<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><blockquote style="margin-right:2cm;margin-bottom:0cm;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin-left:0cm;border:none;padding:0cm;text-align:justify;background:transparent"><p align="left" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:150%;background:transparent"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3" style="font-size:12pt"><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background:transparent">La

Cátedra de Horticultura</span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background:transparent"> invita

al </span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><b><span style="background:transparent">Seminario

de la Profesora Roberta Paradiso</span></b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background:transparent"> el </span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><b><span style="background:transparent">miércoles

7 de mayo de 2025 en el aula 8 del Pabellón Parodi. </span></b></span></span></font></font></font></span><span style="font-variant:normal"><font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="background:transparent">Nos

contará de su trabajo como docente en la Universidad de Nápoles

Federico II (Italia) y su experiencia investigando el cultivo de

plantas en ambientes controlados para el espacio (Space Farming). El

seminario será en inglés.</span></span></span></span></font></font></font></span></font></font></font></p><blockquote style="line-height:150%;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;margin-left:1cm;margin-right:1cm;background:transparent">

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Aula 8 Parodi</span></font></font></font></font></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height:150%;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;margin-left:1cm;margin-right:1cm;background:transparent">

<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt">9.30

– 10.00: Information about the Universtity of Naples Federico II

(Italy) and the Department of Agriculture.</font></font></font></blockquote><blockquote style="line-height:150%;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;letter-spacing:normal;margin-left:1cm;margin-right:1cm;background:transparent">

<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:11pt">10.10

-11.00: Introduction to Space Farming</font></font></font></blockquote><p align="justify" style="line-height:150%;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;margin-bottom:0.25cm;background:transparent">

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<font color="#222222"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt">¡Los

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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="background:transparent">Roberta

Paradiso is Associate Professor of Horticulture at the

Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of  Naples

Federico II (Naples, Italy). </span></i></font></font></font>

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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i><span style="background:transparent">Her

research activity is related to eco-physiology of vegetable and

flower crops, soilless cultures (hydrological properties of

substrates,nutrient, and water management), greenhouse technologies,

sustainable horticulture in open field and greenhouse, nutritional

quality of vegetables. The most recent work concerns artificial

lighting in greenhouse and growth chamber, with special attention to

spectral dependence of photosynthesis and photomorphogenesis and

advanced systems based on light emitting diodes (LEDs). </span></i></font></font></font>

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specific expertise concerns cultivation of higher plants in

controlled environment for Bioregenerative Life-Support Systems

(BLSSs) in Space.On this topic, she works in research projects funded

by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA)

and participates to the ESA consortium MELiSSA - Micro-Ecological

Life Support System

Alternative <span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">(<a href="https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Melissa" style="color:rgb(0,0,128)" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal"><font color="#1155cc"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Melissa</a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal"><font color="#222222"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:12pt">).

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<font color="#000000"><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-size:11pt"><i>She

also collaborated in the creation of the Laboratory of Crop research

for Space and the design of the Plant Characterization Unit (PCU)

funded by ESA at the Department of Agricultural sciences of the

University of Naples Federico II (Naples, Italy), aiming at the

characterization of candidate crops for cultivation in BLSSs.</i></font></font></font></p></blockquote></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">

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