Connecticut College - Bioluminescence Research Group

Collaborative Work with the University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

We are participating in an ongoing collaboration with the laboratory of Professor Aldo Roda from the Department of Gastroenterology, University of Bologna, in Bologna, Italy.

2009
Sam Linder, Kelsey Taylor, Ariana Branchini, Lindsey McKenna	Ariana Branchini, Lindsey McKenna, Sam Linder, Kelsey Taylor
Laura Mezzanotte observes in vivo bioluminescence imaging in a mouse model	Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy

2008
Bruce Branchini and Aldo Roda in Villa Ghigi park in Bologna, a collection site for Luciola italica fireflies	Professor Bruce Branchini and Professor Aldo Roda after Professor Branchini's talk at the Accademia delle Scienze de Instituto di Bologna

2007 Heather Stanish, Zumara De La Cruz, Professor Aldo Roda, Julie Rosenman and Audrey Davis in Bologna, Italy	Heather Stanish, Zumara de la Cruz, Audrey Davis and Julie Rosenman working in Professor Aldo Roda's lab at the University of Bologna hospital
Heather Stanish, Julie Rosenman, Zumara De La Cruz and Audrey Davis in front of Il Duomo	Julie Rosenman, Zumara De La Cruz, Heather Stanish and Audrey Davis on a bike trip to the Italian town of Fiesole

2006

Morgan Maeder, Danielle Ablamsky and Lerna Uzasc

Lerna Uzasci, Morgan Maeder and Laura Mezzanotte

2005

Left to right:Tara Southworth, Jen DeAngelis, Milena Nardelli, Elisa Michelini and Luca Cevenini. In the picture the group is holding up photos of a gel depicting successful RT-PCR amplification of the Luciola italica luciferase cDNA

Italian pastries for celebrating the cloning of the Luciola italica luciferase cDNA

2004
During the winter of 2004, Elisa Michelini from Professor Roda’s lab worked in our lab at Connecticut College. In June, 2004, a group from Connecticut College that included senior personnel Dr. Martha Murtiashaw and Ms. Susan Gonzales, and Connecticut College student Emily Mygatt, went to Bologna for a week. They collected the European firefly, Luciola italia, and began the preliminary work of cloning the luciferase gene from this insect.

Elisa Michelini and Susan Gonzalez with specimens of the firefly Luciola italia caught in a meadow outside Bologna, Italy. June 2004

Elisa Michelini and Susan Gonzalez preparing an agarose gel in preparation for cloning the luciferase gene from Luciola italia. In Prof. Aldo Roda's laboratory, University of Bologna, Italy, June 2004

Professor Branchini with Professor Ivano Bertini of the Center for Magnetic Resonance, University of Florence, Florence, Italy