Marianna parlato completed her PhD at the University of Naples (Italy) and then undertook a post-doctoral fellowship training at Pasteur Institute with Prof JM Cavaillon where she studied the molecular basis of leukocytes reprogramming occurring during sepsis.  She then joined the Lab of Nadine Cerf-Bensussan where she is interested in deciphering the immunoregulatory mechanisms underlying monogenic disorders associated with intestinal inflammation.