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Analytical Chemist & Data analyst l Mass spectrometrist l +25 authored Scientific publications l Reviewer Nat Comm

Profile Summary

I am a Researcher specialized in Mass Spectrometry and Bioanalytics, with solid experience in Data Analysis, Biostatistics, and Biomarker Discovery. Author of over 25 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals. My research focuses, though not exclusively, on Antibiotic Discovery, Cellular Metabolism Analysis (Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic), Natural Product Discovery, and Bioremediation.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Analytical Chemistry
• ★ Mass Spectrometry
• ★ Data Analysis
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Metabolomics
• ☆ Data Visualization
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Health Data Analysis
• ☆ Research Methodology

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing, Translation

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Work Experience

Researcher

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

July 2025 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

October 2024 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Tübingen

April 2023 - September 2024

Postdoctoral Researcher

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn Napoli

February 2021 - January 2023

PhD Student

Istituto di Biochimica e Biologia Cellulare Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

September 2017 - September 2020

Education

Bachelor's Degree (Chemical Sciences)

University of Naples Federico II: Naples, Campania, IT

- Present

Master's Degree (Chemical Sciences)

University of Naples Federico II: Naples, Campania, IT

- Present

Diploma - Perito Chimico (Chimica)

Istituto Tecnico Tecnologico Giordani-Striano

- Present

Certifications

• Professional Researcher Certification

  CNR

  January 2018 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Shu-Ning Xia, Kai Dührkop, Mohammad Reza Zare Shahneh, Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, Yvonne Mast, Corinna Brungs, Sebastian Böcker, Robin Schmid, Mingxun Wang, et al. (2025). Enhancing tandem mass spectrometry-based metabolite annotation with online chemical labeling . Nature Communications.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Vincenza Casella, Gerardo Della Sala, Silvia Scarpato, Carmine Buonocore, Costanza Ragozzino, Pietro Tedesco, Daniela Coppola, Donatella de Pascale, Fortunato Palma Esposito (2025). Novel Insights into the Nobilamide Family from a Deep-Sea Bacillus: Chemical Diversity, Biosynthesis and Antimicrobial Activity Towards Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria . Marine Drugs.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Abzer K. Pakkir Shah, Axel Walter, Filip Ottosson, Francesco Russo, Marcelo Navarro-Diaz, Judith Boldt, Jarmo-Charles J. Kalinski, Eftychia Eva Kontou, James Elofson, et al. (2024). Statistical analysis of feature-based molecular networking results from non-targeted metabolomics data . Nature Protocols.

Vitale, G.A., Geibel, C., Minda, V., Wang, M., Aron, A.T., Petras, D.(2024). Connecting metabolome and phenotype: recent advances in functional metabolomics tools for the identification of bioactive natural products . Natural Product Reports. 41. (6). p. 885-904.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Christian Geibel, Vidit Minda, Mingxun Wang, Allegra T. Aron, Daniel Petras (2024). Connecting metabolome and phenotype: recent advances in functional metabolomics tools for the identification of bioactive natural products . Natural Product Reports.

Shahneh, M.R.Z., Strobel, M., Vitale, G.A., Geibel, C., Abiead, Y.E., Garg, N., Wagner, B., Forchhammer, K., Aron, A., Phelan, V.V., et al.(2024). ModiFinder: Tandem Mass Spectral Alignment Enables Structural Modification Site Localization . Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Giovanni A Vitale, Grant G January, Ernest Oppong-Danquah, Gerardo Della Sala, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Deniz Tasdemir, Donatella de Pascale, David Brenner (2023). A metabologenomics approach to unlock the metabolome of the novel Antarctic deep-sea isolate Lacinutrix shetlandiensis sp. nov. WUR7 . PNAS Nexus.

Giovanni Vitale, Silvia Scarpato, Alfonso Mangoni, Maria D’Auria, Gerardo Della Sala, Donatella de Pascale (2023). Enhanced Molecular Networking Shows Microbacterium sp. V1 as a Factory of Antioxidant Proline-Rich Peptides . Marine Drugs.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Silvia Scarpato, Alfonso Mangoni, Maria Valeria D’Auria, Gerardo Della Sala, Donatella de Pascale (2023). Enhanced Molecular Networking Shows <i>Microbacterium</i> sp. V1 as a Factory of Antioxidant Proline-Rich Peptides . Marine Drugs.

Vitale, G.A., January, G.G., Oppong-Danquah, E., Della Sala, G., Esposito, F.P., Tasdemir, D., de Pascale, D.(2023). A metabologenomics approach to unlock the metabolome of the novel Antarctic deep-sea isolate Lacinutrix shetlandiensis sp. nov. WUR7 . PNAS Nexus. 2. (7).

Vitale, G.A., Scarpato, S., Mangoni, A., D’Auria, M.V., Della Sala, G., de Pascale, D.(2023). Enhanced Molecular Networking Shows Microbacterium sp. V1 as a Factory of Antioxidant Proline-Rich Peptides . Marine Drugs. 21. (4).

