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Federica Palma serves as a Scientific Project Manager at the Biological Resources Center of Institut Pasteur (CRBIP, Paris) since September 2020, where she leads the strategic development and curation of the BIGSdb-Pasteur genomic taxonomy platform. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at ANSES (French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety) working on genomic methods for foodborne pathogen surveillance.
Her research expertise spans bacterial genomics, bioinformatics, and public health microbiology with focus on foodborne pathogens including Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica, and Klebsiella pneumoniae. Dr. Palma specializes in genomic surveillance methods, antimicrobial resistance analysis, and outbreak detection using whole genome sequencing technologies.
Dr. Palma's recent publications demonstrate her contributions to understanding pathogen transmission dynamics, with her 2025 New England Journal of Medicine paper documenting a multiclonal Corynebacterium diphtheriae outbreak across 10 European countries among migrant populations, revealing concerning antimicrobial resistance patterns that threaten standard treatments.
She actively contributes to several major research initiatives including the Genomic Taxonomy of Bacterial Strains project and the ISIDORe consortium for infectious disease outbreak research, representing the MIRRI infrastructure in these collaborative efforts.
Dr. Palma's laboratory work centers around the BIGSdb-Pasteur platform (http://bigsdb.pasteur.fr), which provides critical infrastructure for genomic-based strain taxonomy and nomenclature in public health microbiology, supporting integrated pathogen surveillance systems for bacterial pathogens of public health importance.
