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Federica Trona


Position

Post-doc

Current site of work

Fondazione Edmund Mach

Street, number

via Mach, 1

City

S. Michele all'Adige TN

Postal code

38010

Country

Italy

E-mail

federica.trona@iasma.it

Phone

+39 0461 615143

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Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis

 

Expertise

  • Neurophysiological and electrophysiological studies: Intracellular Recordings, Optical Imaging, Single Sensillum Recordings.
  • behavioural bioassays
  • morphological and ultrastructural observations with scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) electron microscopy and Confocal microscopy.

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Research experience, training, professional stages

November 2008, in progress: research contract with FEM, Research and Innovation Center, Chemical Ecology group. Main topic: “Perception, integration and elaboration of pheromones and kairomones in the codling moth, Cydia pomonella L.”

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Current research area

Neurophysiology


Publication List (last five years):

SOLINAS M., TRONA F. (2002) Antennal sensilla of Sesamia nonagrioides (Lef.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Morphology and possible behavioural significance”. Boll. Zoll. agr. Bachic. Ser. II, 34 (3): 321-345.

TRONA F., RUIU L., FLORIS I., SOLINAS M., (2004). Comparative behavioural and anatomo-pathological investigations on Musca domestica L. adults treated with a new strain of Bacillus sp. close related to B. thuringiensis (Berliner)” Entomologica, 38: 49-73.

ANFORA G., BALDESSARI M., MAINES R., TRONA F., REGGIORI F., ANGELI G. (2007). Control of Cydia pomonella L. and Cydia molesta (Busck) (Lepidoptera tortricidae) in pome-fruit orchards with Ecodian sex pheromone dispenser. Comunications in Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences 71 (3): 535-542.

MAZZONI V., ANFORA G., TRONA F., LUCCHI A., IORIATTI C. (2009). Study on the role of olfaction in host plant detection of Scaphoideus titanus Ball (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) nymphs. Journal of Economic Entomology, 102 (3): 974-980.

IORIATTI C., ANFORA G., ANGELI G., MAZZONI V., TRONA F. (2009).  Effects of chlorantraniliprole on eggs and larvae of Lobesia botrana (Denis & Schiffermüller) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae). Pest Management Science, 65: 717-722 .

TRONA F., ANFORA G., BALDESSARI M., MAZZONI V., CASAGRANDE E., IORIATTI C. & ANGELI G. (2009). Mating disruption of codling moth with a continuous adhesive tape carrying high densities of pheromone dispensers. Bulletin of Insectology, 62: 7-13.

FRASNELLI E., ANFORA G., TRONA F., TESSAROLO F., ANTOLINI R., VALLORTIGARA G. (2009). Morfo-functional  asymmetry of olfactory receptors of honeybee, Apis mellifera L. European Biophysic Journal, 38 (1):S35–S212.

BALDESSARI M., TRONA F., ANGELI G., IORIATTI C. (2009). Effectiveness off five insecticides for the control of adults and young stages of Cacopsylla melanoneura (Forster) (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in a semi-field trial. Pest Management Science, 66 (3): 308-312.

TRONA F., CASADO D., CORACINI M., BENGTSSON M., WITZGALL P. (2010). Codling moth attraction to blends of codlemone, codlemone antagonist and pear ester. Journal of Insect Physiology, 35: 249-254. 

FRASNELLI E., TRONA F., ANFORA G., TESSAROLO F., VALLORTIGARA G. (2010). Morfo-functional asymmetry of the olfactory receptors of the honeybee Apis mellifera L. Behavioural and Brain Research, 209: 221-225.

TRONA F., ANFORA G., WITZGALL P., IGNELL R. 2010. Coding and interaction of sex pheromone and plant volatile signals in the antennal lobe of the codling moth, Cydia pomonella (L.). The Journal of Experimental Biology, 213, 4291- 4303.

ANFORA G., RIGOSI E., FRASNELLI E., RUGA V., TRONA F., VALLORTIGARA G. (2011). Lateralization in the invertebrate brain: left-right asymmetry of olfaction in bumble bee, Bombus terrestris. PloSOne, vol. 6 (4).

 TEDESCHI R., BALDESSARI M., MAZZONI V., TRONA F., ANGELI G. (2011). Cacopsylla melanoneura in northeastern Italy: its role in the Apple proliferation epidemiology and a forecasting model to predict the orchard colonization.  Submitted to Entomologia experimentalis et applicata.

HAASE  A., RIGOSI E., FRASNELLI E., TRONA F., TESSAROLO F., VINEGONI C., ANFORA G., VALLORTIGARA G., ANTOLINI R. (2011). A multimodal approach for tracing lateralization along the olfactory pathway in the honeybee through electrophysiological recordings morpho-functional imaging, and behavioural studies. L. Accepted in European Biophysic Journal.

 





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