Andrew Bent personal page

Seminars:

• Plant biotechnology for disease and pest control". Sassari, Agronomy Department, June 10, 2011;
• "Malloreddus al ragù, career women and plant genetics: how will we feed the world in 2030?". Sassari, Agronomy Department, June 10, 2011
• "LRRs, poly(ADP-ribosyl)ation and soybean cyst nematodes - three studies on plant disease resistance". Sassari, Agronomy Department, June 8, 2011;
• "Molecular basis of the plant immune system". Sassari, Agronomy Department, June 6, 2011;

Lourens Erasmus personal page

Publications:

• Cannas Antonello (UNISS), Linsky A, Erasmus Lourens, Van Niekerk W, Coertze R, "Evaluation of performance predictions of the small ruminant nutrition system using growth and composition data of Dorper and South African Mutton Merino". Small Ruminant Research, Elsevier Science

Seminars:

• "An overview of the University of Pretoria and research at the Department Animal & Wildlife Sciences". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 21, 2011;
• "The South African dairy and feedlot industries". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 21, 2011;
• "Nutritional strategies to meet the challenge for improved milk production efficiency". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 22, 2011;
• "Wild African animals feeding and management: a tricky business". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 22, 2011;
• "Improving feed efficiency in dairy cows with feed additives". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 24, 2011;
• "Feedlot nutrition: moving the boundaries". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 28, 2011;
• "Melamine in the feed and food chain". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 29, 2011;
• "Amino acid nutrition and dairy cows". Sassari, Department of Animal Science, June 29, 2011;
• "Nutritional Implications and Strategies and heat stress conditions and when maize prices are high". Arborea, June 2011

David Geiser personal page

Publications:

• Balmas V., Migheli Quirico (UNISS), Garau P., Kang S., Geiser David M., O'Donnell K. "Molecular ecology of Sardinian Fusaria". Proceedings of the X International Fusarium Workshop and Fusarium Genomics Workshop 2008, Alghero, Italy, 30 August - 2 September, 2008. Journal of Plant Pathology 90 (Suppl. 3): 47.
• Balmas V., Migheli Quirico (UNISS). Garau P., Kang S., O'Donnell K., Geiser D.M., "Diversity of Fusarium from noncultivated soils of Sardinia". Atti XV Convegno Nazionale SI.Pa.V., September 28 - October 1, 2009, Locorotondo (BA), Italy. Journal of Plant Pathology 91 (Suppl. 4): 47
• Balmas V.,) Migheli Quirico (UNISS), Scherm B., Garau P., O'Donnell K.,Ceccherelli Giulia (UNISS), Kang S., Geiser David M., "Multilocus phylogenetics shows high levels of endemic fusaria inhabiting Sardinian soils (Tyrrhenian Islands)". Mycologia, 2010, 102: 803-812

Gerrit Hoogenboom personal page

Working papers:

• Deligios PA, Farci R, Sulas L, Hoogenboom Gerrit, Ledda Luigi (UNISS), "Predicting growth and yield of winter rapeseed in a Mediterranean environment: model development at a field scale".

Seminars:

• "Agricultural decision making in a changing climate - From crop modeling to practical applications". Department of Agricultural Sciences, Agricultural and Plant Genetics , Sassari, July 5 2011

Thomas Jung personal page

Publications:

• Jung Thomas, Orlikowski L, Schumacher J, Hartmann G, Cech T, Burgess TI,Scanu Bruno (UNISS), Solla A, Sanchez ME, Nechwatal J, Corcobado T, Abad-Campos P, Perez Sierra AM, "Ubiquitious Phytophthora infestations of forest, horticultural and ornamental nurseries and plantings demonstrate major failure of plant biosecurity in Europe". New Phytologist (submitted);
• Scanu Bruno (UNISS), Linaldeddu BT (UNISS), Jung Thomas, Maddau Lucia (UNISS), Franceschini Antonio (UNISS), "Phytophthora species occurring in declining oak ecosystems In Sardinia (Italy)". 6th International Meeting IUFRO Working Party 7.02.09 'Phytophthora in Forests and Natural Ecosystems'. 9th-14th September 2012, Córdoba-Spain

Seminars:

• "Nuove emergenze fitosanitarie e strategie di prevenzione nei vivai forestali". Oristano, December 5, 2012;
• "Morphological and physiological adaptability of the genus Phytophthora". Sassari, Department of Agriculture, December 3, 2012;
• "Involvement of Phytophthora species in the widespread declines and diebacks of forests across Europe and the importance of the nursery pathway". Nuoro, November 17, 2011;
• "Management and control of Phytophthora diseases in nurseries, forests and natural ecosystems on a global scale". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, November 16, 2011;
• "The genus Phytophthora: life cycle, ecology, evolutionary trends and notorious tree diseases caused in the Americas and Australasia". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, November 10, 2011

Harold Korby Kistler personal page

Seminars:

• "Wilt v. Blight: Common course and divergent paths to plant disease". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, October 28, 2010;
• "Host specialization of plant pathogenic Fusarium species revealed by comparative genomics". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, October 27, 2010;
• "What has been learned from seven years of genomic research on the Fusarium head blight pathogen?". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, October 26, 2010

Germana Manca personal page

Seminars:

• "Damage Assessment of the 2011 Japanese tsunami using high resolution satellite data". Sassari, Faculty of Agriculture, July 06, 2011
• "How to Pick a GIS". University of Sassari, seat of Nuoro, June 15, 2011

Luigi Montanari personal page

Seminars:

