People

Lorenzo Tosi

Position	Post-doc
Current site of work	Fondazione Edmund Mach
Street, number	via Mach, 1
City	S. Michele all'Adige TN
Postal code	38010
Country	Italy
E-mail	lorenzo.tosi@iasma.it
Phone	+39 0461615148
Mobile phone	+393478550299
Degree, Msc, or PhD; when; where; on what subject; title of the thesis	Ph. D, 2003; University of Piacenza, Dipartimento di Microbiologia; "Antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus thermophilus phenotypic traits, conjugation and aggregation"
Expertise	Expertise in classical and molecular microbiology methods. Experience with both practical and theoretical aspects of surface interactions of biomolecules, surface chemistry, bioconjugate chemistry, small molecule-protein interactions and applications in biotechnology.
Professional societies	Member of The International Society of Molecular-Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI).
Research experience, training, professional stages	2005-2006 Research Scientist in Chr. Hansen A/S Bøge Allé 10-12, DK-2970 Hørsholm (Denmark) www.chr.hansen.com; main subject: Characterization of antibiotic resistance genes in Lactic Acid Bacteria and gene conjugal transfer. 2006 - 2008 Research scientist in Molecular Stamping srl. (http://www.molecularstamping.com/) a start-up company born thorough a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Bruno Kessler foundation (http://www.fbk.eu/). Development of a novel "HydroSuNS" technology for enzymatic replication of DNA microarrays with high resolution and large area printing. From 2009 employed as Research Scientist at Istituto Agrario di San Michele all’ Adige as responsible of AMPELO project. Main subjects: gene expression analysis during Ampelomyces quisqualis trophic interaction.
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Current research area	Biocontrol. Ampelomyces quisqualis, characterization of genetic and phenotypic mechanisms involved in mycoparasitization.

Publication List (last five years):

Lorenzo Tosi, Alberto Ferrarini, Massimo Delledonne, Alessandro Ferrari, Antonio Chimento, Monica Maurhofer, Cesare Gessler, and Ilaria Pertot: Expression profiling of Ampelomyces quisqualis during mycoparasitization of Podosphaera xanthii. Proceedings of the XIV International Congress on Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 2009.

Morten Danielsen, Sigrid Mayrhofer, Konrad Johann Domig, Ernst Amtmann, Helmut Karl Mayer, Ana Belén Frlorez, Baltasar Mayo, Jenni Korhonen and Lorenzo Tosi: Assessment of the antimicrobial wild type minimum inhibitory concentration distributions of species of the Lactobacillus delbrueckii group. Dairy Sci. Technol. 2008 88 2 183-191.

Ana Belén Flórez, Lorenzo Tosi, Morten Danielsen, Atte von Wright, Jacek Bardowski, Lorenzo Morelli, and Baltasar Mayo: Resistance-susceptibility profiles of Lactococcus lactis and Streptococcus thermophilus strains to eight antibiotics and proposition of new cut-offs.
International Journal of probiotics & prebiotics 2008 4 249-256.

Konrad J. Domig, Sigrid Mayrhofer, Geert Huys, Lorenzo Tosi, Morten Danielsen, Baltasar Mayo, Lars Axelsson, Jenni M. Korhonen, Maria Egervärn, Jacek K. Bardowski, Maria Saarela, Lorenzo Morelli and Wolfgang Kneifel: The ACE-ART database – antibiotic susceptibility of lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria in relation to their biological, geographical and chronological origin. International Journal of probiotics & prebiotics 2008 4 281-286.

Lorenzo Tosi, Giacomo Berruti, Morten Danielsen, Anette Wind, Ghert Huys and Lorenzo Morelli: Susceptibility of Streptococcus thermophilus to Antibiotics. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology 2007 Jul;92(1):21-8. Epub 2006 Dec 7.

Ana Belén Flórez, Maria Egervärn, Morten Danielsen, Lorenzo Tosi, Lorenzo Morelli, Sven Lindgren & Baltasar Mayo: Susceptibility of Lactobacillus plantarum strains of different origin to six antibiotics as determined by microdilution and the Etest, and definition of their susceptibility-resistance cut-off values. Microb Drug Resist. 2006 Winter;12(4):252-6.

INVENTIONS

2008 H. Benjamin Larman, Lorenzo Tosi, Lisa Ferretti, "Transmission Supramolecular NanoStamping (TranSuNS) Method for Manufacturing Biomolecular Arrays" (Italian Provisional Patent Application, in progress).

2008 Andrea Cuppoletti, Lisa Ferretti, H. Benjamin Larman, Lorenzo Tosi, Sarah Thevenet, "Composition and manufacturing method of a coating for Hydrogel Supramolecular NanoStamping" (U.S. Provisional Patent Application, in progress).

2008 H. Benjamin Larman and Lorenzo Tosi, "Magnetoparticle coupled ligand transfer method for manufacturing microarrays" (U.S. Provisional Patent Application, in progress).

Development & Design: e-maintenance