Francesca Fava

Research fellow at Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, TN, Italy, since 2011. Education and Training: Degree in Biotechnology in 2003 at the University of Bologna, Italy; Ph.D. from the University of Reading (UoR), U.K, in 2008; research fellow at UoR, U.K (2007.2008); research fellow at Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, MI, Italy. Research interests: the role of gut microbiota and bacterial metabolism on health, using in vitro gut microbial fermentation and human intestinal epithelium models, in vivo human dietary intervention studies, and molecular biology analysis of microbiota and tissue samples from human and animal dietary interventions. Publication: 29 peer reviewed publications; 5 book chapters; h index=25; 6098 citations.