Curriculum Vitae: RAFFAELLA BIANUCCI

Date of birth: 24th September 1968. Place of birth: Turin, Italy. Citizenship: Italian Work address: Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Unit, Gibbet Hill Road, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK. E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

Short biographical sketch I am a senior researcher- physical anthropologist and paleopathologist- working at Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, The University of Warwick (UK). My research interest focuses on Medical Humanities with a particular view to the history, modality of trasmission and biological profiles of ancient epidemic . I also have a peculiar interest in paleopathography and icono-diagnostic.

Academic Positions  2018- National Habilitation to Associate Professorship in Anthropology (05/B1) (05. 04. 2024)  2017- National Habilitation to Associate Professorship in General and Clinical , History of Medicine and Paleopathology (MED 06/02)(5-12-2017).  2016-2018 Senior researcher, Warwick Medical School, Microbiology and Infection Division, University of Warwick, UK (Wellcome Trust Awarded Grant “Deep evolutionary history of bacterial pathogens” 202792/Z/16/Z. PI: Prof. Mark Achtman).  2016-2017 Visiting researcher at the University of Turin, Dept. of Public Health and Paediatrics, Legal Medicine Section, Laboratory of Physical Anthropology (Supervisor: prof. Giancarlo Di Vella).  2016 Scholarship at the University of Marseilles, France. Projet PaluNéo, PEPS INEE blanc (PI: Dr. Aurore Schmitt (CNR)  2015 Scholarship at the University of Sassari  2013-2015 Postdoctoral fellow appointed at the Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis (CEES), Department of Biosciences, University of Olso, Norway (ERC Advanced Grant n° 324249 MedPlag. PI: Dr. Barbara Bramanti).  2010-2013 Scholarship at the University of Sassari (Fondazione Banco di Sardegna,  2007-2009 Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turin. The projects I have carried out over the past five years have been supported by private grants (Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo)  2004- 2007 Doctoral position at the Institute of Anthropology University Florence (Italy).

Education  Graduate studies in Anthropological Sciences at the Institute of Anthropology, University of Florence, Italy. PhD-degree cum laude on 20th March 2007. Doctoral Thesis on the interaction between the historical, archaeological and biological approaches to the identification of Yersinia pestis infection in putative plague victims dating to the Second Pandemic. “La peste: approcci storici e biologici” ("The Plague: historical and biological approaches”).  Degree in Natural Sciences cum laude at the Department of Human and Animal Biology, University of Turin (Italy) on 13th March 2003.

Honours

 Editorial Board Member of the Asian Journal of Paleopathology (17.03.2018)

 Member of the International Society of Egyptology (2015)  Member of Centro Studi Antropologici, Paleopatologici e Storici dei popoli della Sardegna e del Mediterraneo- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche, Università di Sassari (2014 till the present day).

 Member of the Italian Society of the History of Medicine (2015 till the present day)  External examiner for PhD candidate Tobias Houlton, University of Dundee, United Kingdom (16-12-2014 to 24-04-2015).

 Member of the Board of New Mexico Health Enhancement and Marathon Clinics Foundation, USA (2012 till the present day).

 Member of the Paleopathology Association (PPA 2008 till the present day).  Associate researcher at the UMR 7268, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Etique & Santé (Adés), Faculté de Médecine de Marseille, France (2008 till the present day)

Editorial duties Reviewer for the following peer reviewed journals:  The Lancet Infectious Diseases  Scientific Reports  PloSONE  Journal of Archaeological Science  HOMO Anthropologie- International Journal of the Science of Man  Journal of the Neurological Sciences  Medical Hypotheses  Quaternary International  International Journal of Paleopathology  Journal of Cultural Heritage  African Journal of Microbiology Research  Anthropologie-International Journal of the Science of Man

Academic teaching experience  Teaching assistant in History of Medicine and Paleopathology at the University of Florence MED02 (2016- )  Visiting researcher at the University of Nebraska Lincoln Study Field School (2016- ).  External examiner of Tobias Houlton’s PhD. dissertation, University of Dundee, College of Art and Sciences, UK. 24.04.2015.  Seminar organised by the University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK, 12.11.2014. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LJJMoRWAn5M  Seminar organised by the University of Tuebingen, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Germany, 8.09.2014  Seminar organised by the University of Turin, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Turin, Italy, 11.06.2008  Seminar organised by the University of Turin, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Turin, Italy, 26.11.2007  Seminar organised by the University of Turin, Department of Animal and Human Biology, Turin, Italy, 13.03.2003.  Seminar organised by the Univeristy of Turin, Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, Grugliasco, Italy, 20.10.2005; www.antropozoonosi.it

