Soil, Plant and Food - Agri-food waste Recovery and reuse
Nov 19
,
Thursday
9:00 am
The need forsustainable agriculture with a multidisciplinary approach is imperative to securefood for future generations. The organizers have held a series of workshops ofsix sections divided into two days, each section has a common topic on sustainableagriculture which links to the overall concept of sustainable agriculture,taking into consideration environmental, economic, social, and innovationalaspects. The theme for the firstday is "Soil, Plant, and Food: Agri-food Waste Recovery andReuse" and will be focus on the discussionabout the treatment and the reuseof residues from agro-industrial, food, forestry production processes, and how agro-industrial residues froma legislative point of view is consideredwaste, but it is importantto find alternative andmultidisciplinary strategies for their treatment and recovery using a circular economy approach. On the second day the theme will be "The role of sources,data analysis and digitalization for the agrifood sustainability", and will focus on the sustainability ofagriculture from the economic point of view and the digital technologies. In particular, the discussions will deal with topics ranging from processes for making food production sustainable, the possibility of tracing the level ofsustainability of agriculturalproduction, to the role of genetic improvement for sustainable agriculture, to the use of the biomass of agricultural origin in the framework of the circular economy.
9:00
Registration
9.30
Marcello Mele & Andrea Cavallini
Welcome address
9:45
Angela Zinnai
Food technology in food waste reduction
10:15
Susanna Bartolini
Apple and potato peels sources of antioxidant compounds
10:45
Luisa Pistelli
Citrus peel waste as source of high value-added compounds
11:15
Monica Macaluso
Citrus peel as sources of bioactive compounds for the production of nutraceuticalolive oils
11:25
Break
Angela Zinnai
Angela Zinnai
Ph.D. in Food Technology
Biography
Angela ZinnaiPh.D. in Food Technology, Ph.D in Agronomy and food crops, associate professor of enology and food technology. Since 1997, she practised her activity asUniversity researcher by DAFE of Pisa University. In 2006, she obtained the qualify of associate professor and in 2019 the qualify of full professor. Prof.Zinnai has been carrying out the didactic activities related to the following disciplines: "Unit operations"; "Unit operations of the oenological processes", Enology, Food storage and transformation, Special wines. She is author of more than 200 articlespublished on national or international journals and co-author or scientific referent of four patents about food technology innovations. On the occasion of the second edition of the Montana Award for Food Research (2008), prof. Angela Zinnai received the "Special Mention" of the jury for the research entitled "An innovation for the cold storage in controlled atmosphere of foods: The smart cell". Two projects in which prof. Zinnai were involved were selected for presentation at Expo, in Milan (2015). She was a chair and/or organizing committee member at several international congresses and member ofEuropean “Glamur Expert Forum”. She is a member of Scientific Committee of Union ItalianWines (UIV), Wine Italian Academy, IASA (International Academy of sensorial analysis) and Master Course in “Italian wines and International markets”, inEuropean Project INTEREG “Mare di Agrumi”. Since November 2017 he is a founding member of the innovative Start-up NexFood Srl, a University of Pisa spin-off.
Susanna Bartolini
Susanna Bartolini
Biography
Susanna Bartolini is Assistant Professor inArboriculture and Fruit culture at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Institute of LifeSciences (Pisa, Italy). Her main research activities cover topics on pre-harvest factors affecting the floral and fruiting biology of several fruit species, and pomological, nutraceutical and sensory traits of fruits. She heads or collaborates in scientific projects sponsored by national institution andEuropean Union. She is author and co-author of more than 160 scientific papers consisting of publications in international and national scientific journals, book chapters, and proceedings of international and national meetings.
Luisa Pistelli
Luisa Pistelli
Biography
Prof. LuisaPistelli, doctor in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, is Full Professorin Pharmaceutical Biology at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa,Italy. She iscurrently teaching ‘Plant Biology’, ‘Botanicals and Herbal Products’, and‘Medicinal Plant Biotechnology’ at the University of Pisa. She was tutor ofmore than 150 students during the preparation of their degree thesis and of 10PhD students in “Sciences of drug and bioactive substances” - University ofPisa.She wasPresident of the Herbal Technology Degree Course (University of Pisa, Italy)from 2001 to 2009, and the Coordinator of all the President of Italian HerbalTechnology degree courses (CO.N.P.T.ER.) from 2006 to 2009 and now continued tobe the Vice President. She was Director in the Master course on “Medicinal andAromatic Plants” in the University of Pisa from 2008 to 2013. Prof. LuisaPistelli is the current President of the Italian Society of Phytochemistry(SIF, www.phytosif.it) and a member of several important scientificnational and international societies: Italian Botanical Society (SBI),Phytochemical Society of Europe (PSE), Italian Phytotherapy Society (SiFit) andThe Italian Society of Essential oil Research (SIROE). She is member of the Accademiadei Georgofili – Florence (Italy)She publishedmore than 210 publications in international journals on Pharmaceutical Biology,Phytochemistry, and Medicinal Plant Biotechnology.
Monica Macaluso
Monica Macaluso
Biography
MonicaMacaluso is graduated with honors in Biosecurity and food quality at theUniversity of Pisa discussing an experimental thesis on the storage of ExtraVirgin Olive Oil. In December 2017 she is the winner of a research grant on theproject NTERREG IT-FR Marittimo 2014-2020 CUP C26D16007240007 Sea of citrus fruit entitled “New products obtained from thesecond choice or from the first processing of citrus fruits”. Actually, she isa PhD student and works in a project entitled “The valorization of olive oilsby innovation and optimization of packaging and storage conditions adopted inorder to increase the olive growing sustainability”. Her scientific activity isarticulated in the field of innovative extractive and conservative technologiesaimed at the production of high quality extra virgin olive oil. She is authorand co-author of more than 20 scientific papers.
