In the 1950s Cesare Brandi, Director and founder of Central Institute of Restoration - ICR Rome (now Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro-ISCR"), thought to set up a laboratory of Microbiology in the Institute. Clelia Giacobini participated in its creation (1957).Caterina Bon Valsassina, Omaggio a Cesare Brandi nell' del centenario della nascita, Edifir, Firenze, 2008, pag. 63
