Journal of Chromatography & Separation Techniques
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Lorenzo Nissen

Biography

Dr. Lorenzo Nissen start is research career in 2005 after earning a fellowship for a sixmonth predoctoral research at the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technologies of CSIC in Valencia Spain Then in 2008 he has received his PhD in Microbial Ecology from Bologna University Dept of Agroenvironmental Sciences and Technologies Faculty of Agriculture in CoAdvisorship with Maribor University Dept of Biochemistry Faculty of Medicine under the project “PathogenCombata of the 6th EU Framework Programme In 2010 he has successfully completed his postdoctoral studies in Bologna University in Molecular Microbiology studying Host/Microbe Interactions in different scenarios under the project Quality Low Input Foods of the 6th EU Framework Programme Under this frame at the end of 2009. He won a mobility research fellowship to conduct a project at the University of Zurich Dept of Oral Biology Faculty of Medicine Currently he is working as a senior contract researcher in Bologna University under the project Crops2Industry of the 7th EU Framework Programme He has reviewed research articles for journals like Nat Product Commun Int J Food Microbiol Ann Microbiol He has authored almost ten research articles from 2005 and has presented several works at more than twenty international congresses He is a member of ESDO European Society for Digestive Oncology from 2010 For two times 2007 and 2010 he was honoured by UEGF United Europe Gastroenterology Federation with a prize for basic science work for his presentations made at the UEGW United Europe Gastroenterology Week congresses

Research Interest

The topic which he repute the most exciting is the study of Microbe/Host Interaction, in particular on the strategies that different microbial populations adopt to compete each other for the substrate. He had investigated on the challenge between pathogens and probiotic bacteria over different scenarios as: that of the GIT or that of the oral cavity. He gained expertise over many protocols of molecular biology and over the broad range of applications of Real Time PCR technique. Another topic which he is applying with results is that of antimicrobials and the ability of natural products to inhibit bacterial pathogens and attenuate their virulence.