Knowledge of languages  Italian  English  French

Publications 1. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Charlier P. Appenzeller O. (under review) Did Blaise Pascal have Asperger’s syndrome? 2. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (in press). The young Frankenstein and The Lancet. The Lancet (IF= 47.831). 3. Loynes R.D., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Gonzalez M., Begerock A., Bianucci R. (in press) Erosive effects of a posterior mediastinic mass in a 18th to early 19th century Spanish mummy. Forensic Medicine and Pathology (IF=2.027) 4. Shin D.H., Bianucci R., Fujita H., Hong J.A. (in press). Mummifications In Korea And China: Mawangdui, Song, Ming And Joseon Dynasty . BioMed. Res. Intern. (IF= 2.476) 5. Jones J., Higham TFG, Chivall D., Bianucci R., Kay G.L., Pallen M.J., Oldfield R., Ugliano F., Buckley S.A. (in press). A prehistoric Egyptian mummy: evidence for an ‘ recipe’ and the evolution of early formative funerary treatments. Journal of Archaeological Science (IF= 3.061) 6. Bianucci R., Qualls C., Lippi D., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. (in press) Charité Hospital and Infectious Diseases. Infection A Journal of Infectious Diseases https://doi.org/10.1007/s15010-018-1176-7 (IF=2.773) 7. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O., Lippi D. (in press). Malarial fevers in the fourteenth century Divine Comedy. Internal and Emerging Medicine https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739- 018-1903-1 (IF=2.453) 8. Oh C.S., Hong JH, Park JB, Lee WJ, Bianucci R., Piombino-Mascali D., Shin D.H. (2018) From Excavation Site to Reburial Ground: A Standard Protocol and Related Ethics of Mummy Studies in South Korea. Asian Journal of Paleopathology 2: 1-8. 9. Qualls C., Evans P., Perciaccante A., Bianucci R., Lippi D., Appenzeller O. (2018). The Human Hand and Foot in Evolution and Art: The Effects of Wearing Footwear. J Biom Biostat. 9:2 10. Perciaccante A, Charlier P., Negri C., Coralli A., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018). Did dilated cardiomiopathy kill Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)? Journal of Cardiac Failure https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cardfail.2018.03.009 (IF= 3.765) 11. Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Coralli A., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018) Sleep disorders and Literature: hypnagogic hallucination inspired Frankenstein novel. Journal of The Neurological Sciences 390: 108-110 (IF=2.126). 12. Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Deo S. Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018). Hemiplegic migraine and stroke in Mary Shelley. The Lancet Neurology 17:305 (IF=21.823). 13. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. Lippi D. (2018) Earliest evidence of malignant breast cancer in Renaissance paintings. The Lancet Oncology 19: 166-167 (IF= 33.900) 14. Bianucci R., Lippi D., Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Evans P., Appenzeller O. (2018) Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had the deconditioning syndrome while painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Medical Hypotheses 113: 13-14 (IF= 1.066). 15. Qualls C., Ali A.M., Guillen S., Aguero Piwonka C., Costa M., van Hove M.L., Willems D., Bianucci R., Appenzeller O. (2018). Neurotoxins in the Human Brain in the Anthropocene; Tipping Points. Neurology and Neuro Toxicology 2(1): 1-6. 16. Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Negri C., Coralli A., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018). Lessons from the Past: Some Histories of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Before Its Discovery. COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary 15:1, 1-3 (IF=2.576) 17. Perciaccante A., Negri C., Coralli A., Charlier Ph., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2018), Was Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) affected by alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency? Medical Hypotheses 111: 1-3 (IF= 1.066). 18. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O., Lippi D. (2018) Earliest evidence of malignant breast cancer in Renaissance paintings. The Lancet Oncology 19: 166-167 (IF= 33.900) 19. Charlier P., Saudamini D., Bianucci R., Lippi D. (2018). Cancer cases in two Renaissance families. The Lancet Oncology 18: e707 (IF= 33.900) 20. Yi-Suk K., Kim M.J., Hong J.A., Oh C.S., Bianucci R., Shin D.H. (2017). The Scientific and Ethical Background of the Invasive Studies on the Korean Mummies of the Joseon Dynasty. Asian Journal Paleopathology 1:5-11. 21. Perciaccante A., Abenavoli L., Coralli A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O., Bianucci R. (2017) The mysterious aura of Nikola Tesla’s migraines. Headache- The Journal of Head and Face Pain 58(2): 305- 306 (IF= 2.9). 22. Bianucci R., Appenzeller O., Evans P., Charlier P., Perciaccante (2017). Necrotizing soft- infection killed St. John of the Cross (1542-1591). Infection A Journal of Infectious Diseases, doi: 10.1007/s15010-017-1089-x (IF=2.468) 23. Perciaccante A, Deo S, Coralli A, Charlier P, Appenzeller O, Bianucci R (2017) Did Liszt suffer from chronic pulmonary thromboemoblism? The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 17: 30354-30355 (IF= 19.287) 24. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Charlier P. Appenzeller O. (2017). The maid of the Bridal Room by Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) shows evidence of hypopituitary dwarfism and neurofibromatosis type- 1. Journal of The Neurological Sciences 380: 148-150 (IF=2.126) 25. Charlier P. Bou Abdallah F., Bruneau R., Jacqueline S., Bianucci R. Perciaccante A., Lippi D., Appenzeller O., Rasmussen K.L. (in press). Did the Romans die of antimony poisoning? The case of a Pompeii water pipe (79 AD). Toxicology Letters 281: 184-186 (IF= 3.858). 26. Charlier P., Saudamini D., Lippi D. Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O, Bianucci R. (2017) The cerebrovascular health of Thomas Aquinas. The Lancet Neurology 16: 502 (IF=21.823). 27. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. (2017). Diagnosis by exclusion in works of art. Journal of the Neurological Sciences 379: 333-334 (IF=2.126). 28. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Evans P., Appenzeller O. (2017). Temporal lobe epilepsy and anorexia nervosa in St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380). Journal of the Neurological Sciences 379: 122-123. (IF=2.126). 29. Loynes R.D., Charlier P., Froesch P., Houlton T.M.R., Lallo R., Di Vella G., Bianucci R. (2017). Virtopsy shows a high status funerary treatment in an early 18th Dynasty non-royal individual. , Medicine and Pathology (IF= 1.896) 30. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O, Bianucci R (2017). Marcel Proust's contacts with neurology. Did mistrust in doctors lead him to refuse life-saving therapies? Journal of the Neurological Sciences 378:120-121. (IF=2.126) 31. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O., Lippi D. (2017). Tuberculous meningitis and hydrocephalus in Filippino de’ Medici (1577-1582). The Lancet Neurology Neurology 16: 420 (IF=21.823). 32. Bianucci R., Appenzeller O., Perciaccante A., Charlier Ph. (2017). Neuro-stomatognathic and visual impairments in the 16th century. American Journal of Ophtalmology 177: 244 (IF=3.831) 33. Charlier P., Deo S., Bianucci R., Perciaccante A. (2017). Was aneurysm rupture a frequent cause of in past population? Medical Hypotheses, 103: 51-53 (IF= 1.136) 34. Bianucci R., Charlier P, Perciaccante A., Lippi D., Appenzeller O. (2017). The “Ulysses Syndrome”: an eponym identifies psychosomatic disorders in modern migrants. European Journal of Internal Medicine 41:30-32. (IF= 2.591). 35. Cesana D., Benedictow O.J., Bianucci R. (2017). The origin and early spread of the Black Death in Italy: first evidence of plague victims from 14th-century Liguria (northern Italy). Anthropological Science 125 (1): 15-24; http://doi.org/10.1537/ase.161011 (IF=0.64) 36. