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STEFANIA BORTOLUZZI

COMPUTATIONAL GENOMICS LABORATORY

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PositionAssistant professor, University of Padova
InstitutionBiology Department
FacultyFaculty of Medicine and Surgery
SSDBIO/13 - Biologia applicata
AddressDipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Padova
Tel.++39 049 8276502
FAX++39 049 8276208
emailstefibo@bio.unipd.it
TEACHING
EDUCATION AND CAREER
  • Born in Venice, 03/04/1972; married, two children.
  • July 1996: Degree in Biological Sciences magna cum laude.
  • January 2000: PhD in Genetics (National award of the Italian Genetics Association for the best PhD thesis in Genetics of 2000).
  • July 2000 - February 2006: Post Doctoral fellow, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Padova.
  • From March 2006: Research Associate, Medical School, University of Padova, working at the Biology Department.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
  • Transcript maps and transcriptional profiles of the human genome in differentiated tissues.
  • Analysis of differential expression of genes.
  • Comparison between rhabdomyosarcoma and normal skeletal muscle for the identification of novel tumour markers by computational analysis of gene expression.
  • Genetic diseases and intracellular networks.
  • Pattern discovery on human promoters for the discovery of novel regulatory elements.
  • Genome organisation: identification of clusters of co-expressed genes and/or tissue-specific genes.
  • Systems biology of genome expression regulation.
  • microRNAs-based regulation.
  • Regulatory networks analysis.
  • Assembly and annotation of non model species transcriptomes.
PUBLICATIONS