Education

Ph.D in Applied Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, 2007

Current position

Post-doc, Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Italy

Publications

1. Carfagna, S., Bottone, C., Cataletto, P. R., Petriccione, M., Pinto, G., Salbitani, G., Vona, V., Pollio, A. and Ciniglia, C. (2016). Impact of Sulfur Starvation in Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Cultures of the Extremophilic Microalga Galdieria phlegrea (Cyanidiophyceae). Plant Cell Physiol 57(9): 1890-1898.
2. Carfagna, S., Salbitani, G. and Bottone Vona, V. (2016). Galdieria sulphuraria as a Possible Source of Food Colorant. J Nutr Ecol Food Res 3: 78-81.
3. Carfagna, S., Salbitani, G., Bottone, C., De Marco, A. and Vona, V. (2015). Cross-effects of Nitrogen and Sulphur starvation in Chlorella sorokiniana 211/8K. Natural Resources 6: 221-229.
4. Salbitani, G., Vona, V., Bottone, C., Petriccione, M. and Carfagna, S. (2015). Sulfur Deprivation Results in Oxidative Perturbation in Chlorella sorokiniana (211/8k). Plant Cell Physiol 56(5): 897-905.
5. Salbitani, G., Wirtz, M., Hell, R. and Carfagna, S. (2014). Affinity Purification of O-Acetylserine(thiol)lyase from Chlorella sorokiniana by Recombinant Proteins from Arabidopsis thaliana. Metabolites 4(3): 629-639.
6. De Castro, O., Di Maio, A., Imparato, G., Véla, E., Barbarito, S., Sibilio, G., Menale, B., Carfagna, S., Salbitani, G., Di Martino, C., Palumbo, G., Bottone, C., Guida, M., Colombo, P., Brullo, S., Salmeri, C. and Perrone, R. (2014). Aggiornamenti e novità sulle conoscenze di Pancratium maritimum (Amaryllidaceae). Floristica, Sistematica ed Evoluzione, Edito da Società Botanica Italiana (Firenze); p. 39-40.
7. Carfagna, S., Lanza, N., Salbitani, G., Basile, A., Sorbo, S. and Vona, V. (2013). Physiological and morphological responses of Lead or Cadmium exposed Chlorella sorokiniana 211-8K (Chlorophyceae). Springerplus 2(1): 147.
8. Carfagna, S., Salbitani, G., Vona, V. and Esposito, S. (2011). Changes in cysteine and O-acetyl-L-serine levels in the microalga Chlorella sorokiniana in response to the S-nutritional status. J Plant Physiol 168(18): 2188-2195.
9. Carfagna, S., Vona, V., Salbitani, G., Sorbo, S., Lanza, N., Conte, B., Di Martino Rigano, V., Castaldo Cobianchi, R., Golia, B. and Basile, A. (2011). Cysteine synthesis in Scorpiurum circinatum as a suitable biomarker in air pollution monitoring. International Journal of Environment and Health 5(1-2).