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Charlier P., Bianucci R., Appenzeller O. (2017). Neuropathies and diabetes in Jules Verne. The Lancet Neurology 16: 268 (IF=21.823) 37. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Charlier R., Bianucci R., Appenzeller O. (2017). The facial paralyses of Jules Verne. The Lancet Neurology 16: 186 (IF=21.823) 38. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Galassi F.M. Ruehli F., Bianucci R. (2017). Tailor’s bunion in “Agony in the Garden” by Perugino. Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology 122(1): 72-74 (IF=0.1) 39. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Charlier P., Appenzeller O., Lippi D. (2017). Mastro Adamo, the Counterfeiter of Coins, had cirrhosis as described in Dante’s Inferno (13th century Florence). European Journal of Internal Medicine 39: e35-e36, doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2017.01.022 (IF= 2.591). 40. Bianucci R., Marìas Franco F. Appenzeller O. (2017). El Greco depicted his own neurological disabilities. Journal of The Neurological Sciences 375: 478, 10.1016/j.jns.2017.01.028 (IF=2.126) 41. Bianucci R., Marias F.F., Appenzeller O. (2017). Historical evidence supports El Greco’s depiction of a neurological condition in his attributed self-portrait. Journal of The Neurological Sciences 372: 316-317 (IF= 2.126). 42. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Lippi D., Bianucci R. (2017). Evidence for sleep disorder-related cardiac autonomic dysfunctions in Dante. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine 5(1): 21 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(16)30441-6 (IF=19.287). 43. Charlier P., Perciaccante A., Bianucci R (2017). Oldest medical description of osteogenesis imperfecta (17th century France). Clinical Anatomy 30 (2): 128-129 (IF=1.316) 44. Habicht M.E., Bianucci R., Buckley S.A., Fletcher J., Bouwman A.S., Öhrström L.M., Seiler R., Vassilika E., Böni Th., Rühli F.J. (2016). Queen Nefertari, the Royal Spouse of Pharaoh Ramses II: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Mummified Remains Found in Her Tomb (QV66). PloSONE 11(11): e0166571.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0166571 (IF=3.234). 45. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. (2016). Painting neurofibromatosis type I in the 15th century. The Lancet Neurology 15: 1123 (IF=21.823) 46. Jones J, Mirzaei M., Ravishankar P, Xavier D, Lim DO, Shin DH, Bianucci R., Haynes PA (2016). Identification of from 4200-year-old skin and muscle tissue biopsies from ancient Egyptian mummies of the first intermediate period shows evidence of acute and severe immune response. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 374: 20150373, http://dx.doi.org/1098/rsta.2015.0373 (IF= 2.147) 47. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. (2016). Boy with cortical visual impairment and unilateral hemiparesis in Jeff Huntington’s “Slip” (2011). Journal of the Neurological Sciences 370: 45-46. doi10.1016/j.jns.2016.09.011 (IF=2.126). 48. Perciaccante A., Riva M.A., Coralli A., Charlier P., Bianucci R (2016). The death of Balzac (1799-1850) and the treatment of heart failure during the nineteenth century. Journal of Cardiac Failure 22(11): 930- 933. (IF=3.259) 49. Perciaccante A. Riva M.A., Bianucci R. (2016). Scabies Outbreak in the 14th Century: Clues from Correspondence Between Poets. American Journal of Medicine, 129: 10 (IF=5.003) 50. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Bianucci R. (2016). Has Saint Anthony of Padua suffered from congestive heart failure? International Journal of Cardiology, 221: 110-111 (IF=4.638) 51. Bianucci R, Perciaccante A. (2016). “The sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children”: congenital syphilis and leg braces pictorial depiction in Eighteenth century Britain. European Journal of Internal Medicine 35: e36-e37 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2016.06.036 (IF= 2.591). 52. Bianucci R., Perciaccante A., Appenzeller O. (2016).“From father to son“: Ealrly onset gout in Guidobaldo da Montefeltro Duke of Urbino (1472-1508). European Journal of Internal Medicine 36, e- 38-e30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2016.07.018 (IF=2.591) 53. Perciaccante A., Coralli A., Charlier P., Bianucci R. (2016). “There will be “. Differences in the pictorial representation of the arterial spurt of blood in Caravaggio and followers, European Journal of Internal Medicine 34: e46-e47. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejim.2016.06.010 (IF= 2.591) 54. Armocida E., Turrini A., Bianucci R. (2016). Genius and psychopathology of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi (1798 – 1837): the criticism of Paolo Mantegazza’s (1831 - 1910) towards the Lombrosian thought. Neurological Sciences 37:1751-1752. DOI: 10.1007/s10072-016-2605-y (IF=1.447). 55. Novo S.P.C., Leles D, Bianucci R., Araujo A. (2016). A review of Leishmania infection and disease and new perspectives with paleoparasitology. Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 58:45 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946201658045 (IF= 1.114) 56. Perciaccante A., Rühli F.J., Galassi F.M., Bianucci R. (2016) , amputation and allogenic transplantation in 5th century AD, a pictorial representation. Journal of Vascular Surgery 64: 824-825 (IF=3.021). 57. Rubini M., Gualdi-Russo E., Manzon V.S., Rinaldo N., Bianucci R (2016). Mortality Risk Factors Show Similar Trends in Modern And Historic Populations Exposed to Plague. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 10(5): 488-493 (IF= 1.2). 58. Galassi F.M., Bianucci R., Gorini G., Paganotti G.M., Habicht M.E., Rühli F.J. ( (2016). The sudden death of Alaric I (c. 370-410 AD): a tale of malaria and lacking immunity. European Journal of Internal Medicine, 31:84-87 (IF= 2.591) 59. Qualls C. Bianucci R., LeGeros R. Bromage T.G., Lanzirotti A., Giuffra V. , Ferroglio E., Fornaciari G., Appenzeller O (2016). Neurotoxins during the Renaissance. Bioarcheology of Ferrante II of Aragon (1469-1496) and Isabella of Aragon (1470-1524). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 5: 542- 546 (IF=0.542) 60. Galassi F.M., Gruppioni G., Ruggeri A., Bianucci R., Ruehli F.J. (2016). Luigi Calori (1807 – 1896). Journal of Neurology 263: 1681-1682 (IF=3.377). 61. Bianucci R., Loynes R., Sutherland M.L., Lallo R., Kay G., Froesch P., Pallen M., Charlier P., Nerlich A. (2016). Forensic analysis reveals acute decompensation of chronic heart failure in a 3500-year-old Egyptian dignitary. Journal of Forensic Sciences 61(5): 1374-1381 (IF= 1.16) 62. Hänsch S., Cilli E., Catalano G., Gruppioni G., Bianucci R., Stenseth N.C., Bramanti B., Pallen M.J. (2015). The pla gene, encoding plasminogen activator, is not specific to Yersinia pestis. BMC Research Notes 8:53. 63. Giuffra V., Montella A., Bianucci R., Milanese M., Tognotti E., Caramella D., Fornaciari G., Bandiera P. (2015). Sclerosing bone from 16th century Sardinia (Italy): a possible case of Camurati- Engelmann disease. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. (IF=1.296). 64. Bianucci R., Araujo A., Pusch C.M., Nerlich A.G. (2015). The identification of malaria in paleopathology – the actual „state-of-the-art“. Acta Tropica 152: 176-180 (IF=2.52) 65. Bianucci R., Habicht M.E., Buckley S.A., Fletcher J., Seiler R, Öhrström L.M., Vassilika E., Böni Th., Rühli F.J. (2015). Shedding new light on the 18th Dynasty mummies of the Royal Architect Kha and his spouse Merit. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0131916. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0131916. (IF= 3.730). 66. Qualls C,, Bianucci R., Spilde M.N., Phillips G., Wu C., Appenzeller O. (2015). Modeling Clinical States, Biologic Rhythms And In Archeology. BioMed Research International, Article ID 818724, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/818724 (IF=1.579) 67. Moissidou D., Day J.L., Shin D.H., Bianucci R. (2015). Invasive versus non-invasive methods applied to mummy research: will this controversy ever be solved? BioMed Research International Article ID 192829, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1155/ 2015 /192829 (IF=1.579). 