Dr. Daniele Lapa is working as a scientist in the laboratory of virology at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Italy. He is a Researcher who focuses on studying various aspects of the hepatitis E virus and the immunology behind it. His main research areas include poxvirus, flavivirus, viruses in the family filoviridae, arenavirus, hepatitis E virus, coronavirus, orthomixovirus, bunyavirus, etc.
Ida Ricci is involved in diagnostic lab activities and research projects about animal viral diseases. The diagnostic lab activity includes serological and molecular tests for animal viral diseases, above all equine diseases, and also includes emerging and re-emerging infections, and piroplasmosis and leptospirosis, both for diagnostic purposes and surveillance activities.
Dr. Anna Rosa Garbuglia is a Biologist at the Laboratory of Virology in S Camillo Hospital in Italy. From 2003 to 2008, she participated in training in Biosafety and Biocontainment for BSL-3 workers. Her research interests mainly focus on human papillomavirus, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, HEV surveillance, and HEV human strain characterization. In addition, she has been directly responsible for conducting molecular diagnostics activities, in particular on HPV, HIV, HTLV, HCV, HBV, HDV, GBV, TTV, HEV, HAV, and GWAS (genome-wide association studies) and she participated in the diagnostic activities on H1N1 during the pandemic period of 2009–2010 and the ebola epidemic period of 2014–2015.
Dr. Fabrizio Maggi received his M.D. and Ph.D. in Clinical and Fundamental Virology at the University of Pisa. He has been a Clinical Assistant at the Clinical Virology Unit of Pisa University Hospital and Director of the Microbiology Laboratory of Varese University Hospital. He is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology at the University of Insubria. Since 2022, he has been the Director of the Laboratory of Virology and Laboratories of Biosafety at the National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani”, Rome. His main interest is in the natural history and pathogenesis of anellovirus infection and the development of methods for emerging virus diagnosis. Additional areas of research include emerging respiratory viruses, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, and diagnostic virology.
Silvia Tofani has a PhD in Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Disease, and is a Researcher at istituto Zooprofilattico Lazio e Toscana in the Virology Unit, focusing on the molecular diagnosis of zoonotic and non-zoonotic viruses. Other areas of research include antibiotic resistance, and second-generation and third-generation sequencing techniques.
