Mariagrazia Di Luca

MARIAGRAZIA DI LUCA, PhD
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WORK EXPERIENCE
- Jun 2018 to now: Researcher in Microbiology, University of Pisa
- Jan 2016 to May 2018: Translational scientific coordinator at PRO-IMPLANT FOUNDATION, Charitè University Hospital, Berlin
- Aug 2014 to Dic 2015: Post-doctoral fellow, University of Parma
- Jun 2013 to Jul 2015: Post-doctoral fellow at CNR- Nanoscience Institute, Pisa
- Oct 2010 to May 2013: Post-doctoral fellow at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
- Jan 2010 to Sep 2010: Research assistant at Dipartimento di Patologia sperimentale BMIE, University of Pisa
- Jan 2007 to Dic 2009: Doctoral fellow at Dipartimento di Patologia sperimentale BMIE, University of Pisa

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- 2018: Abilitazione Scientifica Nasionale (II fascia) Miur
- 2015: Specialist in Microbiology and Virology, University of Pisa
- 2010: PhD in Microbiology and Genetics, University of Pisa
- 2007: Biology licence, University of Pisa
- 2006: Biology Degree, University of Pisa

AWARDS
- 1st Best Poster Prize for the 37th Annual Meeting of the EBJIS, Helsinki, Finland (Poster number P40)
- Best rated Abstract for 28th ECCMID 2018 (Abstract number 6547)
- Observership grant by ESCMID to visit Dr A. Trampuz group at Charité - University Medicine in Berlin
- "Short Term mobility" grant by Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche “Evaluation of novel antimicrobial peptides activity for the anti-biofilm prevention and treatment of implant-associated infections” to visit Dr A. Trampuz gorup at Charité - University Medicine in Berlin (May/June 2015)
- ESCMID awarded fellowship for "Eurobiofilms 2013" Ghent Belgium
- EMBO awarded fellowship to participate to "Imaging Infection & Immunity" EMBO microscopy practical course
- Best Poster Prize: OWLS 2012. Genoa, Italy. Abstract p. 113

RESEARCH PROJECTS
- July 2017 to 2018: Principal applicant of BIH Gender Equality Fund “Can Bacteriophages Eradicate Bacterial Biofilms? An alternative strategy for implant associated infections”
- 2016-2018: Co-Principal investigator of the study "Development of a vaccine against Propionibacterium acnes" funded by Origimm
- 2016 to 2017: Co-principal investigator of the project "Innovative ´Catch & Release´ system for local antibiotic delivery against Staphylococcus aureus biofilm involved in implant infections" (AOTEU-R-2016-082)
- 2015 to 2017: Co-director of the study - "Fosfomycin activity against streptococci in vitro and in an experimental model of foreign-body infection" funded by InfectoPharm
- 2015-2016: Co-director of the study AB "Investigation of the Antibiofilm Effect of Antibiotic-Loaded CERAMENTTM│G" by BONESUPPORT
- 2010-2013: Involved in the project Regione Toscana: "New diagnostic strategies from nano-engineered viral capsid proteins"
- 2010-2011:Staff Member of Pisa University research group, PRIN: "Interazione tra Mycobacterium tuberculosis e cellule dell'immunità naturale nell'uomo e sua rilevanza sulla risposta immunitaria specifica"
- 2008-2010: Staff Member of Pisa University research group in EU Project NOVSECTB (Health-F3-2007-201762 Programme)

CONFERENCE ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
- 46th Congress of SIM, Palermo, Italy
- 38th Annual meeting of EBJIS 2018, Helsinki, Finnland
- 5th World Congress on TID: Targeting Phage & Antibiotic Resistance 2018, Florence, Italy. Invited speaker
- 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2018), Madrid, Spain
- Centennial Celebration of Bacteriophage Research, 2017, Tbilisi, Georgia
- Workshop on Prosthetic Joint Infection. Pro-Implant foundation Charité – Universitätsmedizin, March 2017 Berlin, Germany. Invited speaker
- 44th Congress of SIM, Pisa, Italy
- Phage Therapy World Congress 2016, Paris, France

Peer Reviewer for: Sci Rep, Int J Antimicrob Agents, J Glob Antimicrob Resist, Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces, J Antimicrob Chemother, Pharmaceuticals (Basel), Bioinformatics, Plos One
15/02/19