Donatella Serafini-Fracassini obtained the Biology Degree cum laude in 1964; after different positions of Assistant, in 1986 she became a full professor of Botany at the Experimental Evolutionary Biology Department, MFN Faculty of Sciences, Bologna University (Italy). She taught, from 1973 and until 2014, courses of Botany, General Biology, Biodiversity and Evolution in Biological, Biotechnological, and Agricultural Degrees. She was a member of the PhD School in Biology and Cell Physiology at Bologna University. After retirement in 2010, she became Honor Professor of Alma Mater Studiorum, still writing scientific papers and didactic books. She was a member of professional societies: COST ACTION 844 Apoptosis and Programmed Cell Death as National Delegate; ESF Programme 'Protein Cross-linking and Trasglutaminase'; SBI as national coordinator; SIFV; FESP; IAPTC. She is elected in the Honor Committee of the International Polyamines Foundation ONLUS. She organized International Conferences. Disciplines of interest are Botany, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Plant Biochemistry, Plant Anatomy, and Plant Physiology. Her fields of research are polyamines and transglutaminases in plants during growth, cell death, pollen, chloroplasts, tubers, in vitro cultures, etc.  She has written 126 articles. She is an associate editor of an international journal, coeditor of a polyamine issue, and peer-reviewer of international journals.