Professional Experience
- Activity of collaboration aimed at the preparation of arthropods’ microsurgical samplesat Laboratory of Applied Entomology, Natural Sciences Museum of Trieste (Italy) (2005-2009)
- Professional training in Insect Micology Techniques at Plant Protection Research Unit,US Department of Agriculture / USDA-ARS, Collection of Entomopathogenic Fungal Culture at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY-USA (2002)
- Three years as contract researcher at Bayer S.p.A. – Animal Health R&D (Italy). Research Project on tick symbiotes. Several relevant work experiences (Germany, Slovak Republic, Israel) joinedin the project (19b98-2001).
Particular Good Skills:
- dissector of arthropods (extraction, purification and manipulation of organs, glands,
- microbial symbionts, apparatus and their share);
- techniques of microscopic anatomy and histology (inclusion, staining and cutting of tissue samples);
- techniques of applied mycology and environmental and general microbiology:
culture media, staining and morphological identification of microbial cells, methods of diluition and microbial counting, techniques of inoculation, staining and identification (taxonomical diagnosis) of mycological samples.
Studies
- Master of Science in Biological Sciences, Environmental Microbiology and Toxicology.University of Insubria of Varese, North Italy. All examinations credits completed 19th May 2009 (average grade: 28/30); degree examination discussed 27th October 2009 (107/110).
- Training in experimental microsurgical techniques on insects (Psylla piri and melanoneura, Psillids, Haemiptera) IASMA Laboratories, S. Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy (2007).
- Diploma in Agronomy (certificate of technical agrarian education), Grade 58/60.
Trainings, Stages and Congresses
- Utilization of staminal cells in pediatrics: news and future perspectives, 30thOctober 2009, Burlo Hospital, Trieste, FVG, Italy.
- Second European Congress on Tropical Medicine, 14th – 18th September 1998 at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place Liverpool, UK.
- Training at the Institute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dùbravska cesta 9, 842 46 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, on Rickettsia and Rickettsia-like organisms in ticks (detection, titration, staining and in vivo culture).
- 3rd National Congress of FIMUA (Federazione Italiana di Micopatologia Umana e Animale), October 1996.
Pubblications
- Morphological appearance of a natural event of mixed infection in ixodid ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) caused by Scopulariopsis Bainier 1907 and Cladosporium sp. Ormas N., Giorgetti E., Colla A. Atti Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat. Trieste, 2006, 52: 3-17.
- Contribution to the description of the morphology and developmental dynamics of symbiotic yeast-like microorganisms associated to the reproductive apparatus of some species of ixodids (Acari, Ixodidae). Ormas N., Colla A., Giorgetti E. Atti Mus.Civ.Stor.Nat. Trieste, 2007, 53: 87-100.
