Education

Ph.D. in Botanical Sciences, Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza - University of Rome, 2011

Current position

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biology and Biotechnologies “Charles Darwin”, Sapienza- University of Rome

Publications

1. Savatin, D. V., Gramegna, G., Modesti, V. and Cervone, F. (2014). Wounding in the plant tissue: the defense of a dangerous passage. Front Plant Sci 5: 470.
   
2. Savatin, D. V., Bisceglia, N. G., Marti, L., Fabbri, C., Cervone, F. and De Lorenzo, G. (2014). The Arabidopsis NUCLEUS- AND PHRAGMOPLAST-LOCALIZED KINASE1-Related protein kinases are required for elicitor-induced oxidative burst and immunity. Plant Physiol 165(3): 1188-1202.
   
3. Paparella, C., Savatin, D. V., Marti, L., De Lorenzo, G. and Ferrari, S. (2014). The Arabidopsis LYSIN MOTIF-CONTAINING RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE3 regulates the cross talk between immunity and abscisic acid responses. Plant Physiol 165(1): 262-276.
   
4. Suárez, L., Savatin, D., Salvi, G., Lorenzo, G. d., Cervone, F. and Ferrari, S. (2013). The non-traditional growth regulator Pectimorf is an elicitor of defense responses and protects Arabidopsis against Botrytis cinerea. J Plant Pathol 95(1): 177-180.
   
5. Ferrari, S., Savatin, D. V., Sicilia, F., Gramegna, G., Cervone, F. and Lorenzo, G. D. (2013). Oligogalacturonides: plant damage-associated molecular patterns and regulators of growth and development. Front Plant Sci 4: 49.
   
6. Savatin, D. V., Ferrari, S., Sicilia, F. and De Lorenzo, G. (2011). Oligogalacturonide-auxin antagonism does not require posttranscriptional gene silencing or stabilization of auxin response repressors in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 157(3): 1163-1174.
   
7. De Lorenzo, G., Brutus, A., Savatin, D. V., Sicilia, F. and Cervone, F. (2011). Engineering plant resistance by constructing chimeric receptors that recognize damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). FEBS Lett 585(11): 1521-1528.