Personal Information
Surname(s)/ First name(s): Ribani Anisa
Place and date of birth: Bologna, 08 October 1987
E-mail: anisa.ribani2@unibo.it
Work Experience
From January 2022 to present: Assistant Professor (Fixed-term) - Researcher
Academic discipline: AGR/17 Livestock Systems, Animal Breeding and Genetics
Animal and food genetics and genomics, molecular biology wet lab, next generation sequencing
January 2020 - December 2022
Cofounder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of Unibo Spin-off GRIFFA SRL
Department of Agriculture and Food Science (DISTAl,), University of Bologna, Viale G. Fanin 46, Bologna
Molecular Wet Lab head
May 2020 - January 2022
Post Doc Researcher
Project title: “Genomic analyses in livestock species“ Department of Agriculture and Food Science (DISTAL), University of Bologna (prot. num. 2078; 03/04/2020)
May 2017 - April 2020
Post Doc Researcher
Project Title: “Genomic analyses in European local pig populations“ funded by European Union Project H2020 TREASURE (Grant Agreement no: 634476)
January 2014 – May 2017
PhD student in Agriculture, Environmental, Food Science and Technology (XXIX Cycle)
Genomic and metabolomic analyses in pigs and rabbits for improvements of productive permormace and food efficiency. Supervisor: Prof. Luca Fontanesi.
November 2015 - November 2016
Research fellow
Project Title: “Genomic analyses in European local pig breeds - H2020 Treasure" funded by European Unione H2020 Project TREASURE (Grant Agreement no: 634476)
March 2014 - February 2015
Research fellow
Project Title: "Analysis of genomic variability in Large-White pig breed and association with productive traits using innovative techniques of sequencing and genotype analysis" funded by AGER (Advanced research in genomics and processing technologies for the Italian heavy pig production chain – Hepiget)
November 2012 - December 2013
Research collaborator with fellowship
Title of the Project: "Study of livestock genomes using next generation sequencing techniques for the identification of molecular markers associated with phenotypic traits." Supervisor: Prof. Luca Fontanesi
Education and training
2014 2017: Phd in Agriculture, Environmental, Food Science and Technology
Title of Thesis: "Towards the development of nutrigenetic concepts in pigs by merging genomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics" DOI 10.6092/unibo/amsdottorato/8052Supervisor: Prof. Luca Fontanesi
July – September 2015: Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) funded by RGB-Net COST Action. Title of the project: “A training period of RNA-Seq data analysis” – TGAC (The Genome Analysis Centre), Norwich (UK). Tutor: Dr. Federica Di Palma (Director of Science, TGAC)
3-6 November 2014: Training School in "Genotyping By Sequencing" - TGAC (The Genome Analysis Centre), Norwich (UK)
16-21 June 2014: Summer School in "Agrobiodiversity of the Mediterranean area: a heritage to rediscover and conserve" - University of Cagliari – Italy. Tutor: Prof. Gianluigi Bacchetta (University of Cagliari)
September 2009 - March 2012: Master Degree in Biodiversity and Evolution – address Animal Biology – Class LM-6 Biology - cum laude - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. Master Thesis in Molecular Zoology. Thesis title: “The mitochondrial genome of Solemya velum (Mollusca, Bivalvia) and the basal phylogeny of the class Bivalvia.” Supervisor Prof. Marco Passamonti
September 2006 - December 2009: Bachelor Degree in Biology (Class 12) – Address Bioecology -cum laude -Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna. Bachelor Thesis in Animal Physiology. Thesis title: “Hormonal treatment effects of 17-beta-estradiol on larval development and sexual differentiation in Bufo bufo (L.)” Supervisor: Prof Francesco Zaccanti
Research Experiences and Technical skills
Wet-lab: DNA and RNA extraction and purification from different biological tissues; DNA amplification with PCR and bacterical trasformation; quality control of DNA and RNA samples using BioAnalyzer and qPCR; genotyping by PCR-RFLP; Sanger sequencing; next generation sequencing (Ion Torrent PGM and Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq); preparation of libraries and running of a NSG experiment (Ion Torrent, GeneStudio and Illumina platforms).
Bioinfomatic skills: Biological databases and bioinformatic tools (NCBI, BLAST, ENSEMBL, SwissProt, UniProt, MitoZoa, Plink). DNA sequence analysis and read alignment softwares (Galaxy, CodonCode, MEGA, SeaView, CLC Sequence Viewer, IGV, ClustalW, MAFFT, bwa). SNP calling software for NGS (SAMtools). RNA-seq data analysis softwares (TopHat, Clufflinks). Phylogeny and population genetics softwares (MrBayes, Past, Arlequin, Structure). Basic knowledge of R.
Scientific interest
I am a biologist mainly interested in evolutionary and molecular biology of several animals, both wild and domesticated. My attention is focused mainly in the pig species studying the domestication process, including how artificial selection shaped their genomes, their physiology and their productive traits. Moreover I am involved in molecular authentication of animal food products.
