Alessandra Lo Presti
National Institute of Health, Italy
Biography
Alessandra Lo Presti has completed her PhD in Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University “Tor Vergata” of Rome. She is expert in epidemiology and phylogeny of infectious diseases and practices the research activity at the Department of Infectious, Parasitic, and Immune-Mediated Diseases of the National Institute of Health, Rome. She has published about 77 papers in reputed journals and is in the editorial board member for some journals. Moreover she is the Principal Investigator of a Project that aims to evaluate the interactions between gut microflora and immune system at the cross-road of the pathogenesis of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and Irritable Bowel Syndrome.