Dear colleagues,
I inform you that last Friday, March 18, professor Armando Sabbadin left us.
He was full professor of Compared Anatomy of Vertebrates, and then professor Emeritus of the University of Padova.
He introduced Botryllus schlosseri as model organism more than 60 years ago in the laboratories of the Department of Biology of the University of Padova. He formalized the staging and rearing method of this colonial ascidian, and made pioneering studies on self-non self recognition, stem cell recycling, genetics, bud competition in asexual reproduction, and self/cross fertilization. His researchers represented the basis for successive and still actual studies.
Together with his pupils, Loriano Ballarin, Riccardo Brunetti, Paolo Burighel, Francesca Cima, Gianbruno Martinucci and Giovanna Zaniolo, I thank him for having passed on to us his great passion for ascidian biology and for his scientific rigor.
Lucia Manni
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