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Curriculum vitae of Dr.ssa Maria Stella Cappello
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date and place of birth: November 07th ,1963, Monteroni (LE)
Home address: Corso Umberto I°, n. 95, 73047 Monteroni, of Lecce
Affiliation and official address:
National Reasearch Council of Italy
Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Lecce
Via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Tel +39 0832 422607; Fax Tel +39 0832 422620
e-mail: [email protected]
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Education
1994. Degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Lecce, Italy. Degree thesis on
Physiology.
1994-1996. Stage at the laboratory of General Physiology of the University of Lecce directed
by Prof. C.
Storelli, developing studies on the ions transportations by means of
electrophysiological techniques .
1997-1999 Stage at National Research Council, Institute of Research on Agro-food
Biotechology - Lecce, developing research on “Metabolism of lipids and fat acids in almond
seeds”.
2002, 2009. Stage at the University of Verona, joining at the research group of Dr. F.
Dellaglio, studying the isolation and the characterization of yeast and bacterial strains from must
grapes and wines by using biochemical and molecular analysis.
Career and research activity
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1997-1998 Research activity at the Institute of Research on Agro-food Biotechology - Lecce,
contributing to the research project “Metabolism of lipids and fatty acids in almond seeds”.
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1999-2001. Temporary position at the Institute of Research on Agro-alimentary
Biotechnology, C.N.R., Lecce, Italy contributing to the European Community Project: FAIR N°
CT97-3224, N° CT 99-3224 “Adverse reactions to foods” for identification of allergens
contained in almond seeds.
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2001 present day. Permanent position as Researcher at the Institute of Sciences of Food
Production, C.N.R. section of Lecce. The main activity is focused on the characterization and
exploitation of the microbes germoplasm in the agro-food productions.
Dr. Maria Stella Cappello is coautor of forty one publication including papers published on JCR
journal and communications to national and international congresses.
Research Interests
The main interest of research is focused on the characterization and valorisation of the
autochthonous germoplasm of yeast and bacteria during must fermentation and wine-making.
Particularly: 1)selection and biochemical and molecular characterization of yeast and bacteria
strains which confer special characteristic and exalt the typical flavours to the wines; 2)
physiological characterization of the yeast strains (fermentation of sugars, production of
ethanol, glycerol, hydrogen sulphured, flavours, analysis of enzymes and proteins associated to
the fermentation process.
Other skills
Excellent knowledge of the languages: Italian, English and French.
Excellent knowledge of the systems operated and bio-informatics respectively.
Publications:
1. Bleve, G., Grieco F. (*), Cappello M.S., Santonocito C., Dellaglio F. and Zacheo G. (2003).
Subcellular localisation of an active green fluorescent protein-tagged GUP1 glycerol transporter
in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. YEAST 20 (S1), 236.
2. Cappello M.S., Greco F., Bleve G. and Zacheo G. (*) (2004). “Characterization of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains isolated from must of grape grown in experimental vineyard”.
Journal of Applied Microbiology 97: 1274-1280.
3. Bleve G., Zacheo G., Cappello M.S., Dellaglio F. and Grieco F. (*) (2005) "Subcellular
localisation and functional expression of the glycerol uptake protein 1 (GUP1) of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae tagged with the green fluorescent protein" Biochem J., 390,145-155.
4. Cappello M. S. (*), Stefani D., Grieco F., Logrieco A., Zapparoli G. (2008) “Genotyping by
Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism and malate metabolism performances of indigenous
Oenococcus oeni strains isolated from Primitivo wine” International Journal of Food
Microbiology, 127, 241-245.
5. Cappello M. S. (*), Stefani D., Grieco F., Logrieco A., Zapparoli G. (2008) “Use of AFLP
analysis for the selection of Oenococcus oeni strains as starters in wine malolactic
fermentation” The Scientific Committee of the International Congress “31° WORLD
CONGRESS OF VINE AND WINE” 6 TH General Assembly of the O.I.V. Verona. pp. 25-30.
(*) Corresponding author