I am currently leading the Insect Immunity & Infection group within the Virology Department and the Insect-Virus Interactions Unit. Our primary focus is to understand interactions between Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and the arboviruses they […]
Intravital imaging of iRFP-expressing Neisseria meningitidis vascular colonization. Bacteria rapidly bind to the human endothelium (UEA-1 lectin, grey) and locally proliferate. At 6 hours post-infection, the 3D-rendering shows the complete colonization of the human […]
I received my PhD from Sapienza-University of Rome (Italy) in 2014. I investigated the regulation of HLA-E molecule expression during the monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation process as well as their role in the crosstalk between mononuclear […]
