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Graduation of Master Students – three at once!
Congratulations to Yohannes Mulatu Tafesse, Fabio Spairani and Stefano Lometto on getting their Master’s degree. Good job on your theses and defense! Yohannes screened 339 ticks from Ethiopia, Egypt and Kenya by PCR for the presence of bacterial symbionts and pathogens, as well as pathogenic protozoa. Then, together with a team in Milan, he applied […]
Read MoreNew publication: Deianiraea, an extracellular bacterium associated with the ciliate Paramecium, suggests an alternative scenario for the evolution of Rickettsiales
The team, in a collaborative effort with researchers of Saint Petersburg State University, University of Pisa and University of Milan published an article on the journal: The ISME Journal. Rickettsiales have always been considered a lineage of obligate intracellular Alphaproteobacteria, encompassing important human pathogens, manipulators of host reproduction, and mutualists. Here we report the discovery of a novel member of […]
Read MoreNew publication: The Genomes of Four Meyerozyma caribbica Isolates and Novel Insights into the Meyerozyma guilliermondii Species Complex
The team, in a collaborative effort with researchers of University of Milan and University of Camerino, published an article on the journal G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics. Meyerozyma caribbica and Meyerozyma guilliermondii are two closely related yeast species belonging to the M. guilliermondii species complex. M. guilliermondii is a well-studied yeast, reported to have multiple interesting […]
Read MoreSassera lab on RICERCA@UNIPV issue
“RICERCA@UNIPV” is a four-monthly magazine dedicated to great research works developed at the University of Pavia. The second issue is focused entirely on “Science under 40”, highlighting the work of young principal investigators of 14 interesting scientific projects. It is available in electronic format (in Italian) here, and our research project on the intramitochondrial bacterium “Candidatus […]
Read MoreHFSP 2017 Research Grant
The project “Midichloria mitochondrii, unique intramitochondrial bacterium and novel tool to explore mitochondria” has been granted by the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP 2017). The project aims to investigate the unique form of bacterial endosymbiosis involving “Ca. Midichloria mitochondrii“ and its tick host Ixodes ricinus. Bacterial cells are detected in the cytosol and inside the […]
Read MoreNew publication: screening for Midichloria bacteria in ticks
The team, in an international collaborative effort, published an article on the journal Ticks and Tick borne diseases Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii, symbiont of the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus, was the first described member of the family Candidatus Midichloriaceae, order Rickettsiales. Recent reports are expanding our view of this family, now including bacteria of great biological […]
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