{"id":2149,"date":"2020-11-13T19:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/?p=2149"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:40:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:40:51","slug":"phd-student-profile-valeria-tava","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/2020\/11\/13\/phd-student-profile-valeria-tava\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD student profile, Valeria Tava"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>PhD Student<\/strong>: Valeria Tava (ORCID n.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4068-7559\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0000-0003-4068-7559<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2170\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Portrait-Valeria-Tava-new.jpg\" alt=\"Valeria Tava (cycle 36)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Portrait-Valeria-Tava-new.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Portrait-Valeria-Tava-new-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor<\/strong>: Matias Pasquali, DeFENS<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean<\/strong>: Prof.\u00a0Diego Mora<\/p>\n<p><strong>PhD title achieved on<\/strong>: 16<sup>th<\/sup> December 2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research area<\/strong>: Agri-Environment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research topic: <\/strong>Mitigate the impact of threats on the production, quality, and safety of food products<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of my PhD project is to characterise fungal species which usually are pathogen in agriculture but that showed the ability to infect also human patients.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding the diversity of these species and the mechanisms that lead to cross kingdom pathogenicity will be achieved by integrating omics approaches to characterise fungal diversity and infection mechanisms with in vivo pathophysiological observations in different hosts.<\/p>\n<p>My thesis aims to contribute to the study of cross fungal Kingdom pathogens with a focus on <em>Fusarium<\/em> pathogens that can be transmitted from food to humans to better inform on this novel risk posed by food consumption<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project keywords<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fusarium; food pathogens; pest; fungicide<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences (DeFENS)<\/p>\n<p>Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano<\/p>\n<p><em>email address<\/em>: <a href=\"mailto:valeria.tava@unimi.it\">valeria.tava@unimi.it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greetje Vande Velde, Biomedical MRI-ON I Herestraat 49, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven (BE)<\/p>\n<p>Matthias Brock, Faculty of Medicine &amp; Health Sciences, Nottingham University<strong>, <\/strong>Nottingham<br \/>\nNG7 2RD (UK)<\/p>\n<p>Maria Carmela Esposto, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Universit\u00e0 degli studi di Milano, via Pascal 36, 20133 Milano (IT)<\/p>\n<p>Anna Cristina Maria Prigitano, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, Universit\u00e0 degli studi di Milano, via Pascal 36, 20133 Milano (IT)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Fellowship sponsor<\/em>: Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano<\/p>\n<p><em>Project sponsor<\/em>: Collaboration with COST ACTION 16610<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Communications to congresses (Poster exhibition)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tava V.<\/strong>, Degradi L., Saracchi M., Prigitano A., Kunova A., Esposto M. , Cortesi P., Pasquali M. (2021). <em>Fusarium musae<\/em>, agent of crown rot disease of banana infects plants and humans. 26\u00b0 SIPaV virtual congress September 15-17 2021<\/p>\n<p>Matias Pasquali, <strong>Valeria Tava<\/strong>, Anna Prigitano, Luca Degradi, Marco Saracchi, Andrea Kunova, Maria Carmela Esposto, Paolo Cortesi, Matthias Brock, Greetje VandeVelde. (2021). Can an infected banana be the source of a fungal disease for humans? COST ACTION FINAL MEETING 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valeria Tava<\/strong>, Anna Cristina Maria Prigitano, Marco Saracchi, Maria Carmela Esposto, Matias Pasquali (2021). Susceptibility to azoles of <em>F. musae<\/em>, agent of crown rot disease of banana. APS annual meeting &#8211; plant health 2021 online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valeria Tava<\/strong>, Eliane Vanhoffelen, Agustin Res\u00e9ndiz Sharpe, Hanne Hendrix, Rob Lavigne, Katrien Lagrou, Matias Pasquali, Greetje Vande Velde. (2021). <em>Galleria mellonella<\/em> as a model host to study the virulence of <em>Fusarium musae<\/em> strains obtained from plants and humans. <em>Galleria mellonella<\/em> workshop 2021 online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valeria Tava<\/strong>, Luca Degradi, Andrea Kunova, Marco Saracchi, Paolo Cortesi, Matias Pasquali (2021). The complete genome of <em>Fusarium musae<\/em>. Europen fusarium seminar 2021 online.<\/p>\n<p><em>Articles<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valeria Tava<\/strong>, Anna Prigitano, Paolo Cortesi, Maria Carmela Esposto and Matias Pasquali (2021). <em>Fusarium musae<\/em> from Diseased Bananas and Human Patients: Susceptibility to Fungicides Used in Clinical and Agricultural Settings. MDPI &#8211; Journal of Fungi, Sept 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/MPMI-05-21-0127-A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1094\/MPMI-05-21-0127-A<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Degradi L.<\/strong>, Tava V., Kunova A., Cortesi P., Saracchi M., Pasquali M. (2021). Telomere to telomere genome assembly of <em>Fusarium musae<\/em> F31, causal agent of crown rot disease of banana. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Aug 2021. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jof7090784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jof7090784<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Others <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Master\u2019s degree in \u201cBiotechnology for the Bioeconomy\u201d, Facolt\u00e0 di Scienze agrarie e alimentari, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano \u2013 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Bachelor\u2019s degree in \u201cScienze biologiche\u201d, Facolt\u00e0 di Scienze e tecnologie, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Milano \u2013 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Erasmus+ at KU Leuven, Biomedical MRI-ON I Herestraat 49, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven (BE)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PhD Student: Valeria Tava (ORCID n.\u00a00000-0003-4068-7559) Supervisor: Matias Pasquali, DeFENS Dean: Prof.\u00a0Diego Mora PhD title achieved on: 16th December 2024 Research area: Agri-Environment Research topic: Mitigate the impact of threats on the production, quality, and safety of food products Project Synopsis The aim of my PhD project is to characterise fungal species which usually are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,59],"tags":[200,27,223,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-2149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-phd-student-profile","9":"tag-food-pathogens","10":"tag-fungicide","11":"tag-fusarium","12":"tag-pest","13":"anons"},"modified_by":"admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unimi.it\/foodsystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}