Andrea Roncolini
Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy
Biography
Andrea Roncolini Doctoral candidate at D3A-UNIVPM. His doctoral project concerns the investigation about microbiological aspects of edible insect as food and feed. Through culture-dependent (microbial cultivation, isolation and enumeration) and independent methods (molecular biology methods) he studies edible insects microbiota characterization, occurrence of transferable resistance genes in edible insects and exploitation of insect powder in bread making. He is also involved in other projects concerning the exploitation of lactic acid bacteria (isolation, characterization and development of starters) for the production of fermented foods, the microbiological food safety analysis, the use of biotracers for environmental assays. He had a Master’s degree in Agricultural and Environmental Biotechnology at University of Perugia and his Thesis concerned the taxonomic and ecologic characterization of yeasts isolated from Alpine soils. He had a Professional Master’s Programme with merit-based scholarship in “Characterization and technologies for the remediation of polluted sites” at University of Rome “La Sapienza”.