Prof. Dr. Marco Galardini participates in RESIST research project area C.
| My Research Interest in RESIST |
My research interest concern understanding how genetic variants that distinguish members of the same bacterial species („strains“) affect their phenotype, in the environment or in vivo. As bacterial strains can differ from each other by more than half their genetic content, these differences have the potential to influence important processes such as pathogenicity and antimicrobial resistance. Lastly, I am interested in how these differences across strains can affect the evolution of antimicrobial resistance, particularly its speed and predictability.
Prof. Galardini about his scientific work
Prof. Dr. Marco Galardini – Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
Since 10/2020 Head of Research Group “Systems Biology of Microbial Communities“ at TWINCORE
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Training
2003 – 2006 Bachelor in environmental and industrial biotechnology, University of Florence, Italy
2006 – 2008 Master in Bioinformatics, University of Bologna, Italy
2010 – 2013 Microbial Genetics Laboratory, University of Florence, Italy
Academic and Research Posts
2019 – 2020 Postdoctoral fellow, Boston University, Boston, USA
2014 – 2019 Postdoctoral fellow, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK
2010 – 2014 PhD student, Microbial Genetics Laboratory, Univesity of Florence, Italy
Awards and Prizes
2006 Bachelor graduation: 110/110 cum laude and special mention from the thesis committee
2010 FEMS meeting attendance grant for the European Nitrogen Fixation Conference
2017 PLOS early career travel award for the FEMS Conference
2018 eLife early career travel award for the ICSB conference
10 Selected Publications (of > 35 original publications)
Galardini, M., Koumoutsi, A., Herrera, C. M., Cordero Varela, J. A., Telzerow, A., Wagih O., Wartel M., Clermont O., Denamur E., Typas, A., Beltrao, P. (2017). Phenotype inference in an Escherichia coli strain panel. eLife, 6.
Galardini, M., Busby, B. P., Vieitez, C., Dunham, A. S., Typas, A., & Beltrao, P. (2019). The impact of the genetic background on gene deletion phenotypes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Systems Biology, 15(12).
Galardini, M., Clermont, O., Baron, A., Busby, B., Dion, S., Schubert, S., … & Denamur, E. (2020). Major role of iron uptake systems in the intrinsic extra-intestinal virulence of the genus Escherichia revealed by a genome-wide association study. PLoS Genetics.
Wagih, O., Galardini, M., Busby, B. P., Memon, D., Typas, A., & Beltrao, P. (2018). A resource of variant effect predictions of single nucleotide variants in model organisms. Molecular systems biology, 14(12), e8430.
Lees, J. A., Galardini, M., Bentley, S. D., Weiser, J. N., & Corander, J. (2018). pyseer: a comprehensive tool for microbial pangenome-wide association studies. Bioinformatics, 34(24), 4310-4312.
Galardini, M., Brilli, M., Spini, G., Rossi, M., Roncaglia, B., Bani, A., … & Pini, F. (2015). Evolution of intra-specific regulatory networks in a multipartite bacterial genome. PLoS Comput Biol, 11(9), e1004478.
Galardini, M., Mengoni, A., Biondi, E. G., Semeraro, R., Florio, A., Bazzicalupo, M., … & Mocali, S. (2014). DuctApe: A suite for the analysis and correlation of genomic and OmniLogTM Phenotype Microarray data. Genomics, 103(1), 1-10.
Galardini, M., Pini, F., Bazzicalupo, M., Biondi, E. G., & Mengoni, A. (2013). Replicon-dependent bacterial genome evolution: the case of Sinorhizobium meliloti. Genome biology and evolution, 5(3), 542-558.
Galardini, M., Mengoni, A., Brilli, M., Pini, F., Fioravanti, A., Lucas, S., Lapidus, A., et al. (2011). Exploring the symbiotic pangenome of the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti. BMC Genomics, 12(1), 235.
Pini, F., Galardini, M., Bazzicalupo, M., & Mengoni, A. (2011). Plant-bacteria association and symbiosis: are there common genomic traits in Alphaproteobacteria? Genes, 2(4), 1017-1032.
