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Gemma Donato

PhD Student
PhD in Earth and Environmental Sciences - XXXIX cycle
Tutor: Rossana Sanfilippo
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Email: gemma.donato@phd.unict.it
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VERSIONE ITALIANAAREA RISERVATA

01/08/2023 – Current

PhD Student - Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania. 

Title of the Phd thesis: "Coralligenous variations in the Mediterranean Sea: biodiversity, morphology and biogeography".

20/09/2020 – 25/02/2021

Erasmus+ Traineeship - Spanish Institute of Oceanography, Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares (IEO, CSIC), Palma de Maiorca, Spain

I was included in the group of "Marine Reserves:conservation,fishingandsustainability",headedbytheresearcherM.Salud Deudero Company. Tutor of the internship: Maite Vázquez-Luis. Knowledge, skills (intellectual and practical) and competences acquired: scientific bibliographic research, application of the scientific method under hypotheses to be tested. Skills to deal with laboratory work and data analysis. Development of a critical view of the effects of some anthropogenic impacts on the marine environment. Use programs (R-Studio) and spatialdata analysis and editing programs (QGIS, ArcGIS). Project organization of an oceanographic campaign. Preparation and elaboration of a scientific article. Working with an endangered species

30/09/2019 – 28/11/2019

Erasmus+ Traineeship - Oceanographic of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Practice in the departments of: Tropical, Quarantine, Laboratory, Oceans, Mediterranean, Jellyfish. Works: cleaning and maintenance facili taking and analyzing samples; preparation of diets for animals and distribution of the food; veterinarian treatments; handling of animals

20/01/2019 – 24/01/2019

Training and orientation internship - Department of Sciences, University of RomaTre, Roma, Italy

Learning of different molecular biology procedures, the use of bioinformatics programs for phylogenetic applications and mollusk dissection techniques

08/2017 – 07/2019

Master's degree in Biology and Ecology of Coastal Marine Environment, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Science University of Messina

​Thesis: Dynamics of Pinna nobilis and Pinna rudis following the recent mass mortality. Tutor: Prof. Salvatore Giacobbe

08/2012 – 03/2017

Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences, Department of Chemical, Biological, Pharmaceutical and Environmental Sciences University of Messina, Italy

Thesis: Acidification of the seas and damages to biodiversity. Tutor: Prof. Concetta Calabrò

06/10/2023 – Current

Volunteer worker in the Worms-out project - OGS - Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Milazzo, Italy

Visual census monitoring of the species Hermodice carunculata at -5 and -10 m depth trough linear transects. in particular, counting of specimens, identification of fauna and collection of sediments were carried out.

01/05/2023 – Current

Volunteer worker in the Pinna Garden project - University of Messina, Oceanographic of Valencia

The project aims at monitor, protect and recover the endangered species Pinna nobilis in the Lake Faro, Messina, Sicily.
I'm collaborating as part of the team under the supervision of Prof. Salvatore Giacobbe of the University of Messina. The project is funded by the Oceanographic of Valencia.

15/09/2021 – 31/07/2023

Researcher grant - Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Italy

I worked within the project "CRESCIBLUREEF - Grown in the blue: new technologies for knowledge and conservation of Mediterranean reefs”, aimed at exploring the components, growth rate and accretion style of the Mediterranean coralligenous bioconstructions. In particular, my research field is based on geobiological analysis of the benthic component, mainly serpulids, bryozoans and foraminifers. This work was funded by the Italian Ministry of Research and University – Fondo Integrativo Speciale per la Ricerca (FISR), project FISR2019_04543CRESCIBLUREEF

01/10/2020 – 14/10/2020

Scientific expedition - LIFE-IP INTEMARES Project, San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain

