Festival internazionale
di letteratura a Venezia
prossima edizione: 15 18 aprile 2026

Davide Zannoni Italy

Thursday April 16 - 12.00 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Davide Zannoni

converses with Sabrina Tamburini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Carocci Editore, Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi

The conversation will be in Italian

Davide Zannoni, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology at the University of Bologna, spearheaded research on the biochemistry and physiology of photosynthetic and aerobic bacteria. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna and serves on the editorial boards of numerous international scientific journals. The author and/or co-author of almost two hundred articles in leading international journals of biochemistry and microbiology, he has also published several textbooks for students of biology and biotechnology and edited three Springer volumes on bioenergetics and biohydrogen production in prokaryotes. He is Associate Editor of Frontiers in Microbiology and FEMS Microbes, and an Advisory Editor for Springer. Alongside his academic work, he is actively involved in science communication, and collaborated with Le ScienzeGalileo, and the RAI 3 programme Scienza. Invisibili giganti. Storie di microbi fra scienza e curiosità (Carocci Editore, 2025) is his first collection of popular science essays devoted to microbiology