Laura Bonfili is a postdoc research fellow at University of Camerino, Italy, where she completed her PhD in “Life and Health Sciences - Ageing and Nutrition” with a thesis on the modulation of intracellular proteolytic pathways in neoplastic and neurodegenerative diseases. During the last years her research interests focused on the rational modulation of gut microbiota composition as a promising approach to counteract or delay the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s disease using cellular and animal models. In this context, she has demonstrated that probiotics can exert neuroprotective effects by influencing multiple molecular mechanisms through the gut–brain axis. She has published more than 45 papers in peer-reviewed journals (ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9542-4310, H-index 21).