Carmine MARCONE | Curriculum

Carmine Marcone graduated from the University of Naples Federico II with a degree in agricultural sciences in 1989. After obtaining his Ph.D. degree in plant pathology in 1994 from the same University (Ph.D. thesis on phytoplasmology), he worked as post-doctoral scientist from September 1994 through March 2000 at Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Dossenheim Institute, Germany, under the guidance of prof. E. Seemüller. Initially his German stay was funded by a one-year grant from National Research Council of Italy which was followed by a two-year fellowship of the University of Naples Federico II. Then, he obtained an EU research mobility grant for two years. During the period 2000-2007, he was a research fellow at the University of Basilicata and in November 2006 he joined the University of Salerno as associate professor of plant pathology. In 2014 and 2018, he obtained the national scientific qualification as full professor of plant pathology. His research interests cover several fields of phytoplasmology including pathology, diagnosis, taxonomy, phylogeny and genomic. Major objectives are phytoplasmal diseases and their causal agents of fruit trees, forest trees, vegetable and medicinal crops including weeds in southern Italy. Most of the discovered phytoplasmal diseases were the first records for the world or Europe. Also, he determined the genome size of phytoplasmas representing nearly all phylogenetic groups, was among the firsts to construct a physical map of a phytoplasma chromosome and contributed to the taxonomic description of several ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma species’. He is member of editorial board of the international journals European Journal of Plant Pathology, Phytopathogenic Mollicutes, and Australasian Plant Pathology and guest editor in Microorganisms for the special issue "Phytoplasmas and Phytoplasma Diseases". He acted as referee for several international journals and funding bodies. He is author of more than 170 publications most of them in leading international phytopathological and microbiological journals; H-Index (Scopus): 29, Total citations (Scopus): 3770; H-Index (Google Scholar): 35, Total citations (Google Scholar): 5772.