• "Introduzione alle Politiche Europee per la ricerca". University of Sassari, May 5-10, 2011;
• "Le istituzioni europee, le PE-RIS e l'ERA". University of Sassari, May 11, 2011;
• "La Commissione Europea, DG-RTD e le PE-RIS". University of Sassari, May 12, 2011;
• "I progetti di ricerca europei; cicli di vita e possibilità d'intervento". University of Sassari, May 17, 2011;
• "La Direzione Generale per l'Educazione e la Comunicazione" (EAC)". University of Sassari, May 19, 2011;
• "L'internazionalizzazione della ricerca e della formazione superiore europea". University of Sassari, May 24, 2011;
• "Esempi d'internalizzazione nella partecipazione a progetti europei (America Latina e Africa)". University of Sassari, May 25, 2011;
• "Valutazione delle attività svolte ed approfondimenti 'a richiesta'". University of Sassari, May 30, 2011

John Passioura personal page

Seminars:

• "Scaling up and down: making agricultural research mopre effective". Sassari, Agronomy Department, May 25, 2011;
• "Environmental biology of water-limited crops: plant and soil water relations". Sassari, Agronomy Department, May 26, 2011;
• "Agronomy of water-limited crops". Sassari, Agronomy Department, May 26, 2011;
• "Pre-breeding for water-limited wheat: science, sociology, and current shortcomings". Sassari, Agronomy Department, May 27, 2011

Alan Phillips personal page

Publications:

• Linaldeddu B.T. (UNISS), Franceschini A. (UNISS), Alves A., Phillips Alan J.L.,"Diplodia quercivora sp. nov.: a new species of Diplodia on declining Quercus canariensis trees in Tunisia". Mycologia (in press), (Impact Factor: 2.537)

Seminars:

• "Closing the circle in Botryosphaeria: If only Saccardo (and contemporaries) had a sequencer". Sassari, Department of Plant Protection, October 25, 2011;
• "What is a fungal species? Lessons learnt from Botryosphaeria and Diaporthe". Nuoro, October 28, 2011

Xavier Turon personal page

Publications:

• Abad S, Mannazzu Ilaria (UNISS), Turon Xavier, "Biodiesel waste-glycerol to added-value metabolites. Broadening the biorefinery". Proceedings of the conference Biotrans 2011 Sicilia, Giardini di Naxos (ME) 2-6 ott. 2011

Seminars:

• "Bioprocess: from lab towards an industrial scale". Università degli Studi di Sassari, ottobre 2010

Michael Wisniewski personal page

Publications:

• Fiori Stefano (UNISS), Scherm Barbara (UNISS), Liu J., Farrell R., Mannazzu Ilaria (UNISS), Budroni Marilena (UNISS), Maserti B.E., Wisniewski Michael E., Migheli Quirico (UNISS), "Identification of differentially expressed genes associated with changes in the morphology of Pichia fermentans on apple and peach fruit". FEMS Yeast Res 12 (2012) 785-795

Seminars:

• "Using Genomic and Molecular Tools to Address Critical Problems in Fruit Crop". Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria, 3 maggio 2011
• "Tritrophic Interactions in Yeast-Based Biological Control Systems". Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria, 29 aprile 2011
• "Twenty Years of Postharvest Biocontrol Research: Is It Time for a New Paradigm?". Sassari, Facoltà di Agraria, 27 aprile 2011

SEMINARS:

• "Environmental and genetic determinants of wheat flowering time: ecophysiological and modelling approaches", Dipartimento di Agraria, June 2012
• "Ecophysiological analysis of the elaboration of burum and bread wheat grain protein composition", Dipartimento di Agraria, June 2012

SEMINARS:

• "Experimental design and PCA; rules of thumb and general principles", Dipartimento di Agraria, October 2012
• "Multivariate regression and preference mapping for relating sensorz data to consumer linking", Dipartimento di Agraria, October 2012
• "The use of Panel Check for sensorz panel performance monitoring", Dipartimento di Agraria,October 2012

SEMINARS:

"The role of mathematical models to support research in animal science", Department of Agricultural Sciences, September 2012

Lessons/Seminars:

• "Tecniche per lo studio dei colloidi negli alimenti", Department of Agricultural Sciences, 5 December, 2012
• "Il futuro delle tecnologie alimentari nei prossimi 10 anni", seat of Oristano, 3 December, 2012
• "Protezione e delivery" di bioattivi negli alimenti", Department of Agricultural Sciences, 28 November 2012
• "Principi colloidali degli alimenti, formazione e stabilizzazione di emulsioni", Department of Agricultural Sciences 26 November 2012

John F. Patience personal page

Seminars:

• "The U.S. Pork Industry", Department of Agricultural Sciences, September 2012
• "Characterizing the fallback pig", Department of Agricultural Sciences, September 2012
• "New Challenges for swine feeding as a result of the increased competition with bio-energy industries for grain availability", Giornata Internazionale di Studio "Swine production: glob(loc)al perspectives", 7 September, 2012, Aula Magna, Department of Agricultural Sciences

Publications:

• M. Schwarz, F. Giadrossich, D. Cohen (2013), "Modeling Root Reinforcement Using Root-Failure Weibull Survival Function. Hydrology and Herth System Sciences", doi:10.5194/hessd-10-3843-2013

Seminars:

• "An Analytical Fiber Bundle Model for Pullout Mechanics of Root Bundles", June 2013, Department of Agricultural Sciences

Seminars:

• "Saccharomyces cerevisiae population structure; impact of natural factors and man history on yeast diversity". 10 July 2013, Department of Agricultural Sciences
• "New insights into flor yeast diversity and adaptation", 12 July 2013, Department of Agricultural Sciences
• "3 - Molecular markers for the evaluation of yeast diversity: Why should we get rid of old methods - methods used for exploring yeast diversity, pros and cons of microsatellite markers-The post genomic era", 15 July 2013, Department of Agricultural Sciences
• "Practical training: how to use microsatellite marker for exploring yeast diversity", 16 July 2013, Department of Agricultural Sciences