Light signalling and plant adaptation to the environment

As sessile photoautotrophic organisms, plants evolved sophisticated strategies to perceive light environmental signals and to transduce them into…

Functional and comparative multiomics

For over 500 million years, evolution has shaped animal species, resulting in a vast array of unique traits and molecular configurations. Studying…

Bioclimatology and global change

The Bioclimatology and Global Change group studies how the atmospheric environment affects the health and well-being of living beings, analyzing…

Biocomputation Lab

Microbial Population and Comparative Genomics

Our research group focuses on comparative genomics and population genomics of microorganisms to better understand their diversity, evolution and…

Host-microbiome Interactions Along the Gut-Brain Axis

My group focuses on understanding the role that bacterial amyloids produced by the gut microbiome play in promoting neurodegeneration to help develop…

Landscape Ecology

Regulation of gene expression and metabolism in bacteria

Our work is aimed at identifying and characterizing the global regulatory networks that allow bacteria to modulate the expression of their genes in…

Intracellular bacterial pathogens

Our group is interested in deciphering at a molecular and cellular level the mechanisms involved in infectious processes caused by intracellular…

Bacterial engineering for biomedical applications

Our research is aimed to engineer E. coli bacteria for biomedical applications, including the selection of small recombinant antibodies and the…