Gianluca Grasso

Gianluca graduated in Plant Biotechnology at the University of Turin in 2018 and is now a PhD student at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and at the University of Turin. He studies herbarium plants collected over the last 200 years, with a focus on crop plants from collections preserved with roots and soil. Using a paleomicrobiological approach, the study of ancient DNA from herbarium plants collected before and during the exponential acceleration of global change can shed light on the impact of environmental changes on the plant microbiota of the past.