Academic Studies: 

2003: Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
1997: Laurea Degree in Biology. University of Florence, Italy

 I am interested in marine biodiversity and population genetics. 

My research vision emphasizes the relevance of genetic monitoring as cost-less and effective tool to answer key ecological, conservation and evolutionary questions, providing robust scientific basis for the sustainable management of biodiversity. In this regard, my interest focuses on the understanding of the status of exploited populations through an integration of data resulting from several approaches. For successfully achieving projects, an extensive use of state-of the-art technology like DNA-microarrays, genotyping, sequencing is crucial. 

Riccioni G. & Landi M., Ferrara G., Milano I., Cariani A., Zane L., Sella M., Barbujani G., F. Tinti. (2010). Spatio-temporal population structuring and genetic diversity retention in depleted Atlantic bluefin tuna of the Mediterranean. PNAS, vol. 107; p. 2102 - 2107, ISSN: 0027-8424.

 Kochzius M., Seidel C., Antoniou A., Botla S., Campo D., Cariani A., Garcia Vazquez E., Hauschild J., Hervet C., Hjörleifsdottir S., Hreggvidsson G., Kappel K., Landi M., Magoulas A., Marteinsson V., Nölte M., Planes S., Tinti F., Turan C., Venugopal M.N., Weber H., Blohm D. (2010). Identification of fishes by DNA barcodes and microarrays. PLoS ONE, vol. 5; p. e12620, ISSN: 1932-6203.

 Kochzius M., Nölte M., Weber H., Silkenbeumer N., Hjörleifsdottir S., Marteinsson V.P., Kappel K., Planes S., Landi M., Magoulas A., Garcia Vazquez E., Turan C., Hervet C., Campo Falgueras D., Antoniou A., Blohm D. (2008). DNA microarray for identifying fishes. Marine Biotechnology, vol. 10; p. 207 - 217, ISSN: 1436-2228.

2010 -METAFISHCODE: Fish genetic diversity and meta-species phylogeography at global and regional scales: implications for fisheries management. Funded by FCT: Team Member

 2006 - TUNING - TUNa’s changing:Spatial and temporal variation of biodiversity patterns in the Mediterranean tunas (Thunnini, Scombridae). Funded by PRIN: Team Member

 2004 - Fish and Chips: DNA chips as a new tool for marine species identification. Funded by the European Commission: Team Member

Landi M., Coster-Longman C. and Turillazzi S. (1998). Alarm response in a laboratory population of Parischnogaster mellyi (Stenogastrinae). Insect Social Life, vol. 2; p. 59-63, ISSN: 1826-2635.

Beani L. and Landi M. (2000). Aerial leks and marking behaviour in Parischnogaster mellyi males (Hymenoptera, Stenogastrinae). Insect Social Life, vol. 3; p. 13-17, ISSN: 1826-2635.

Zhu Y., Landi M., Queller D. C., Turillazzi S., Strassmann J. E. (2000). Polymorphic microsatellite loci for primitively eusocial Stenogastrine wasps. Molecular Ecology, vol. 9; p. 2203-2205, ISSN: 0962-1083, doi: 10.1046/j.1365-294x.2000.01053-26.x.

Landi M., Coster-Longmann C., Turillazzi S. (2002). Are the selfish herd and the dilution effects important in promoting nest clustering in the hover wasp Parischnogaster alternata (Stenogastrinae Vespidae Hymenoptera). Ethology Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14; p. 297-305, ISSN: 0394-9370, doi: 10.1080/08927014.2002.9522732.

Coster-Longmann C., Landi M., Turillazzi S. (2002). The role of passive defense (Selfish Herd and Dilution Effect) in the gregarious nesting of Liostenogaster Wasps (Vespidae, Hymenoptera, Stenogastrinae). Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 15; p. 331-350, ISSN: 0892-7553, doi: 10.1023/A:1016213125161.

Francescato E., Massolo A., Landi M., Gerace L., Hashim R., Turillazzi S. (2002). Colony membership, division of labor, and genetic relatedness among females of colonies of Eustenogaster fraterna (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Stenogastrinae). Journal of Insect Behavior, vol. 15; p. 153-170, ISSN: 0892-7553, doi: 10.1023/A:1015489532040.

Beani L., Sledge M. F., Maiani S., Boscaro F., Landi M., Fortunato A. and Turillazzi S. (2002). Behavioral and chemical analyses of scent-marking in the lek system of a hover-wasp (Vespidae, Stenogastrinae). Insectes Sociaux, vol. 49; p. 275-281, ISSN: 0020-1812, doi: 10.1007/s00040-002-8314-y.

