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Positions
Bioinformatician Mar 2018 -
“Functional genomic and transcriptomic analysis of drug-resistant myeloma”.
Internship Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Development of genomic data to identify regions associated with resistance to some infectious and parasitic diseases in sheep and identification of causative mutations or polymorphisms linked, which could be used in breeding programs.
ACTIVITY: Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), genetic family structure and data imputation
ACQUIRED SKILLS: R programming language and R-Bioconductor, Merlin, Plink, Basic principle of Fortran, Basic principle of Bash (Unix shell), bioinformatic Tools, Biological Database (NCBI, EMBL-EBI, Gene Onthology)
Education
University of Pavia 2015 -
Field of study: Genomics and Medical Statistics
Degree: II level University Master Course
The Master combines the theoretical knowledge and practical experience, in the context of the interdisciplinary nature of the current fields that characterize the Genomics and Medical Statistics: statistics, clinical and population epidemiology, genetics, genomics, statistical genetic, statistical genomics and bioinformatics.
University of Sassari 2012 - 2015
Field of study: Biological sciences
Degree: Medical Biotechnology and Veterinary
Master of Science degree in Medical Biotecnology and Veterinary.
Thesis title was: Applications of molecular techniques for the identification of Mycoplasma agalactiae in sheep milk.
Internship at the department of veterinary medicine, infectious diseases section.
University of Sassari 2006 - 2012
Field of study: Biological sciences
Degree: Biotechnology
Bachelor degree in Biotecnology. The thesis title was: Use of microsatellites molecular markers for the characterization of the artichoke "Spinoso Sardo".
Internship at the department of agronomic science and plant genetics agrarian.
Skills
Data mining and Data Management; use of software R and packages R-Bioconductor; use of PLINK, Merlin and bioinformatics tools for GWAS, LA, imputation.
Pratical skills (laboratory):
nucleic acid extraction, electrophoresis, PCR, RT-PCR, Real-Time PCR