PARRINO Vincenzo

Vincenzo Parrino is associate professor at the University of Messina. He awarded the degree in Biological Sciences on November 10th, 1995 at the University of Messina. Since 1998 he is Doctor of Research in Environmental Sciences: Marine Habitat and its Resources, and in 2005 the Council of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Messina conferred on him the qualification of Connoisseur for the S.S.D. BIO/06 (Comparative Anatomy and Cytology).
Dr. Parrino participated to research projects of national interest (PRIN) and of Athenaeum (the former 60%). He is member of the Italian Zoological Union (UZI). Dr. Parrino has been member of the Operative Unit of Messina within the W1BIOMAR-A2 subproject of the Memobiomar Project, "Marine Environment" Cluster (2001-2005), entitled “Molecular and Cellular Methodologies for the Ecophysiology, Ecotoxicology and Biomonitoring of the Marine Environment”. He participated to a research project of the Regional Agency for the Protection of the Environment, ARPA Sicily, for (2005-2006) entitled “Ecotoxicological investigations and biomonitoring on benthic macrofauna in polluted coastal environments of the Sicily region”. He is member of the research group involved in PRIN (Research Project of National Interest) projects. He is also a member of the Teaching Board of the PhD Course in “Biology and Cellular Biotechnologies”.
To obtain a more complete picture on the health status of polluted environments, he applies, in combination with histological and immunohistochemical techniques, a set of biomarkers to be investigated through spectrofluorimetric analysis, in order to evaluate the activity of the mixed function monooxygenase (MFO) system, ethoxyresorufin O-deethylase (EROD) and benzo(a)pyrene monooxigenase (BPMO), as representative of the main enzymatic activities involved in the detoxification of environmental pollutants.