Prof.ssa

TURRONI Francesca

Professore di II fascia
Settore scientifico disciplinare
Microbiologia
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Academic achievements:

-from May 2019, Associate Professor in Microbiology, University of Parma, Italy.

 

-2015-2019, Assistant Professor in Microbiology (RTD type B), University of Parma, Italy.

 

Recognition and Awards:

 

-February 2014, FEMS-ASM Mäkelä-Cassell Grant. It is a FEMS-ASM Exchange Program.

 

-2013, FEMS Jensen Award 2013, the award is intended to recognise academic achievement and superior research accomplishments.

 

-2009, Short Term Fellowship founded by CIB for a training period of six months at University of California, Davis, USA.

 

-2008, Student Travel Grant Award from ASM for the participation at ASM 108th General Meeting, Boston, June 1-5, 2008.

 

Selected other career details:

 

She is a member of the editorial board of the following scientific journals:

 

-BMC Microbiology (Associate Editor).

-Frontiers in Food Microbiology (review Editor)

-Frontiers in Microbiology (Associate and Topic Editor)

-Microbiology (Topic Editor)

 

She is a member of the Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnology (SIMGBM) and of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).

 

Received Grants and Fellowship

From 2010 Dr. Turroni has been co-investigator or principal investigator in several research projects based on public (National Ministry of Research, Research Council of Ireland, Federation of European Microbiological Societies).

 

Achievements in technology transfer:

 

2011-Membership as Scientific Partner of the Academic Spin Off "GenProbio srl.". The mission of GenProbio is the developing of new probiotic bacteria for food- and pharmaceutical- industries (www.genprobio.com).

 

Research activities:

 

The research expertise of the applicant covers a number of different topics, all related to bifidobacteria and LAB species:

-Genomics of probiotic bacteria (probiogenomics);

-Functional genomics of intestinal commensal bacteria;

-Host-microbe interactions in the human gut;

-Functional genomics of stress responce in bacteria;

-Investigation of the biology of bacteriophage of LAB.

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Anno accademico di erogazione: 2024/2025

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2023/2024

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2022/2023

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2021/2022

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2020/2021

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2019/2020

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2018/2019

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2017/2018

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2016/2017

Anno accademico di erogazione: 2015/2016

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Phone number
906644 (ufficio) ,905666 (laboratorio)
Office location
Campus Scienze e Tecnologie - Padiglione 02 - Plesso di Bioscienze
Parco Area delle Scienze, 11/A
43124 PARMA