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Dr. Gabriele Andrea Lugli is a Senior Postdoctoral Scientist at the University of Parma, Italy. Dr. Lugli received his Ph.D. in Biotechnology at the University of Parma. Then, he carried out his postdoctoral research work at the Department of Chemistry, Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability, University of Parma, Parma, Italy. He won a research grant in the area of “Microbiota based therapy” and participated as a speaker in several International Congresses and Conferences in the field of Microbiology. He is an Associate Editor of BMC Microbiology and Microorganisms. The research interests of Dr. Lugli focus on the computational microbiology applied to complex microbial communities and specifically on bifidobacteria. He also explored the functionality of the microbiome in terms of microbe-host and microbe-microbe cross-talk in humans and other mammals. He is the author or co-author of 117 scientific articles published in peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact journals such as Microbiome, Genome Biology, Nature Communications, ISME Journal, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology Reviews, and Cell Host & Microbe.

Microbial genomics, Metagenomics, Gut microbiota, Bifidobacteria, Probiotic, Bacteriophage