ALESSANDRO GRAPPUTO POSITIONS 2006 – Present Senior Lecturer, Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy. 2004 – 2006 Senior Researcher, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 2000 – 2003 Post-doctoral Researcher, Department of Biological and Environmental Science, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 1997 - 2000 Marsden Post-doctoral Fellow, Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Biology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. ACADEMIC EDUCATION 2014 Italian qualification as Associate Professor in Ecology 2014 Italian qualification as Associate Professor in Zoology 2002 Opetusnäytteen Arviointi – Finnish qualification as a University Lecturer. 1997 Ph.D. in Genetic Sciences, University of Ferrara, Italy. 1992 M.Sc. in Biological Sciences obtained at the University of Padua, Italy. Final rating 110 of 110. FUNDING 2008-2010 Principal Investigator: research grant from the University of Padua for a 3-year project on the transcriptomic analysis of Colorado Potato beetles and differential gene expression between populations resistant and those susceptible to neonicotinoids. Funding covered the creation of a bioinformatics team of a post-doctoral fellows and undergraduate students. 2007-2009 Principal Investigator: research grant awarded by the Academy of Finland to fund work on the maintenance of genetic variability in animals with asexual reproduction. Funding covered the creation of a team of researchers including Ph.D. candidates and a post-doctoral fellow to undertake a four-year research project. TEACHING 2007 – present Molecular Phylogenies for post-graduate students of Evolutionary Biology, University of Padua. 2006-2011 Aspects of Life History Evolution in Animals for post-graduate students of Marine Biology, University of Padua. MENTORING I had mentored 2 post-doctoral fellows, 6 PhD students and 18 master students. I am coordinating an Erasmus student exchange program with the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. Bibliometric indicators (Google Scholar): Articles in ISI-ranked journals: 44 Citations: 1438 H-index: 21

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Genes involved in reception of chemical cues in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) The perception and discrimination of thousands of different odorants by the vertebrate olfactory system results from the activation of specific odorant receptors expressed by olfactory neurons in the nose. Vertebrate odorant receptors comprise three types of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs): the olfactory receptors OR, vomeronasal V1R and V2R receptors. Teleost fish have about 100 OR genes. The work will involve the isolation, characterization and study of variation of odorant receptors in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata), using the female guppy genome and several transcriptomes available in gene banks and bioinformatic tools. Differential expression between males and females and between tissues will be evaluated using bioinformatics tools from available transcriptomes in gene banks and by real time PCR on candidate genes.

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