Ferrazzi Fulvia

 

Silvana Quaglini

Born in Pavia on July 4th, 1979

 

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica

Università degli Studi di Pavia

Via Ferrata 1 27100 Pavia (Italy)

tel: +39-0382-985679

fax: +39-0382-525638

Current Position

Post-doc Researcher, Department of Computer Engineering and Systems Science University of Pavia, Italy

Academic Degree

2007 Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, University of Pavia, Italy.
Thesis: Dynamic Bayesian Networks to Identify Gene Expression Control Structures: an Application to the Human Cell Cycle
2003 Laurea (Master's degree) in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy.
Thesis: Bayesian clustering of time series in functional genomics problems Score: 110 out of 110 cum laude

Research Interests

The main research topics are: Bayesian methods for genomic data analysis, Bayesian networks and Bayesian clustering methods for gene expression time series, probabilistic graphical models, reverse engineering of cellular systems.

Research Training

Jan-Feb 2008 Visiting researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Dr. F. Engel
2003-2007 Ph.D. Student, Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Computer Engineering and Systems Science, University of Pavia
June-Aug 2006 Visiting student, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA
Sept 2004-Aug 2005 Visiting Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA

Awards

2008 Exchange Grant from the European Science Foundation Programme on Frontiers of Functional Genomics to spend 8 weeks at the Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research working in Dr. Engel´s group (Heart Development and Regeneration)
2007 3-year Investigator Fellowship “Alunno Speciale Mintas”, Centre for Communication and Research, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia
2007 Diploma from Graduate Program of the Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia
2004 Winner of a nationwide competition for Ph.D. students promoted by the MIT/Italy Consortium to go to MIT as Visiting student for one year
2003 Diploma from Undergraduate Program of the Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia
1998-2003 Member of Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia

Academic Teaching (Teaching assistant)

2007-today “Modelli probabilistici in medicina” (Probabilistic models in medicine), Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia
2005-today “Bioinformatica applicata alla genomica e proteomica” (Bioinformatics applied to Genomics and Proteomics), Master’s degree in Biotechnology in Medicine and Pharmaceutics, University of Pavia
2003-today “Apprendimento Automatico in Biomedicina” (Machine Learning in Biomedicine”), Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, University of Pavia

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