68. Bianucci R., Soldini M., Di Vella G., Verzé L., Day J.L. (2015). The “Body Worlds” Exhibits and the Understanding of Death: Do We Educate Children to Science or to Voyeurism? Clin Ter 166 (4): e264- 268. Doi: 10.7417/T.2015.1871 69. Bianucci R., Lopes Torres E.J., Dutra J.M.F., Nerlich A.G., Mendonça de Souza S., Ferreira L.F., Giuffra V., Chieffi P.P., Bastos O.M., Travassos R., De Souza W., Araújo A. (2015). Trichuris trichiura in a post- Colonial Brazilian mummy. Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 110(1): 145-147 (IF= 1.566) 70. Novo S.P.C., Leles D., Bianucci R., Araujo A. (2015). Leishmania tarentolae molecular signatures in a 300 hundred-years-old human Brazilian mummy. Parasites and Vectors, 8:72 doi 10.1186/s13071-015- 0666-z (IF= 3.25) 71. Rácz SE, Pucu de Araújo E, Jensen E, Mostek C, Morrow JJ, Van Hove ML, Bianucci R, Willems D, Heller F, Araújo A, Reinhard KJ (2015). Parasitology in an Archaeological Context: Analysis of Medieval in Nivelles, Belgium. Journal of Archaeological Science 53: 304-315 (IF= 2.139) 72. Kay G., Sergeant M., Giuffra V., Bandiera P, Milanese M., Bramanti B., Bianucci R., Pallen M.J. (2014). Recovery of medieval Brucella melitensis genome using shotgun metagenomics. mBio 5(4): 10.1128/mBio.01337-14 (IF= 5.6). 73. Lanzirotti A., Bianucci R., LeGeros R., Bromage T., Giuffra V., Ferroglio E., Fornaciari G., Appenzeller O. (2014). Assessing heavy metal exposure in Renaissance Europe using synchrotron microbeam techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science 52: 204-217 (IF= 2.139) 74. Giuffra V., Bianucci R., Milanese M., Tognotti E, Montella A., Caramella D., Fornaciari G., Bandiera P. (2014). A case of brachymetatarsia from Medieval Sardinia (Italy). The Anatomical Record 297: 650- 652 (IF= 1.343). 75. Bianucci R., Benedictow O.J. Fornaciari G., Giuffra V. (2013). Quinto Tiberio Angelerio (1532-1617): new rules and control of plague epidemics in 16th century Alghero (Sardinia). Emerging Infectious Diseases, 19(9): 1478-1483 (IF= 5.993) 76. Lalremruata A., Ball M., Bianucci R., Welte B., Nerlich A.G., Kun J.F.J., Pusch C.M. (2013). Molecular identification of falciparum malaria and human tuberculosis co- in mummies from the Fayum Depression (Lower Egypt). PloSONE 8(4): e60307. (IF=3.730) 77. Khairat R., Ball M., Chang C-C.H., Bianucci R., Nerlich A.G., Trautmann M., Ismail S.,Shanab G.M.L., Karim A.M., Gad Y.H., Pusch C.M. (2013). First insights into the metagenome of Egyptian mummies using next generation sequencing. Journal of Applied Genetics 54(3): 309-325 (IF=1.847) 78. Giuffra V., Bianucci R., Milanese M., Fornaciari G. (2013). A probable case of non-syndromic brachycephaly from 16th century Sardinia (Italy). International Journal of Paleopathology 3: 134-137. 79. Searcey N., Reinhard K.J., Egarter-Vigl E., Maixner F., Piombino-Mascali D., Zink A.R., van der Sanden W.A.B., Gardner S.L., Bianucci R. (2013). Parasitism of the Zweeloo Woman: Dicrocoeliasis evidenced in a Roman Period Bog Mummy. International Journal of Paleopathology 3(3): 224-228. 80. Giuffra V., Bianucci R., Milanese M., Fornaciari (2013). A peculiar pattern of musculoskeletal stress markers in a skeleton from 16th century Sardinia: a galea rower? Medicina dello Sport 66:443-460 (IF= 0.294). 81. Bianucci R., Brothwell D., van der Sanden W., Papageorgopoulou Ch., Gostner P., Pernter P., Egarter- Vigl E., Maixner F., Janko M., Piombino-Mascali M., Mattutino G., Rühli F., Zink A. (2012). A possible case of dyschondrosteosis in a bog body from the Netherlands. Journal of in the Low Countries, 4: 34-67. 82. Nerlich A.G., Bianucci R., Trisciuoglio A., Schoenian G., Ball M., Giuffra V. Bachmeier B., Pusch C.M., Ferroglio E., Fornaciari G. (2012). Visceral leishmaniasis during the Italian Renaissance, 1522- 1562. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 18(1), http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1801.102001. (IF= 5.993) 83. Coulombe P., Qualls C., Kruszynski R., Nerlich A.G., Bianucci R., Harris R., Mermier C., Appenzeller O. (2012). Networked Science in Egyptology. PloSONE 7(11): e50382. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050382 (IF=3.730) 84. Bianucci R., Giuffra V, Bachmeier B.E., Ball M., Pusch C.M., Fornaciari G., Nerlich A.G. (2012). Eleonora of Toledo (1522- 1562): evidence for tuberculosis and leishmaniasis co-infection in Renaissance Italy. International Journal of Paleopathology 2, 231-235. 85. Kacki S., Rahalison L., Rajerison M., Ferroglio E., Bianucci R. (2011). Black Death in the rural of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse (Aude-Languedoc, southern France, 14th century): immunological evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science, 38: 581-587. (IF=2.139). 86. Hänsch S., Bianucci R., Signoli M., Rajerison M., Schultz M., Kacki S., Vermunt M., Weston D.A., Hurst D., Achtman M., Carniel E., Bramanti B. (2010). Distinct clones of Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death. PLoSPathogens, 6(10): e 1001134 (IF= 9.127). 87. Fornaciari G., Giuffra V., Ferroglio E., Gino S. Bianucci R. (2010). Plasmodium falciparum immunodetection in bone remains of members of the Renaissance Medici family (Florence, Italy, 16 th century). Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 104(9): 583- 587 (IF= 2.162) 88. Fornaciari G., Giuffra V., Ferroglio E., Bianucci R. (2010). Plasmodium falciparum was the “killer” of the Medici, Grand Dukes of Florence. American Journal of Medicine 123(6): 568-569. (IF= 2.162). 89. Papageorgopoulou Ch., Rentsch K., Raghavan M., Hofmann M. I, Colacicco G., Gallien V., Bianucci R., Rühli F. (2010). Preservation of cell structures in a medieval infant brain: a paleohistological, paleogenetic, radiological and physico-chemical study. NeuroImage, 50(3): 893-901(IF= 5.430) 90. Fornaciari G., Giuffra V., Bianucci R. (2010). Identification of Pathogens in Ancient Skeletal Series: The Malaria of the Medici Grand Dukes (Florence, XVI Century). Medicina nei Secoli, 22(1-3): 261-272. 91. Bianucci R., Tzortzis S., Fornaciari G., Signoli M. (2010). Historical and Biological Approaches to the Study of Modern Age French Mass Burials. Medicina nei Secoli, 22(1- 3): 273- 296 92. Bianucci R., Jeziorska M., Mattutino G., Lallo R., Massimelli M., Phillips G., Appenzeller O. (2009). A pre-Hispanic head. PLoSONE 3(4): e2053. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002053 (IF=3.730) 93. Bianucci R., Rahalison L., Peluso A., Rabino Massa E., Ferroglio E., Signoli M., Langlois, J.-V., Gallien. V., (2009). Plague immunodetection in remains of religious exhumed from sites in central France. Journal of Archeological Science, 36: 616-621(IF=2.139) 94. Bianucci R., Mattutino G., Lallo R., Torre C. (2009). Identification of a Chrysocolla Amulet in an Early Dynastic Child Mummy. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 592-595.(IF=2.139) 95. Bianucci R., Rahalison L., Rabino Massa E., Peluso A., Ferroglio E., Signoli M. (2008). “Plague Detection in Ancient Human Remains: An Example of Interaction between Archaeological and Biological Approaches (south-eastern France, 16th, 17th and 18th centuries)”. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Vol. 136(3): 361-367. (IF= 2.481) 96. Bianucci R. Mattutino G., Lallo R., Charlier Ph., Jouin- Spriet H., Peluso A., Higham T., Torre C., Rabino Massa E. (2008). Immunological evidence of Plasmodium falciparum Infection in a Child Mummy from the Early Dynastic Period. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35: 1880-1885. (IF=2.139) 97. Bianucci R., Rahalison L., Ferroglio E., Rabino Massa E., Signoli M. (2007). “Détection de l’antigène F1 de la peste à l’aide d’un Test de Diagnostic Rapide”. C. R. Biologies, 330(10): 747-754. (IF= 1.804)