The campaign, forming part of the LIFE-IP INTEMARES project, concerned the removal of larval collectors installed in June 2020 in the Mar Menor lagoon (Spain) and on the adjacent coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The goal of these larval collectors was to evaluate the existence/success of larval recruitment of the endangered fan mussel Pinna nobilis as an indirect indicator of the presence of reproductive  adults in the environment, as well as to evaluate the natural recovery potential of the populations. During the campaign, the state of P. nobilis populations was evaluated in four areas of the lagoon that showed live individuals in 2019

 

 

  • Mollusk diversity of coralligenous build-ups in the southwestern Ionian Sea

Bracchi Valentina Alice, Negri Mauro Pietro, Bazzicalupo Pietro, Bertolino Marco, Cipriani Mara, Donato Gemma, Guido Adriano, Rosso Antonietta, Sanfilippo Rossana, Sciuto Francesco, Basso Daniela. 

  • Serpulid diversity of coralligenous build-ups in the southwestern Ionian Sea

Rossana Sanfilippo, Gemma Donato, Francesco Sciuto, Adriano Guido, Mara Cipriani, Valentina Alice Bracchi, Alfio Viola, Daniela Basso & Antonietta Rosso
African Zoology 2025, 60(1)

  • Biodiversity of a Coralligenous build-up off Marzamemi (SE Sicily, Ionian Sea)

​Gemma Donato, Rossana Sanfilippo, Francesco Sciuto, Francesco D'Alpa, Donatella Serio, Daniela Basso, Valentina A. Bracchi, Pietro Bazzicalupo, Mauro Pietro Negri, Adriano Guido, Marco Bertolino, Gabriele Costa, Antonietta Rosso, 2024. Regional Studies in Marine Science 103868.

  • Pinna nobilis in Lake Faro (Central Mediterranean): a potential short-term reservoir for Pinna nobbles

​Alessia Lunetta, Andrea Spinelli, Gemma Donato*, Ivan Angelo Gatì, Salvatore Giacobbe. Journal for Nature Conservation 81 (2024) 126690

  • Habit and behavior of the nestling bivalve Gregariella semigranata (Reeve, 1858) from Mediterranean Coralligenous

​Rossana Sanfilippo, Gemma Donato, Agatino Reitano, Donatella Serio, Valentina Alice Bracchi, Mauro Pietro Negri, Daniela Basso, Antonietta Rosso

MALACOLOGIA, 2023, 66(1/2): 103–113

  • Preliminary data on ostracods and foraminifers living on coralligenous bioconstructions Offshore Marzamemi (Ionian Sea, Se Sicily)

Francesco Sciuto, Carla Altieri, Daniela Basso, Francesco D’Alpa, Gemma Donato, Valentina Alice Bracchi, Mara Cipriani, Adriano Guido, Antonietta Rosso, Rossana Sanfilippo, Donatella Serio, Alfio Viola.
Revue de micropaléontologie 18 (2023) 100711

  • The bryozoan Margaretta cereoides as habitat-former in the Coralligenous of Marzamemi (SE Sicily, Mediterranean Sea)

​Antonietta Rosso, Gemma Donato, Rossana Sanfilippo, Donatella Serio, Francesco Sciuto, Francesco D’Alpa, Valentina Alice Bracchi, Mauro Pietro Negri and Daniela Basso Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 2023, 11, 590

  • Sanctuaries are not inviolable: Haplosporidium pinnae as responsible for the collapse of the Pinna nobilis population in Lake Faro (central Mediterranean)

​Gemma Donato, Alessia Lunetta, Andrea Spinelli, Gaetano Catanese, Salvatore Giacobbe. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 201 (2023) 108014

  • Assessment of Ostrea stentina recruitment and performance in the Mar Menor lagoon (SE Spain)

​Alessia Lunetta, Marina Albentosa, Elisabetta Nebot-Colomer, Belén G. Pardo, Paulino Martinez, Antonio Villalba, Ge mma Donato, Makanjuola I. Akinyemi, Maite Vazquez-Luis.

