IRENE STEFANINI

After graduating in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology, I continued my training by obtaining a doctorate in Pharmacology and Toxicology from the University of Florence.

During my first postdoc, at the Edmund Mach Foundation (Trento), I started to be interested in the evolution and microbial diffusion, studying in particular two themes:
i) the interaction between the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and insects
ii) the composition and dynamics of microbial populations in various environments.

I then continued my career with a 3-year fellowship at the University of Warwick (UK), during which I deepened genetic studies on the S. cerevisiae model and other yeasts.

I finally became a component of the LMV in 2019, where I continue my research on the ecology and evolution of microorganisms, maintaining a strong interest in the associations between S. cerevisiae and insects