PhD student profile, Pietro Cannazza

PhD Student: Pietro Cannazza

 

Tutor: Prof. Francesco Molinari

Dean: Prof. Diego Mora

Research area: Chemistry and Biochemistry

PhD title achieved on: 2^nd March 2022

 

Research topic

Biotechnological processes for the transformation of agri-food residues into added-value molecules

 

Project Synopsis

From food wastes to added value products: the aim of my PhD project is the study of biocatalytic and fermentative approaches for the production of molecules of industrial interest using agro-food wastes as feedstocks. Wild type and genetically modified acetic acid bacteria (AAB) will be used for biotransformation of above mentioned substrates for the production of high added value compounds (e.g. bacterial cellulose).

 

Project keywords

acetic acid bacteria (AAB), biocatalysis, bacterial cellulose, circular economy

 

Contacts

Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS)

Via Mangiagalli 25, 20133 Milano

email: pietro.cannazza@unimi.it

 

Sponsor

Fellowship sponsor: Università degli Studi di Milano

 

Pubblications

Contente, M. L., Annunziata, F., Cannazza, P., Donzella, S., Pinna, C., Romano, D., Tamborini, L., Barbosa, F.G., Molinari, F., & Pinto, A. (2021). Biocatalytic Approaches for an Efficient and Sustainable Preparation of Polyphenols and Their Derivatives. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.1c05088

Cannazza, P., Rissanen, A. J., Guizelini, D., Losoi, P., Sarlin, E., & Romano, D. (2021). Characterization of Komagataeibacter isolate reveals new prospects on waste stream valorization for bacterial cellulose production. August. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202108.0312.v1

Rabuffetti, M., Cannazza, P., Letizia, M., Pinto, A., Romano, D., Hoyos, P., Alcantara, A. R., Eberini, I., Laurenzi, T., Gourlay, L., Di, F., & Molinari, F. (2021). Structural insights into the desymmetrization of bulky 1 , 2-dicarbonyls through enzymatic monoreduction. Bioorganic Chemistry, 108(December 2020), 104644. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bioorg.2021.104644

Contente, M. L., Fiore, N., Cannazza, P., Roura Padrosa, D., Molinari, F., Gourlay, L., & Paradisi, F. (2020). Uncommon overoxidative catalytic activity in a new halo-tolerant alcohol dehydrogenase. ChemCatChem, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1002/cctc.202001112

Laurent, C. V. F. P., Sun, P., Scheiblbrandner, S., Csarman, F., Cannazza, P., Frommhagen, M., van Berkel, W. J. H., Oostenbrink, C., Kabel, M. A., & Ludwig, R. (2019). Influence of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase active site segments on activity and affinity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 20(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20246219

 

Poster:

Cannazza P., 6^th International Conference on Biocatalysis in Non-Conventional Media (BNCM 2021). 6-8 may, 2021.

Cannazza P., XXIV Workshop on the developments in the Italian PhD Research on food science, technology and biotechnology, Florence, 11-13 September 2019

Christophe V.F.P. Laurent, P. Sun, P. Cannazza, E. Breslmayr, S. Scheiblbrandner, M. Frommhagen,W.J.H. van Berkel, M.A. Kabel and R. Ludwig Structural modifications to Neurospora crassa LPMO9C and their effect on the catalytic activity, 4th International Symposium on Biocatalysis and Biotransformations (BioTrans 2019), July 7-11, 2019, Groningen, The Netherlands.

 

Oral presentations:

Next Generation of Biocatalysis conference, Bern 27-28 may, 2021. Cannazza P., Romano D, Molinari F: “Biocatalytic approaches for the production of added value compounds using genetically modified acetic acid bacteria”.

 

Training Experiences

Scuola Superiore Normale di Pisa – SSBSS 2019 – International Synthetic & Systems Biology Summer School  Tuscany – Italy / July, 2019

 

Awards

Best oral presentation: Next Generation of Biocatalysis conference, Bern 27-28 may, 2021. Cannazza P., Romano D, Molinari F: “Biocatalytic approaches for the production of added value compounds using genetically modified acetic acid bacteria”.