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Laboratorio di Bioinformatica e

Biologia Sintetica

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Francesca Mulas


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Francesca Mulas, PhD

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Born in Sassari (SS), on March 31st, 1984
 

Main affiliation

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione

Università degli Studi di Pavia

Via Ferrata 5, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

Other affiliations

Centro di Ingegneria Tissutale

Università degli Studi di Pavia

Via Ferrata 5, I-27100 Pavia, Italy

 

 

Academic Degree

2009 Laurea Specialistica (MS degree) in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy
Thesis: Data and knowledge integration in functional genomics. Score: 110 out of 110 cum laude.
2007 Laurea (BS thesis) in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy
Thesis: Analisi dell'espressione genica di cellule endoteliali con stimolo insulinico: normalizzazione, filtraggio, clustering e interpretazione. Score: 110 out of 110 cum laude.

Appointments

2013 - 2015 Research fellow at the University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
2009 - 2012 PhD Student in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics at the Centre for Tissue Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Honorary Appointments

January 2014 - today Visiting Post-doc at the Boston University, Boston, USA
2011 - 2012 Visiting PhD student at the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Research Interests

Integrative bioinformatics, Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Network-based analysis, Text Mining, Gene expression analysis, Protein-Chemical interactions, Pharmacogenomics, Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells, Pluripotency assessment, Environmental Carcinogenicity

Academic Activities

Courses

2011 - today Biomedical Informatics, University of Pavia (Matlab programming lessons)

Other Academic Activities

2013 Invited lecture: "Bioinformatics and Regenerative Medicine". Italian National Group of Bioengineering XXXII annual school, September 16th-20th, Brixen (TN), Italy. 2013 school name: "An integrative Approach to Regenerative Medicine"
2013 Invited lecture: "Network-based approaches and systems biology: applications in Regenerative Medicine". Clinical Bioinformatics Course, May 22nd, Ghislieri College, Pavia (PV), Italy.
2013 Co-supervisor of the thesis: "Reti di metaboliti e proteine per lo studio di biomarcatori nelle complicanze del Diabete Mellito" of Martina Poma, Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's Degree
2012 Co-supervisor of the thesis: "Gene network analysis of embryonic stem cells differentiation" of Camilla Colombo, Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's Degree
2012

Co-supervisor of the thesis: "Un sistema bioinformatico basato su reti di proteine a supporto degli approcci polifarmacologici" of Francesca Vitali, Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree

2012 Co-supervisor of the thesis: "Network-based interest propagation for document and protein prioritization" of Elisa del Fabbro, Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree
2011 Co-supervisor of the thesis: "Tecniche di data mining per la predizione dello stadio di differenziamento di cellule staminali da dati di DNA microarrays" of Alberto Averna, Biomedical Engineering Bachelor's Degree
2010 Co-supervisor of the thesis: "Computational methods for miRNA enrichment analysis" of Riccardo Beretta, Biomedical Engineering Master's Degree

Scientific Activities

Journal Editorial Boards

2012 - today Member of the Student Editorial Board of the journal Methods of Information in Medicine

International and National Organizations, Awards

2013 "Marco Ramoni" (2nd edition) award for PhD Thesis presenting innovative Data Mining methods
2009 Gruppo Nazionale di Bioingegneria (9th edition) award for the Master Thesis
2010 - today Member of the International Society of Computational Biology
2010 - today Member of the American Medical Informatics Association

Publications

Google Scholar publication list

Last update 15-03-2014