With a PhD on microbial genomics applied to Food Safety at the University of Bologna (Italy), and a post-doc on genomic surveillance of bacterial foodborne pathogens, Federica PALMA specialised in phenotypic and genotypic characterisation of bacterial foodborne pathogens, genomic taxonomy and applied bioinformatics.
- Since September 2020: scientific project manager at the Biological Resources Center of Institut Pasteur (CRBIP, Paris) on the strategic development and curation of “BIGSdb-Pasteur“, the genomic taxonomy platform for public health microbiology and integrated pathogens surveillance, i.e. Klebsiella pneumoniae.
- 2018-2020: postdoctoral fellow at the Salmonella and Listeria Unit of the French agency for food safety, ANSES (Maisons-Alfort) on applied genomic methods to study (i) L. monocytogenes persistence, cold adaption and antimicrobials resistance, (ii) monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium source attribution, and (iii) outbreak detection. [Funding: EU project COMPARE and One Health European Joint Programme ListAdapt]
- 2014-2018: PhD student at the UNIBO (Italy) on genomic surveillance of foodborne pathogens persisting along the food chain, i.e., Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica. [Funding: EU project COMPARE; Collaboration: EFSA co-funded project INNUENDO]
