Monica Musiani  

Full Professor

Department of Hematology and Oncological Sciences “L. e A. Seragnoli” – Microbiology

University of Bologna,

Via Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy

Phone: +39 051 4290905

Fax: +39 051 307397

e-mail: monica.musiani@unibo.it

Professor Musiani is Full Professor of Microbiology at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Her main fields of interest are the development and the application of new molecular diagnostic assays using biotechnologies (hybridizations, quantitative PCR, real time PCR, production of recombinant vitral antigens and epitopes, chemiluminescent detection methods), for the rapid and specific diagnosis of viral diseases (parvovirus B19 and Human Papillomavirus). In these last years viral genomes have been cloned and sequenced and molecular tools such as hybridization probes, specific detectors and recombinant proteins have been constructed and developed. These tools and the related detection techniques have been applied to enlight the pathogenetic role of viruses in several diseases and to early diagnose viral diseases. Moreover these tools have been used to elucidate the viral-cell relationship in B19 parvovirus infection.