Elena Martino

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Présentation

Elena Martino is assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology (http://www.dbios.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Show?_id=emartino;sort=U2;search=;hits=201) (former Department of Plant Biology) - University of Turin. She got the Bachelor Degree in Natural Sciences (mark 110/110 cum laude et menzione) at the University of Turin on July 15, 1996, discussing a Master Degree report titled: “Morphological and functional characterization of symbiotic mycelia coming from a heavy metal contaminated site”. She got the Optime award from the Industrial Union of Turin and the award for the Best report in Natural Science for the Academic Year 1996/97. From 1997 to 1998 she was engaged in a Postgraduate Training Experience at the Department of Plant Biology of the University of Turin**,** obtaining a CNR (National Council of Research) grant concerning the thematic “Functional and genomic biodiversity of mycorrhizal fungi”. She got the PhD at the University of Turin on March 7, 2001, with a dissertation titled: “Interactions between ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and heavy metals”. During her PhD she spent two research periods abroad (Prof. G.M. Gadd Lab - Department of Biological Sciences - University of Dundee, Scotland, from March 1 to November 30, 1999; Dr. C. Azcon-Aguilar Lab - Zaidin Experimental Centre, Granada, Spain, from 3 to 11 August, 2000). On 2000 she got the Qualification to teach Natural Sciences, Geography and Microbiology at the Secondary School. She got a 1st level Bioinformatics Master at the University of Turin on February 7, 2002. Since November 1, 2002 she has a permanent position as assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences and Systems Biology of the University of Torino.

Since 2002 she has been involved in local University projects concerning the mechanisms regulating the interaction of soil fungi with different types of environmental contaminants and possible development of new bioremediation systems. She studied in particular the response of tolerant ericoid endomycorrhizal fungi coming from polluted sites to heavy metal stress. Through a proteomics approach, enzymes induced by heavy metals have been found, whose expression could partly explain the metal tolerance shown by these mycorrhizal fungi. From October 2003 to March 2004, she spent a research period in the Prof. P.D. Spanu Lab, Imperial College, London (UK), thanks to a fellowship from the National Academy of Lincei, working on fungal genetic transformation. She was able to stable genetically transform and visualize in planta an endomycorrhizal fungus for the first time. The possibility to genetically transform this fungus has been fundamental to unravel heavy metal tolerance mechanisms. From 2004 to 2006 she has been responsible for the subproject 3.3 (Endophytes and root associates as natural agents of bioremediation) of the Centre of Excellence for Plant and Microbial Biosensing (CEBIOVEM) of the Department of Plant Biology, University of Turin. From 2002 to 2008 she was involved in a Piedmont Region project: “Asbestos hazard in Western Alps”, collaborating with Prof. B. Fubini (Chemistry Department, University of Turin) and with the Interdepartmental Centre for the Study of Asbestos and Others Dangerous Particulates G. Scansetti (Turin, Italy). Aim of the project was the study of the interaction between soil fungi and asbestos mineral fibres and the possible role of fungal microorganisms as detoxification agents. Interesting results were obtained and published, showing the ability of fungi to solubilize iron (one of the main responsible for asbestos toxicity), from the fibres. These results were commented on Nature Science Update, suggesting the interesting and important perspectives of this project.

In the period 2008-2012 she has been involved in a scientific collaboration with the group of Prof. M. Chalot and Dr. D. Blaudez (University of Nancy, France) including the participation to two different projects: (i) the Phytopop project (http://dendroremediation.univ-fcomte.fr/spip.php?rubrique5) with the purpose to explore poplar potential in phytoremediation processes. She was involved in the task aiming at identify mycorrhizal and endophytic fungi associated to poplar roots and at analyze their impact on the phytoremediation process; (ii) a project intended to investigate metal transporters in the ericoid endomycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius and to screen for metal tolerance an O. maius random-mutants collection. This collaboration was partly supported by a fellowship from the University of Turin (WWS - World Wide Style – project). Since 2010 she is involved in the international project “Exploring the Genome Diversity of Mycorrhizal Fungi to Understand the Evolution and Functioning of Symbiosis in Woody Shrubs and Trees” in the framework of the Mycorrhizal Genomics Initiative, MGI (https://jgi.doe.gov/the-mycorrhizal-genomics-initiative-or-exploring-tree-fungal-symbioses/) coordinated by Dr. F. Martin (INRAE / Université de Lorraine, Centre INRAE Grand Est Nancy) in collaboration with the Joint Genome Institute (JGI, California). Some results of this project have been published in Nature Genetics (http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v47/n4/full/ng.3223.html) and commented in the media (https://www.unito.it/comunicati_stampa/funghi-10-100-1000-genomi-ricercatrici-unito-su-nature-genetics).

