Awards – MICROBIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for attending at XXXIV SIMGBM Congress Microbiology 2023 (Cagliari, 21-24 September 2023) (to Melissa Bisaccia).
FEMS Meeting Attendance Grant for 5^th European Summer School on Industrial Biotechnology “Functional metagenomics: from nature to biochemical functions” (Hamburg, Germany, 3rd-6th July 2023) (to Melissa Bisaccia).
FEMS Meeting Attendance Grant for 9^th John Innes/Rudjer Boskovic Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Ecology, Evolution and Applications” (Dubrovnik, Croatia, 10th-17th September 2022) (to Melissa Bisaccia).
Award Franco Tatò for the best PhD Thesis in the field of Microbial Biotechnology from SIMGBM (May 2022) (to Andres-Andreo Vidal)
FEMS Research and Training Grant for working on the project “Exploiting surface plasmon resonance for discovering novel antibiotic adjuvants against glycopeptide resistant pathogens” at Universidad Complutense, Madrid Spain, in collaboration with Prof. Maria Josefa Hernaiz Gomez-Degano (November 2018 – February 2019) (to Francesca Berini)
Grant GIC – DiChIn (Società Chimica Italiana – Divisione di Chimica Industriale) for attending “XX Congresso Nazionale di Catalisi e XX Congresso Nazionale della Divisione di Chimica Industriale”, Milan Italy (2-5 September 2018) (to Francesca Berini)
Fermentation Travel Award for Junior Investigator (MDPI) “BioTech2017, 7th Czech-Swiss symposium with exhibition”, Prague, Czech Republic (13-17 June 2017) (to Francesca Berini).
Senior Fellowship (Assegno Senior) from the University of Insubria for the Research Project “SPR study of regulatory genes for glycopeptide antibiotic production” (2017-2018) (to Elisa Binda).
“GLOCAL ERC: Ricercatori di successo internazionale per la ricerca lombarda” Fellowship for preparing an ERC-starting Grant. University of Insubria, funded by Regione Lombardia and Fondazione Cariplo (2016-2018) (to Elisa Binda).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for attending at the “XIV FISV Congress 2016”, Rome (20-23 September 2016) (to Francesca Berini).
Award Franco Tatò for the best PhD Thesis in the field of Microbial Biotechnology from SIMGBM (22 September 2016) (to Francesca Berini) http://www4.uninsubria.it/on-line/home/articolo12830.html.
Senior Fellowship (Assegno Senior) from the University of Insubria for the Research Project “VanYn: study and inhibition of a new enzyme involved in the resistance mechanism to glycopeptide antibiotics” (2016-2017) (to Elisa Binda).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for attending at the “13^th Symposium on Bacterial Genetics and Ecology – BAGECO 2015”, Milan (14-18 June 2015) (to Francesca Berini).
“GLOCAL ERC: Ricercatori di successo internazionale per la ricerca lombarda” Fellowship for preparing an ERC-starting Grant. University of Insubria, funded by Regione Lombardia and Fondazione Cariplo (2015-2018) (to Letizia Marcone).
FEMS research grant for working on the project “VanY: structure and inhibition of new enzyme involved in resistance mechanism to GPA antibiotics” at the John Innes Centre of Norwich, UK in collaboration with Prof. Mervyn J. Bibb (2015) (to Elisa Binda).
Grant “FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant (YSMG)” for attending at the “ISBA17: 17^th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes”, Kusadasi, Turkey (10-13 October 2014) (to Elisa Binda).
FEMS Grant Board FEMS Invited Speaker Meeting Grant (ISMG) for attending at the “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Origins and Applications”, Dubrovnik, Croatia (13-21 September 2014) (to Flavia Marinelli).
Grant “FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant (YSMG)” for attending at the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković Summer School on “Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Origins and Applications”, Dubrovnik, Croatia (13-21 September 2014) (to Francesca Berini).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for Research Visitors on the project “Genetic engineering and fermentation of teicoplanin” (2014) (to Olexander Yushchuk).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for attending at the “5^thCongress of European Microbiologists – FEMS 2013”, Leipzig, Germany (21-25 July 2013) (to Francesca Berini).
STSM COST ACTION CM 0804 on the project “Chemical Biology for natural products” in the host laboratory of Mervyn Bibb, Dept. of Molecular Microbiology, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK (to Chiara Borsetto).
Award Young Researcher 2013 “The Protein Factory” (to Elisa Binda).
FEMS research fellowship on the project “Mechanisms of teicoplanin production and antibiotic resistance in Actinoplanes teichomyceticus” (2012) (to Anton Kobylyanskyy).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for Research Visitors on the Metaexplore project in Södertörn Universit, Huddingen (April-May 2012) (to Ilaria Presti).
FFEMS Invited Speaker Meeting Grant (ISMG) for attending at the “Microbial Metabolites in Nature and Medicine – Summer School in Applied Molecular Microbiology”, Dubrovnik, Croatia (25 August – 2 September 2012) (to Flavia Marinelli).
Grant “FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant (YSMG)” for attending at theJohn Innes/Rudjer Bošković Summer School on “Microbial Metabolites in Nature and Medicine”, Dubrovnik, Croatia (25 August – 2 September 2012) (to Ilaria Presti).
Award Young Researcher 2012 “The Protein Factory” (to Letizia Marcone).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for attending at the “4th Congress of European Microbiologists”, Geneva, Switzerland (26-30 June 2011) (to Elisa Binda).
Grant “FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant (YSMG)” for attending “4th Congress of European Microbiologists”, Geneva, Switzerland (26-30 June 2011) (to Letizia Marcone).
Grant “FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant (YSMG)” for attending at the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković Summer School on “Microbial Metabolites: Signals to Drugs” Dubrovnik, Croatia (21-29 August 2010) (to Elisa Binda).
Grant “FEMS Young Scientist Meeting Grant (YSMG)” for attending at the “ISBA’15: 15^th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes”, Shanghai, China (20-25 August 2009) (to Letizia Marcone).
Grant CIB (Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Biotecnologie) for attending at the “ISBA’15: 15^th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes”, Shanghai, China (20-25 August 2009) (to Letizia Marcone).
Prize for the best poster of WORKSHOP II during “ISBA’15, 15^th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes: “Mining of Actinomycetes”, Shanghai, China (20-25 August 2009) (to Letizia Marcone).