I'm an Assistant Professor in Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at LUM University "Giuseppe Degennaro" in Bari (IT). I'm a PhD in Medical Biotechnologies, Section of Microbial Biotechnology, Vaccines and Infectious Disease and Specialist in Microbiology and Virology. I spend many years at University of Siena (IT) as Post Doc. My research activities are mainly focused on - Characterization of immune response against SARS-CoV-2 virus: study of persistence of immune response in healthy and fragile people vaccinated with SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the context of two clinical studies - in vivo immunogenicity of vaccine formulations (bacterial/protein/glycoconjugate/GMMA/nanoparticles based vaccines): study of B and T cell functional and memory immune response induced in mice vaccinated against Salmonella Typhi , non-typhoidal Salmonella, or Mycobacterium tuberculosis - Mucosal immunology: study and characterization of immune responses in vaccinated and/or infected mice - Bacterial pathogenesis: set up of a murine model of intracranial and intranasal infection with Streptococcus pneumoniae, and of intravenous and intragastric infection with Salmonella Typhimurium, in order to study the modulation of early biomarkers of inflammation and the vaccine protection from challenge.