant Genetics and Genomics at the University of Padova from 2001 to 2016. Professor in charge of Formal Genetics and Applied Genomics at the University of Padova and Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding at the University of Georgia, Athens (USA). Head of the Department of Agronomy Food Natural resources Animals and Environment (DAFNAE), School of Agricultural Science and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Padova, for the academic years 2019 - 2023. Recently re-elected for the academic years 2023 - 2027 (http://www.dafnae.unipd.it). Vicedirector and Coordinator of the Department Commissions for Scientific Research, Technology Transfer and Third Mission from 2014 to 2019. Spoke leader of the Agritech National Centre from 2022 to 2026. Research expertise on plant reproductive systems and barriers (male-sterility, self-incompatibility and apomixis), use of molecular markers for population genetics and genomics selection, and marker-assisted breeding. Principal investigator of BreedOmics, a laboratory service of genomics for breeding populations and for genetic identification of varieties and genetic authentication of their foodstuffs (Molecular tools: DNA fingerprinting, SSR genotyping, SNP haplotyping, mtDNA and cpDNA barcoding, NGS sequencing). For further information on academic and scientific activities visit the personal webpage: http://www.giannibarcaccia.com.