Regional Studies in Marine Science 58 (2023) 102760

  • Noble fan-shell, Pinna nobilis, in Lake Faro (Sicily, Italy): ineluctable decline or extreme opportunity?

​Donato Gemma, Vázquez-Luis Maite, Nebot-Colomer Elisabet, Lunetta Alessia, Giacobbe Salvatore Estuarine, Coastal and shelf Science, Elsevier Journal 261 (2021) 107536

Congress abstracts and proceedings 

[ 19/09/2023 – 22/09/2023]  Palermo, Sicily

82 Congresso Unione Zoologica Italiana

"Bryozoan diversity associated with the Coralligenous off Marzamemi (SE Sicily, Ionian Sea)". Rosso A., D’Alpa F., Donato G., Sciuto F., Serio D., Sanfilippo R.

[ 19/09/2023 – 21/09/2023 ] Potenza

SIMP, SGI, SOGEI, AIV. The Geoscience paradigm: resources, risks, and future perspectives

"On the contribution and possible role of mollusks to Coralligenous build-ups: results from CRESCIBLUREEF project". Bracchi V.A., Negri M.P., Bazzicalupo P., Cipriani M., D'Alpa F., Donato G., Guido A., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., Basso D.

[ 13/07/2023 – 20/07/2023 ] Rome

XXI INQUA Congress 2023

  1. Coralligenous build-ups as geohistorical archive: the experience of CRESCIBLUREEF project. Bracchi V.A.,

    Bazzicalupo P., Cipriani M., D’Alpa F., Donato G., Guido A., Negri M.P., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., Basso D.

  2. Conservation efforts and paleobiology meets in the Coralligenous algal reefs. Basso D., Bracchi V.A.,

    Bazzicalupo P., Bertolino M., Cipriani M., D’Alpa F., Donato G., Guido A., Negri M.P., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., Rosso A.

  3. Role of bryozoans and serpulids in the present-day Coralligenous off Marzamemi (Sicily). Rosso A., Donato G., D’Alpa F., Sciuto F., Bazzicalupo P., Bracchi V.A., Cipriani M., Guido A., Bertolino M., Costa G., Serio D., Basso D., Sanfilippo R.

  4. The Holocene development of the Mediterranean algal reef Coralligenous. Basso D., Bracchi V.A., Bazzicalupo P., Bertolino M., Bruno F., Cipriani M., Costa G., Guido A., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., D’Alpa F., Donato G., Rosso A.

[ 03/07/2023 – 07/07/2023 ] Stellenbosh, Cape Town, South Africa

14th - International Polychaete Conference

 "Serpulid biodiversity in Mediterranean Coralligenous buil-upd from SE Sicily". R. Sanfilippo, A. Rosso, G. Donato, V.A. Bracchi, D. Basso.

[ 12/06/2023 – 15/06/2023 ] Messina

52° Congresso SIBM

  • "Strategie competitive su biocostruzioni coralline dello Ionio Meridionale". G. Donato, R. Sanfilippo, F. Sciuto, F. D'Alpa, D. Serio, V.A. Bracchi, D. Basso, A. Rosso.

  • "Variazioni a scala millenaria della diversità e abbondanza dei poriferi nel Coralligeno di Marzamemi Sicilia

    SE)". M. Bertolino, G. Costa, A. Bandi, D. Basso, P. Bazzicalupo, V.A. Bracchi, M. Cipriani, G. Donato, A. Guido, A. Penco, A. Rosso, R. Sanfilippo, G. Bavestrello.

    [ 06/06/2023 – 09/06/2023 ] Lecce, Italy

    XXIII Paleodays - Società Paleontologica Italiana S.P.I.

    • "Live and dead bryozoans in the Coralligenous build-ups of Marzamemi (Ionian Sea)". Donato G., Sanfilippo R., D'Alpa F., Sciuto F., Bracchi V.A., Basso D., Rosso A.

    • "Biodiversity and distribution pattern of serpulids from Mediterranean holocene Coralligenous build-ups."

