IZSPLV

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d’Aosta

Associated Member

IZSPLV is a State organizational Institute providing services to enforce the agri-food chain. Conception and operation involve and require highly skilled staff, unique technological developments and data management systems offering opportunities for health safety improvement, science innovation and technological development to the socio-economic advance. The main activities of IZSPLV embrace the entire food chain, and particularly experimental research on aetiology and pathogenesis of infectious and spreading animal diseases, hygiene of breeding and livestock productions. Essays and bioassays for laboratory diagnosis of animal diseases, microbiological and chemical safety of food and zoo-technical feed, epidemiology monitoring on the field of animal health, livestock hygiene and food of animal origin, the production of vaccines, reagents and e immunological products for the prophylaxis and the diagnosis of animal diseases, training and refreshing of veterinarians and other operators in the Veterinary Public Health.

IZSPLV has the availability of 20,000 bacteria, 100 filamentous fungi and yeasts. Specifically, the collection includes pathogenic bacteria from food, feed, animals, and environment. The complexity of collection offers new opportunities and challenges in human and animal health under a One-Health holistic perspective and in veterinary epidemiology around how to translate abundant, diverse, and rapidly growing data into meaningful insights, with the objective of improving and understanding bioscience by facilitating the access to a broadest range of high-quality microorganisms, with a special focus on the domains of health & food, agro-food, environment, health risks, and effectiveness of management and policy decisions.

Key people:

  • Daniela Meloni
    DIRIGENTE VETERINARIO S.C. Staff Scientifico
  • Simona Zoppi
    DIRIGENETE VETERINARIO S.C. Diagnostica Generale
  • Monica Pitti
    DIRIGENTE VETERINARIO S.S. Microbiologia Specialistica (S.C. Sicurezza Alimentare)
  • Cavallari Claudia
    RICERCATORE SANITARIO S.C. Diagnostica Generale
  • Tavecchia Matteo
    RICERCATORE SANITARIO S.C. Sicurezza Alimentare
  • Irene Floris
    RICERCATORE SANITARIO   S.C. Sicurezza Alimentare