Edoardo Scali

Edoardo Scali is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley and a Fulbright Scholar. His research integrates transcriptomics, comparative genomics, and phylogenetics to investigate molecular host–pathogen interactions in the Cypress Canker Disease pathosystem. He also applies molecular ecology and metabarcoding to study fungal community dynamics in forest ecosystems. His broader interests span forest pathology, fungal ecology, and computational biology.

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Admittance Semester/Year and Program

Fall 2022, Ph.D

Education

M.Sc. Forest Systems Science and Technologies (summa cum laude), University of Florence, 2021.M.S. Reception of Migrants: Legislation, Social Integration Policies and Health Issues (summa cum laude), University of Florence, 2019. B.Sc. Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Florence, 2016.

Selected Publications

• Scali, E., Garbelotto M., Danti R., Della Rocca G. (2025). The Cypress Canker Disease pandemic. Plant Health Cases, phcs20250001.

• Scali, E., Johnson, M., Emiliani, G., Schmidt, D., Popenuck, T., Garbelotto, M. (2025). Not Seeing the Tree for the Forest: Scattered Trees Can Be Unexpected Hotspots of Fungal Diversity. Biological Conservation, 303, 111020.

• Scali, E., Della Rocca G., Danti R., Garbelotto M., Barberini S., Emiliani G. (2024). Genome assembly of two California isolates of Seiridium cardinale (BM‑138‑000494 and BM‑138‑000479). Journal of Plant Pathology, 1‑4.

Selected Presentations

• Scali, E., Della Rocca, G., Emiliani, G., Danti, R., Kasuga, T., Garbelotto, M. (Mar 2026). A transcriptomics insight of how climate determines disease resistance-susceptibility in the absence of R‑genes. Poster presented at the 33rd Fungal Genetic Conference ‑ Asilomar (CA) ‑ USA.
• Scali, E. (Nov 2023). Combining Phylogenetic and phylogenomic approaches for the discovery of a new Seiridium species. Talk presented at the 72nd California.
• Forest Pest Council (CFPC) annual meeting. University of California, Davis ‑ USA.

Selected Honors and Awards

• Fulbright Ph.D. Scholarship 

• Van Den Bosch, Robert Memorial Scholarship Fund