Staff technician at the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences since 2005. The main research activities include genomic characterization of viruses, molecular phylogeny, study of in vitro pathogenesis and development of molecular diagnostic procedures. The studies in which she has participated so far have focused mainly on epitheliotropic viruses of domestic and wild ruminants such as Poxvirus, some of which are zoonotic, and Papillomavirus, other viruses such as Pestivirus of bovine viral diarrhea and Lentivirus of sheep and goats. She also studied the antiviral activity of synthetic and natural compounds both in vivo and in vitro. Currently she is working on Diagnostic of infectious disease of companion animals.
Education
Graduated in Veterinary Biotechnology in 2002 at the University of Bologna where she obtained her PhD in "Epidemiology and Control of Zoonoses" in 2008.
Scientific activity
She has participated in numerous national and international research programs including: several projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Health, Department of Food, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health in collaboration with the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institutes of Lombardy and Emilia Romagna and Sicily; the European project "POC 4 PET" within the Seventh Framework Programme; the project of the Emilia Romagna Region (Regional Ethics Committee) "Development of alternative methods for the evaluation of the efficacy of antiviral molecules"; the project of the University of Bologna "FARB feasibility studies, Identification of animal models for Papillomavirus carcinogenesis".
In 2018 she was awarded an ERASMUS+ KA107 - International Credit Mobility 2017/18 (Pretoria , South Africa) for "Training on biomolecular diagnostics of skin zoonoses, acquisition of expertise for the identification of Bacillus anthracis, sharing and transfer of diagnostic protocols".
In 2018 she was awarded an ERASMUS+ STT (Staff Mobility for Training) KA1 grant for the activity "Training on applications of metagenomics in virology" at Uppsala (Sweden).
In 2002 she spent five months of research at the Virus Research Unit, Department of Microbiology, Otago University (Dunedin, New Zealand) taking advantage of a scholarship for in-depth thesis from Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna. During this period, methods for the creation of deletion mutants were acquired, in particular a deletion mutant of the F1L gene of orf virus was produced; molecular biology techniques were also acquired and perfected.
Teaching activities
Since 2019 she has been teaching within the specialty school 8361-Animal Health, Animal Breeding and Zootechnical Production, the course "DIAGNOSTICS OF TRANSMISSIBLE DISEASES (C.I.) [cod. 89022] - BIOMOLECOLAR DIAGNOSTICS OF INFECTIVE DISEASES - Professionalizing [cod. 89145]"
She obtained the National Scientific Qualification in the 07/H3-Infectious and parasitic diseases of animals sector (September 14, 2017).
Other Activities
Since February 2022 she has been a local safety officer for the Department of Veterinary Medical Science.
She acts as Internal Auditor for the Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences which is certified according to UNI EN ISO 9001.
Inventor of the Patent “Therapeutic paints comprising sucralfate gel for treating skin and mucosal lesions”. PCT EP2008064528 926 PTWO. together with Colombo G., Colombo P., Sonvico F., Scagliarini A. (24-7-2015).
