I graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Bologna in 2015. Before starting my PhD, I worked for the Italian health authority and research organization for animal health and food safety (IZSVe). In 2021, I was awarded a PhD in Infectious Diseases at the University of Glasgow. My research interests include bacterial stain taxonomy, implementation of Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing for genomic typing, and genomic mechanisms of host-adaptation in zoonotic pathogens, such as Corynebacterium ulcerans and Streptococcus agalactiae, also known as Group B Streptococcus.
I currently work as project manager of KlebNET-GSP at the BEBP unit at Institut Pasteur, and I am involved in the research activities of the French NRC for Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae complex. I am actively involved as organizer and instructor of multiple training courses on bacterial genomics and WGS with Oxford Nanopore, and I am co-manager of the Nanopore User Group at Institut Pasteur since 2022.
