GM Lab

April 2025: Luigi has started his visiting period at the University of Tampere (Finland). He joined Prof. Emmert-Streib group at the Predictive Society and AI Lab

March 2025: Congratulations to Seyed Masoud who successfully defended his Master thesis and graduated in Molecular and Medical Biotechnology

October 2024: Welcome to Claudia, our new PhD student!

September 2024: Congratulations to Mirko and Dramane who brillantly defended their PhD theses!

July 2024: Martina attended JOBIM2024 in Toulouse presenting her work entitled “Empowering bulk RNA-seq deconvolution algorithms by integrating multiple transcriptomics datasets” 

June 2024: We attended the 17th Berlin Summer Meeting to discover the latest applications of AI in genomics. Dramane attended BITS2024 in Trento and presented his work entitled "Machine Learning applied to association studies on small and imbalanced data"

March 2024: Congratulations to Caterina and Emilija who successfully defended their Master theses

November 2023: Martina has started her visiting research period at the Centre de Recherche en Cancérologie de Lyon (CRCL) in the "Epigenetics, micro enviroment and liver cancer group" (Levrero group) under the supervision of Dr. Massimiliano Cocca.

October 2023: Martina attended the 26th annual meeting of the Italian Society for Human Genetics (SIGU) and presented her work on methylation of CD14+ in multiple sclerosis.
Welcome to Luigi Casillo, who joined the GM Lab team as a new PhD student in Applied Life and Health Sciences in a new joint project opened with innovagenome s.r.l.

September 2023: Congratulations to Elena and Elisa who successfully defended their PhD theses!

August 2023: Mirko is officially a visiting PhD student in the  Department of Medicine (Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre) at the University of Cambridge, where he'll be working with Prof. Ken Smith group under the supervision of Dr. Paul Lyons.

June 2023: In collaboration with innovagenome S.r.l., we opened a position for a future PhD student. The project will focus on the development of Polygenic Risk Score in athletes. Check it out here. 

March 2023: Mirko is embarking on an exciting international research journey to Rotterdam (Erasmus MC), where he'll be working with Prof. Mohsen Ghanbari and his MolSysEpi group.

January 2023: Mirko was elected as President of RSG-Italy, Laura was appointed Social Media Representative in RSG-Italy, and Elisa joined RSG-Italy.

December 2022: Laura and Dramane attended the 17th Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference and presented our work regarding shotgun metagenomics sequencing and machine learning models in GWAS for complex traits.

October 2022: Welcome to Martina Gallinaro and N'Guessan Benedicte Sonia Koffi, our new PhD students in Applied Life and Health Sciences!

September 2022: Elena, Elisa and Mirko attended the 25th annual meeting of the Medical Genetics Italian Society (SIGU). Mirko and Elena presented our work on imputation for complex diseases and for the MHC region. Moreover, Mirko presented an overview on the BioVRPi project at the 7th European Student Council Symposium.
Congratulations to Laura, who brilliantly defended her PhD thesis titled "Achromobacter spp. in Cystic Fibrosis Patients: a Genomic-Based Approach to Unravel Microbe-Host Adaptation"! 

August 2022: You can now find us on GitHub at https://github.com/GMLabVR !

June 2022: Laura, Elena, Elisa and Mirko attended the 18th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society where they presented our work on microbiome, microbial genomics and Pi platform benchmarking.

January 2022: We are finally online! Welcome to our website!

September 2021: Welcome to Martina Gallinaro (External collaborator) who joined our lab!

July 2021: Congratulations to Lucas Moron Dalla Tor who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "DNA methylation and its impact on insulin resistance in clinically obese children".

October 2020: Welcome to Mirko Treccani and Dramane Dagnogo! They joined our lab as PhD students in Applied Life and Health Sciences!

May 2020: Welcome to Elisa De Tomi, who will work in both wet and dry labs as PhD student in Applied Life and Health Sciences!

October 2019: Welcome to Elena Locatelli! She will conduct her PhD program in Applied Life and Health Sciences!

October 2018: Welcome to Laura Veschetti, our new PhD student in Applied Life and Health Sciences! 

October 2017: Welcome to Lucas Moron Dalla Tor! He joined our lab as PhD student in Applied Life and Health Sciences!