Marco Galardini

Prof. Dr. Marco Galardini

Research Group Leader

About

Marco Galardini is a computational biologist with a taste for microbiology. He did his bachelor and master studies in Italy at the university of Florence and Bologna, and his PhD in the lab of Marco Bazzicalupo. He then did two postdocs: one in the lab of Pedro Beltrao at EMBL-EBI, and one in the lab of Mo Khalil at Boston University. He leads the Microbial Pangenomes Lab at TWINCORE since October 2020
His current focus is on developing computational methods to study the genetic determinants of bacterial virulence and antimicrobial resistance and the empirical study of the evolution of resistance. His professorship in Hannover is funded by the RESIST Cluster of Excellence.