Rosita Silvana Fratini graduated cum laude in Cell Biology and Technology at the University of Rome “Sapienza” in 2020, with a thesis based on the study of supernumerary chromosomes in Fusarium species. After her MSc degree she took part of an Erasmus+ Traineeship program for six months at Wageningen Plant Research. She collaborated with the group of Biointeractions & Plant Heath in a project on plant pathogen diagnostics using Oxford Nanopore sequencing, supervised by Dr. Cor Schoen. After her traineeship, she worked as a research collaborator at “Sapienza” University of Rome and now she is starting a PhD in Botany. Currently her studies are involved in virulence factors in the Fusarium verticillioides-maize interaction.