Invited presentations to peer-reviewed, internationally established conference 1. Bianucci R. (2015). “Infectious diseases in ancient Sardinian populations“. International Workshop on Paleopathology, Anthropology, Archaeology and Malaria in Sardinia- Results and Perspectives. Sassari- Olbia, Italy, 5-6.06.2015. 2. Novo S.P.C., Leles D., Bianucci R., Araújo A. (2015). “Study of leishmaniasisi in archaeological material of human origin from South Amarican archaeological sites”. 1st Trypanosomid Taxonomy, Evolution and Biology Meeting-TryTAX- held at Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil March 16-18 2015. 3. Bianucci R. (2014). “The Human Mummification Project: an overview“. Seminar organised by the University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK, 12.11.2014. https://m.youtube.com/watch? v=LJJMoRWAn5M 4. Bianucci R. (2014). „Insights into the mummification process of three 18th Dynasty non-royal individuals from Turin Egyptian Museum”. Meeting organised by the University of Tuebingen, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Germany, 8.09.2014 5. Bianucci R. (2013). “Insights into Medieval Plague Epidemics“, Séminaire autours des populations du passé-Séance Génétique, Microbiologie et Modélisation organised by the Institut National des Etudes Démographiques (INED), University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, 4.06.2013 6. Bianucci R., Santiago J., Novo S., Leles de Souza D., Trisciuoglio A., Ferroglio E., Giuffra V., Fornaciari G., Nerlich A., Mendonça de Souza S., Araújo A. (2013). “Ancient Infections In Post–Contact Brazilian Mummies“. 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6-9.08. 2013. 7. Bianucci R., Pusch C., (2013). “ of the Fayum: insights into malaria and tuberculosis co-in fections“. International Workshop on Archaeology, Bioarchaeology and Cultural Heritage: Relation between Research and Local Development, Stintino, Italy, 13-14.09.2013. 8. Bianucci R. (2012).“Vector-borne diseases in ancient remains”, International meeting “Mummies, Bones and Ancient Pathogens”, organised to celebrate the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the University of Sassari , Stintino, Italy, 7-8.09.2012. 9. Bianucci R. (2011). Archaeology of the Plague”, Annual Meeting of the German Society of Prehistory and Anthropology (APPA), Workshop Sickness, Hunger, War and Religion, Munich, Germany, 3-5.3.2011. 10. Bianucci R. (2010). Identification of ancient pathogens in osteo-archaeological series, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Anthropology, Zurich- Irchel Universität, Zurich, Switzerland 23-24. 10.2010. 11. Bramanti B., Hänsch S., Bogus M., Bianucci R., Ottoni C., Donath A., (2008). Plague and beyond. 37th Symposium on Archaeometry. Siena, Italy, 13-16.05.2008.

