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Latest happenings in the lab
Welcome intern students - Eugenio, Alessia and Giulia
We warmly welcome Eugenio, Alessia and Giulia who started their internship with us. Eugenio will be working with the mosquito team helping out in the insectary, while Alessia and Giulia will be following the malaria and microbiome projects in the lab....
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Master's Thesis Graduation - Chiara
Congratulations to our Master's thesis student, Chiara, who successfully defended her thesis and graduated! We wish you all the best for your future endeavors.
Experimental evidence of male-male interaction in laboratory swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes - preprint published in bioRxiv
We are pleased to announce that we and our close collaborators from CNR - Institute for Complex Systems (Rome) have published our preprint paper, Experimental evidence of male-male interaction in laboratory swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, in bi...
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Master's Thesis Graduation - Alessio, Nicol and Mario
Congratulations to our Master's thesis students - Alessio, Nicol and Mario - who successfully defended their thesis and graduated! We wish you all the best for your future endeavors.
Public outreach - SHARPER Night 2025
In this year's edition of the SHARPER European Researcher's Night we highlighted the growing threat of mosquitoes as vectors of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya, malaria, and West Nile virus. Young children got to learn about the mosquito life cycl...
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Public outreach - Pre-SHARPER event 2025
Our lab was one of seven participating in the Pre-SHARPER event "Conquering the Researcher's Passport". In this event, we open our labs to students of the 4th year of scientific high school (Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei, Perugia) to give them an e...
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VENERE Symposium
Alicia Y. W. Wong, Melania Ligato, and Celine Alami presented their work at the Symposium on Novel Experimental Models in Biomedical Research (VENERE) on 15 September 2025 at the beautiful and historical Sala dei Notari, Perugia. Alicia Y. W. Wong - D...
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Microbial Signatures in Breast Cancer: Exploring New Potentials Across Body Niches, published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Our review article, Microbial Signatures in Breast Cancer: Exploring New Potentials Across Body Niches, has been published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences! Link to publication Breast cancer is one of the most frequently diagnosed malign...
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PhD thesis defense - Martina and Fiorenza
Congratulations to our newly minted PhDs, Martina and Fiorenza!
Welcome Chiara!
We warmly welcome Chiara Fabianelli to our lab to work with the mosquito team in the maintenance of our mosquito colonies
PhD thesis defence - Giulia
Congratulations to our newly minted PhD, Giulia!
Welcome Master's internship student - Chiara
Welcome Celine!
We warmly welcome Celine Alami, PhD student in the Experimental Medicine and Therapies programme (Dept of Medicine and Surgery, UniPG), to our lab.
Bachelor's thesis defense and graduation - Congratulations to Teresa and Alessia!
Public outreach - SHARPER European Researcher's Night 2024
In this year's edition of the SHARPER European Researcher's Night we highlighted the growing threat of mosquitoes as vectors of diseases such as dengue, malaria, and West Nile virus, and explained how the insect-endosymbiont bacteria Wolbachia is used ...
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SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Evolution: A Focus on Omicron Variants in Umbria, Italy published in Microorganisms.
Our study, SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Evolution: A Focus on Omicron Variants in Umbria, Italy, has been published in Microorganisms! Link to publication In this study, 3,300 COVID-19 samples from Umbria, Italy, collected between April 2022 and December 2023...
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PhD thesis defence - Gloria and Max
Congratulations to our newly minted PhDs, Gloria and Max!
ORGANOMICROLIFE receives funding from the Fondo di Ateneo 2023 grant applications
We are pleased to announce that we and our collaborators for ORGANOMICROLIFE have received funding from the Fondo di Ateneo 2023 grant applications. ORGANOMICROLIFE is a multidepartimental project that aims to develop an innovative organoid and tumoro...
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BARRIO receives funding from the PRIN 2022 grant applications
Great news! We and our collaborators for BARRIO have received funding from the PRIN 2022 grant applications. BARRIO is a project involving close collaboration between University of Perugia (Università degli Studi di Perugia) and the Perugia Hospital (...
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News feature on Rai News
We and our Rome collaborators were mentioned in an article published on Rai News highlighting our latest publication in Scientific Reports "Characterization of lab-based swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using 3D-video tracking. (Link)