In the framework of this collaboration, she got two projects funded by the Laboratoire d’excellence (Labex) ARBRE (Nancy, France) (Projets Incitatifs), the first one in 2013 (project title “Looking for effector symbiosis-related proteins in the ericoid endomycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius”) (https://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/ARBRE/?page_id=296) and the second one in 2019 (project title: &quot;Isolation, identification, structural and functional characterization of new polyketides produced by the mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius&quot;) (https://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/ARBRE/?page_id=296*).*

Since 2013 she develops part of her research activity at the Centre INRAE Grand Est Nancy (France) where she is hosted as invited researcher (https://mycor.nancy.inra.fr/IAM/?page_id=853).

Publications

Article dans une revue (19)

Ericoid mycorrhizal growth response is influenced by host plant phylogeny Alice S Neves,Laura G van Galen,Martin Vohník,Martina Peter,Elena Martinoet al. Mycorrhiza, 2025, 35 (4), pp.51. ⟨10.1007/s00572-025-01223-6⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05525865v1
Comparative genomics reveals substantial divergence in metal sensitive and metal tolerant isolates of the ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius Stefania Daghino,Claude Murat,Stéphane de Mita,Elena Martino,Silvia Perotto Mycorrhiza, 2025, 35, pp.24. ⟨10.1007/s00572-025-01191-x⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05070716v1
The Importance of Mycorrhizal Fungi and Their Associated Bacteria in Promoting Crops’ Performance: An Applicative Perspective Miriana Bortolot,Beatrice Buffoni,Sonia Mazzarino,Gregory Hoff,Elena Martinoet al. Horticulturae, 2024, 10 (12), pp.1326. ⟨10.3390/horticulturae10121326⟩ Article dans une revue hal-05049433v1
Frequency of the two mating types in the soil under productive and non-productive trees in five French orchards of the Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vittad.) Juan Chen,Herminia de La Varga,Flora Todesco,Pauline Beacco,Elena Martino,et al. Mycorrhiza, 2021, 31 (3), pp. 361-369. ⟨10.1007/s00572-020-01011-4⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03470614v1
Modulation of Plant and Fungal Gene Expression Upon Cd Exposure and Symbiosis in Ericoid Mycorrhizal Vaccinium myrtillus Salvatore Casarrubia,Elena Martino,Stefania Daghino,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morinet al. Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020, 11, pp.341. ⟨10.3389/fmicb.2020.00341⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02905623v1
The virome from a collection of endomycorrhizal fungi reveals new viral taxa with unprecedented genome organization Suvi Sutela,Marco Forgia,Eeva J Vainio,Marco Chiapello,Stefania Daghinoet al. Virus Evolution, 2020, ⟨10.1093/ve/veaa076⟩ Article dans une revue hal-03024031v1
Yeast expression of mammalian Onzin and fungal FCR1 suggests ancestral functions of PLAC8 proteins in mitochondrial metabolism and DNA repair Stefania Daghino,Luigi Di Vietro,Luca Petiti,Elena Martino,Cristina Dallabonaet al. Scientific Reports, 2019, 9 (6629), ⟨10.1038/s41598-019-43136-3⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02948853v1
Comparative genomics and transcriptomics depict ericoid mycorrhizal fungi as versatile saprotrophs and plant mutualists Elena Martino,Emmanuelle Morin,Gwen-Aëlle Grelet,Alan Kuo,Annegret Kohleret al. New Phytologist, 2018, 217 (3), pp.1213-1229. ⟨10.1111/nph.14974⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02080038v1
The Hydrophobin-Like OmSSP1 May Be an Effector in the Ericoid Mycorrhizal Symbiosis Salvatore Casarrubia,Stefania Daghino,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morin,Hassine-Radhouane Khoujaet al. Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018, 9, pp.1-14. ⟨10.3389/fpls.2018.00546⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01844910v1
Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and their genomes: another side to the mycorrhizal symbiosis? Silvia Perotto,Stefania Daghino,Elena Martino New Phytologist, 2018, 220 (4), pp.1141-1147. ⟨10.1111/nph.15218⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02989297v1
New mutualistic fungal endophytes isolated from poplar roots display high metal tolerance Laurence Lacercat-Didier,Charlotte Berthelot,Julie Foulon,Audrey Errard,Elena Martinoet al. Mycorrhiza, 2016, 26 (7), pp.657 - 671. ⟨10.1007/s00572-016-0699-y⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01512275v1
Model systems to unravel the molecular mechanisms of heavy metal tolerance in the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis Stefania Daghino,Elena Martino,Silvia Perotto Mycorrhiza, 2016, 26 (4), pp.263-274. ⟨10.1007/s00572-015-0675-y⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02988459v1
Ecologically Different Fungi Affect Arabidopsis Development: Contribution of Soluble and Volatile Compounds. Salvatore Casarrubia,Sara Sapienza,Héma Fritz,Stefania Daghino,Maaria Rosenkranzet al. PLoS ONE, 2016, 11 (12), pp.e0168236. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0168236⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01499062v1
Common and metal-specific proteomic responses to cadmium and zinc in the metal tolerant ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius Zn M. Chiapello,E. Martino,S. Perotto Metallomics, 2015, 7 (5), pp.805-815. ⟨10.1039/c5mt00024f⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01579583v1
Convergent losses of decay mechanisms and rapid turnover of symbiosis genes in mycorrhizal mutualists Annegret Kohler,Alan Kuo,Laszlo G. Nagy,Emmanuelle Morin,Kerrie W. Barryet al. Nature Genetics, 2015, 47 (4), pp.410-U176. ⟨10.1038/ng.3223⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02639336v1
OmGOGAT-disruption in the ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius induces reorganization of the N pathway and reduces tolerance to heavy-metals H R Khouja,S Daghino,S Abbà,F Boutaraa,M Chalotet al. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2014, 71, pp.1-8. ⟨10.1016/j.fgb.2014.08.003⟩ Article dans une revue hal-01114970v1
OmZnT1 and OmFET, two metal transporters from the metal-tolerant strain Zn of the ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius, confer zinc tolerance in yeast Radhouane Khouja, Hassine,Simona Abba,,Laurence Lacercat-Didier,,Stefania Daghino,,Didier Doillon,et al. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2013, 52, pp.53-64. ⟨10.1016/j.fgb.2012.11.004⟩ Article dans une revue hal-00943938v1
Specific regions in the Sod1 locus of the ericoid mycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius from metal-enriched soils show a different sequence polymorphism Marta Vallino,Elisa Zampieri,Claude Murat,Mariangela Girlanda,Sandro Picarellaet al. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2011, 75 (2), pp.321 - 331. ⟨10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.01003.x⟩ Article dans une revue hal-02649139v1
Morphological analysis of early contacts between pine roots and two ectomycorrhizal Suillus strains Paola Bonfante,R. Balestrini,Elena Martino,S. Perotto,Claude Plassardet al. Mycorrhiza, 1998, 8, pp.1-10 Article dans une revue hal-02691145v1

