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Obituary
Ecotoxicology
Dr. Annalisa Pinsino Matranga Group
Dr. Lee Shugart Editor-in-chief Ecotoxicology
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Valeria Matranga, Senior Researcher of the CNR Institute
of Biomedicine and Molecular Immunology ‘‘Alberto
Monroy’’ (IBIM), Palermo (Italy), prematurely passed
away on April 23, 2016 after a courageous battle against
cancer. Valeria was a brilliant and determined woman
completely dedicated to science. She built her career
around sea urchins, beginning by studying cell adhesion in
the embryo and then keeping her interest towards the
cellular and molecular mechanisms leading to
biomineralization, approached by the use of experimentally induced
skeleton malformations. In the last years, Valeria spent
much of her career focusing on the molecular mechanisms
and factors involved in the progression of sea urchin
immune response after engineered nanoparticle in vivo
exposure. We are very grateful for her devotion,
enthusiasm for science and her great collaborative and welcoming
approach. Valeria’s great spirit will be missed.
Dr. Valeria Matranga served Ecotoxicology for several
years as an Associate Editor for Marine Ecotoxicology and
the current standing of the journal in the scientific
community is due in no small part to the time and effort that she
devoted to this position. Her untimely death was
unexpected. She will be dearly remembered by friends and
colleagues alike. (...truncated)