Dept. of Biotechnology and Biosciences
University of Milano-Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 2, 20126 Milan
Contact me: valeria.mapelli@unimib.it
Short Bio
Projects
Publications
Enhancement of microbial biodiversity to promote environmental and human health.
Perotti, S., Serra, I., Mapelli, V., Branduardi, P. (2024).
Intervento presentato a: Forum Nazionale della Biodiversità, Palermo, Italy.
Valorization of industrial waste streams via yeast based bioprocesses.
Mapelli, V., Simonetti, M., Butti, P., Pasini, M., Squeo, B., Branduardi, P. (2024).
Intervento presentato a: ACY – 48th Annual conference on yeasts, Smolenice (Slovakia).
Valorisation of cotton post-industrial textile waste into lactic acid: chemo-mechanical pretreatment, separate hydrolysis and fermentation using engineered yeast.
Simonetti, M., Butti, P., Di Lorenzo, R., Mapelli, V., Branduardi, P. (2024).
MICROBIAL CELL FACTORIES, 23(1), 1-13 [10.1186/s12934-024-02384-3].
Industrial Production of Proteins with Pichia pastoris-Komagataella phaffii.
Barone, G., Emmerstorfer-Augustin, A., Biundo, A., Pisano, I., Coccetti, P., Mapelli, V., et al. (2023).
BIOMOLECULES, 13(3), 1-23 [10.3390/biom13030441].
Directed Evolution of (R)-2-Hydroxyglutarate Dehydrogenase Improves 2-Oxoadipate Reduction by 2 Orders of Magnitude.
Saez-Jimenez, V., Scrima, S., Lambrughi, M., Papaleo, E., Mapelli, V., Engqvist, M., et al. (2022).
ACS SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY, 11(8), 2779-2790 [10.1021/acssynbio.2c00162].
Financed projects
The National Center 5 “National Biodiversity Future Center” (Award Number: Project code CN_00000033, Concession Decree No. 1034 of 17 June 2022 adopted by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, CUP H43C22000530001, Project title “National Biodiversity Future Center – NBFC. Funder: Project funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment.
MUSA – Multilayered Urban Sustainability Action – project, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU, under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) Mission 4 Component 2 Investment Line 1.5: Strenghtening of research structures and creation of R&D “innovation ecosystems”, set up of “territorial leaders in R&D”
From genome-guided discovery to production of novel glycopeptide antibiotics by an integrative technological platform (DiGlycAn)” finanziato dall’Unione Europea – NextGenerationEU MISSIONE 4 COMPONENTE 2 – INVESTIMENTO 1.1, Fondo per il Programma Nazionale di Ricerca e Progetti di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN) del Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza, dedicata ai Progetti di ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale, (Bando PRIN 2022, Decreto Direttoriale n. 1048 del 14 luglio 2023).
MIMETISE. Assessment of microbial metabolism within the plastisphere of traditional and biodegradable plastic
Valeria Mapelli has a PhD in Industrial Biotechnology and since 2022 has been Associate Professor in Fermentation Chemistry and Industrial Microbiology at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
In the past Valeria Mapelli has worked as researcher at the Danish Technical University (Denmark), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and in industry, where she gained experience in fermentation process development for industrial scale fermentations.
Currently, as Associate Professor in the IndBioTechLab group, she is responsible for the fermentation platform, and she is involved in research projects aiming to develop and optimize yeast-based bioprocesses for the sustainable production of diverse products, including organic acids, agrochemicals, nutraceuticals, and recombinant proteins.
The interlink between microbial physiology and fermentation process is one of the main focuses of her research aiming at the optimization different bioprocesses and development of yeast cell factories.