Laura Garzoli
Senior Researcher
 
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National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Water Research Institute (IRSA)
Largo Tonolli 50, 28922 Verbania Pallanza, Italy

MAIN RESPONSABILITIES

Head of the MEGIC microbial Culture Collecton at CNR-IRSA Verbania, coordinator of fungi research at CNR-IRSA Verbania, coordinator of the bat research group at CNR-IRSA Verbania

2025 - current member of the IUCN SSG Aquatic Fungi

2024- current Italian PI Biodiversa+ project MoSTFun Monitoring Strategies and Tools to address knowledge gaps on aquatic Fungal biodiversity

2023 – current Italian PI and deputy-coordinator of Biodiversa+ project FUNACTION Aquatic FUNgal biodiversity: developing knowledge and strAtegies to inform ConservaTION priorities and measures

2022/11/01 –  current Steering Committee and UO08 PI of the PNRR Project SUS-MIRRI.IT - Strengthening the MIRRI Italian Research Infrastructure for Sustainable Bioscience and Bioeconomy

2023/04/26 – current DOI responsible for CNR-IRSA

2022/07/05 – current  WG1 co-leader COST Action CA20125 ParAqua - Applications for Zoosporic Parasites in Aquatic Systems

01/01/2022-15/06/2025 Scientific coordinator of the subproject “Progetto pilota per il monitoraggio di fauna macroinvertebrata e fauna interstiziale bentonica anche invasiva nel Lago Maggiore tramite approcci morfo-molecolari “ within CIPAIS sezione 3 “Ambienti litorali e tematiche emergenti”

2022/01/01 – 01/10/2023  Media and Communication Officer of INVASIVESNET- the  International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species

2018/05/18 – 23/04/2025 Early Career Representative, Executive Committee of INVASIVESNET - the  International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species,

2018 – coordinator fo the project “YES!BAT Sustainable Rice fields: say YES! To bats” awarded by the “Young Earth Solution! Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Fundation - BCFN YES! Award”

TEAM MEMBER
PRIN BAT-SIGNALS Bats signalling environmental contaminants: integration of non-invasive biomonitoring and -omics approaches (CNR Bat Research Coordinator)
Biodiversa+ Darco The vertical dimension of conservation: A cost-effective plan to incorporate subterranean ecosystems in post-2020 biodiversity and climate change agendas (team member of project PI)
LIFE 20 NAT/ES/000369 Restoration of aquatic ecosystems of protected areas from the Alps and Pyrenees LIFE RESCUE ALPYR (CNR Bat Research Coordinator)
Novel Ecology-Based Solution to Optimize the Treatment of Urban Sewage Waters @CNR ECOTREAT (team member)
A Planetary Inventory of Life LIFEPLAN (Lake Maggiore site co-coordinator)

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2018 – current     Associate Editor of BioInvasion Records, the International Journal of Field Research on Biological Invasions. IF2020: 1.608
2019 –  2021    Guest Editor of the Special Issue, "Freshwater Macroinvertebrates: Main Gaps and Future Trends" for Water IF2020: 3.103

Research interests: My research interests range from mycology to mammalogy, trying to merge these competences into multidisciplinary projects.
As a mycologist, I’m specialized in the study of marine fungi, their taxonomy and physiology. I’m interested in deepening the knowledge of marine fungal enzymes and metabolites focusing on their bioactivity. I have also experience in plant pathology, with a main focus on rice blast disease (Pyricularia oryzae).
Concerning my study on bats, I’m dedicated to their conservation, through research and management of hibernating sites and maternal roosts in NW Italy, in collaboration with Dr. Elena Patriarca and Paolo Debernardi of the Stazione Teriologica Piemontese. I’ve applied my mycologist skills for the study of white-nose syndrome (WNS), a devastating disease caused by Pseudogymnoascus destructans, responsible for the deaths of millions of bats across the world. Together with my colleagues at CNR, I’m researching bat diet through metagenomic, and the threats posed by pesticides on their survival.
I’m also working on invasive/non-native species, with a focus on alien crayfish, trying to define managing strategies for their control, and raising awareness on the issue.

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