Monica De Caroli is a technician at the Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy. She graduated in Biological Sciences at the Università del Salento and received PhD in “Biology and Biotecnology” at the Università del Salento. She was awarded with the SBI (Società Botanica Italiana) prize best PhD thesis for year 2007. The research has been focused in plant cell biology, in particular on the study of the secretion mechanisms of cell wall proteins. She has a good expertise on construction of fluorescent protein, confocal scanning microscope observations and tabacco and Arabidopsis transformation techniques.