Novel Insights on Pyoverdine: From Biosynthesis to Biotechnological Application <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=/servlet/useragent"> </head> . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Valeria Villanova, Christian Galasso, Gerardo Della Sala, Johan Engelbrektsson, Niklas Str&#246;mberg, Kashif Mohd Shaikh, Mats X. Andersson, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Susanne Ekendahl, et al. (2022). Mixotrophy in a Local Strain of Nannochloropsis granulata for Renewable High-Value Biomass Production on the West Coast of Sweden . Marine Drugs.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Valeria Villanova, Christian Galasso, Gerardo Della Sala, Johan Engelbrektsson, Niklas Str&#246;mberg, Kashif Mohd Shaikh, Mats X. Andersson, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Susanne Ekendahl, et al. (2022). Mixotrophy in a Local Strain of <i>Nannochloropsis</i> <i>granulata</i> for Renewable High-Value Biomass Production on the West Coast of Sweden . Marine Drugs.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Marzia Vasarri, Giovanna Cristina Varese, Emanuela Barletta, Maria Valeria D’Auria, Donatella de Pascale, Donatella Degl’Innocenti (2022). Dihydroauroglaucin Isolated from the Mediterranean Sponge Grantia compressa Endophyte Marine Fungus Eurotium chevalieri Inhibits Migration of Human Neuroblastoma Cells . Pharmaceutics.

Villanova, V., Galasso, C., Vitale, G.A., Della Sala, G., Engelbrektsson, J., Str&#246;mberg, N., Shaikh, K.M., Andersson, M.X., Esposito, F.P., Ekendahl, S., et al.(2022). Mixotrophy in a Local Strain of Nannochloropsis granulata for Renewable High-Value Biomass Production on the West Coast of Sweden . Marine Drugs. 20. (7).

Della Sala, G., Coppola, D., Virgili, R., Vitale, G.A., Tanduo, V., Teta, R., Crocetta, F., de Pascale, D.(2022). Untargeted Metabolomics Yields Insights Into the Lipidome of Botrylloides niger Herdman, 1886, An Ascidian Invading the Mediterranean Sea . Frontiers in Marine Science. 9.

Ausuri, J., Dell’Anno, F., Vitale, G.A., Palma Esposito, F., Funari, V., Franci, G., Galdiero, M., Della Sala, G., Tedesco, P., Coppola, D., et al.(2022). Bioremediation of Multiple Heavy Metals Mediated by Antarctic Marine Isolated Dietzia psychralcaliphila JI1D . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 10. (11).

Vasarri, M., Vitale, G.A., Varese, G.C., Barletta, E., D’auria, M.V., de Pascale, D., Degl’innocenti, D.(2022). Dihydroauroglaucin Isolated from the Mediterranean Sponge Grantia compressa Endophyte Marine Fungus Eurotium chevalieri Inhibits Migration of Human Neuroblastoma Cells . Pharmaceutics. 14. (3).

Dell’Anno, F., Vitale, G.A., Buonocore, C., Vitale, L., Palma Esposito, F., Coppola, D., Della Sala, G., Tedesco, P., de Pascale, D.(2022). Novel Insights on Pyoverdine: From Biosynthesis to Biotechnological Application . International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23. (19).

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Valerio Funari, Helena I. Gomes, Daniela Coppola, Enrico Dinelli, Donatella de Pascale, Marzia Rovere(2021). Opportunities and threats of selenium supply from unconventional and low-grade ores: A critical review . Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 170. p. 105593. Elsevier {BV}

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Carla Zannella, Rosa Giugliano, Annalisa Chianese, Carmine Buonocore, Giuseppina Sanna, Federica Sarno, Aldo Manzin, Angela Nebbioso, Pasquale Termolino, et al. (2021). Antiviral Activity of Vitis vinifera Leaf Extract against SARS-CoV-2 and HSV-1 . Viruses.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Carla Zannella, Rosa Giugliano, Annalisa Chianese, Carmine Buonocore, Giuseppina Sanna, Federica Sarno, Aldo Manzin, Angela Nebbioso, Pasquale Termolino, et al. (2021). Antiviral Activity of <i>Vitis vinifera</i> Leaf Extract against SARS-CoV-2 and HSV-1 . Viruses.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Pietro Tedesco, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Antonio Masino, Emiliana Tortorella, Annarita Poli, Barbara Nicolaus, Leonardo Joaquim van Zyl, Marla Trindade, Donatella de Pascale (2021). Isolation and Characterization of Strain Exiguobacterium sp. KRL4, a Producer of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from a Tibetan Glacier . Microorganisms.

Funari, V., Gomes, H.I., Coppola, D., Vitale, G.A., Dinelli, E., de Pascale, D., Rovere, M.(2021). Opportunities and threats of selenium supply from unconventional and low-grade ores: A critical review . Resources, Conservation and Recycling. 170.

Ausuri, J., Vitale, G.A., Coppola, D., Esposito, F.P., Buonocore, C., de Pascale, D.(2021). Assessment of the degradation potential and genomic insights towards phenanthrene by dietzia psychralcaliphila ji1d . Microorganisms. 9. (6).

