Chiara Conte is a marine biology, currently enrolled in the Ph.D. program Doctorate in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology at the Dept. of Biology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata at the Laboratory EcoMicro. Her work focuses on the seagrass-bacteria interactions, more specifically she is interested in the variation of the seagrass holobiont under different environmental and/or host conditions, evaluated through biochemical and molecular markers.