Associate Professor

Email: giovanni.venturoli@unibo.it

Qualifications
1978 Ph.D., University of Bologna, Italy, Biophysics

Publications (selected)

1. Mezzetti, Alberto & Malferrari, Marco & Francia, Francesco & Venturoli, Giovanni. (2025). Effect of Dehydration on Light-Adapted States of Bacterial Reaction Centers Studied by Time-Resolved Rapid-Scan FTIR Difference Spectroscopy. Spectroscopy Journal. 3. 5. 10.3390/spectroscj3010005.

2. Mezzetti, Alberto & Malferrari, Marco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Francia, Francesco & Leibl, Winfried & Noda, Isao. (2025). Rapid-Scan Fourier Transform Infrared Difference Spectroscopy with Two-Dimensional Correlation Analysis to Show the Build-Up of Light-Adapted States in Bacterial Photosynthetic Reaction Centers. Applied spectroscopy. 37028241304806. 10.1177/00037028241304806.

3. Venturoli, Giovanni & Mamedov, Mahir & Vitukhnovskaya, Liya & Semenov, Alexey & Francia, Francesco. (2024). Trehalose Interferes with the Photosynthetic Electron Transfer Chain of Cereibacter (Rhodobacter) sphaeroides Permeating the Bacterial Chromatophore Membrane. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25. 13420. 10.3390/ijms252413420.

4. Sanchez‐Martinez, S. & Nguyen, Kenny & Biswas, Sourav & Nicholson, V. & Romanyuk, A. & Ramirez, J. & K C, Shraddha & Akter, Afroza & Childs, C. & Meese, E. & Usher, E. & Ginell, Garrett & Yu, F. & Gollub, E. & Malferrari, Marco & Francia, Francesco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Martin, E. & Caporaletti, F. & Boothby, Thomas. (2024). Labile assembly of a tardigrade protein induces biostasis. Protein Science. 33. 10.1002/pro.4941.

5. Sanchez-Martinez, S & Nguyen, Kenny & Biswas, Sourav & Nicholson, Vincent & Romanyuk, A & Ramirez, J & K C, Shraddha & Akter, Afroza & Childs, C & Meese, E & Usher, E & Ginell, Garrett & Yu, F & Gollub, E & Malferrari, Marco & Francia, Francesco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Martin, E & Caporaletti, F & Boothby, Thomas. (2024). Labile assembly of a tardigrade protein induces biostasis.

6. Bin, Tancredi & Venturoli, Giovanni & Ghelli, Anna & Francia, Francesco. (2024). Use of bacterial photosynthetic vesicles to evaluate the effect of ionic liquids on the permeability of biological membranes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1866. 184291. 10.1016/j.bbamem.2024.184291.

7. Sanchez-Martinez, Silvia & Nguyen, Kenny & Biswas, Sourav & Nicholson, Vincent & Romanyuk, Andrey & Ramirez, John & K C, Shraddha & Akter, Afroza & Childs, Charles & Usher, Emery & Ginell, Garrett & Yu, Feng & Gollub, Edith & Malferrari, Marco & Francia, Francesco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Martin, Erik & Caporaletti, Federico & Giubertoni, Giulia & Boothby, Thomas. (2023). Labile assembly of a tardigrade protein induces biostasis. 10.1101/2023.06.30.547219.

8. Hesgrove, Cherie & Nguyen, Kenny & Biswas, Sourav & Childs, Charles & K C, Shraddha & Medina, Bryan & Alvarado, Vladimir & Sukenik, Shahar & Yu, Feng & Malferrari, Marco & Francia, Francesco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Martin, Erik & Holehouse, Alex & Boothby, Thomas. (2021). Tardigrade CAHS Proteins Act as Molecular Swiss Army Knives to Mediate Desiccation Tolerance Through Multiple Mechanisms. 10.1101/2021.08.16.456555.

9. Mamedov, Mahir & Milanovsky, George & Malferrari, Marco & Vitukhnovskaya, Liya & Francia, Francesco & Semenov, Alexey & Venturoli, Giovanni. (2021). Trehalose matrix effects on electron transfer in Mn-depleted protein-pigment complexes of Photosystem II. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1862. 148413. 10.1016/j.bbabio.2021.148413.

