Spaccapelo Lab

Università degli Studi di Perugia

Development of novel strategies to control insect vectors spreading of disease


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Relevant publications:

JNK signaling regulates reproductive trade-offs after Plasmodium infection in the malaria mosquito


Max Lombardi, Anastasia Accoti, Paolo Scarpelli, Gloria Iacomelli, Lucia Pazzagli, Antonella Turco, Giulia Monacchia, Simona Ferracchiato, Tasneem A Rinvee, Duo Peng, Charles Vidoudez, W Robert Shaw, Flaminia Catteruccia, Roberta Spaccapelo, Matthew J Peirce

Commun. Biol., Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2026 Aug


Just another white-striped mosquito? A scoping review and group discussion synthesis on Aedes koreicus in Europe


Giovanni Marini, Maria Vittoria Mancini, Claudia Damiani, Kornèlia Kurucz, Alessandro Albieri, Daniele Arnoldi, Romina Bahrami, Giulia Battistin, Margo Blaha, Davide Bonetto, Lidia Iustina Danca, Sofia Di Castri, Carmela Di Santo, Kamil Erguler, Nicola Ferrari, Eleonora Flacio, Alessandra Franceschini, Daniel Gingell, Federica Gobbo, Francesco Gradoni, Annalisa Grisendi, Ayda Khorramnejad, Eleonora Longo, Mattia Manica, Mario Marinozzi, Cedric Marsboom, Stefania Melillo, Fabrizio Montarsi, Moh Mirza Nuryady, Francesca Paoli, Roberto Rosà, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Mara Scremin, Tanto Situmorang, Davide Sogliani, Roberta Spaccapelo, Wim Van Bortel, Rodolfo Veronesi, Patrizia Visentin, Valeria Lencioni, Daniele Da Re

Acta Trop., Elsevier BV, 2026 Aug, p. 108302


Experimental evidence of male-male interaction in laboratory swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes


Gloria Iacomelli, Max Lombardi, Leonardo Parisi, Matteo Fiorini, Francesca Grucci, Alessio Lavorgna, Melania Ligato, Gaetano Zarcone, Matthew J Peirce, Stefania Melillo, Roberta Spaccapelo

Sci Rep, 2026 Jul


Tracking kdr alleles associated with pyrethroid resistance in Aedes albopictus across Italy: a nationwide genotypic dataset by MosqIRIT network


Carlo Maria De Marco, Verena Pichler, Federica Gobbo, Sara Manzi, Eleonora Rosso, Federica Toniolo, Elena Carra, Angelica Petrella, Annalisa Grisendi, Francesco Defilippo, Carlotta Tessarolo, Elisabetta Ercole, Annalisa Accorsi, Andrea Mosca, Filippo Cassina, Marco Di Domenico, Valeria Di Lollo, Matteo De Ascentis, Silvio Gerardo D'Alessio, Ilaria Congiu, Valentina Donati, Valeria Carioti, Fahimeh Bandieinia, Stefano Gavaudan, Cristina Canonico, Guido Favia, Francesca Racciatti, Roberta Spaccapelo, Celine Alami, Claudio de Martinis, Alessia Pucciarelli, Gerardo Picazio, Maurizio Viscardi, Loredana Capozzi, Maria Grazia Cariglia, Luana Violante, Cipriano Foxi, Daniele Dedola, Valentina Sini, Luca Ruiu, Alessia Vinci, Silvia Scibetta, Eugenia Oliveri, Stefano Reale, Maria Liliana Di Pasquale, Sara Villari, Beniamino Caputo, Alessandra Della Torre

GigaByte, vol. 2026, 2026 Jul, pp. gigabyte185


Anopheline mosquito saliva contains bacteria that are transferred to a mammalian host through blood feeding


Anastasia Accoti, Claudia Damiani, Emilia Nunzi, Alessia Cappelli, Gloria Iacomelli, Giulia Monacchia, Antonella Turco, Francesco D'Alò, Matthew J. Peirce, Guido Favia, Roberta Spaccapelo

Frontiers in Microbiology, vol. 14, 2023, p. 1157613


Characterization of lab-based swarms of Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes using 3D-video tracking


Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Michela Anna Gucciardino, Gloria Iacomelli, Max Lombardi, Stefania Melillo, Giulia Monacchia, Leonardo Parisi, Matthew J. Peirce, Roberta Spaccapelo

Scientific Reports, vol. 13, 2023 May, p. 8745