| Dr. Laura Giuliano is in charge to enhance dialogue among 22 Member States around innovative research topics, and to strengthen CIESM relations with other inter-governmental Commissions / networks of Funding Agencies. Her efforts range from the conception and organization of the ‘CIESM-SUB’ multidisciplinary oceanographic campaigns to the advising of Funding Agencies on Mediterranean common marine research priorities and regional specificities (i.e. she co-edited CIESM contribution to the EU Green Paper on Marine and Maritime Policy). Direct responsible for collaboration with ICES, EU, ESF-MB, EUCC and the WATERBORNE platforms (MARCOM+, EU CSA, fp7). Fully engaged in the organization of the 38th and 39th CIESM Congresses (the last one with a record number of about 1000 participants of different nationalities, and over 900 communications in 50 distinct sessions). In the spirit of using research cooperation to advance towards a better policy, she has built-up the CIESM programme on biotechnology matching it with a multi-cultural / multi-sector analytical exercise aiming to advance towards IPRs related issues and the equitable sharing of benefits derived from ‘bioprospecting’ in the Mediterranean. This action evolved along research workshops, large-scale debates, a pilot study (in cooperation with WTO, and CBD), and direct interventions at UN level (NY, USA, 2011). Dr. Giuliano’s commitment towards the harmonization of research and policy practices includes efforts in benchmarking Mediterranean national strategies, facilitating debates on common strategic options, spreading base-line protocols, advocating the sharing of information (including research data) through co-managed databases etc.
Previously a researcher (DRII) at CNR (IT), appointed Head of the Horizontal Axes ‘Sustainability of Earth and Aquatic environments’ (integrating 16 research axes and 87 researchers) at the Direction of the Dept. “Earth and Environment”, and major responsible for its operational strategy and future perspectives at national and international level. Member of national and international science evaluation committees for the selection of proposals to be granted (EU fp6, fp7 INCO 2003, 2011 PNEC-Fr 2001-2004) or for reporting on research laboratory activities (CNRS, FR). Italian Ambassador for ISME. Referee and Guest Editor of various international journals (FEMS Deep-Sea Res. Microbial Biotechnology). Author of more than 40 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (including PNAS, Science, Nature). | |
- International Council for the Exploration of the Mediterranean Sea (CIESM), more
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- Joint programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans), more
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| A1 Publications (6) [show] |
 La Cono, V.; Bortoluzzi, G.; Messina, E.; La Spada, G.; Smedile, F; Giuliano, L.; Borghini, M.; Stumpp, C.; Schmitt-Kopplin, P.; Harir, M.; O’Neill, W.K.; Hallsworth, J.E.; Yakimov, M. (2019). The discovery of Lake Hephaestus, the youngest athalassohaline deep-sea formation on Earth. NPG Scientific Reports 9(1): 11 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38444-z, more- Yakimov, M.M.; La Cono, V.; Slepak, V.Z.; La Spada, G.; Arcadi, E.; Messina, E.; Borghini, M.; Monticelli, L.S.; Rojo, D.; Barbas, C.; Golyshina, O.V.; Ferrer, M.; Golyshin, P.N.; Giuliano, L. (2013). Microbial life in the Lake Medee, the largest deep-sea salt-saturated formation. NPG Scientific Reports 3(3554): 9 pp. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03554, more
- La Cono, V.; Smedile, F.; Bortoluzzi, G.; Arcadi, E.; Maimone, G.; Messina, E.; Borghini, M.; Olivieri, E.; Mazzola, S.; L'Haridon, S.; Toffin, L.; Genovese, L.; Ferrer, M.; Giuliano, L.; Golyshin, P.; Yakimov, M.M. (2011). Unveiling microbial life in new deep-sea hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings. Environ. Microbiol. 13(8): 2250-2268. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02478.x, more
- Yakimov, M.M.; La Cono, V.; Smedile, F.; DeLuca, T.H.; Juárez, S.; Ciordia, S.; Fernández, M.; Albar, J.P.; Ferrer, M.; Golyshin, P.N.; Giuliano, L. (2011). Contribution of crenarchaeal autotrophic ammonia oxidizers to the dark primary production in Tyrrhenian deep waters (Central Mediterranean Sea). ISME J. 5(6): 945-961. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2010.197, more
