Dr. Maria Lucia Mandola is the head of the Virological Diagnostic Laboratory at the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale PLV (IZSPLV), Turin (Italy). She graduated in Biological Sciences (1986) and received post-graduate specializations in Hygiene and Public Health (1991) and in Biochemistry (2005), and a Master's in Molecular Diagnostic in Medicine (2000). She has been working in IZSPLV since 1990 and deals with emerging/zoonotic (viral/bacterial) pathogens at the Wild–Domestic–Human Interface in a One Health approach. She is a technical expert for virological diagnostic methods for the Animal Health Area of the IZSPLV, including direct (classical/biomolecular) and indirect methods. She manages avian influenza outbreaks for IZSPLV and is the referent of the regional plan on arbovirosis for vertebrate species. She has always been interested in Chlamydia infections in wild and domestic species of ruminants and birds and has contributed to the identification of new Chlamydial species with zoonotic potential on the national territory. She has supervised over than 50 national/international research projects inthe field of antropozoonoses, including infections caused by Chlamydial microorganisms. She is author/co-author of over 230 scientific contributions, of which over 44 were peer-reviewed. H-Index 12 (Google Scholar).