Gennaro Roberto Abbamondi

Dr. Abbamondi graduated in “Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology” at the Federico II University of Naples in 2009, with an experimental thesis on secondary metabolites of plant origin.
In 2013 he obtained the title of Doctor of Research in “Environment, Resources and Sustainable Development” at the Parthenope University of Naples, joint PhD with Hasselt University (Belgium), discussing the thesis on “The role of Quorum Sensing in marine bacteria, Archaea and inter-kingdom communication”. Academic degree according to the Flemish higher education structure: “Doctor of Science: Biology”.
Between 2010 and 2019 he actively collaborated with the CNR-ICB and the CNR-IPCB of Pozzuoli (NA), with abroad experience as Researcher in multiple countries including Belgium (Hasselt University), Morocco (Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University) and the Antarctica (XXXIV Antarctic Expedition).
He also worked as a post-doc at Hasselt University (Belgium, 2015) on “The role of Quorum Sensing in biofilm formation of selected strains” and at Toulon University (France, 2016) on the “Structural characterization of exopolysaccharides produced by marine biofilm-forming bacteria”.
Since February 1st 2022 he is a III level Researcher at the CNR-ICB for the Strategic Area of Chemistry and Materials for Health and Life Sciences.

Chemistry of natural products


Biological activity assays


Microorganisms associated with marine sponges and plants


Quorum sensing


Evaluation of nutritional properties and design of new tomato hybrids


Plant Growth Promotion


Extremophilic microorganisms

1) Abbamondi GR, Tommonaro G, Weyens N, Thijs S, Sillen W, Gkorezis P, Iodice C, de Melo Rangel W, Nicolaus B, Vangronsveld J (2016) Plant growth-promoting effects of rhizospheric and endophytic bacteria associated with different tomato cultivars and new tomato hybrids. Chem. Biol. Technol. Agric., 3:1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40538-015-0051-3

2) Tommonaro G, Abbamondi GR, Iodice C, Tait K, De Rosa S (2012) Diketopiperazines Produced by the Halophilic Archaeon, Haloterrigena hispanica, Activate AHL Bioreporters. Microbial Ecology, 63(3):490-5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-011-9980-y

3) Sillen, W., Thijs, S., Abbamondi, G. R., De La Torre Roche, R., Weyens, N., White, J. C., & Vangronsveld, J. (2020). Nanoparticle treatment of maize analyzed through the metatranscriptome: compromised nitrogen cycling, possible phytopathogen selection, and plant hormesis. Microbiome, 8(1), 127. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00904-y

4) Başaran, T. I., Berber, D., Gökalsın, B., Tramice, A., Tommonaro, G., Abbamondi, G. R., Erginer Hasköylü, M., Toksoy Öner, E., Iodice, C., & Sesal, N. C. (2020). Extremophilic Natrinema versiforme Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing and Biofilm. Frontiers in microbiology, 11, 79. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00079

5) Poli A, Di Donato P, Abbamondi GR and Nicolaus B (2011) Synthesis, production and biotechnological applications of exopolysaccharides (EPSs) and poly-hydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) by Archaea. Archaea, Article ID 693253, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1155/2011/693253

MAIN RESEARCH SITE, POZZUOLI (NA)

   gennaroroberto.abbamondi@cnr.it

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Orcid: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0003-4772-3989

Researcher-id: https://publons.com/researcher/B-9343-2014/