Organization of international conferences 1. Organization of the symposium –THE ECOLOGY OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: A GATEWAY BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT- to be held during the European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Zagreb, Croatia, 28.08-1.09.2018. 2. Organization of the symposium – HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIPS AND DISEASES: LESSONS FROM THE PAST“ to be held during the 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru, 10- 13.07.2016. 3. Organization of the symposium- ANCIENT BODIES: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ANCIENT CULTURES, SPIRITUAL BELIEFS AND MUMMIFICATION to be held during the 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru, 10-13.07.2016. 4. Organization of the symposium – FROM TO DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING AND METAGENOMICS: GUIDELINES, LEVELS OF EVIDENCE AND MEDICAL DATA to be held during the 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru, 10-13.07.2016. 5. Organization of the symposium – “INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN MUMMIES - ANCIENT DNA AND BIOMOLECULES" held during the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 6- 9.08.2013. Invited speakers: Andreas G. Nerlich (Academic Clinic München-Bogenhausen, Germany), Helen Donoghue (Centres for Clinical Microbiology and The History of Medicine, University College London, UK), David Minnikin (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK) Dong Hoon Shin (Bioanthropology and Paleopathology Lab, Dept of Anatomy/ Institute of Forensic Medicine Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea), Savatore Rubino (Department of Biosciences, University of Sassari, Italy). 6. Organization of the symposium – “HUMAN LEISHMANIASIS IN MUMMIFIED REMAINS: FROM ICONOGRAPHICAL SOURCE TO MODERN DAY TECHNIQUES” held during the 7th World Congress on Mummy Studies, San Diego, USA, 12-16.06.2011. Invited speakers: Andreas G. Nerlich (Academic Clinic München-Bogenhausen, Germany), Guido Lombardi (Universitad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru), Gabriele Schoenian (University of Berlin, Germany), Kelly Harkins (University of Arizona, USA), Alfredo Altamirano (San Marcos Universidad, Lima, Peru).

