About us

Associate Professor in Genetics at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II. Director of the laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects. Creator and coordinator of the STOPTIGRE project.

PhD student in Biology of the XXXIV cycle at the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II. Her research activity focuses on the study of genes of sex determination in mosquitoes and sand flies and on the development of new systems for the separation of the sexes in mosquitoes for the application in the field of the sterile insect technique.

Master’s degree in Biological Sciences, Molecular Diagnostics Curriculum, with an experimental thesis entitled “Evolutionary study of the transformer gene in arthropods through comparative analysis of genomics and transcriptomics” carried out at the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II.

Master’s degree in Biology, with an experimental thesis entitled “Analysis of expression of the Sex-lethal gene and differentially expressed genes in mosquitoes of the genus Anophelesand Aedesby molecular and in silico methods” carried out at the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II.

Master’s thesis student at the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II.

Master’s thesis student at the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II.

Master’s thesis student at the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II.

Master’s thesis student at the Laboratory of Genetics and Control of Vector Insects of the Department of Biology of the University of Naples Federico II.


Acknowledgements

We thank all the people who in recent years, at different levels, have helped us to implement the many actions of the STOPTIGRE project:

Municipality of Procida

Sindaco Raimondo Ambrosino e gli assessori Rossella Lauro, Antonio Carannante, Titta Lubrano, Nico Granito, Sara Esposito, Lucia Mameli e Michele Del Leccese

Volunteers of Procida

Costantino D’Antonio, Davide Zeccolella, Luigi “Corecane” D’Orio, Cesare Buoninconti, Michele Meglio, Amedeo Schiano, Alberto Salvemini, Max Noviello, Anna ed Antonio Amalfitano, Emanuela Coppola, Biagio ed Isa Coppola, Angela e Pasquale Lubrano Lavadera, Giulia ed Angelo Salvemini, Claudia Riccio, Pina Cuccurullo, Maria e Franco Costagliola, Nella Scotto, Antonietta Pagano, Maria Iovine, Rino D’Orio

University of Naples Federico II

Rettore prof. Matteo Lorito, Prof. Gaetano Manfredi, Prof. Luciano Gaudio, Prof. Giuseppe Saccone, Prof. Serena Aceto, Dott.ssa Valeria Petrella, Dott.ssa Liliana Tullo, Dott.ssa Annalisa Longobardi, Dott. Luca Iesu, Dott.ssa Brunella Bozzi, Dott.ssa Rita Colonna, Dott. Antonio Marino, Dott. Germano Sollazzo, Dott. Pasquale Primo, Dott.ssa Maryanna Martina Perrotta, Dott.ssa Daniela Carannante, Dott.ssa Claudia Ascione, Dott. Ismael Sanchez Polanco, Dott.ssa Daniela Esposito

Press

Pasquale Raicaldo (LaRepubblica), Giovanni De Mauro (Internazionale), Alessandro Rocca (Sky), Leonardo Pugliese (Teleischia), Domenico Ambrosino (Procida Oggi)