Alice Fusaro

Alice Fusaro currently works at the Department of Comparative Biomedical Sciences, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie. Her current research focuses on the evolutionary genetics of RNA viruses responsible of animal infections, with special emphasis on the major mechanisms of virus evolution, the molecular epidemiology of important emerging pathogens and the roles played by mutations, natural selection, recombination, and gene flow in shaping patterns of genetic diversity on RNA viruses. Thanks to the application of high-throughput whole-genome next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, her recent studies have helped to provide a better understanding of the inter- and intra-host genetic diversity of influenza viruses