Giovanni Antonio Lutzu
Giovanni Antonio Lutzu
Biography
Dr.Lutzu (1977) holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering, Universityof Cagliari (2012) and a B.S. in Biological Sciences, University of Sassari(2003). He started his interest on the biotechnological applications ofmicroalgae in 2008. His research is addressed to the utilization of microalgaestrains for the remediation of different wastewaters, lipid and high-valuecompounds production. He did a two-year postdoc at the Energy Algae Group,QIBEBT, China (2013-2015) and later worked as a postdoc researcher at theDepartment of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering, Oklahoma StateUniversity, USA (2015-2017). Currently he works as lab manager at the TeregroupSrl. an Italian private company located in Modena involved in the use ofmicroalgae for several biotechnological applications.
Tommaso Lotti
Tommaso Lotti
Biography
TommasoLotti graduated Cum Laude at the Faculty of Environmental Engineering of theUniversity of Florence in 2008. Since then he conducted research in the fieldof biological wastewater treatment in several important laboratories betweenItaly and The Netherlands. He got two PhDs, both in Italy (joint projectbetween University of Florence and University of Basilicata, 2011) and in TheNetherlands (Delft University of Technology, 2016) and have held post-docspositions in both these Universities and ultimately at the Politecnico diMilano where he was also granted with a Marie S. Curie Action IndividualFellowship grant funded by the European Union via the framewrok programme forresearch and innovation Horizon 2020. He was awarded the prestigiousinternational prices Waternet Watercycle Innovation Award 2016 (13/01/2017) andJaap van der Graaf Award 2014 (09/01/2015). He is currently hired asexperienced researcher and lecturer (contract Professor) at the University ofFlorence, his native town, at the faculty of Environmental Engineering.
Carolina Chiellini
Carolina Chiellini
Biography
Carolina Chiellini hold a Master’s degree inBiodiversity and Evolution at the faculty of Biology of the University of Pisa(2009). She obtained a PhD in Biological and Molecular Sciences at theUniversity of Pisa in 2013, and then she moved in Florence (2013-2018). Sheworked at the Dept. of Biology of the University of Florence where she startedworking with plant bacterial endophytes, and plant-microbes interaction. Then she moved to the CREA-AA (Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura el’Analisi dell’Economia Agraria—Centro di Ricerca Agricoltura e Ambiente),where she worked on soil and rhizospheric microbial communities. In 2018 she started a PhD course in Agriculture Foodand Environment at the University of Pisa, working on microalgae as atechnology applied in water remediation. From July 2020 she is a full-timeresearcher at the Italian National Research Council, Institute of AgriculturalBiology and Biotechnology.
Juan C. Sanchez-Hernandez
Juan C. Sanchez-Hernandez
Biography
Juan C.Sanchez-Hernandez is a professor of Environmental Toxicology at University ofCastilla-La Mancha (Toledo, Spain). He graduated with Ph.D. in EnvironmentalSciences from the University of Siena (Italy). Current research activity inEcotoxicology of Agrochemicals, particularly environmental risk assessment ofpesticides on non-target terrestrial organisms by using multiple experimentalapproaches (biomarkers, toxicity testing and field monitoring). Recently, hisinterest has moved to Vermiremediation (use of earthworms to degrade soilcontaminants) and Biochar Technology topics for the in situ remediation ofpolluted agricultural soils. His keep active research collaborations withgroups from Italy, France, USA, Chile and Argentina. He has published 82peer-reviewed scientific articles, 15 book chapters, and edited a CRC Pressbook on Bioremediation of Agricultural Soils. He has leaded numerous nationaland international research projects and contracts with small-mediumenterprises.
Michelangelo Becagli
Michelangelo Becagli
Biography
Michelangelo Becagli was born in Florence onNovember 8th, 1989. He
graduated in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies with honours at the
University of Pisa in July 2016. He obtained professional qualification
for agronomist in 2017. Currently, he is PhD student in Soil Sciences at
the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the
University of Pisa and his main research interests are soil chemistry
and biochemistry, particularly soil quality, and application of residual
biomasses to soil. Co-author of 5 publications on ISI journals.
Ordinary member of Italian Society of Soil Sciences (SISS) and ICHAR -
Italian Biochar Society.
graduated in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies with honours at the
University of Pisa in July 2016. He obtained professional qualification
for agronomist in 2017. Currently, he is PhD student in Soil Sciences at
the Department of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences of the
University of Pisa and his main research interests are soil chemistry
and biochemistry, particularly soil quality, and application of residual
biomasses to soil. Co-author of 5 publications on ISI journals.
Ordinary member of Italian Society of Soil Sciences (SISS) and ICHAR -
Italian Biochar Society.
Francesco Barbagli
Francesco Barbagli
Biography
Francesco Barbagli isCEO and founder of Romana Maceri Centro Italia Srl, a waste disposal andtransport company that operates throughout central Italy for over 25 years.From 1998, the plant engineering division of RM Impianti srl, has developedinnovative technological solutions for production of renewable energy from biomass.With BioDea, incollaboration with a group of agronomists, Francesco has developed innovativeand natural products for agriculture, derived from the transformation of thebiomass, with the aim of providing to farmers a valid economic alternative,sustainable, respectful of the environment and human and animal health. Withits technologies, RM Impianti produces high level quality biochar and wooddistillate for agricultural uses.