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  1. Wasp intestinal cues drive yeast toward outbreeding strategies

    Article • The ISME Journal, January 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  2. Environmental characteristics and weather impact yeast populations and their dynamics in spontaneous fermentations

    Article • Current Research in Microbial Sciences, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  3. Fungal Identifier (FId): An Updated Polymerase Chain Reaction–Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Approach to Ease Ascomycetous Yeast Isolates’ Identification in Ecological Studies

    Article • Journal of Fungi, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  4. Genomic Assembly of Clinical Candida glabrata (Nakaseomyces glabrata) Isolates Reveals within-Species Structural Plasticity and Association with In Vitro Antifungal Susceptibility

    Article • Microbiology Spectrum, December 2022, ASM Journals

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  5. Resistance to Arsenite and Arsenate in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Arises through the Subtelomeric Expansion of a Cluster of Yeast Genes

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, July 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  6. Profile of Bacterial Infections in COVID-19 Patients: Antimicrobial Resistance in the Time of SARS-CoV-2

    Article • Biology, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  7. Antimicrobial Resistance, an Update from the Ward: Increased Incidence of New Potential Pathogens and Site of Infection-Specific Antibacterial Resistances

    Article • Antibiotics, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  8. The tumour microenvironment shapes dendritic cell plasticity in a human organotypic melanoma culture

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  9. Population genomics reveals evolution and variation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the human and insects gut

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, September 2018, Wiley

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  10. Metagenomic Approaches to Investigate the Contribution of the Vineyard Environment to the Quality of Wine Fermentation: Potentials and Difficulties

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, May 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  11. Deciphering the mechanism of action of 089, a compound impairing the fungal cell cycle

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Irene Stefanini, Prof Andrea Trabocchi

  12. Yeast-insect associations: It takes guts

    Article • Yeast, February 2018, Wiley

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  13. SaccharomycesIDentifier, SID: strain-level analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae populations by using microsatellite meta-patterns

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2017, Nature

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  14. Diversity-Oriented Synthesis and Chemical Genetics of Peptidomimetics to Address Lead Discovery of Anti-Infective Agents

    Article • October 2017, MDPI AG

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  15. Non-invasive real time monitoring of yeast volatilome by PTR-ToF-MS

    Article • Metabolomics, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Franco Biasioli, Dr Irene Stefanini

  16. Survival of metastatic melanoma patients after dendritic cell vaccination correlates with expression of leukocyte phosphatidylethanolamine-binding protein 1/Raf kinase inhibitory protein

    Article • Oncotarget, June 2017, Impact Journals, LLC

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  17. Relations between Effects and Structure of Small Bicyclic Molecules on the Complex Model System Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    Article • Frontiers in Pharmacology, March 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Irene Stefanini, Prof Andrea Trabocchi

  18. Core Microbiota and Metabolome of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Corvina Grapes and Musts

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, March 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  19. Isolation, Identification and Characterization of Yeasts from Fermented Goat Milk of the Yaghnob Valley in Tajikistan

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, November 2016, Frontiers

    Paola Mattarelli, Dr Irene Stefanini

  20. Age and Gender Affect the Composition of Fungal Population of the Human Gastrointestinal Tract

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  21. Altered gut microbiota in Rett syndrome

    Article • Microbiome, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  22. Social wasp intestines host the local phenotypic variability ofSaccharomyces cerevisiaestrains

    Article • Yeast, July 2016, Wiley

    Professor Duccio Cavalieri, Dr Irene Stefanini

  23. Social wasps are a Saccharomyces mating nest

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2016, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  24. Dynamic changes in microbiota and mycobiota during spontaneous ‘ V ino S anto T rentino’ fermentation

    Article • Microbial Biotechnology, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  25. Hsp12p and PAU genes are involved in ecological interactions between natural yeast strains

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Duccio Cavalieri, Dr Irene Stefanini

  26. Yeast as a Model in High-Throughput Screening of Small-Molecule Libraries

    Article • June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  27. Role of social wasps in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ecology and evolution

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2012, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  28. A computational pipeline to discover highly phylogenetically informative genes in sequenced genomes: application to Saccharomyces cerevisiae natural strains

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  29. A Systems Biology Approach to Dissection of the Effects of Small Bicyclic Peptidomimetics on a Panel of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutants

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, May 2010, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

    Prof Andrea Trabocchi, Dr Irene Stefanini

  30. Genomics approach to the analysis of bacterial communities dynamics in Hirschsprung’s disease-associated enterocolitis: a pilot study

    Article • Pediatric Surgery International, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Irene Stefanini

  31. Chemical genetics approach to identify new small molecule modulators of cell growth by phenotypic screening of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with a library of morpholine-derived compounds

    Article • Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, January 2010, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Prof Andrea Trabocchi, Dr Irene Stefanini

  32. DC-ATLAS: a systems biology resource to dissect receptor specific signal transduction in dendritic cells

    Article • Immunome Research, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Gabriella Torcia, Dr Irene Stefanini, Marco Brandizi