Maria Letizia Di Martino

Researcher Docent at Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology; Infection and Immunity; Mikael Sellin

E-mail:: ml.dimartino@imbim.uu.se
Visiting address:: BMC
Husargatan 3
752 37 UPPSALA
Postal address:: Box 582
751 23 UPPSALA

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ORCID:: 0000-0002-9491-4000

Short presentation

I am an Associate Professor (Docent) at Uppsala University where I lead research at the intersection of bacterial genetics, molecular microbiology, and advanced tissue culture. My work focuses on unraveling the complexities of host-pathogen interactions through cutting-edge intestinal organoid models and functional genomics approaches.

Biography

Degrees and Merits

2026 - Associate Professor (Docent) in Microbiology, Uppsala University.
2024 - National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale - ASN) as Associate Professor (Docent) in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of 05/I2 - MICROBIOLOGY. Validity: From 2024-09-16 to 2036-09-16.
2011 - PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology, Doctoral thesis in Microbiology - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Grants

2023 – 2025 ǀ Carl Tryggers Stiftelse ǀ The fitness landscape of Shigella flexneri at the transition between environmental and host-colonizing lifestyles.
2021 ǀ Clas Groschinsky Minnesfond ǀ TraDIShigella: Revealing the Shigella flexneri epithelial invasome in a human enteroid infection model.
2020 ǀ ESCMID (European Society for Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases) ǀ Revealing the Shigella flexneri epithelial invasome in a human enteroid infection model.
2019 – 2021 ǀ Carl Tryggers Stiftelse ǀ VirF21: a negative regulator of the Shigella life style switching.
2014 ǀ Sapienza University of Rome ǀ Training Abroad Postdoctoral Fellowship – Group of Gerhart Wagner, Uppsala University.
2013 ǀ FEMS Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship ǀ Institut Pasteur, Paris, France – Group of Didier Mazel.

Distinctions and awards

2017 ǀ Giovanni Magni Award 2017 for the best paper in Molecular Microbiology (Di Martino et al, 2016 – mBio).
2012 ǀ SIMGBM - Franco Tatò 2012 Award for the best PhD thesis in General Microbiology.