Curriculum

Current academic position:

  • Associate Professor SSD VET/05 (Infectious Animal Diseases) at the Department of Veterinary Medicine University of Bari Aldo Moro

 

Titles:

  • Degree in Medical Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine at the University of Bari Aldo Moro on 23.3.2011;
  • Qualification to practice as a biologist (I session 2011);
  • II level Master in Bioinformatics and Molecular Epidemiology techniques applied to Infectious Diseases achieved on 13.7.2012 at the Association of Environmental Biologists of Puglia (ABAP) – Bari.
  • Research internship for the characterization of enteric viruses of human and animal origin through the use of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and data analysis through the use of bioinformatics tools at the Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Center for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary from 29.03.2013 to 03.07.2013
  • Research internship for the analysis of NGS data from Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machines and use of terminal-based methods for mapping and assembling sequence data with reference-guided and de novo approaches at the Department of Veterinary Sciences, University of Studies of Turin, Turin, Italy from 09.11.2015 to 20.11.2015
  • PhD in "Animal health and zoonoses" with Doctor Europaeus label (XXVIII Cycle) achieved on 09.05.2016 at the Department of Veterinary Medicine - Section of Infectious Diseases;
  • Valid national scientific qualification for the functions of associate professor, pursuant to art. 16 of Law 240/2010, for the competition sector 07/H3 - infectious and parasitic diseases of animals achieved on 27.3.2018;
  • Master in statistics for biomedical research: from the clinical question to data analysis achieved at the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology University of Bari on 08.11.2019;
  • National scientific qualification for the functions of full professor, currently valid, pursuant to art. 16 of Law 240/2010, for the competition sector 07/H3 - infectious and parasitic diseases of animals achieved on 06.03.2021.

                 

Institutional assignments:

  • Member of the Animal Welfare Body (OPBA) of the University of Bari with the role of Scientific Member (D.R. n.2609 of 05.29.2019) and subsequent renewal of the role of Scientific Member (D.R. n.4571 of 12.20. 2022) (from 2019 to present).
  • Member of the Academic Board of the School of Specialization in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari. From 2018 to today.
  • Head of the Molecular Biology laboratory 3 of the Infectious Diseases section of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari former Faculty (from 2018 to present).
  • Member of the Academic Board of the Research Doctorate School in "Animal Health and Zoonoses" from the XXXIII cycle (from 2019 to today);
  • Member of the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari Aldo Moro with the role of Scientific Member (CdD of 17.12.2020) (from 2020 to today);
  • Member of the Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation of the Department of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Bari Aldo Moro with the role of President (CdD of 27.10.2021) (from 2021 to today);
  • Representative of the Department of Veterinary Medicine for the Interdepartmental Center for Risk Analysis and Management in Health and Environmental Emergencies (C.I.R.S.A.) for the development of planning and research paths on topics related to the prevention and management of health and environmental emergencies of a microbiological and chemical nature (CdD of 09.19.2022). 
  • External referee for GEV07 for the VQR 2015-2019.

Teaching assignments:

I and II level degree courses

  • Molecular virology as part of the Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology course integrated with molecular virology (60 hours) - of the three-year degree course in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (L2) at the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Years 2019/2020-2020/2021);
  • Molecular virology as part of the Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology course integrated with molecular virology (104 hours) - of the three-year degree course in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (L2) at the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Year 2021/2022);
  • Molecular microbiology and virology as part of the Hygiene course integrated with Molecular Microbiology and Virology (104 hours) - of the Three-year Degree course in Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (L2) at the Department of Biosciences, Biotechnologies and the Environment of the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Year 2022/2023).

Specialization schools

  • Head of Internship Teaching Activities at the School of Specialization in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Year 2017/2018);
  • Molecular Biology 3 at the School of Specialization in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" (50 hours) of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Years 2018/2019-2019/2020-2020/2021);
  • Molecular Biology 3 at the School of Specialization in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" (40 hours) of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Year 2021/2022);
  • Molecular biology at the School of Specialization in "Infectious Diseases, Prophylaxis and Veterinary Police" (40 hours) of the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Academic Year 2022/2023);

PhD School

  • Molecular biology applied to infectious diseases at the PhD School in "Animal Health and Zoonosis" (20 hours) of the Department of Veterinary Medicine University of Bari Aldo Moro (from 2019 to present)

