Hello!

My name is Rosario Iacono...

And this is my visual resume

I grew up in the countryside near Ragusa (Sicily, Italy).

Since when I was a kid I have been having a great fondness for nature and natural sciences.

All my lifelong I walked along the path of this fondness

I lived in the countryside untill I was 21 and I worked for ten years in my family multifunctional, diverse, organic and traditional farm

Then I learnt how to...

• Milk cows

• Face calving and animal diseases

• Make traditional P.O.D. Ragusanocheese

• Take care, graft and prune carobs and olive trees

• Drive a tractor and use a chainsaw

• Autonomously manage the farm

• Feed cattles

Continuing to work in the farm, in 2001 I started a University course in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies in the University of Catania

In 2006 I gained a Bachelor Degree in “Agricultural Sciences and Technologies in tropical and Subtropical Areas”.

In 2004 I worked for 6 months as an University trainee in the Sensory Evaluation Laboratory in CoRFiLaC (International Reasearch Institute for Ragusano PDO).

In 2006 I moved to Catania.

I attended a course in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in University of Catania

And I got a Master of Sciences in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies

As Master’s candidate I worked for a year at Department of Agri-food and environmental Systems Management – Division of Plant Pathology with the team of Professor Giancarlo Polizzi.

On July 2010 I defended my thesis on the first use of trunk injection techniques on Cycads against manganese deficiency.

I was fascinated by plant pathology...

In 2010 I moved to Milan...

...where I successfully applied for a PhD in Molecular Biology at Faculty of Agricultural Sciences in University of Milan

With a public scholarship in 2011 I started to work on a a PhD project on Molecular Basis of Bioremediation and Sulfur Use Efficiency in Plants

at Parco TecnologicoPadano

There I had the opportunity of working in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment,

With the team of Prof Gian Attilio Sacchi and Fabio Nocito I gained gratifying results

Such as...

• An innovative hydroponic method for growing Arabidopsis in differential nutritional conditions

• A new method for assess the affinity for sulfate of some Arabidopsis and Brassica sulfate transporters. Avoiding the use of radiolabeled ions.

• The evidence of a differential regulation of sulfur metabolism under sulfatedeficiency and cadmium exposion in Brassica juncea

And acquired some skills such as...

• Several basics and advanced molecular biology techniques

• Teaching skills to students of secondary school

• Bioinformatics skills through transporters genomic analyses

• Team working and multidisciplinary thinking

• Problem solving and results critical analises

In 2013 I moved to London to improve my English, looking for a new career development and new challenges

Italian is my mother tongue

But I speak English as well and I recently gained a ESOL L2 certificate in English

And in my spare time I am studying Chinese

I love languages

I have a good knowledge of...

In my spare time I love... Practicing martial

arts

Travelling

Acting

Reading

Watching movies

(After a performance with my acting class mates Milan in 2012)

Unbelievable? Call my referees

Prof. Giancarlo PolizziAs Thesis TutorDepartment of Agri-food and environmental Systems Managment –Division of Plant Pathology – University of Catania Ph. : +39 0957147348E-mail: gpolizzi@unict.it

Dr. Fabio Francesco NocitoAs PhD TutorUniversity of Milan – Department of Agricultural and Environmental SciencesPh.:+39 02503 16526 E-mail: fabio.nocito@unimi.it

Prof. Gian Attilio SacchiAs PhD Co-TutorUniversity of Milan – Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences+39 02503 16525 gianattilio.sacchi@unimi.it

Contact me:

iaconorosario@gmail.com+44 7436974395

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Personal details:

Rosario IaconoNINo SP 877289 B 13 Navenby WalkE3 4EZ, London, UK