Esposito, F.P., Giugliano, R., Sala, G.D., Vitale, G.A., Buonocore, C., Ausuri, J., Galasso, C., Coppola, D., Franci, G., Galdiero, M., et al.(2021). Combining osmac approach and untargeted metabolomics for the identification of new glycolipids with potent antiviral activity produced by a marine rhodococcus . International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22. (16).

Tedesco, P., Palma Esposito, F., Masino, A., Vitale, G.A., Tortorella, E., Poli, A., Nicolaus, B., van Zyl, L.J., Trindade, M., de Pascale, D.(2021). Isolation and characterization of strain exiguobacterium sp. Krl4, a producer of bioactive secondary metabolites from a tibetan glacier . Microorganisms. 9. (5).

Zannella, C., Giugliano, R., Chianese, A., Buonocore, C., Vitale, G.A., Sanna, G., Sarno, F., Manzin, A., Nebbioso, A., Termolino, P., et al.(2021). Antiviral activity of vitis vinifera leaf extract against sars-cov-2 and hsv-1 . Viruses. 13. (7).

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Daniela Coppola, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Carmine Buonocore, Janardhan Ausuri, Emiliana Tortorella, Donatella de Pascale(2020). Antioxidant Molecules from Marine Fungi: Methodologies and Perspectives . Antioxidants. 9. (12). p. 1183. {MDPI} {AG}

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Martina Sciarretta, Chiara Cassiano, Carmine Buonocore, Carmen Festa, Valerio Mazzella, Laura N&#250;&#241;ez Pons, Maria Valeria D’Auria, Donatella de Pascale(2020). Molecular Network and Culture Media Variation Reveal a Complex Metabolic Profile in Pantoea cf. eucrina D2 Associated with an Acidified Marine Sponge . International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21. (17). p. 6307. {MDPI} {AG}

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Carmine Buonocore, Pietro Tedesco, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Rosa Giugliano, Maria Chiara Monti, Maria Valeria D’Auria, Donatella de Pascale (2020). Characterization of a New Mixture of Mono-Rhamnolipids Produced by Pseudomonas gessardii Isolated from Edmonson Point (Antarctica) . Marine Drugs.

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Daniela Coppola, Maria Oliviero, Chiara Lauritano, Isabella D’Ambra, Salvatore Iannace, Donatella de Pascale (2020). Marine Collagen from Alternative and Sustainable Sources: Extraction, Processing and Applications . Marine Drugs.

Vitale, G.A., Coppola, D., Esposito, F.P., Buonocore, C., Ausuri, J., Tortorella, E., de Pascale, D.(2020). Antioxidant molecules from marine fungi: Methodologies and perspectives . Antioxidants. 9. (12). p. 1-35.

Vitale, G.A., Sciarretta, M., Palma Esposito, F., January, G.G., Giaccio, M., Bunk, B., Spr&#246;er, C., Bajerski, F., Power, D., Festa, C., et al.(2020). Genomics-Metabolomics Profiling Disclosed Marine Vibrio spartinae 3.6 as a Producer of a New Branched Side Chain Prodigiosin . Journal of Natural Products. 83. (5). p. 1495-1504.

Vitale, G.A., Sciarretta, M., Cassiano, C., Buonocore, C., Festa, C., Mazzella, V., Pons, L.N., D’auria, M.V., de Pascale, D.(2020). Molecular network and culture media variation reveal a complex metabolic profile in pantoea cf. Eucrina d2 associated with an acidified marine sponge . International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21. (17). p. 1-18.

Buonocore, C., Tedesco, P., Vitale, G.A., Esposito, F.P., Giugliano, R., Monti, M.C., D&#39;Auria, M.V., de Pascale, D.(2020). Characterization of a new mixture of mono-rhamnolipids produced by pseudomonas gessardii isolated from edmonson point (antarctica) . Marine Drugs. 18. (5).

Coppola, D., Oliviero, M., Vitale, G.A., Lauritano, C., D’Ambra, I., Iannace, S., de Pascale, D.(2020). Marine collagen from alternative and sustainable sources: Extraction, processing and applications . Marine Drugs. 18. (4).

PREPRINT

Giovanni Andrea Vitale, Annika E. Esch, Dana C. Schneider, Alena Str&#252;der, Gabriel Castro-Falcon, Maximilian Knab, Grant S. Seiler, Tadeusz F. Molinski, Daniel Petras, Evi Stegmann, et al. (2025). Designer tetrazine probes for chemical labeling of isocyanide-containing natural products .

OTHER

Shahneh, M.R.Z., Strobel, M., Vitale, G.A., Geibel, C., Abiead, Y.E., Garg, N., Aron, A.T., Phelan, V.V., Petras, D., Wang, M.(2024). ModiFinder: Tandem Mass Spectral Alignment Enables Structural Modification Site Localization . bioRxiv.

Pakkir Shah, A.K., Walter, A., Ottosson, F., Russo, F., Navarro-Diaz, M., Boldt, J., Kalinski, J.-C.J., Kontou, E.E., Elofson, J., Polyzois, A., et al.(2023). The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Statistical Analysis of Feature-based Molecular Networks from Non-Targeted Metabolomics Data . ChemRxiv.