Coordination and participation in research projects

  • Operating Unit member for the project "Metagenomic approach to the diagnosis of viral gastroenteritis in dogs". Current research 2015 Ministry of Health (lead institution Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale di Puglia e Basilicata).
  • Operating unit member of the project "Improving understanding of autochthonous hepatitis E transmission routes: a focus on foodborne and waterborne pathways (FOOD-WAT-HEV)". Finalized Research 2018 under the RF-2018-12365399 Program.
  • Operational unit component of the project: "Hepatotropic viruses with zoonotic potential and Toxoplasma gondii in wild boar and pig meat produced for private domestic consumption". Current Research 2019 within the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute Program of the South 05/19 RC
  • Operational unit manager of the project "HEV risk assessment: study of foods potentially involved in zoonotic transmission". Current Research 2019 within the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute Program of Puglia and Basilicata 03/19 RC.
  • Operational unit member of the project "New gastroenteric viruses of dogs and cats: development of NGS protocols for zoonotic risk assessment". Current Research 2018 in the context of the Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Southern Italy IZS ME 02/18 RC.
  • Operating unit component of the international project funded by the British government entitled: "Coronavirus inactivation using activated carbon-based filtering media" (2020-2021)
  • Operational unit manager of the project "The safe resumption of face-to-face teaching in the time of COVID: SCOOP Precision CONtainment Strategies". HORIZON EUROPE SEEDS 2022.
  • Head of operating unit and substitute PI of the project "Investigating Hepatotropic Viruses in carnivores and humans in a One Health perspective (HVOH)" Call PRIN 2022 Prot. 2022EPP2TT

Acknowledgments

  • Award for the best scientific contribution at the 18th WAVLD International Symposium of the World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians held in Sorrento (NA), on 07-10 June 2017. The award was assigned for the oral communication “Identification of a novel parvovirus related to primate bufaviruses and associated with CIRD in dogs”.
  • Prize for the scientific activity at the XVIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Diagnostics of the Veterinary Laboratory (SiDiLV) held in Perugia, Italy on 7 - 9 November 2018. The prize was awarded for publication in a peer-reviewed journal (Emerg Infect Dis., Doi: 10.3201 / eid2406.171965) of the abstract presented as oral communication at the 18th WAVLD - International Symposium of the World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnostics Sorrento.
  • Prize for the scientific activity at the XIX National Congress of the Italian Society of Diagnostics of the Veterinary Laboratory (SiDiLV) held in Matera, Italy on 23 - 25 October 2019. The prize was awarded for publication in a peer-reviewed journal (Res in Vet Sci., Doi: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2019.08.019) of the abstract presented as a poster at the XVIII National Congress of the Italian Society of Diagnostics of the Veterinary Laboratory (SiDiLV) Perugia.
  • "Luria Award" for the best scientific contribution at the 5th National Congress of the Italian Society for Virology SIV-ISV Congress held online, on 5-6 July 2021. The prize was awarded for the oral communication "Hepadnavirus in cats: the discovery of a human hepatitis B-like virus”
  • Prize for scientific activity at the XX National Congress of the Italian Society of Diagnostics of the Veterinary Laboratory (SiDiLV) held online on November 25-26, 2021. The prize was awarded for publication in a peer-reviewed journal (BMC Vet Res. , doi: 10.1186/s12917-020-02325-3) of the abstract presented as poster at the XIX National Congress of the Italian Society of Diagnostics of the Veterinary Laboratory (SiDiLV) Perugia.

 

Referee for Italian and non-Italian institutions and for various scientific journals, including Veterinary Sciences, Frontiers in veterinary sciences, Microorganisms, Viruses, Journal of virological methods, Infection genetics and evolution, Transboundary and emerging diseases, Journal of general virology, Acta tropica, Frontiers in microbiology, Plos one. Guest editor of Animals magazine for the special issue “Novel Insights into Companion Animals Virus: Infection and Therapy” (2022 to present)

Author and/or co-author of 99 publications in international peer-reviewed journals (of which 11 on Veterinary microbiology, 10 on Research in veterinary science, 9 on Animals (Basel), 9 on Transboundary and emerging diseases, 6 on Virus research, 4 in Emerging infectious diseases, 2 in The veterinary journal, 1 in Lancet Microbe, 1 in Eurosurveillance). As of August 2023, his works have received a total of 1193 citations. The H index (Scopus) is 19.

  The main research areas include the study of human and animal enteric viruses and hepatotropic viruses of veterinary interest. Research topics are centered on viral agents with particular reference to zoonotic implications and virus discovery.

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pubblicato il 31/10/2013 — ultima modifica 04/09/2023