

LORIANO BALLARIN
Title: Professore associato confermato
SSD: BIO/05 - Zoology
Address: VIA U. BASSI, 58/B - PADOVA
Phone: 0498276197
E-mail: loriano.ballarin@unipd.it
Research area
- Immunobiology of marine invertebrates (with particular reference to tunicates) - Allorecognition in marine invertebrates (with particular reference to tunicates) - Haemocyte differentiation in tunicates - Xenobiotic immunotoxicity - Evolution of innate immune responses with particular reference to the invertebrate-vertebrate transition
Proposals for thesis
- Study of the complement system in colonial tunicates - Study of the receptors involved in nonself recognition in colonial tunicates - Stem cells and haemocyte differentiation in colonial tunicates - Study of immunotoxic effects of xenobiotics in tunicates and bivalves - Study of immune priming in tunicates and bilalves