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Post-doctoral Researcher
Genomics, Nutri-omics and Precision Health
My name is Mirko Treccani, a young scientist from Montichiari, a little town in the southeast province of Brescia, between the Po Valley and the Garda Lake.
I am a post-doctoral researcher in the Human Nutrition Unit at the Department of Food and Drug of the University of Parma (Italy).
My research focuses on human genomics and nutrigenomics, applying genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genotype imputation and polygenic risk scores (PGS) to investigate rare and complex diseases and human traits. Moreover, I am applying integrative multi-omics approaches and network analysis to develop personalised nutritional interventions and foster precision health.
I strongly support interdisciplinarity and knowledge contamination: I let curiosity shape my life and make me learn something new daily.
My journey in science
My journey in science
03/2024-ongoing - Post-doctoral researcher - Human Nutrition Unit, University of Parma (Italy)
11/2023 - ongoing - Visiting researcher - Lyons group, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
10/2020 - 09/2024 - PhD in Applied Life and Health Sciences - GM Lab, University of Verona (Italy)
08/2023 - 10/2023 - Visiting PhD student - Smith group, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
03/2023 - 05/2023 - Visiting PhD student - MolSysEpi group, Erasmus University Medical Center (The Netherlands)
10/2018 - 07/2020 - MSc in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology - University of Verona (Italy)
10/2015 - 11/2018 - BSc in Bioinformatics - University of Verona (Italy)
Latest news
Latest news
July 2025
July was an incredible month! At the very beginning, I served as a member of the Panel of Experts for the final pitches of the RIS Inspire School. Then, I flew to Liverpool to attend the ISMB/ECCB2025 conference. It was an amazing opportunity to meet with friends, get to know new scientists from all over the world and discuss research: I presented our work on nutri-omics at the Human Nutrition Unit in Parma in the Student Council Symposium and the TransMed COSI and took part as a panellist in the roundtable on multi-omics. Lucia presented her poster on their analysis on (poly)phenols and multi-omics in SCS and TransMed tracks too. Now, time to go back to the lab, full of commitment to foster good research and inspired by the amazing talks of the past week!
June 2025
Alice has joined the group as a new MSc trainee: she will work on expression data in (poly)phenols bioavailability. Thanks to my dear friend Dr. Tobia Fantoni, I had the opportunity to give a lecture for the Asomi College of Sciences in the "RIS Inspire - Deep Tech in Regenerative Agriculture", where I talked about nutrigenomics and one health approaches. Finally, on the very last day of the month, I have been awarded the "Novogene Italian Sequencing Project Award 2025"!
May 2025
May brought interesting news: my collaboration with Dr. Paul Lyons at the University of Cambridge has been extended by one year; moreover, I obtained two oral communications in Liverpool at the ISCB ISMB/ECCB2025 during the Student Council Symposium (SCS2025) and in the Translational Medical Informatics (TransMed) track. In the middle of the month, I attended the 7th edition of the Yakult Academy on Nutrition Communication in Milan.
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