Dr. Adriana Trotta, DVM, PhD, Post-doc Researcher at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy. Master Degree at the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Italy in the Year 2014 with maximum of vote, started to work as veterinary practitioner in clinics and hospitals. In 2017 she started the “Infectious Disease and Zoonosis” PhD course, at the University of Bari, in the bacteriology field. Adriana collaborated with the University of Zagreb, as PhD Erasmus student for sea turtle biome sequencing project called "TurtleBIOME", and in 2020 obtained the PhD degree, with the thesis entitled "Microbial communities and antimicrobial resistance: an insight on bacterial world of sea turtles (Caretta caretta) from the Mediterranean Sea". She is the co-author of several publications in the infectious diseases field and specifically, bacterial infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance, which is currently her main research topic.