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LAURA TREU
Position
Professoressa Associata
Structure
Address
VIA U. BASSI, 58/B - PADOVA
Telephone
0498276281

Notices
Office hours
at Lab 14, third floor south, Complesso Vallisneri
Email appointment
Publications
Top selection of relevant ISI publications:
1. Ghiotto G., Zampieri G., Campanaro S., Treu L. Strain-resolved metagenomics approaches applied to biogas upgrading. 2024 Environmental Research (IF 8.4)
2. Morlino M.S., Serna García R., Savio F., Zampieri G., Morosinotto T., Treu L.*, Campanaro S. Cupriavidus necator as a platform for polyhydroxyalkanoate production: An overview of strains, metabolism, and modeling approaches. 2023 Biotechnology Advances (IF 17.7)
3. Giangeri, G., Tsapekos, P., Gaspari, M., Ghofrani-Isfahani, P., Hong Lin, M. K. T., Treu, L., Kougias, P., Campanaro, S., Angelidaki, I. Magnetite Alters the Metabolic Interaction between Methanogens and Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria. 2023 Environmental Science & Technology (IF 11.4)
4. Basile A., Zampieri G., Kovalovszki A., Karkaria B., Treu L., Patil K.R., Campanaro S. Modelling of microbial interactions in anaerobic digestion: from black to glass box. 2023 Current Opinion in Microbiology (IF 7.6)
5. Basile A., Heinken A., Hertel J., Smarr L., Li W., Treu L.*, Valle G., Campanaro S., Thiele I*. Longitudinal flux balance analyses of a patient with episodic colonic inflammation reveals microbiome metabolic dynamics. 2023 Gut Microbes (IF 12.2)
6. Greses S., De Bernardini N., Treu L., Campanaro S., González-Fernández C. Genome-centric metagenomics revealed the effect of pH on the microbiome involved in short-chain fatty acids and ethanol production. 2023 Bioresource Technology (IF 11.4)
7. Zampieri G., Angione C., Palù M., Campanaro S., Treu L. Metatranscriptomics-guided genome-scale metabolic modelling of microbial communities. 2023 Cell Reports Methods (IF nd) - 7 citations
8. Rossi A., Morlino M.S., Gaspari M., Basile A., Kougias P.G., Treu L.*, Campanaro S. Analysis of the anaerobic digestion metagenome under environmental stresses stimulating prophage induction. 2022 Microbiome (IF 16.8)
9. De Bernardini N., Basile A., Zampieri G., Kovalovszki A., De Diego Diaz B., Offer E., Wongfaed N., Angelidaki I., Kougias P.G., Campanaro S., Treu L. Integrating metagenomic binning with flux balance analysis to unravel syntrophies in anaerobic CO2 methanation. 2022 Microbiome (IF 16.8) - 18 citations
10. Palù M., Peprah M., Tsapekos P., Kougias P.G., Campanaro S., Angelidaki I., Treu L. In-situ biogas upgrading assisted by bioaugmentation with hydrogenotrophic methanogens during mesophilic and thermophilic co-digestion. 2022 Bioresource Technology (IF 11.9)
11. Gaspari, M.+, Treu, L.+, Zhu, X., Palù, M., Angelidaki, I., Campanaro, S., Kougias, P.G. Microbial dynamics in biogas digesters treating lipid-rich substrates via genome-centric metagenomics. 2021 Science of the Total Environment (IF 10.8)
12. Yan M., Treu L.*, Fotidis I., Tian H., Zhu X., Campanaro S., Angelidaki I. Insights into ammonia adaptations and methanogenic precursor oxidation by genome-guided analysis. 2020 Environmental Science & Technology (IF 9.0)
13. Basile A., Campanaro S., Kovalovszki A., Zampieri G., Rossi A., Angelidaki I., Valle G., Treu L. Revealing metabolic mechanisms of interaction in the anaerobic digestion microbiome by flux balance analysis. 2020 Metabolic Engineering (IF 9.8) - 32 citations
14. Yan M., Treu L.*, Campanaro S.*, Tian H., Zhu X., Khoshnevisan B., Tsapekos P., Angelidaki I., Fotidis I. Effect of ammonia on anaerobic digestion of municipal solid waste: inhibitory performance, bioaugmentation and microbiome functional reconstruction. 2020 Chemical Engineering Journal (IF 13.3)
Research Area
Looking at my long-term activity, my research is mainly focused on Bioenergy, a field that I started to investigate in 2013 mainly using genomic and bioinformatics approaches. Due to my scientific background in molecular biology, I explore this topic in a very original way combining different disciplines and developing collaborations with scientists having different backgrounds such as engineers and physicists. My long-term experience at the Denmark Technical University (DTU, 2014-2018) was developed in a worldwide recognized international environment. I worked as researcher and senior researcher with f the world top ranked scientists in the field of renewable energy. My recruitment at DTU was motivated by the need of reinforcing the bioinformatics section, and, thanks to my contribution, the group evolved rapidly moving to a new approach based on microbial metagenomics. Thanks to the dynamic and stimulating international environment, not only I increased my knowledge of bioenergy but, even more importantly, I established and tightened collaborations with the most influential scientists in the field. I decided to move back to my native country in 2018 in order to boost a technology transfer to the Department of Biology (DiBio) of University of Padova, reinforcing the microbial metagenomics and bioinformatics sections.
Considering the development of my research in the next few years, the main topic will be the investigation of the mechanisms behind the microbial syntropies and of phages-microbes interactions in anaerobic ecosystems. Recent scientific advances allow us to unravel this conundrum, and thus, to address several key-challenges that will lead to optimized bioprocesses. However, many aspects still need to be clarified particularly in the phage-host interaction process. I am planning to develop my research using a daring approach based on advanced bioinformatics combined with state-of-the-art genomics. I expect that my research will provide important findings both regarding fundamental and applied knowledge. Results will lead to the optimization of the microbial resource management for efficient CO2 transformation.