- Daffonchio, D.; Borin, S.; Brusa, T.; Brusetti, L.; van der Wielen, P.W.J.J.; Bolhuis, H.; Yakimov, M.M.; D'Auria, G.; Giuliano, L.; Marty, D.; Tamburini, C.; McGenity, T.J.; Hallsworth, J.E.; Sass, A.M.; Timmis, K.N.; Tselepides, A.; de Lange, G.J.; Hübner, A.; Thomson, J.; Varnavas, S.P.; Gasparoni, F.; Gerber, H.W.; Malinverno, E.; Corselli, C.; Biodeep Scientific Party (2006). Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic-anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline. Nature (Lond.) 440(7081): 203-207, more
- Yakimov, M.M.; Giuliano, L.; Timmis, K.N.; Golyshin, P.N. (2001). Upstream-independent ribosomal RNA amplification analysis (URA): a new approach to characterizing the diversity of natural microbial communities. Environ. Microbiol. 3(10): 662-666, more
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| Book chapters (3) [show] |
- Corselli, C.; Bianchi, A.; Gerber, H.W.; Clauss, G.; Bolhuis, H.; McGenity, T.; Timmis, K.; Thomson, J.; Varnavas, S.P.; de Lange, G.J.; Tselepides, A.; Giuliano, L.; Bloch, J.-F.; Gasparoni, F.; BIODEEP Scientific Team (2007). Biotechnologies from the Deep - (BIODEEP), in: Cieslikiewicz, W. et al. (Ed.) Proceedings of the EurOCEAN 2004: European Conference on Marine Science & Ocean Technology: Celebrating European marine science; building the European research area; communicating marine science, Galway, Ireland, 10-13 May 2004. pp. 150-151, more
- Giuliano, L. (2007). Frontiers in deep-sea biological research: towards understanding the functional and structural adaptation of marine microbial communities to the deep-sea ocean margins, in: Cieslikiewicz, W. et al. (Ed.) Proceedings of the EurOCEAN 2004: European Conference on Marine Science & Ocean Technology: Celebrating European marine science; building the European research area; communicating marine science, Galway, Ireland, 10-13 May 2004. pp. 104-107, more
- Yakimov, M.M.; Timmis, K.T.; Golyshin, P.N.; Giuliano, L.; Denaro, R.; Terence, T.; Yanenko, A.; Ron, E. (2007). Community of Marine Microrganisms for Oil Degradation (COMMODE), in: Cieslikiewicz, W. et al. (Ed.) Proceedings of the EurOCEAN 2004: European Conference on Marine Science & Ocean Technology: Celebrating European marine science; building the European research area; communicating marine science, Galway, Ireland, 10-13 May 2004. pp. 223-224, more
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| Abstracts (3) [show] |
- Denaro, R.; Mazzola, S.; Yakimov, M.; Giuliano, L. (2013). RITMARE Italian research and industry for the sea, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Marine biotechnology in the European research area: Challenges and opportunities for Europe. Final CSA MarineBiotech Conference. Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium, 11-12 March 2013. VLIZ Special Publication, 64: pp. 43, more
- Corselli, C.; Bianchi, A.; Gerber, H.W.; Clauss, G.; Bolhuis, H.; McGenity, T.; Timmis, K.; Thomson, J.; Varnavas, S.P.; de Lange, G.J.; Tselepides, A.; Giuliano, L.; Bloch, J.-F.; Gasparoni, F.; BIODEEP Scientific Team (2004). Biotechnologies form the Deep (BIODEEP), in: EurOCEAN 2004: European Conference on Marine Science and Ocean Technology, 10th - 13th May 2004, Galway, Ireland: Abstract book. pp. 14-15, more
- Yakimov, M.M.; Timmis, K.T.; Golyshin, P.N.; Giuliano, L.; Denaro, R.; Terence, T.; Dalby, A.; Yanenko, A.; Ron, E. (2004). Communities of Marine Microrganisms for Oil Degradation (COMMODE), in: EurOCEAN 2004: European Conference on Marine Science and Ocean Technology, 10th - 13th May 2004, Galway, Ireland: Abstract book. pp. 65-66, more
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| Other publication [show] |
- Denaro, R.; Mazzola, S.; Yakimov, M.; Giuliano, L. (2013). RITMARE Italian research and industry for the sea: IAMC CNR activities in the field of marine biotechnology. Poster presented at the Final CSA MarineBiotech Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 11-12 March 2013. Institute for Coastal Marine Environment, National Research Council (IAMC-CNR): Messina. 1 poster pp., more
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