Participation to national and international conferences 1. Zou Z., Bedarida S., Kay Gemma L., Bianucci R., Achtman M. (2018). Recovery of ancient oral pathogens by integrated analysis of serial dental calculus samples and modern genomes. 8th International Symposium of Biomolecular Archaeology. Jena, Germany, 18-21-09-2018 (oral comm.) 2. Benedictow O.J., Bianucci R. (2018). Debunking the “human ectoparasite hypothesis”. 22nd European Meeeting of the Paleopathology Association (EPPA), Zagreb, Croatia, 28.08-1.09.2018 (oral comm.) 3. Bianucci R., Gonzalez M., Begerock A.M., Jardiel A., Morris B., Reinhard K., Perciaccante A., Warriner C., Hong J.H., Lim D.S., Shin D.H. , Loynes R.D. (2018). Introducing the „Piquete Mummy Project“: the case of Rosa Paula Laborda. Extraordinary World Congress on Mummy Studies. Tenerife, Spain, 21-25.05.2018. (oral comm.) 4. Ravishankar P., Jones J., Bianucci R., Mirzaei M., Haynes P.A. (2018). Using optimised sample preparation for Identification of proteins from skin tissue from a range of different Ancient Egyptian mummies. ASMS Conference on and Allied Topics, San Diego, California, 3 – 7. 06. 2018 (poster). 5. Bianucci R., Charlier P., Evans P., Appenzeller O. (2017). Fasts, ectasy and stigmatization in St. Francis of Assisi and St. Catherine of Siena. 7e Congrès International de Pathographie, “Le corps saint dans la tradition judéo-chrétienne”, Martigues (France) 8-10.09.2017 (oral comm). 6. Cesana D., Benedictow O.J., Bianucci R. (2017) “Parto in tomba” in una vittima della Morte Nera in Liguria. III Meeting Nazionale GIPaleo, Pisa 12.05.2017 (oral comm) 7. Benente F., Cesana D., Samantà E., Benedictow O.J., Bianucci R. (2016) La Morte Nera e le successive ondate epidemiche nel Levante Ligure: la sepoltura multipla anomala del cimitero dell’ospitale di San Nicolao di Pietracolice (Ge). “Sit tibi terra gravis”: sepolture anomale tra età medievale e postmedievale. Convegno Internazionale di Studi. Albenga (SV), 14-16.10. 2016 (oral comm.) 8. Perciaccante A., Bianucci R., Coralli A., Riva M.A. (2016). Note di cardiologia medievale medievale nelle opere di Dante Alighieri. 51° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Storia della Medicina, Padova, 29.09-2.10. 2016 (oral comm.) 9. Novo S.P., Leles D., Aráujo A., Bianucci R. (2016). Identification of Leishmania tarentolae signature in a post-colonial Brazilian human mummy re-opens questions on its ability to survive and spread systematiclly in human hosts. 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru, 10-13.08.2016 (oral comm.). 10. Bianucci R., Jones J., Shin D.H., Heron C. , Lim D.S., Oldfield R., Francken M., Harvati K., Krause J. (2016). Third Intermediate to Roman Period Heads from Abusir El Meleq: a glimpse at mummification in Middle Egypt. 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru, 10-13.08.2016 (oral comm.) 11. Jones J., Buckley S., Higham T., Chivall D., Bianucci R., Ugliano F., Oldfiedl R., Kay G.M, Pallen M.J. (2016). Ritual, religion, function? Multi-disciplinary analysis of funerary wrappings of Egyptian mummies from the prehistoric period, circa 4300-3300 BC. 9th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lima, Peru, 10- 13.08.2016 (oral comm.) 12. Bianucci R., Heron C., Lim D.S., Kay G.L., Pallen M.J. , Gallien V., Périn P. , Shin D.H., Lanzirotti A. (2016). Embalmed or not embalmed? New set of analyses on the Franquish Queen Arnegundis. International Conference of Comparative Mummy Studies. Hildesheim, Germany, 7-9.04.2016 (oral comm.) 13. Giuffra V., Marota I., Montella A., Tognotti E., Caramella D., Bandiera L., Luciani S., Di Vella G., Bianucci R., Bini A. Milanese M., Fornaciari G. (2015). Foramina vascolari slargati e lesioni litiche nei corpi vertebrali: un dilemma diagnostico. II Meeting Nazionale del Gruppo Italiano di Paleopatologia, L’Aquila, Italy, 31st October 2015 (oral comm.). 14. Bianucci R., Loynes R.D., Sutherland L.M., Charlier P., Froesch P., Lallo R., Fletcher J., Buckley S., Nerlich A.G. (2015). Unravelling the of a 18th dynasty élite individual (QV30). Paper and Poster Abstracts of the International Conference of Egyptology XI, Florence, Italy, 23th-30th August 2015, p. 15 (oral comm). 15. Jones J., Bianucci R., Higham T.F.G., Kay G.L., Pallen M., Oldfield R., Buckley SB. (2015). The prehistoric mummy from Turin’s Egyptian Museum: preliminary scientific investigations. Paper and Poster Abstracts of the International Conference of Egyptology XI, Florence, Italy, 23th-30th August 2015, pp. 176-177 (poster). 16. Ruehli F.J., Habicht M., Buckley S.B., Bouwman A., Oehrstroem L., Seiler R., Böni T., Bianucci R. (2015). “Evidence” in identifying Royal and non-royal mummies: General considerations and a specific example (mummified remains from QV 66; Queen Nefertari). Paper and Poster Abstracts of the International Conference of Egyptology XI, Florence, Italy, 23th-30th August 2015, pp. 134-135 (oral comm.) 17. Giuffra V., Spiga C., Montella A., Bianucci R., Milanese M., Tognotti E., Caramella D., Fornaciari F., Bandiera P. (2015). A case of Camurti-Engelmann Disease from 16th century Sardinia (Italy). II Bioanthropology Meeting: Life, Death and in Between, University of Coimbra, Portugal, 29th-30th May 2015 (poster). 18. Bianucci R. (2014). Different embalming techniques allow fair preservation of three 18th Dynasty notable mummies from Turin Egyptian Museum. Réunion du Groupe de Recherche des Momies. Paris, France, 10th June 2014 (oral comm.) 19. Bianucci R., Tognotti E., Giuffra V., Fornaciari G., Montella A., Milanese M., Floris R., Bandiera P. (2014). Origins of malaria and leishmaniasis in Sardinia: first results of a paleoimmunological study. I Meeting Nazionale del GiPaleo (gruppo italiano di paleopatologia). L’Aquila, 22nd March 2014. Pathologica, 106 p. 89 (oral comm). 20. Caruso V., Gibelli D., Sassi F., Sguazza E., Mori A.C., Bianucci R., Bramanti B., Haensch S., Cattaneo C. (2013). Le vittime della peste Manzoniana? Abstract book of the XX Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Ferrara 11th -13th September 2013, p.39 (poster). 21. Nerlich A.G., Bianucci R. (2013). Infectious Diseases in Mummies: Ancient DNA and Biomolecules. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th -9th August 2013, p. 15 (oral comm). 22. Nerlich A.G., Bianucci R., Pusch C.M. (2013). Human endoparasitoses: insights into the co-occurrence among infectious diseases in mummified remains. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th-9th August 2013, p. 17 (oral comm). 23. Qualls C., Lanzirotti A., Bianucci R., Phillips G., Legeros R., Bromage T., Lombardi G.P., Giuffra V., Fornaciari G., Appenzeller O. (2013). Sixteenth century clinical neurology: heavy metal toxicity and biologic rhythms. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th -9th August 2013, p. 30 (oral comm). 24. Bianucci R., Santiago J., Novo S., Leles de Souza D., Trisciuoglio A., Ferroglio E., Giuffra V., Fornaciari G., Nerlich A.G., Mendonça de Souza S., Araujo A. (2013). Ancient infections in post-contact Brazilian mummies. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th-9th August 2013, p. 41 (oral comm). 25. Phillips G., Qualls C., Bianucci R., Sander van der W., Spilde M., Wu C. Appenzeller O. (2013). Cantù syndrome in a Dutch bog body from the Roman period. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th-9th August 2013, p. 63 (oral comm). 26. Reinhard K.J., Maixner F., Sanden van der W., Piombino-Mascali D., Zink A., Bianucci R. (2013). Further refinements of intestinal wash: the Zweeloo Woman bog body. Book of Abstracts of the 8 th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th-9th August 2013, p. 67 (oral comm). 27. Racz S.E., Pucu de Araujo E., Jensen E., Mostek C., Reinhard K.J., Van Hove M.L., Bianucci R., Willems D., Heller F. (2013). Parasitological analysis of Medieval burials in Nivelles, Belgium. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th-9th August 2013, p. 77 (oral comm). 28. Buckley S., Nerlich A.G., Fletcher J., Caramello S., Vassilika E., Bianucci R. (2013). Three 18th Dynasty Notables in Turin: initial findings of the multidisciplinary investigation of their mummified remains and canopic jar contents. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 6th-9th August 2013, p. 78 (oral comm). 29. Link K., Papageorgopoulou C., Gutteck U., Mueller D., Ruehli F.J., Van Hove M.L., Bianucci R. (2013). Investigations of Medieval mummified brains found in Belgium using chemical, radiological and histological techniques. Book of Abstracts of the 8th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Rio de Janeiro 6-9 August 2013, p. 94 (poster). 30. Bianucci R., Lalremruata A., Ball M., Welte B., Nerlich A.G., Pusch C.M. (2013). Tuberculosis and Malaria Co-Infections in Late to Graeco-Roman Period Mummies from the Fayum. Abstract book of The Bioarchaeology Conference on Ancient Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, 31st Jan -Feb 2nd 2013. PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 10(1), p. 13 (oral comm). 31. Khairat R., Ball M., Chang C.C.H., Bianucci R., Nerlich A.G., Trautmann M., Ismail S., Shanab G.M.L., Karim A.R., Gad Y.Z., Pusch C.M. (2013) First Insights into the Metagenome of Ancient Egyptian Mummies Using Next Generation Sequencing. Abstract book of The Bioarchaeology Conference on Ancient Egypt, Cairo, Egypt, 31st Jan- Feb 2nd 2013. Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 10(1), p. 20 (oral comm). 32. Nerlich A.G., Buckley S., Fletcher J., Caramello S., Bianucci R (2013). An Interdisciplinary Study of the Mummified Remains of the 18th Dynasty Official Nebiri. Abstract book of The Bioarchaeology Conference on Ancient Egypt, Cairo, Egypt 31st Jan-Feb 2nd 2013, Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology, 10(1), p. 22 (poster). 33. Bianucci R., Kacki S. (2012). “The Archaeology of the Second Plague Pandemic: An Overview of French Funerary Contexts”. Abstract book of the Workshop “Sickness, Hunger, War and Religion. Multidisciplinary perspectives, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, 4th – 5th March 2011. ISSN 2190- 5088 (oral comm.) 34. Kacki S., Benedictow O., Bianucci R. (2011). “Pratiche funerarie in tempo di peste nei contesti francesi urbani e rurali (1348- 1722 AD)”. Abstract book of the XIX Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino 21- 24 settembre 2011, pp. 169- 270. ISBN 9788889277188 (poster). 35. Bianucci R. , Giuffra V., Ferroglio E., Milanese M., Fornaciari G. (2011). “Lo Quarter: il cimitero degli appestati di Alghero (1582-1583 AD)”. Proceedings of the XIX Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino 21- 24 settembre 2011, pp. 127-128. ISBN 9788889277188 (poster). 36. Gallien V., Bianucci R., Langlois J.Y. (2011). “La peste nei resti scheletrici di religiosi francesi del XVII secolo”. Abstract book of the XIX Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Torino 21-24 settembre 2011, pp. 111- 112. ISBN 9788889277188 (oral comm). 37. Bianucci R., Trisciuoglio A., Ferroglio E. (2009). “Human visceral leishmaniasis in Europe: current trends and future risk factors”. Abstract book of the XVII Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Firenze 1-4 ottobre 2009, pp. 224-225 (poster). 38. Bianucci R., Rahalison L., Rajerison M., Rabino Massa E., Ferroglio E:, Kacki S. (2009). “Identification of Black Death victims from the rural cemetery of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse (south-eastern France, 14 th century)”. Abstract book of the XVII Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Firenze 1-4 ottobre 2009, pp. 226- 227 (poster). 39. Bianucci R., Trisciuoglio A., Giuffra V., Brier B., Ferroglio E., Fornaciari G. (2009). “Immunological identification of Plasmodium falciparum and Leishmania infantum in the skeletal remains of the Medici family”. Abstract book of the XVII Congresso dell’Associazione Antropologica Italiana, Firenze 1- 4 ottobre 2009, pp. 228- 229 (poster). 40. Bianucci R., Rahalison L., Rabino Massa E., Signoli M. (2009). “Une nouvelle méthode d’identification du bacille de la peste dans les restes humains anciens”. Vers une anthropologie des catastrophes, Actes des 9è Journées d’Anthropologie de Valbonne, sous la diréction de Luc Buchet, Catherine Rigeade, Isabelle Séguy et Michel Signoli- Editions APDCA, Antibes, pp. 503-515. ISBN Z-904110-47-X (oral comm). 41. Bianucci R., Jeziorska M., Lallo R., Mattutino G., Testi R., Taraglio S., Rabino Massa E., Appenzeller O. (2008). “A heavy pre-Hispanic head”, in: Mummies and Science. World Mummies Research, Peña P. A., Martin C. R., Rodriguez A. R. (eds.), Proceedings of the VI World Congress on Mummy Studies, Lanzarote 19- 24 February 2007, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Academia Canaria de la Historia, pp. 391-398. ISBN: 846125647-6 (oral comm). 42. Bianucci R., Mattutino G., Lallo R., Torre C., Rabino Massa E. (2006). “Ricerca multidisciplinare sulla mummia infantile predinastica 527 B*”. Abstract book of the XVI Congresso degli Antropologi Italiani, Genova, 29-31.10.2005, Edicolors Publishing, Milano, pp. 171-180 (oral comm.). 43. Lallo R., Testi R., Massimelli M., Bianucci R., Boano R., Rabino Massa E. (2005). “A South American embalmed head”. Proceedings of the V World Congress on Mummy Studies, Journal of Biological Research, Vol. LXXX, pp. 107-110. ISSN: 1826-8838 (oral comm). 44. Pedrini L., Cortese V., Cesarani F., Martina M.C., Ferraris A., Grilletto R., Boano R., Bianucci R., Evershed R., Clark K., Ramsey C., Higham T., Gandini G., Rabino Massa E. (2005). “The mummy in the dress of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of Turin”. Proceedings of the V World Congress on Mummy Studies, Journal of Biological Research, Vol. LXXX, pp. 55- 59. ISSN: 1826-8838 (oral comm). 45. Bianucci R., Boano R., Lallo R., Carnazza G, Mattutino G., Torre C., Rabino Massa E. (2005). “CT scan and 3D reconstruction of Pre-Dynastic child mummy 527 B* (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University of Turin)”. Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Mummy Studies, Journal of Biological Research, Vol. LXXX, pp. 329-331. ISSN: 1826-8838 (Poster). 46. Bianucci R., Fulcheri E., Rabino Massa E. (2004). “Un esempio di dismorfologia cranica in un egiziano predinastico di Gebelein”. Alba Pompeia, Atti della VI e VII Edizione della Université Européenne d’Eté, La Tipografica, Alba, (Fascicolo I), pp. 39- 40. ISSN: 0394-9427 (oral comm.).