10. Campari, Enrico & Barbetta, Manuel & Braibant, Sylvie & Cuzzuol, Nitya & Gesuato, Alessandro & Maggiore, Leonardo & Marulli, F. & Venturoli, Giovanni & Vignali, Cristian. (2021). Physics Laboratory at Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Physics Teacher. 59. 68-71. 10.1119/5.0020515.

11. Moebius, Klaus & Savitsky, Anton & Malferrari, Marco & Francia, Francesco & Mamedov, Mahir & Semenov, Alexey & Lubitz, Wolfgang & Venturoli, Giovanni. (2020). Soft Dynamic Confinement of Membrane Proteins by Dehydrated Trehalose Matrices: High-Field EPR and Fast-Laser Studies. Applied Magnetic Resonance. 51. 10.1007/s00723-020-01240-y.

12. Zaffagnini, Mirko & Marchand, Christophe & Malferrari, Marco & Murail, Samuel & Bonacchi, Sara & Genovese, Damiano & Montalti, Marco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Falini, Giuseppe & Baaden, Marc & Lemaire, Stéphane & Fermani, Simona & Trost, Paolo. (2019). Glutathionylation primes soluble glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase for late collapse into insoluble aggregates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116. 201914484. 10.1073/pnas.1914484116.

13. Yanykin, Denis & Malferrari, Marco & Rapino, S. & Venturoli, Giovanni & Semenov, Alexey & Mamedov, M.. (2019). Hydroxyectoine protects Mn-depleted photosystem II against photoinhibition acting as a source of electrons. Photosynthesis Research. 141. 1-15. 10.1007/s11120-019-00617-w.

14. Locatelli, Alessandra & Iommarini, Luisa & Graziadio, Alessandra & Leoni, Alberto & Porcelli, Anna Maria & Iotti, Stefano & Malucelli, Emil & Francia, Francesco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Farruggia, Giovanna. (2019). Dansyl acetyl trehalose: A novel tool to investigate the cellular fate of trehalose. RSC Advances. 9. 15350-15356. 10.1039/C9RA01800J.

15. Zaffagnini, Mirko & Marchand, Christophe & Malferrari, Marco & Murail, Samuel & Bonacchi, Sara & Genovese, Damiano & Montalti, Marco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Falini, Giuseppe & Baaden, Marc & Lemaire, Stéphane & Fermani, Simona & Trost, Paolo. (2019). Glutathionylation primes soluble GAPDH for late collapse into insoluble aggregates. 10.1101/545921.

16. Zaffagnini, Mirko & Marchand, Christophe & Malferrari, Marco & Murail, Samuel & Bonacchi, Sara & Genovese, Damiano & Montalti, Marco & Venturoli, Giovanni & Falinii, G. & Baaden, Marc & Lemaire, Stéphane & Fermani, Simona & Trost, Paolo. (2019). Glutathionylation primes soluble GAPDH for late collapse into insoluble aggregates.

17. Francia, Francesco & Khalfaoui Hassani, Bahia & Lanciano, pascal & Musiani, Francesco & Noodleman, Louis & Venturoli, Giovanni & Daldal, Fevzi. (2018). The cytochrome b lysine 329 residue is critical for ubihydroquinone oxidation and proton release at the Qo site of bacterial cytochrome bc1. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1860. 10.1016/j.bbabio.2018.12.002.

18. Nalepa, Anna & Malferrari, Marco & Lubitz, Wolfgang & Venturoli, Giovanni & Möbius, Klaus & Savitsky, Anton. (2017). Local water sensing: Water exchange in bacterial photosynthetic reaction centers embedded in a trehalose glass studied by multiresonance EPR. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.. 19. 10.1039/C7CP03942E.

19. Schwarze, C. & Labahn, Andreas & Carluccio, Anna Vittoria & Venturoli, Giovanni. (2017). Evidence for Light-Induced Cyclic Electron Transfer in Chromatophores of Roseobacter Denitrificans.

20. Malferrari, Marco & Savitsky, Anton & Lubitz, Wolfgang & Moebius, Klaus & Venturoli, Giovanni. (2016). Protein Immobilization Capabilities of Sucrose and Trehalose Glasses: The Effect of Protein/Sugar Concentration Unraveled by High-Field EPR. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 7. 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02449.

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