Daniele Ghezzi

Junior assistant professor (fixed-term)

Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology

Academic discipline: BIOS-15/A Microbiology

Research

Keywords: Microbial Ecology, Environmental Microbiology, Extreme Environments, Bioinformatics, 16S rRNA, Cave Microbiology, Methanotrophs, Molecular Biology, Next Generation Sequencing, Metagenomics, Biofilms, Bioactive molecules

Antibacterial nano-structured coatings.
Molecular microbiological characterisation of extreme environments.
Isolation of bacterial strains and investigation of secondary metabolites and antimicrobial compounds from environmental samples.
Geochemical, genomic and computational studies of environmental samples collected from a quartz-sandstone cave in Auyan Tepui massif (Venezuela).
Analysis of the metanotrophic microbial community diversity from soils featuring anomalous high-temperatures and biogenic CO₂ emission, based on 16S rRNA and pmoA genes.

Daniele Ghezzi

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