Carmela Guadagno

 

Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Botany
University of Wyoming
Email: cguadagn@uwyo.edu

 

Research

 

Genetic basis of circadian rhythms and their relationship to physiological functions, specifically water-use efficiency and the traits contributing to it in the crop species, Brassica rapa.

Plants' responses to extreme drought and bark beetle attack, analyzing physiological and biochemical responses taking part in plant mortality.

Quantifying circadian clock gating of critical abiotic stress responses from the organ to the whole-plant level and impacts on final yield.

 

Education

Ph.D
2011
Applied Biology
University of Naples "Federico II"

B.S.
2007
Biological Science with Honors
University of Naples "Federico II"   

 

Publications

C. R. Guadagno, B. E. Ewers, H.N. Speckman, T. L. Aston, B. J. Huhn, S. B. DeVore, J. T. Ladwig, R. N. Strawn, C. Weinig. Dead or alive? Using membrane failure and chlorophyll a fluorescence to predict plant mortality from drought (Plant Physiology, in review).

C. R. Guadagno, M. Pugliese, S. Bonanno, A.M. Manco, N. Sodano, N. D’Ambrosio. X-ray influence on growth, photosynthetic activity and utilization of absorbed light energy in Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Journal of Plant Physiology, in review).

Y.Yarkhunova, C. R. Guadagno, M. J. Rubin, B. E. Ewers, C. Weinig. Variation in chlorophyll a fluorescence, circadian rhythms and ecophysiological traits in Arabidopsis thaliana RILs under different light conditions (in preparation).

M. J. Salmela, Y. Yarkhunova, C. R. Guadagno, B. E. Ewers, K. Greenham, P. Lou, C. R. McClung, C. Weinig. Environment-specific effects of the circadian clock on performance in an experimental segregating progeny of Brassica rapa (in preparation).

C. R. Guadagno, B. E. Ewers, C. Weinig Circadian clock and metabolism: on the crosstalk between two major targets of oxidative stress in plants (in preparation).

C. R. Guadagno, B. E. Ewers, R. N. Strawn, C. Weinig. Differences in plant life-history traits affect water use efficiency components in drought and recovery (in preparation).

D. Kornyeyev, C. R. Guadagno and N. D’Ambrosio (2013) Assessment of energy partitioning in PSII complexes using chlorophyll fluorescence analysis: reviewing the different approaches toward the definition of a unified method. Photosynthetica, 51 (3): 477- 480.

C. R. Guadagno, M. Della Greca, A. Virzo De Santo and N. D’Ambrosio (2013) Light stress detection in Beta vulgaris and Spinacia oleracea leaves using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance. Photosynthesis Research, 115 (2): 115-122.

C. R. Guadagno, A. Virzo De Santo and N. D’Ambrosio (2012) The challenging dream of plants in space. Annales Kinesiologiae, 3: 99-106.

P. Giorio, G. Giorio, C. R. Guadagno, F.Cellini, L.A. Stigliani, C. D’Ambrosio (2012) Heat dissipation in ehnanced β-carotene hydroxylase tomato. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 75: 1-8.

C. R. Guadagno, A. Virzo De Santo and N. D’Ambrosio (2010) A revised energy partitioning approach to assess the yields of non-photochemical quenching components. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta – Bioenergetics, 1797: 525-530.

N. D’Ambrosio, C. R. Guadagno, and A. Virzo De Santo (2008) Is qE always the major component of non-photochemical quenching? In : Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis, 1007-1010 (J. Allen, E. Gantt, J. Golbeck, and B. Osmond eds.) Springer.

 

Presentations

American Society of Plant Biologist (ASPB) meeting, Minneapolis (MN), July 2015 (Poster)

Gordon Research Conference on Water and Salt stress, Newry (ME), August 2014 (Poster)

16th International Congress on Photosynthesis, St. Louis (MO), August 2013 (Talk & Poster)

Ecological Society of America (ESA) conference, Portland (OR), August 2012 (Talk)

American Society of Plant Biologist (ASPB) meeting, Austin (TX), July 2012 (Poster)

Italian Society of Ecology (S.It.E.) meeting, Palermo, October 2011 (Talk)

International workshop on Non-photochemical quenching, Passau (Germany), April 2011 (Talk)

Italian Society of Ecology (S.It.E.) meeting, Rome, September 2010 (Poster)
International workshop on Photoprotection and NPQ, Parsberg (Germany), March 2009 (Poster)

Federation of European Societies of Plant Biology (FESPB) congress, Tampere (Finland), August
2008 (Poster)

 

Professional Organizations

American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)

American Society for Photobiology (ASP)

International Society of Photosynthesis Research (ISPR)