Research scientist
Institute of Agro-environmental and Forest Biology
National Research Council
Italy
Tel: +39-081-6132286
Dr. Alessandra Morana is a Research scientist at the Institute of Agro-environmental and Forest Biology (IBAF)-National Research Council of Italy. She received her Master Degree in Medicinal chemistry from University of Naples. Dr. Alessandra Morana's research interests includes Environmental biotechnology, microbial biotechnology, microbiology, biochemistry, enzymology, chemistry. She is mainly directed towards studies on extremophilic microorganisms with particular regard to the biochemistry of Archaea and enzymes of potential biotechnological interest in several industrial fields. She also focused her attention on extreme halophiles capable to produce biopolymers andcarotenoids. At present, her research activity is continuing on isolation, purification and characterization of biopolymers from extreme halophilic archaea.
