Olivier Jousson
University of Trento, Italy
Biography
Olivier Jousson has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and postdoctoral studies from University Hospital Lausanne. He is Associate Professor and PI of the Microbial Genomics Laboratory at CIBIO. He is director of teaching of undergraduate biotechnology programs at the University of Trento. He has published more than 60 papers in international, peer-reviewed journals. His is interested in the study of bacterial pathogens, including genome-wide identification and functional characterization of virulence factors, development of molecular typing systems, and population biology and epidemiology. He has been serving as a reviewer or invited editor for a number of reputed journals in the field.