{"id":1403,"date":"2025-05-08T14:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/?page_id=1403"},"modified":"2025-05-20T16:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:21:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1450\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/RICELAB_METAL2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/RICELAB_METAL2.png 1450w, https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/RICELAB_METAL2-600x300.png 600w, https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/RICELAB_METAL2-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/RICELAB_METAL2-768x384.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1450px) 100vw, 1450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">We are an interdepartmental research group at the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, focused on the study of developmental biology and genetics in rice. The laboratory was founded in 2011 by Fabio Fornara, supported by a grant from the European Research Council, following his return from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne. In the same year, Vittoria Brambilla also joined the group, coming from the same institute. Since 2021, the team has expanded with the arrival of Camilla Betti, who returned from the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) in Ghent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\">Our goal is to understand the molecular mechanisms regulating rice plant development, with particular focus on flowering and stem growth. For several years, we have combined basic research with applied projects aimed at the genetic improvement of rice for agronomic performance and nutritional quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">The story of Fabio Fornara as told by the website of the University of Milan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:20%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/video.unimi.it\/media\/1842\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/lastatale-video-600x337.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1195\" style=\"width:328px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/lastatale-video-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/lastatale-video-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/lastatale-video-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/148\/2025\/05\/lastatale-video.png 1203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">                     <a href=\"https:\/\/video.unimi.it\/media\/1842\/\">ERC. Fabio Fornara: Biologist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are an interdepartmental research group at the Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano, focused on the study of developmental biology and genetics in rice. The laboratory was founded in 2011 by Fabio Fornara, supported by a grant from the European Research Council, following his return from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1403","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1403\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricelab.unimi.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}