Hygiene of the living and working environment

Principal Investigator (PI)/Coordinator: Prof. Roberto Bono

Team

• Prof. Roberto Bono, Full Professor, Head of Research Team
• Prof. Sara Bonetta, Associate Professor
• Prof. Elisabetta Carraro, Associate Professor
• Prof. Elisabetta Fea, Associate Professor
• Prof. Tiziana Schilirò, Associate Professor
• Prof. Deborah Traversi, Associate Professor
• Dr. Giulia Squillacioti, Junior lecturer
• Dr. Valeria Bellisario, Technician
• Dr. Cristina Pignata, Technician

Contacts
Prof. Roberto Bono
Email: roberto.bono@unito.it
Phone: +39 0116705818
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Prof. Elisabetta Carraro
Email: elisabetta.carraro@unito.it
Phone: +39 0116708192
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Prof. Tiziana Schilirò
Email: tiziana.schilirò@unito.it
Phone: +39 0116705820
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Prof. Deborah Traversi
Email: deborah.traversi@unito.it
Phone: +39 0116705703
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Sezione di Igiene, via Santena 5 bis, 10126, Torino

Research Activities
Prof. Bono, Dr. Bellisario, Dr. Squillacioti 

• Molecular epidemiology in the living and working environment. Inflammatory processes, oxidative stress.
• Measurement of behaviors and lifestyles for primary prevention and health promotion.
• Biological and epidemiological techniques for quantifying the biological effects of moderate and adapted physical activity, as a determinant of health and well-being, in populations according to the age group, in physiological, pathological and pregnancy conditions and in the living and working environment.

Prof. Schilirò

• Monitoring of air quality with in vitro tests.
• Health Impact of environmental pollution through the Risk Assessment application.
• Estrogenic activity as an exposure biomarker, quantified with in vitro assays in environmental matrices and biological samples.

Prof. Traversi

• Exposure to bioaerosols and particulates and effects on human health
• Modulation of the intestinal microbiota and prevention
• Microbiome of environmental matrices variations and implications for environmental sustainability and human health 

Prof. Carraro, Prof. Fea, Prof. Bonetta, Dr. Pignata

• Cytotoxic, genotoxic, epigenetic and oxidative effects of atmospheric particles measured by the Comet assay on human cells in vitro.
• Early biological effects (DNA damage, chromosomal breaks, oxidative stress) caused by risk factors in the living and working environment.
• Antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and resistance genes (ARG) in environmental matrices.
• The emerging pathogens in the integrated water cycle. Evaluation of the effectiveness of the treatments.
• Epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV2 in urban wastewater.
• Ecotoxicological tests (V. fischeri, D. magna, P. subcapitata).
• Healthiness and quality of natural mineral waters.