Associate Professor in General Pathology. She received the Ph.D. in 2009 in Experimental Medicine, at the University of Perugia, Italy. Her Ph.D. was based on the study of the immunology of opportunistic diseases, as fungal infections. In particular, in understanding the role of the Th17 cell response — particularly the response triggered by fungi — in early and late phases of infection. At the Singapore Immunology Network, Singapore, she had her postdoc position, where she investigated the role of IL-2 and the calcineurin/NFAT pathway in innate immune cells in the lung, which are normally exposed to Aspergillus fumigatus spores. Lastly, directly under the Program Research ‘Programma Giovani Ricercatori Rita Levi Montalcini’ in 2014, entitled: “Molecular mining of the Aspergillus secondary metabolome”, she found that Aspergillus in the lung may activate an AhR-mediated pathogenic response. Thanks to the Italian Ministry of Research and Education in Italy, in 2015, she got the position of Researcher type B in Pathology. Therefore, in her research programs, she had the chance to develop research expertise in both Microbiology and Immunology. She became an Associate Professor in General Pathology at the University of Perugia in 2019. In the last years, she combined the expertise and focused on mouth/lung/gut microbiome studies to discover the characteristics at the interface between the host immune system and the microbiota.