Communication dans un congrès (7)

Characterization of polyketide synthases in an ericoid endomycorrhizal fungus using a molecular approach Simone Belmondo,Stefania Daghino,Shingo Miyauchi,Gang Wu,Domitilla Meloniet al. 1st Conference for Young Botanists (CYBO), Feb 2020, Genova, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-03047783v1
Molecular investigations of ericoid and orchid mycorrhizal fungi reveal new mycoviral taxa Stefania Daghino,Suvi Sutela,Marco Forgia,Eeva J Vainio,Marco Chiapelloet al. 115th Conference of the Italian Botanical Society,, Sep 2020, On-line, September 9-11, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-03047748v1
The small secreted protein OmSSP1 is up-regulated in ericoid mycorrhiza and is involved in symbiosis Stefania Daghino,Salvatore Casarrubia,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morin,Yohann Daguerreet al. Effectome meeting XI, Nov 2018, Lauret, France Communication dans un congrès hal-03047789v1
Cd-regulated plant and fungal genes in the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis Salvatore Casarrubia,Elena Martino,,Stefania Daghino,,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morinet al. Riunione annuale dei gruppi di lavoro SBI, Biologia Cellulare e Molecolare, Biotecnologie e Differenziamento, Jun 2018, Sanremo, Italy Communication dans un congrès hal-03467505v1
Comparative genomics and transcriptomics for understanding ericoid mycorrhizal fungi ecology Elena Martino,,Emmanuelle Morin,Gwen-Aëlle Grelet,Annegret Kohler,Stefania Daghinoet al. 9th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, ICOM9, Jul 2017, Prague, Czech Republic Communication dans un congrès hal-03470193v1
Oidiodendron maius: from the study of the tolerance mechanisms to the study of the interaction with the host plant Elena Martino, Invited seminar, Jan 2016, Hasselt, Belgium Communication dans un congrès hal-03470225v1
Phenotypic and genomic adaptation of the ericoid fungus Oidiodendron maius to heavy metals Stefania Daghino,,Claude C. Murat,Stéphane de Mita,Elena Martino,,Francis M Martinet al. 13th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Apr 2016, Paris, France Communication dans un congrès hal-03468346v1

