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Last Update: July, 2026

University Professors in Cell and Experimental Biology (BIOS-10/A, former BIO/13)

PROFESSOR

POSITION

Daniela Fiocco – Dip. Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale

Domenica Mangieri – Dip. Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche

Tommaso Colangelo– Dip. Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche

PO (Professore Ordinario / Full professor)
PA (Professore Associato / Associate Professor)
RTT (Ricercatore a tempo determinato in tenure-track/Tenure-track fixed-term researcher)
RTI (Ricercatore a Tempo Indeterminato / Assistant Professor)
RTD-A (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato – Junior / Fixed-term Junior Assistant Professor)
RTD-B (Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato – Senior / Fixed-term Senior Assistant Professor)

Research

Research Group 1

Daniela Fiocco, Anna Gallone, (PA, BIO/13) Dip. Scienze mediche di base, neuroscienze e organi di senso (SMBNOS)-UNIBA; e altri collaboratori

Research Themes

Host-probiotic interactions. Prebiotics. Stress response mechanisms in probiotics. immune-modulation. Antimicrobial activities of probiotics, Po

Keywords: probiotic, prebiotic, postbiotic, immune-modulation, OGI model, stress genes, bacteriocin, antimicrobials

Research Group 2

Daniela Fiocco e altri collaboratori

Research Themes

stress response in model organims; small heat shock protein

Keywords: chaperone, proteostasis, heat stress, protein aggregation

Research Group 3

Daniela Fiocco, Anna Gallone (UNIBA), Paola Pontrelli (PA, UNIBA), Mariagiovanna Di Chiano (reserach fellow, UNIBA), e altri collaboratori

Research Themes

gut-brain axis, gut-deriving microbial metabolites and their impact on brain function

Keywords: microglia, blood brain barrier, gut microbes, lactobacilli

Research Group 4

Domenica Mangieri
e altri collaboratori

Research Themes

Neoangiogenesis and metastatic cascade; tumor progression; pathogenesis of soft tissue sarcoma and their progression.

Keywords: extracellular matrix; macromolecular interactions; signal transduction; structure-function relationship. Angiogenesis; chicken CAM; human vulvar leiomyosarcoma; matrix metalloproteinases; EMT andtumour progression;