    Sanfilippo R., Donato G., Basso D., Bracchi V.A. & Rosso A.
    Oral communication: "Biogenic content of surface cores from deep-shelf bottoms close to the Coralligenous of Marzamemi (SE Sicily, Ionian Sea): Preliminary data". Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Donato G, Sciuto F., D’alpa F., Caccamo D., Minniti G., Bracchi V.A., Savini A., Malinverno E., Guido A., Bazzicalupo P., Negri M.P., Cipriani M., Leonardi R., Viola A., Basso D.

[ 23/04/2023 – 28/04/2023 ] Vienna

EGU23 General Assembly

 "Ecosystem engineers and bio geomorphology of the Mediterranean algal reef Coralligenous". D. Basso., V.A. Bracchi, P. Bazzicalupo, M. Bertolino, F. Bruno, M. Cipriani, G. Costa, F. D'Alpa, G. Donato, L. Fallati, A. Guido, M. Mazzupappa, R. Sanfilippo, A. Savini, F. sciuto, A.G. Varzi, A. Rosso.

[ 19/09/2022 – 21/09/2022 ] Torino, Italy

SGI-SIMP- Geosciences for a sustainable future

• "First taphonomic insight on a coralligenous build-up off Marzamemi (SE Sicily)". Sanfilippo R., Basso D., Bazzicalupo P., Bertolino M., Bracchi V.A., Cipriani M., Costa G., Dominici R., Donato G.,Rosso A., Sciuto F., Guido A.

• "Coralligenous build-ups of the CRESCIBLUREEF project: a Mediterranean geobiological archives". Bracchi V. A. and Sanfilippo R., Basso D., Bazzicalupo P., Bertolino M., Bruno F., Costa G., Donato G., Fallati L., Gallo A., Guido A., Leonardi R., Muzzupappa M., Negri M. P., Rosso A., Savini A., Sciuto F., Serio D., Varzi A. G., Viola A.

[ 19/09/2022 – 23/09/2022 ] Genova, Italy

4th Mediterranean Symposium on the conservation of Coralligenous and other calcareous bio-constructions

 "Biodiversity associated with the Coralligenous: the case of a columnar build-up at 36 m depth off Marzamemi (SE Sicily, Ionian Sea)". Donato G., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., Serio D., Leonardi R., Bracchi V. A., Bazzicalupo P., Negri M. P., Guido A., Bertolino M., Costa G., Basso D.

 "Bridging together research and technological innovation: first results and expected bearings of the project CRESCIBLUREEF on Mediterranean Coralligenous". Rosso A., Altieri C., Bazzicalupo P., Bertolino M., Bracchi V. A., Bruno F., Costa G., Donato G., Gallo A., Guido A., Fallati L., Leonardi R., Muzzupappa M., Negri M. P., Sanfilippo R., Savini A., Sciuto F., Serio D., Varzi A. G., Viola A., Basso D.

[ 22/08/2022 – 26/09/2022 ] Dublin, Ireland

19th International Bryozoology Association Meeting

 "The bryozoan Margaretta cereoides as habitat engineer in the Coralligenous of Marzamemi (SE Sicily, Ionian Sea)". Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., Donato G., Serio D., Basso D.

[ 18/07/2022 – 22/07/2022 ] Lyon, France

19th International Symposium on Ostracoda

Presentation of the POSTER: "Ostracods And Foraminifera Living On Coralligenous Bioconstructions Offshore Marzamemi (Western Ionian Sea Southern Italy)". Sciuto F., Altieri C., Donato G., Basso D., Sanfilippo R., Serio D., Rosso A., Bracchi V.A., Leonardi R., Viola A.

