**About the Editors**

**Maria Tufariello** Researcher at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production of the National Research Council, is involved in:







**Francesco Grieco**, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Sciences of Food Production of the National Research Council, is involved in: i) the study of membrane transport proteins of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; ii) the study of microbial populations present in grape must; iii) the selection of autochthonous Saccharomyces isolates of high oenological value to be used as starters for industrial fermentation; iv) the selection of indigenous yeast isolates to be used for biological control of ochratoxigenous fungi on wine and table grapes; and v) the heterologous expression of fungal proteins of agro-industrial interest in S. cerevisiae. He qualified as a professor of the first and second ranks in the Competitive Sector 07/I1 and he is member of the Italian Society of Agrarian, Food and Environmental Microbiology. He is the author of 247 publications in national and international journals with referees, communications to national and international conferences, and two patents.
