Targeting KPC-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms: Genomic profiles, clinical outcomes and novel combinations

Chiara Papalini, Giulia Bicchieraro, Luigi Tordelli Ruda, Alicia Yoke Wei Wong, Claudia Battistelli, Giovanni Genga, Andrea Tommasi, Anna Gidari, Daniela Francisci, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Roberta Spaccapelo, Donatella Pietrella, Antonella Mencacci, Claudia Monari, Samuele Sabbatini

Microorganisms, vol. 14, MDPI AG, 2026 Aug, p. 1790

JNK signaling regulates reproductive trade-offs after Plasmodium infection in the malaria mosquito

Max Lombardi, Anastasia Accoti, Paolo Scarpelli, Gloria Iacomelli, Lucia Pazzagli, Antonella Turco, Giulia Monacchia, Simona Ferracchiato, Tasneem A Rinvee, Duo Peng, Charles Vidoudez, W Robert Shaw, Flaminia Catteruccia, Roberta Spaccapelo, Matthew J Peirce

Commun. Biol., Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2026 Aug

Just another white-striped mosquito? A scoping review and group discussion synthesis on Aedes koreicus in Europe

Giovanni Marini, Maria Vittoria Mancini, Claudia Damiani, Kornèlia Kurucz, Alessandro Albieri, Daniele Arnoldi, Romina Bahrami, Giulia Battistin, Margo Blaha, Davide Bonetto, Lidia Iustina Danca, Sofia Di Castri, Carmela Di Santo, Kamil Erguler, Nicola Ferrari, Eleonora Flacio, Alessandra Franceschini, Daniel Gingell, Federica Gobbo, Francesco Gradoni, Annalisa Grisendi, Ayda Khorramnejad, Eleonora Longo, Mattia Manica, Mario Marinozzi, Cedric Marsboom, Stefania Melillo, Fabrizio Montarsi, Moh Mirza Nuryady, Francesca Paoli, Roberto Rosà, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Mara Scremin, Tanto Situmorang, Davide Sogliani, Roberta Spaccapelo, Wim Van Bortel, Rodolfo Veronesi, Patrizia Visentin, Valeria Lencioni, Daniele Da Re

Acta Trop., Elsevier BV, 2026 Aug, p. 108302

Experimental evidence of male-male interaction in laboratory swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

Gloria Iacomelli, Max Lombardi, Leonardo Parisi, Matteo Fiorini, Francesca Grucci, Alessio Lavorgna, Melania Ligato, Gaetano Zarcone, Matthew J Peirce, Stefania Melillo, Roberta Spaccapelo

Sci Rep, 2026 Jul

Tracking kdr alleles associated with pyrethroid resistance in Aedes albopictus across Italy: a nationwide genotypic dataset by MosqIRIT network

Carlo Maria De Marco, Verena Pichler, Federica Gobbo, Sara Manzi, Eleonora Rosso, Federica Toniolo, Elena Carra, Angelica Petrella, Annalisa Grisendi, Francesco Defilippo, Carlotta Tessarolo, Elisabetta Ercole, Annalisa Accorsi, Andrea Mosca, Filippo Cassina, Marco Di Domenico, Valeria Di Lollo, Matteo De Ascentis, Silvio Gerardo D'Alessio, Ilaria Congiu, Valentina Donati, Valeria Carioti, Fahimeh Bandieinia, Stefano Gavaudan, Cristina Canonico, Guido Favia, Francesca Racciatti, Roberta Spaccapelo, Celine Alami, Claudio de Martinis, Alessia Pucciarelli, Gerardo Picazio, Maurizio Viscardi, Loredana Capozzi, Maria Grazia Cariglia, Luana Violante, Cipriano Foxi, Daniele Dedola, Valentina Sini, Luca Ruiu, Alessia Vinci, Silvia Scibetta, Eugenia Oliveri, Stefano Reale, Maria Liliana Di Pasquale, Sara Villari, Beniamino Caputo, Alessandra Della Torre

GigaByte, vol. 2026, 2026 Jul, pp. gigabyte185

Microbial Signatures in Breast Cancer: Exploring New Potentials Across Body Niches

Alicia Yoke Wei Wong, Giulia Bicchieraro, Isabella Palumbo, Antonella Ciabattoni, Cynthia Aristei, Roberta Spaccapelo

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 26, 2025

One-Year Monitoring of the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Subvariants Through Wastewater Analysis (Central Italy, August 2023–July 2024)

Alessandra Nappo, Maya Petricciuolo, Giulia Berno, Agnese Carnevali, Cesare Ernesto Maria Gruber, Giulia Bicchieraro, Roberta Spaccapelo, Martina Rueca, Fabrizio Carletti, Pietro Giorgio Spezia, Carolina Veneri, Giuseppina La Rosa, Elisabetta Suffredini, Daniele Focosi, Giovanni Chillemi, Ermanno Federici, Fabrizio Maggi

Life, vol. 15, 2025

Electrophysiological Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Envelope Protein in U251 Human Glioblastoma Cells: Possible Implications in Gliomagenesis?