Landi M., Queller D. C., Turillazzi S. and Strassmann J. E. (2003). Low relatedness and frequent queen turnover in the stenogastrine wasp Eustenogaster fraterna favor the life insurance over the haplodiploid hypothesis for the origin of eusociality. Insectes Sociaux, vol. 50; p. 262-267, ISSN: 0020-1812, doi: 10.1007/s00040-003-0676-2.

Turillazzi S., Sledge M. F., Dapporto L., Landi M., Fanelli D., Fondelli L., Zanetti P. and Dani F. R. (2004). Epicuticular lipids and fertility in primitively social wasps (Hymenoptera Stenogastrinae). Physiological Entomology, vol. 29; p. 464-471, ISSN: 0307-6962, doi: 10.1111/j.0307-6962.2004.00418.x.

Garoia F., Guarniero I., Ramšak A., Ungaro N., Landi M., Piccinetti C., Mannini P., Tinti F. (2004). Microsatellite DNA variation revealed high levels of gene flow and transboundaries populations in the Adriatic shared stocks of the European squid and cuttlefish (Cephalopoda). Heredity, vol. 93; p. 166 - 174, ISSN: 0018-067X.

Guarniero I., Garoia F., Cilli E., Landi M., Di Placido R., Cariani A., Ramsak A., Mannini P., Ungaro N., Piccinetti C., Tinti F. (2005). Genetic stock structure analysis revealed single population units in the shared stocks of Adriatic demersal species. AdriaMed Occasional Papers, vol. 15; p. 1 - 63. Available at the http://www.faoadramed.org.

Landi M., Garoia F., Piccinetti C., Tinti F. (2005). Isolation of polymorphic microsatellite loci from the European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus. Molecular Ecology Notes, vol. 5; p. 266 - 268, ISSN: 1471-8278.

Kochzius M., Nölte M., Weber H., Silkenbeumer N., Hjörleifsdottir S., Marteinsson V.P., Kappel K., Planes S., Landi M., Magoulas A., Garcia Vazquez E., Turan C., Hervet C., Campo Falgueras D., Antoniou A., Blohm D. (2008). DNA microarray for identifying fishes. Marine Biotechnology, vol. 10; p. 207 - 217, ISSN: 1436-2228.

Kochzius M., Seidel C., Antoniou A., Botla S., Campo D., Cariani A., Garcia Vazquez E., Hauschild J., Hervet C., Hjörleifsdottir S., Hreggvidsson G., Kappel K., Landi M., Magoulas A., Marteinsson V., Nölte M., Planes S., Tinti F., Turan C., Venugopal M.N., Weber H., Blohm D. (2010). Identification of fishes by DNA barcodes and microarrays. PLoS ONE, vol. 5; p. e12620, ISSN: 1932-6203.

Riccioni G. & Landi M., Ferrara G., Milano I., Cariani A., Zane L., Sella M., Barbujani G., F. Tinti. (2010). Spatio-temporal population structuring and genetic diversity retention in depleted Atlantic bluefin tuna of the Mediterranean. PNAS, vol. 107; p. 2102 - 2107, ISSN: 0027-8424.

Pasolini P., Ragazzini C., Zaccaro Z., Cariani A., Ferrara G., Gonzalez E., Landi M., Milano I., Tinti F. (2011). Quaternary geographical sibling speciation and population structuring in the Eastern Atlantic skates (suborder Rajoidea) Raja clavata and R. straeleni. Marine Biology 58(10), 2173-2186, ISSN: 0025-3162.

Costa F.O., Landi M., Martins R., Costa M. H., Costa M.E., Carneiro M., Alves M.J., Steinke D., Carvalho G.R. (2012). A DNA barcode reference library for marine fish of Portugal: design and potential applications. PLoS ONE, vol. 7; p. e35858-, ISSN: 1932-6203, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035858.

Martins R., Costa F. O., Murta A. G., Carneiro M. and Landi M. (2012). First record of Zenion hololepis (Zenionidae) in Portuguese continental waters: the northernmost occurrence in the eastern Atlantic. Marine Biodiversity Records, vol. 5; p. e30-, ISSN: 1755-2672, doi: 10.1017/S1755267211000522.

Alarm response in a laboratory population of Parischnogaster mellyi (Stenogastrinae). VII National Congress AISASP, Italian Session IUSSI, Bologna, 1997.

