{"id":2433,"date":"2021-11-21T19:13:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T18:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/?p=2433"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:44:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:44:21","slug":"phd-student-profile-simona-pizzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/2021\/11\/21\/phd-student-profile-simona-pizzi\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student profile, Simona Pizzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>PhD Student<\/strong>:\u00a0 Simona Pizzi (ORCID n.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9110-7994\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0000-0001-9110-7994<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2438\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Photo_Simona-Pizzi.jpg\" alt=\"Simona Pizzi\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Photo_Simona-Pizzi.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Photo_Simona-Pizzi-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Prof. Ileana Vigentini<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean<\/strong>: Prof. Diego Mora<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD title achieved on<\/strong>: 18<sup>th<\/sup> December 2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research area<\/strong>: Food Science and Nutrition<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research topic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Innovative technological and microbial approaches for the sustainable development of the alcoholic beverage industry<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vitis vinifera is susceptible to infections caused by pathogenic fungi. This PhD project focuses on its biological control using selected microorganisms to limit the use of chemicals in both land and wine. The aim is to exploit epiphytic and endophytic species with metabolic traits (e.g. natural secretion of bio-functional molecules) able to counteract the pathogen growth in plant and post-harvest (i.e. table and dried) grapes. In particular, terpenes are interesting molecules for their antiviral, antimicrobial, anti-insecticide, and antioxidant properties. The specific objectives of this PhD are to examine the potential of plant-associated yeats as biocontrol agents able to release terpenes (or other interesting compounds) with a pesticide or antifungal effect. A comparative genomic approach and a genome editing pipeline will generate terpene high-producing strains allowing to study the interaction mechanisms of yeast-host-environment. The impact of biocontrolled grapes will be considered in wine production especially for minimal intervention winemaking approaches.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bio-control, yeast, wine, terpenes<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p>Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS)<\/p>\n<p>Via Mangiagalli 25, 20133 Milan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:simona.pizzi1@unimi.it\">simona.pizzi1@unimi.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dott. Daniela Fracassetti (DeFENS, University of Milan, Italy)<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gustavo Cordero-Bueso, University of Cadiz, Spain<\/p>\n<p>Dr. David Maghradze, Agrarian University of Georgia, Georgia<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gabriella De Lorenzis, Dr. Silvia Toffolatti and Prof. Marcello Iriti, University of Milan, Italy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fellowship sponsor<\/em>: Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Merlino, V.M.; Fracassetti, D.; Di Canito, A.; <strong>Pizzi, S.<\/strong>; Borra, D.; Giuggioli, N.R.; Vigentini, I. Is the Consumer Ready for Innovative Fruit Wines? Perception and Acceptability of Young Consumers. Foods 2021, 10, 1545. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/foods10071545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/foods10071545<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Massaglia, S., Merlino, V.M.; Fracassetti, D.; Di Canito, A.; <strong>Pizzi, S.<\/strong>; Vigentini, I. Is the Consumer Ready for Innovative Fruit Wines? Poster for Macrowine Virtual, 23 \u2013 30th June 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Call<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SEED4Innovation &#8211; Scouting Program. Deadline: 10th October 2020 Project\u2019s title: \u201cMethod for the industrial scale production of kiwi-based wine (KiWine)\u201d. Role: Member of the research unit of UMIL<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2441\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image2_SP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image2_SP\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image2_SP-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image2_SP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image2_SP-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image2_SP.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2443\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image1_SP-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Image1_SP\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image1_SP-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image1_SP-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image1_SP-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Image1_SP.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Student:\u00a0 Simona Pizzi (ORCID n.\u00a00000-0001-9110-7994) Supervisor: Prof. Ileana Vigentini Dean: Prof. Diego Mora PhD title achieved on: 18th December 2024 Research area: Food Science and Nutrition Research topic Innovative technological and microbial approaches for the sustainable development of the alcoholic beverage industry Project Synopsis Vitis vinifera is susceptible to infections caused by pathogenic fungi. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,59],"tags":[212,289,193,288],"class_list":{"0":"post-2433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-phd-student-profile","9":"tag-biocontrol","10":"tag-terpenes","11":"tag-wine","12":"tag-yeast","13":"anons"},"modified_by":"admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}