Lorenzo Monarca, Francesco Ragonese, Andrea Biagini, Paola Sabbatini, Matteo Pacini, Alessandro Zucchi, Roberta Spaccapelo, Paola Ferrari, Andrea Nicolini, Bernard Fioretti

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 25, 2024 Jun, p. 6669

SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Evolution: A Focus on Omicron Variants in Umbria, Italy

Giulia Bicchieraro, Raffaella Ciurnelli, Alessandro Graziani, Alicia Yoke Wei Wong, Barbara Camilloni, Antonella Mencacci, Roberta Spaccapelo

Microorganisms, vol. 12, 2024 Jun, p. 1330

A microbially produced AhR ligand promotes a Tph1-driven tolerogenic program in multiple sclerosis

Teresa Zelante, Giuseppe Paolicelli, Francesca Fallarino, Marco Gargaro, Gianluca Vascelli, Marco De Zuani, Jan Fric, Petra Laznickova, Marcela Hortova Kohoutkova, Antonio Macchiarulo, Daniela Dolciami, Giuseppe Pieraccini, Lorenzo Gaetani, Giulia Scalisi, Caterina Trevisan, Barbara Frossi, Carlo Pucillo, Antonella De Luca, Emilia Nunzi, Roberta Spaccapelo, Marilena Pariano, Monica Borghi, Francesca Boscaro, Riccardo Romoli, Andrea Mancini, Lucia Gentili, Giorgia Renga, Claudio Costantini, Matteo Puccetti, Stefano Giovagnoli, Maurizio Ricci, Martina Antonini, Paolo Calabresi, Paolo Puccetti, Massimiliano Di Filippo, Luigina Romani

Scientific Reports, vol. 14, 2024 Mar, p. 6651

Tripartite interactions comprising yeast-endobacteria systems in the gut of vector mosquitoes

Alessia Cappelli, Claudia Damiani, Aida Capone, Jovana Bozic, Priscilla Mensah, Emanuela Clementi, Roberta Spaccapelo, Guido Favia, Irene Ricci

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 14, 2023, p. 1157299

Anopheline mosquito saliva contains bacteria that are transferred to a mammalian host through blood feeding

Anastasia Accoti, Claudia Damiani, Emilia Nunzi, Alessia Cappelli, Gloria Iacomelli, Giulia Monacchia, Antonella Turco, Francesco D'Alò, Matthew J. Peirce, Guido Favia, Roberta Spaccapelo

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 14, 2023, p. 1157613

Impaired neutralizing antibody efficacy of tixagevimab-cilgavimab 150+150 mg as pre-exposure prophylaxis against Omicron BA.5. A real-world experience in booster vaccinated immunocompromised patients

Elisabetta Schiaroli, Anna Gidari, Giovanni Brachelente, Giulia Bicchieraro, Roberta Spaccapelo, Sabrina Bastianelli, Sara Pierucci, Chiara Busti, Carlo Pallotto, Lisa Malincarne, Barbara Camilloni, Flavio Falcinelli, Giuseppe Vittorio De Socio, Alfredo Villa, Antonella Mencacci, Daniela Francisci

Journal of Clinical Virology: The Official Publication of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology, vol. 168, 2023 Nov, p. 105584

Characterization of lab-based swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using 3D-video tracking

Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Michela Anna Gucciardino, Gloria Iacomelli, Max Lombardi, Stefania Melillo, Giulia Monacchia, Leonardo Parisi, Matthew J. Peirce, Roberta Spaccapelo

Scientific Reports, vol. 13, 2023 May, p. 8745

Immediate reinfection with Omicron variant after clearance of a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection

Antonella Mencacci, Alessio Gili, Barbara Camilloni, Giulia Bicchieraro, Roberta Spaccapelo, Carla Bietta, Fabrizio Stracci

Journal of Infection and Public Health, vol. 15, 2022 Sep, pp. 983--985

Hitting the right note at the right time: Circadian control of audibility in Anopheles mosquito mating swarms is mediated by flight tones

Jason Somers, Marcos Georgiades, Matthew P. Su, Judit Bagi, Marta Andrés, Alexandros Alampounti, Gordon Mills, Watson Ntabaliba, Sarah J. Moore, Roberta Spaccapelo, Joerg T. Albert

Science Advances, vol. 8, 2022 Jan, pp. eabl4844

Pharyngeal Microbial Signatures Are Predictive of the Risk of Fungal Pneumonia in Hematologic Patients

Claudio Costantini, Emilia Nunzi, Angelica Spolzino, Melissa Palmieri, Giorgia Renga, Teresa Zelante, Lukas Englmaier, Katerina Coufalikova, Zdeněk Spáčil, Monica Borghi, Marina M. Bellet, Enzo Acerbi, Matteo Puccetti, Stefano Giovagnoli, Roberta Spaccapelo, Vincenzo N. Talesa, Giuseppe Lomurno, Francesco Merli, Luca Facchini, Antonio Spadea, Lorella Melillo, Katia Codeluppi, Francesco Marchesi, Gessica Marchesini, Daniela Valente, Giulia Dragonetti, Gianpaolo Nadali, Livio Pagano, Franco Aversa, Luigina Romani

Infection and Immunity, vol. 89, 2021 Jul, pp. e0010521

Comparison of two human organoid models of lung and intestinal inflammation reveals Toll-like receptor signalling activation and monocyte recruitment

Shyam Sushama Jose, Marco De Zuani, Federico Tidu, Marcela Hortová Kohoutková, Lucia Pazzagli, Giancarlo Forte, Roberta Spaccapelo, Teresa Zelante, Jan Frič

Clinical \& Translational Immunology, vol. 9, 2020 May, pp. e1131

Sulforaphane-Loaded Ultradeformable Vesicles as A Potential Natural Nanomedicine for the Treatment of Skin Cancer Diseases

Maria Chiara Cristiano, Francesca Froiio, Roberta Spaccapelo, Antonia Mancuso, Steven P. Nisticò, Betty P. Udongo, Massimo Fresta, Donatella Paolino

Pharmaceutics, vol. 12, 2019 Dec, p. 6

Large-cage assessment of a transgenic sex-ratio distortion strain on populations of an African malaria vector

Luca Facchinelli, Ace R. North, C. Matilda Collins, Miriam Menichelli, Tania Persampieri, Alessandro Bucci, Roberta Spaccapelo, Andrea Crisanti, Mark Q. Benedict

Parasites & Vectors, vol. 12, 2019 Feb, p. 70