[ 13/06/2022 – 15/06/2022 ] Palermo

AIQUA - Il Quaternario italiano dalle isole al continente

Oral communication: "Coralligenous as a Mediterranean geobioylogical archive: preliminary results of the CRESCIBLUREEF project". V.A. Bracchi, P. Bazzicalupo, M. Bertolino, F. Bruno, M. Cipriani, G. Costa, G. Donato, L. Fallati, A. Gallo, A, Guido, R. Leonardi, M. Mazzupappa, M.P. Negri, A. Rosso, R. Sanfilippo, A. Savini, F. sciuto, D. Serio, A.G. Varzi, A. Viola, D. Basso.

[ 07/06/2022 – 10/06/2022 ] Asti, Italy

XXII Paleodays - Società Paleontologica Italiana S.P.I.

  • "Novel quantitative approaches for the investigation of Mediterranean Coralligenous: application on Marzamemi (Sicily) build-ups". Bazzicalupo P., Bracchi V. A., Fallati L., Varzi A. G., Savini A., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Sciuto F., Donato G., Guido A., Cipriani M., Bertolino M., Costa G., De Ponti E., Muzzupappa M., Basso D.

  • "Bryozoans and serpulids associated to coralligenous build-ups: preliminary results from the CRESCIBLUREEF project". Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Donato G., Sciuto F., Bracchi V.A., Basso D.

  • "Mollusks associated to coralligenous build-ups: preliminary results from CRESCIBLUREEF project". Bracchi V.A., Negri M.P., Sanfilippo R., Rosso A., Bazzicalupo P., Donato G., Basso D.

  • "Life strategy on hard substrates: the case of a nestling bivalve from Mediterranean coralligenous build-ups". Sanfilippo R., Basso D., Bracchi V.A., Donato G., Negri P.M., Reitano A., Serio D., Rosso A.

  • "Paleontology and technology for the sustainable management of marine natural monuments". Basso D., Altieri C., Bazzicalupo P., Bertolino M., Bracchi V.A., Bruno F., Costa G., Donato G., Fallati L., Gallo A., Guido A., Leonardi R., Muzzupappa M., Negri M.P., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R., Savini, A., Sciuto F., Serio D., Varzi A.G., Viola A.

    [ 25/10/2021 – 26/10/2021 ] Rasht, Iran

    THE 9TH NATIONAL AND 1TH INTERNATIONAL IRANIAN CONFERENCE OF ICHTHYOLOGY

     "Spondylus gaederopus (Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia) as habitat structuring in subtidal stressed environments". Donato G., Lunetta A., Costanzo A., Giacobbe S.

    [ 05/09/2021 – 08/09/2021 ] virtual

    III CONGRESSO DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES DEL MAR

  • "Assessment Of Ostrea Recruitment In Mar Menor Lagoon And Implications For Restocking". Lunetta A., Albentosa M., Nebot-Colomer E., Pardo B. G., Martínez P., Villalba A., Donato G., Vázquez-Luis M.

  • "NOBLE FAN-SHELL, Pinna nobilis, en el lago Faro (Sicily, Italy): a precarious balance ". Donato G., Vázquez-Luis M., Nebot-Colomer E., Lunetta A., Giacobbe S.

    [ 21/06/2021 – 27/06/2021 ] Palma de Mallorca

    ASLO 2021 Aquatic Sciences Meeting

    Virtual meeting of which theme was Aquatic Sciences for a Sustainable Future: Nurturing Cooperation.

  • PowerPoint presentation in the “Coastal Ecosystems” session entitled: Monitoring Pinna nobilis population in Lake Faro (Sicily, Italy): a crucial point?. Donato G., Vázquez-Luis M., Nebot-Colomer E., Lunetta A., Giacobbe S.

  • Online presentation in the "Management and Conservation of Aquatic Systems 2" session entitled: Assessment

    Of Ostrea Recruitment In Mar Menor Lagoon And Implications For Restocking. Lunetta A., Albentosa M., Nebot- Colomer E., Pardo B. G., Martínez P., Villalba A., Donato G. & Vázquez-Luis M.