Ludovica F Butto
Technische Universität Munchen Weihenstephan, Germany
Biography
Ludovica F Butto has completed her Master’s degree from the University of Verona, Italy, investigating the production and oral delivery of vaccines for diabetes type-I in plant. She won a fellowship position funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) at the Centre of Competence for the innovation in the agro-environmental field, Agroinnova (Turin, Italy). She carried out her PhD at the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (University College Cork, Cork, Ireland) focused on TLR signaling in bacteria-host immune cells interaction. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher funded by Helmsley Trust (NY) at the Chair of Nutrition and Immunology, Technische Universität Munchen (Weihenstephan, Germany), investigating the impact of the human intestinal microbiota from highly refractory Crohn’s disease patients who underwent autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation inducing drug-free remission, in germfree mouse models of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.