The selfish herd and the dilution effect in three species of gregarious nesting hover wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Stenogastrinae). Poster; Workshop on Social Insects, Uppsala, 1998.

Aerial leks and marking behaviour in Parischnogaster mellyi males (Hymenoptera, Stenogastrinae). VIII National Congress AISASP, Italian Session IUSSI, Torino, 1999.

Low relatedness among females of the stenogastrine wasp, Eustenogaster fraterna. Poster; Workshop on Social Insects, Firenze, 2000.

Relatedness in Eustenogaster fraterna. Poster; NAS-IUSSI Meeting, Fayetteville- Arkansas, 2000.

The genetic structure of natural D. discoideum populations: sex, relatedness, dispersal and cooperation. International Dictyostelium Conference, Altavilla, Sicilia, 2002.

Dictyostelium discoideum in its natural context. International Dictyostelium Conference, Lorne, Victoria, Australia, 2003.

Multi-species genetic stock structure analysis revealed single population units in the demersal Adriatic shared stocks. Congress SAC, Malaga, 2004.

Biotechnology DNA microchip for the study of marine ecosystems: aims and preliminary results of FP6-STREP “FISH&CHIPS” project; development of an innovative system for the identification of marine organisms. Poster; Congress SIBM, Trieste, 2005.

Ancient tuna DNA: retrieving past and present demographic features of Mediterranean populations from a genetic history. Talk; Workshop on New Technologies to Monitor Bluefin Tuna Fisheries, Landings and Commerce, ICCAT, Farnesina, Rome, 2005.

DNA microchip for the identification of marine invertebrates. Talk; Meeting of the Fish & Chips European Project, Perpignan, France, 2006.

DNA microchip for the identification of marine invertebrates. Communication; 5th Meeting of the Fish & Chips European Project, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2006.

Patterns of temporal genetic variability in the overexploited Mediterranean stock of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). Talk; EMBS41, Cork, Ireland, 2006.

Development and prototyping of a invertebrate chip as high-resolution molecular tool to investigate marine food webs. Poster; Marine Genomics, Sorrento, Italy, 2006.

Fish & Chips: towards DNA chip technology as a standard analytical tool for the identification of marine organisms in biodiversity and ecosystem research. Communication; Marine Genomics, Sorrento, Italy, 2006.

Biotecnologie del DNA antico e conservazione delle risorse alieutiche marine: pattern temporali di diversità e struttura genetica nello stock di tonno rosso del Mediterraneo (Thunnus thynnus). Talk; V Convegno Nazionale per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Viareggio, Italy, 2006.

Evaluating the feasibility of DNA microarrays as a tool for the identification of marine organisms: the European “Fish and Chips”. Poster and Communication; Advances in Microarray Technology (AMT) Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, 2006.

How human forcings affect ecological properties of large pelagic fish in the Mediterranean? Historical genetic changes in the overexploited bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). Talk; CIESM 38th Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.

Development of high resolution molecular technologies to investigate ecosystem changes in the southern European seas: the prototyping of DNA chips to identify invertebrate prey species in marine food webs of Adriatic Sea. CIESM 38th Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.

The “Fish & Chip” project: Microarrays as a tool for the identification of marine organisms in biodiversity and marine research. Oceans ’07, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007.

Fish and Chips: microarray-based DNA-barcoding of European Marine Fishes. 2nd International Barcoding Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.

Towards microarray-based DNA-barcoding of marine invertebrates. Poster; 2nd International Barcoding Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 2007.

Evidenze genetiche della correlazione tra strategie migratorie e struttura di popolazione nel tonno rosso nel Mediterraneo Occidentale. Oral Presentation; 68° Convegno UZI – Lecce, 2007.

Spatio-temporal genetic patterns in Mediterranean Bluefin tuna. Population structure and retention of genetic diversity. ICCAT, Madrid, Spain, 2009.

A DNA barcode library for marine fish of Portugal: first hundred species. Poster; ECBOL2, Braga, Portugal, 2010

Revising the biodiversity of macrobenthos from the Portuguese coast using DNA barcodes. Poster; ECBOL2, Braga, Portugal, 2010.

A DNA barcode library for marine fish of Portugal. Poster, Jornada Biologia Aplicada, Braga, Portugal, 2010

Spatiotemporal genetic variation of Atlantic bluefin tunas from Sardinian and Mediterranean tuna traps. Oral Presentation, Tuna Trap Symposium, Tangier, Morocco, 2011.

A DNA Barcode Reference Library for Marine Fish of Portugal: Design and Annotation. Talk, Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 2011.

