SIRONI MANUELA

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Genetics (BIOS-14/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
GENETICS (05/BIOS-14)
Office phone

Publications

  • Cagliani, R., Pozzoli, U., Forni, D., Mozzi, A., Sironi, M. (2026). Urea transporter evolution: deep conservation, recent adaptation in mammals, and maintenance of the Jka/Jkb polymorphism in the past ~ 110,000 years. BIOLOGY DIRECT, 21(1) [10.1186/s13062-026-00741-3]. Detail

  • Cagliani, R., Forni, D., Mozzi, A., Sarama, R., Pozzoli, U., Fumagalli, M., et al. (2026). Positive Selection Targeted Primate Genes that Encode Transposable Element Repressors. GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, 18(3) [10.1093/gbe/evag059]. Detail

  • Fuchs, R., Schor, O., Naim, B., Tussia-Cohen, D., Mozzi, A., Forni, D., et al. (2026). The evolutionary dynamics between viral mimics and host proteins. MOLECULAR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY [10.1038/s44320-026-00200-1]. Detail

  • Forni, D., Cagliani, R., Sironi, M. (2026). Unstructured but dangerous—the emerging roles of intrinsically disordered protein regions in bacterial pathogenesis. FEBS LETTERS [10.1002/1873-3468.70368]. Detail

  • Mozzi, A., Forni, D., Cagliani, R., Molteni, C., Clerici, M., Sironi, M. (2025). Population Genetic Structure and Human Adaptation of Kaposi Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus. OPEN FORUM INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 12(3) [10.1093/ofid/ofaf111]. Detail

Awards

Scientific fellowships

  • Fellow - International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, 2017

Editorial boards

  • - INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION, 2022
  • - VIRUSES, 2021
  • - SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2020

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program chair - of MEEGID XVII (17th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Elsevier)(India), 2025
  • Program chair - 16th International Conference on Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases (MEEGID XVI)(Germania), 2023