Prof. Laura Giovati graduated in Agro-Industrial Biotechnology (110/110) at the University of Verona. From 2006 to 2009, she attended a PhD Program at the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of the University of Parma, earning the PhD in Microbiology and Virology. From 2010 to 2012, she was awarded by a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Microbiology Section of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Parma. From 2012 to 2014, she was awarded a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Microbiology and Virology Unit of the Department of Biological, Biotechnological, and Translational Sciences, University of Parma. From 2014 to 2022, she was Assistant Professor (art. 24 c.3-a L. 240/10) at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, academic discipline MED/07 (Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology). Since 2022, she has been Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, academic discipline MED/07 (Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology). The research activities of Laura Giovati have been initially focused on mycotoxins and immunoprophylactic approaches against mycotoxicosis. More recent studies have dealt with the development of novel strategies for integrated biological control and novel drugs development for treatment of vector-borne diseases using toxin-producing yeasts (killer yeasts).