Amelia Salimonti, CREA researcher, scientific sector: Plant genetics; Ph.D. in Plant Biology; Degree in Biology. She has documented experience in gene cloning, sequencing of nucleic acids, analysis of sequence polymorphisms and molecular characterization of the olive germplasm by molecular markers (SSRs, SNPs). She is engaged in association mapping studies on candidate gene and gene expression studies. She has skills in plant in vitro culture and phenotyping of olive germplasm.