VAS Talk: Amdoparvoviruses of carnivorans: magical mistery tour
The PhD school in Veterinary and Animal Sciences is pleased to invite you to the VAS Talk, which will be delivered by the Visiting Professor Marta Canuti, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen and titled “Amdoparvoviruses of carnivorans: magical mystery tour”.
The Talk will cover the epidemiology, ecology, and evolution of a group of weird viruses significant for farmed and wild animal health.
Marta Canuti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences – University of Copenhagen. The University of Copenaghen is associated with the University of Milan to the “4EU+ Alliance”.
She is an enthusiastic virologist with years of experience in virus epidemiology, ecology, and evolution. Her main research fields are virus discovery/metagenomics and virus ecology in wildlife and at the interphase between wildlife and domesticated animals (farms and pets). She uses genomic data to study virus evolution, transmission dynamics, cross-species transmission patterns, and virus spread across local and global borders. In the context of pandemic preparedness and Global Health, she focuses on studying disease emergence and vector-borne viruses in the time of climate change. Over the years, she has participated to large EU-funded grants focused on pandemic preparedness and she is currently the PI of the SEED4EU+ “ARBO-WATCH” grant in which are involved colleagues of the DIVAS and focused on vector-borne viruses, climate change, and pandemic preparedness.
