Cinzia Montemurro has been a researcher (sector AGR/07) in the faculty of Biotechnological Science, University of Bari since 2005. She graduated with honours in agricultural science in 2000 at the University of Bari. From 2002 to 2005, she was a Ph.D student in "Plant breeding" at the University of Bari. From August 2003, she was a "visiting Ph.D student" for seven months at Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding in Colonia (Germany), working on the "transposons tagging" of wheat. In March 2005, she received her Ph. D. degree discussing the thesis "Molecular characterization of a collection of olive trees and analysis of morphological sterility and self-incompatibility". Her research interests include 1) identification and characterization of olive through molecular markers SSR and AFLP; 2) tracking and tracing the food chain in cereal, olive, and grape through molecular technologies; 3) in vitro culture for the cultivation of olive embryos; 4) transformation of durum wheat by Agrobacterium tumefaciens; 5) analysis by AFLP markers of somaclonal variability; 6) development of a TILLING platform in sunflower; 7) identification and functional characterization of genes involved in the fatty acids and nitrogen uptake pathway in olive.