Costa Alex
Full professor
Scientific-Disciplinary Sector
BIOS-02/A - Plant Physiology
Scientific-Disciplinary Group/Competition Sector
05/BIOS-02 - FISIOLOGIA VEGETALE
Assignments
- QA delegate for the study programme - CORSO DI LAUREA PLANT SCIENCE - (Classe LM-6)
- QA delegate for the study programme -
Research fields and competencies
Contacts
Workplace
Office phone number
Additional phone numbers
University email address
Office hours
Thursday 14:00-16:00
Reception office
Department of Biosciences 3rd Floor Tower C
Teaching - Programme courses
Bachelors and masters
A.Y. 2025/2026
A.Y. 2024/2025
A.Y. 2023/2024
A.Y. 2022/2023
A.Y. 2021/2022
A.Y. 2020/2021
A.Y. 2019/2020
Postgraduate programmes
A.Y. 2024/2025
Doctoral programme (PhD)
Veterinary specialisation school
- In vivo imaging n.o. (Postgraduate School of Laboratory Science and Medicine)
Research
Publications
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The burning glass effect of water droplets triggers a high light-induced calcium response in the chloroplast stroma / D. Kuang, S. Romand, A.S. Zvereva, B.M. Orlando Marchesano, M. Grenzi, S. Buratti, Q. Yang, K. Zheng, D. Valadorou, E. Mylle, Z. Benedikty, M. Trtílek, M. Tenje, C. Spetea, D. Van Damme, B. Wurzinger, M. Schwarzländer, M. Teige, A. Costa, S. Stael. - In: CURRENT BIOLOGY. - ISSN 0960-9822. - 35:(2025 Jun 09), pp. 1-17. [10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.065]
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Arg209Lys and Gln508His missense variants in Rabphilin 3A cause pre- and post-synaptic dysfunctions at excitatory glutamatergic synapses / M. Barzasi, A. Spinola, A. Costa, L. Pavinato, A. Brusco, E. Marcello, M. Diluca, F. Gardoni. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 15:1(2025 Mar 13), pp. 8698.1-8698.10. [10.1038/s41598-025-93403-9]
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MID1-COMPLEMENTING ACTIVITY regulates cell proliferation and development via Ca2+ signaling in Marchantia polymorpha / M. Iwano, N. Suetsugu, R. Nishihama, S. Ishida, T. Horie, A. Costa, T. Katsuno, M. Kimura, K. Iida, H. Iida, T. Nagai, T. Kohchi. - In: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. - ISSN 0032-0889. - 197:1(2025 Jan), pp. kiae613.1-kiae613.17. [10.1093/plphys/kiae613]
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Abiotic Stress-Induced Chloroplast and Cytosolic Ca2+ Dynamics in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / M. Pivato, A. Costa, G. Wheeler, M. Ballottari. - In: PLANT, CELL & ENVIRONMENT. - ISSN 1365-3040. - (2025), pp. 1-16. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1111/pce.15401]
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Mitochondria-derived reactive oxygen species are the likely primary trigger of mitochondrial retrograde signaling in Arabidopsis / K. Khan, H. Tran, B. Mansuroglu, P. Önsell, S. Buratti, M. Schwarzländer, A. Costa, A. Rasmusson, O. Van Aken. - In: CURRENT BIOLOGY. - ISSN 0960-9822. - 34:(2024 Jan 22), pp. 1-16. [Epub ahead of print] [10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.005]