Press and popular publications The results of the researches I published were publicized in numerous popular media including Science, Nature, Forbes, in European newspapers and on Discovery News. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/05/child-mummy.html, http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/06/priest-nun-plague.html, http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2010/03/15/medieval-child-brain-preserved.html http://www.nature.com/news/egyptian-mummies-yield-genetic-secrets-1.12793 http://www.thecairopost.com/news/163277/topnews/2-x-rayed-mummies-reveal-unusual-mummification- technique http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-mummies-embalmed-with-unusual-recipes- 150807.htm http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/3500-year-old-Egyptian-mummies-embalmed-with- unusual-recipes/articleshow/48412820.cms https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-egyptian-mummy-nebiri-oldest-135403490.html#gGQaFdC http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-egyptian-mummy-nebiri-oldest-case-chronic-heart-failure-1517644 http://it.blastingnews.com/salute/2015/08/scoperto-il-piu-antico-caso-di-scompenso-cardiaco-00535481.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3219514/Not-modern-disease-Mummified-head-lungs- ancient-Egyptian-Chief-Stables-oldest-victim-heart-failure.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/is-this-the-oldest-victim-of-heart-failure_55e70308e4b0b7a9633aef5a https://djedmedu.wordpress.com/tag/xi-international-congress-of-egyptologists/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/03/14/warlord-who-caused-the-fall-of-rome-was-killed- by-malaria-new-research-shows/#10e15f13f1f0 http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mystery-of-mummified-lung-solved.htm http://m.livescience.com/54459-mystery-of-mummified-lung-solved.html? 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