Poster de conférence (10)

Polyketide synthases in the ericoid endomycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius Simone Belmondo,Stefania Daghino,Shingo Miyauchi,Gang Wu,Domitilla Meloniet al. 15th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Feb 2020, ROME, Italy Poster de conférence hal-02936036v1
Genomic and phenotypic divergence among heavy metal tolerant and sensitive isolates of the ericoid fungus Oidiodendron maius Stefania Daghino,Claude Murat,Stéphane de Mita,Elena Martino,,Francis Martinet al. 15th European Conference on Fungal Genetics (ECFG15), Feb 2020, Rome, Italy Poster de conférence hal-03469262v1
Modulation of plant and fungal gene expression upon Cd exposure and symbiosis in ericoid mycorrhizal Vaccinium myrtillus Elena Martino,,Salvatore Casarrubia,Stefania Daghino,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morinet al. 115th Conference of the Italian Botanical Society, Sep 2020, online, Italy Poster de conférence hal-03469225v1
OmSSP1, a hydrophobin-like small secreted protein, is a putative effector in ericoid mycorrhiza Stefania Daghino,Salvatore Casarrubia,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morin,Yohann Daguerreet al. 4th international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting, Feb 2019, Turin, Italy Poster de conférence hal-03469295v1
Transcriptomic analysis of plant and fungal Cd-regulated genes in the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis Salvatore Casarrubia,Elena Martino,,Stefania Daghino,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morinet al. 4th international Molecular Mycorrhiza Meeting, Feb 2019, Turin, Italy Poster de conférence hal-03469280v1
Polyketide synthases in the ericoid endomycorrhizal fungus Oidiodendron maius Elena Martino,Stefania Daghino,Simone Belmondo,Domitilla Meloni,Shingo Miyauchiet al. VI International Plant Science Conference, Sep 2019, Padova, Italy Poster de conférence hal-02936033v1
The hydrophobin-like OmSSP1 may be an effector in the ericoid mycorrhizal symbiosis Salvatore Casarrubia,Stefania Daghino,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morin,Hassine-Radhouane Khoujaet al. 3rd MPIterMic - ARBRE workshop on Molecular Plant Fungal Interactions, Nov 2018, Cologne, Germany Poster de conférence hal-03469309v1
The small secreted protein OmSSP1 is up-regulated in ericoid mycorrhiza and is involved in symbiosis Salvatore Casarrubia,Stefania Daghino,Annegret Kohler,Emmanuelle Morin,Yohann Daguerreet al. 9th International Conference on Mycorrhiza, ICOM9, Jul 2017, Prague, Czech Republic Poster de conférence hal-03470134v1
Fungi with different ecological strategies affect Arabidopsis development in vitro: contribution of some soluble and volatile compounds Salvatore Casarrubia,Sara Sapienza,Héma Fritz,Stefania Daghino,,Maaria Rosenkranzet al. 111° Congresso della Società Botanica Italiana (III International Plant Science Conference - IPSC), Sep 2016, Rome, Italy Poster de conférence hal-03470159v1
New insights from genome and transcriptome analyses of four ericoid mycorrhizal fungi Elena Martino,,Gwen-Aëlle Grelet,Emmanuelle Morin,Annegret Kohler,Stefania Daghinoet al. 13th European Conference on Fungal Genetics, Apr 2016, Paris, France Poster de conférence hal-03470143v1

Chapitre d'ouvrage (2)

Ecology of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi: what insight have we gained with molecular tools and what’s missing? Gwen Grelet,Elena Martino,Ian A Dickie,Rosnida Tajuddin,Rebekka Artz Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis, 2016 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03024093v1
Homeostasis of trace elements in mycorrhizal fungi Joske Ruytinx,Elena Martino,,Piotr Rozpądek,Stefania Daghino,,Katarzyna Turnauet al. Molecular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis, 2016 Chapitre d'ouvrage hal-03024846v1