Alarm response in a laboratory population of Parischnogaster mellyi (Stenogastrinae). VII National Congress AISASP, Italian Session IUSSI, Bologna, 1997

The selfish herd and the dilution effect in three species of gregarious nesting hover wasps (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Stenogastrinae).  Workshop on Social Insects, Uppsala, 1998

Aerial leks and marking behaviour in Parischnogaster mellyi males (Hymenoptera, Stenogastrinae). VIII National Congress AISASP, Italian Session IUSSI, Torino, 1999

Low relatedness among females of the stenogastrine wasp, Eustenogaster fraterna. Workshop on social insects, Firenze, 2000.

Relatedness in Eustenogaster fraterna. NAS-IUSSI Meeting, Fayetteville- Arkansas, 2000

The genetic structure of natural D. discoideum populations: sex, relatedness, dispersal and cooperation. International Dictyostelium Conference, Altavilla, Sicilia, 2002

Dictyostelium discoideum in its natural context. International Dictyostelium Conference, Lorne, Victoria, Australia, 2003.

Multi-species genetic stock structure analysis revealed single population units in the demersal Adriatic shared stocks. SAC, Malaga 2004

Biotechnology DNA microchip for the study of marine ecosystems: aims and preliminary results of FP6-STREP “FISH&CHIPS” project; development of an innovative system for the identification of marine organisms. SIBM, Trieste 2005

Ancient tuna DNA: retrieving past and present demographic features of Mediterranean populations from a genetic history. Workshop on New Technologies to Monitor Bluefin Tuna Fisheries, Landings and Commerce, ICCAT, Farnesina, Rome, 2005

DNA microchip for the identification of marine invertebrates. Meeting of the Fish & Chips European Project, Perpignan, France, 2006

DNA microchip for the identification of marine invertebrates. 5th Meeting of the Fish & Chips European Project, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2006

Patterns of temporal genetic variability in the overexploited Mediterranean stock of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). EMBS41, Cork, Ireland, 2006

Development and prototyping of a invertebrate chip as high-resolution molecular tool to investigate marine food webs. Marine Genomics, Sorrento, Italy, 2006

Fish & Chips: towards DNA chip technology as a standard analytical tool for the identification of marine organisms in biodiversity and ecosystem research. Marine Genomics, Sorrento, Italy, 2006

Biotecnologie del DNA antico e conservazione delle risorse alieutiche marine: pattern temporali di diversità e struttura genetica nello stock di tonno rosso del Mediterraneo (Thunnus thynnus). V Convegno Nazionale per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Viareggio, Italy, 2006

Evaluating the feasibility of DNA microarrays as a tool for the identification of marine organisms: the European “Fish and Chips”. Advances in Microarray Technology (AMT) Conference, Amsterdam, Holland, 2006

How human forcings affect ecological properties of large pelagic fish in the Mediterranean? Historical genetic changes in the overexploited bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus). CIESM 38th Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007

Development of high resolution molecular technologies to investigate ecosystem changes in the southern European seas: the prototyping of DNA chips to identify invertebrate prey species in marine food webs of Adriatic Sea. CIESM 38th Congress, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007

The “Fish & Chip” project: Microarrays as a tool for the identification of marine organisms in biodiversity and marine research. Oceans ’07, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007

Fish and Chips: microarray-based DNA-barcoding of European Marine Fishes. 2nd International Barcoding Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

Towards microarray-based DNA-barcoding of marine invertebrates. 2nd International Barcoding Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

Evidenze genetiche della correlazione tra strategie migratorie e struttura di popolazione nel tonno rosso nel Mediterraneo Occidentale. 68° Convegno UZI – Lecce, 2007

Spatio-temporal genetic patterns in Mediterranean Bluefin tuna. Population structure and retention of genetic diversity. ICCAT, Madrid, Spain, 2009 SCRS/2009/186

A DNA barcode library for marine fish of Portugal: first hundred species. ECBOL2, Braga, Portugal, 2010

Revising the biodiversity of macrobenthos from the Portuguese coast using DNA barcodes.  ECBOL2, Braga, Portugal, 2010

A DNA barcode library for marine fish of Portugal. Jornada Biologia Aplicada, Braga, Portugal, 2010

Spatiotemporal genetic variation of Atlantic bluefin tunas from Sardinian and Mediterranean tuna traps. Tuna Trap Symposium, Tangier, Morocco, 2011.

A DNA Barcode Reference Library for Marine Fish of Portugal: Design and Annotation. Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 2011.