Name:

Professor Giovanna Riccardi

Positions:

Full Professor of Microbiology

Specialisms:

• Identification of targets for new drugs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• Bacterial drug resistance: mechanisms of action
• Deciphering the role of RND efflux transporters in Burkholderia cenocepacia

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FEMS Expert: Professor Giovanna Riccardi

member of EAM

Career Summary:

1977-1984 – Fellowships aimed to work in microbiology fields, at the Institute of Microbiology and Plant Physiology, University of Pavia.

1979 – EMBO Short-Term fellowship, University of Liverpool.

1984-1998 – Researcher at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pavia.

1999-2002 – Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Department of Experimental, Environmental and Applied Biology, University of Genoa.

From October 2002 – Full Professor of Microbiology, at the Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pavia.

From January 2010 to December 2012 – President of the SIMGBM (Italian Society of General Microbiology and Microbial Biotechnologies).

From August 2011 – Member of the European Academy of Microbiology.

From January 2016 – Member of the University Board of Pavia.

Affiliations:

  • University of Pavia, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Italy

Past:

  • University of Genoa, Department of Experimental, Environmental and Applied Biology, Italy