Stefano Ravaioli is a researcher at Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute (Bologna). He achieved the Ph.D. in experimental pathology in 2010. He worked on several subjects including bacterial molecular epidemiology and the identification of new emerging and most prevalent bacterial clones through different techniques of genotypic characterizations (automated Ribotyping, MLST, spa typing, SCCmec typing, agr typing, PFGE). He has extended his experience on biofilm research at the Biofilm Research Group of the University of Calgary in 2008. He improved his genotyping technical skills at the Molecular Genetics Research Group of ITQB/UNL (Oeiras, Portugal) in 2009. He initiated and worked on a project on molecular epidemiology at the Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hygiene (AGES, Vienna) in 2013/2014. Other subjects of study included the analysis of bacterial pathogenic factors (biofilm production, adhesins, toxins, bacterial invasiveness, antibiotic resistance traits); new nanostructured antibacterial films for biomedical applications; pathological interactions between bacteria with eukaryotic cells; and the behavior and interactions of eukaryotic cells exposed to anti-infective substances and the significance of new strategies based on the use of anti-infectives (natural substances, phytocompounds or antibacterial peptides) to prevent the bacterial adhesion and colonization on biomaterial surfaces.
Maria Daglia received her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry
and Technology from the University of Pavia in 1993, and a Postdoctoral from the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Pavia in 1997. Since 2019, she has been a full professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, and a visiting professor at the
International Research Center for Food Nutrition and Safety, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, China. Her scientific activity has developed along two lines of research: (1) the study of biological properties of components that are either naturally present or also induced following thermo/technological treatments in foods, useful in food and pharmaceutical fields; and (2) the development of analytical spectrophotometric and chromatographic methods useful in the identification and determination of biologically active compounds occurring in foods.
Carla Renata Arciola received her Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from the University of Bologna. She is a full professor of Clinical Pathology, the director of the Research Laboratory on Pathology of Implant Infections at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna, and the director of the Research Laboratory on Immunorheumatology and Tissue Regeneration at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute in Bologna. Her research interests mainly focus on the Pathology of implant-associated infection; the biocompatibility of implant materials; implant pathology and tissue engineering; and molecular pathology of orthopedic diseases.
