Developed skills and lines of research

Caterina Signoretto graduated in Biological Sciences from the University of Parma in 1991 and obtained her qualification to practice as a Biologist from the same university in 1992. In October 1996, she specialized in Microbiology and Virology (technical specialization) at the University of Verona. In 2001, she obtained a PhD in Basic and Applied Microbiology from the University of Padua. Since March 1, 2006, she has been a Researcher at the Department of Pathology, Microbiology section, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Verona. Her research interests are manifold, and for cystic fibrosis, she is particularly involved in the applications of molecular biology to bacteriological and virological diagnostics and the study of viable but non-culturable (VBNC) bacterial forms. Recently, she has been studying the action of naturally occurring molecules contained in everyday beverages (coffee, tea, barley coffee, wine) in the process of bacterial adhesion, developing a protocol to minimize the bacteria that accumulate on toothbrushes.

Projects funded by FFC Ricerca as Principal Investigator or as Research Manager

FFC#22/2016
Environmental and human reservoirs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacterial species colonizing the lower airways of cystic fibrosis patients

Publications from FFC Research projects

Rebeca Passarelli Mantovani, Angela Sandri, Marzia Boaretti, et al. Toothbrushes may convey bacteria to the cystic fibrosis lower airways. J Oral Microbiol. 2019; 11(1): 1647036.

Caterina Signoretto. Environmental and human reservoirs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other bacterial species colonizing the lower airways of cystic fibrosis patients.
The Proceedings of the 16th Italian Convention of Investigators in Cystic Fibrosis. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2019, 14 (Suppl 1):5