Dr. Barbara Blasi graduated in Biotechnology at the University of Perugia in 2007 and received her PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Tuscia in Viterbo in 2012. She later obtained a Post-Doc position at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science (BOKU) in Vienna between 2013 and 2018 in the frame of a research project regarding genome and RNA-Sequencing in the black fungal species of environmental and health interest. Since 2018, she has worked at the Institute of Pathology at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna on two projects regarding Pneumocystis spp. in porcine hosts, one focusing on its genotyping and epidemiology in Austrian farms and the other on the cellular biology of the fungus, attempting its cultivation on porcine cells for imaging and transcriptomic analysis. Her main interests are the genomics and transcriptomics of fungal species, fungal phylogeny and fungal pathogens.