Activities

Visiting periods

• Visiting PhD student at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom (2023)
  Prof. Ken Smith and Dr. Paul Lyons - Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID)

• Visiting PhD student at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2023)
  Prof. Mohsen Ghanbari - Molecular and Systems Epidemiology group

Mentoring

• Caterina Angelone, MSc in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, University of Verona (2023)
  Thesis: Analysis of CFTR gene in Cystic fibrosis-like individuals by an exome sequencing approach

• Alessio Meneghini, MSc in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, University of Verona (2022)
  Thesis: CNV calling on WES: analysis of an Italian family with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA)

• Benedetta Leoni, MSc in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology, University of Verona (2021)
  Thesis: Transcriptome analysis of Strongyloides stercoralis on a single Raspberry Pi platform

Teaching

• Bioinformatics and Life Sciences: decode the future! - High School Don Lorenzo Milani Montichiari (2024)

• Human DNA: an unexpected journey - High School Leonardo da Vinci Cerea (2024)

• Human DNA: an unexpected journey - University of Verona (2024)

• Human DNA: an unexpected journey - High School Don Lorenzo Milani Montichiari (2023)

• Tutor of Genetics 1 Laboratory - BSc+MSc in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Verona (2023)

• Tutor of Genetics 2 Laboratory - BSc+MSc in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Verona (2022)

• Genomics: general concepts and sequencing technologies - High School Don Lorenzo Milani Montichiari (2019)

Scientific Committee

• 19th Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics (CIBB2024) - Programme Committee member

• 20th ISCB's Student Council Symposium (SCS2024) - Finance Committee chair

• Young BITS-RSG Symposium - 18th Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (BBCC2023)

• PhD Day 2023 - PhD day of the Applied Life and Health Sciences course at the University of Verona

• RSG-Italy Young Symposium - 18th Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB2023)

• 19th ISCB's Student Council Symposium (SCS2023) - Programme Committee member

• Young BITS, RSG-Italy and CINI InfoLife Young Symposium - 19th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatic Italian Society (BITS2023)

• 1st Young Minds at Work: Blending Biology and Bioinformatics (YMW2022) - Programme Committee member

• 7th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS2022) - Programme Committee co-chair

• Young BITS-RSG Symposium - 18th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatic Italian Society (BITS2022)

Journal Editor

• "Current Microbial and Bioinformatics Methods in Microbial Genomics" - Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

Journal reviewer

• Springer Lecture Note In Bioinformatics

• BMC Urology

Conference reviewer

• 7th Youth Bioinformatics Symposium 2023 (YBS2023)

• 18th Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics (CIBB2023)

• 19th Student Council Symposium (SCS2023)

• Young BITS, RSG-Italy and CINI InfoLife Young Symposium at BITS2023

• 12th ISCB Student Wikipedia Competition

• 6th Youth Bioinformatics Symposium 2022 (YBS2022)

• 7th European Student Council Symposium (ESCS2022)

• 17th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB2021)

Membership

• ERA: European Renal Association (2023-present)

• BITS: Bioinformatics Italian Society (2023-present)

• ISCB: International Society for Computational Biology (2022-present)

• ISCB's RSG Italy: Regional Study Group of Italian bioinformaticians from ISCB (2022-present)

Roles and assignments

• President of the ISCB's Regional Study Group Italy (RSG Italy) (2022-present)

• PhD students representative for the Teaching board of the PhD course in Applied Life and Health Sciences, University of Verona (2021-2023) 

• Post-graduate representative in the Academic Senate, University of Verona (2022-2023)

• Post-graduate representative in the Student Council, University of Verona (2022-2023)

• Post-graduate representative for Life and Health Sciences area in the PhD School, University of Verona (2021-2023)

Awards

• Best abstract - PhD Day 2023 of Applied Life and Health Sciences, University of Verona - 2023

• Giovani Glorie Monteclarensi - Municipality of Montichiari - 2021

• PhD fellowship - Italian Ministry of University and Research - funded period: 2020-2023

• "Io merito" scholarship - Banca di Credito Cooperativo Brescia - 2020

• MSc scholarship - University of Verona - funded period: 2019-2020

• BSc scholarship - University of Verona - funded period: 2017-2018

• "Education Aid" scholarship - Rotaract Club Brescia Sud Est Montichiari - 2015

Qualification

Teaching

• Percorso Formativo 24 CFU: Italian teaching qualification for Middle and High school, University of Verona (2021)

English assessment

• First Certificates in English (FCE): English level B2 certificate, Cambridge Assessment English (2014)

• Preliminary English Test (PET): English level B1 certificate, Cambridge Assessment English (2013)

• Grade 7: Graded Examination in Spoken English level B2.1, Trinity College London (2012)

• Grade 5: Graded Examination in Spoken English level B1.1, Trinity College London (2011)