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CURRICULUM VITAE
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name
FRANCESCO GANDOLFI
Address
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E-mail
Nationality
Date of birth
Italian
10 June 1981
WORK EXPERIENCE
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• Type of business or sector
• Occupation or position held
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• Main activities and responsibilities
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September 2012 – December 2014
Genethon, 1 rue de l’Internationale, 91002 Evry Cedex
Bioinformatics, Genomics, Transcriptomics
Post-doctoral fellows
NGS-data analysis:
Genome targeted sequencing – development of a computational pipeline to study lentiviral integration sites
human CD34+ cells.
Computational analysis of the HIV integration pattern in different hematopoietic cell lines from patients
affected by WAS (Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome)
RNA-sequencing – bioinformatic analysis of small non-coding RNAs to identify putative biomarkers in
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.
January 2009 – August 2012
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Center for Genomic Research
Via Campi 287, 41125 Modena - Italy
Bioinformatics, Genomics
PhD Student
Ph.D. project: New computational methods for the analysis of alternative splicing in the Central Nervous
System
Computational and statistical analysis of transcriptomic/proteomic data: gene expression microarrays, Exon
Arrays, RPPA (Reverse Phase Protein Arrays), Next Generation Sequencing data
Genomic databases: UCSC Genome Browser, Ensembl, Genome Viewer,
MicroRNA-targets prediction databases: miRBase, Target Scan, Pictar, MAGIA, Mirecords
Bioinformatics tools: GSEA (gene set enrichment analysis), BLAST, tools for sequences manipulation,
functional annotation analysis ( BIOMART, David )
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• Dates
• Name and address of employer
June 2008 – September 2008
FIRC (Fondazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro) Institute of Molecular Oncology
Via Adamello 16, 20139 Milano - Italy
Type of business or sector
Molecular Genetics of Cancer
• Occupation or position held
Bioinformatician (Apprentice)
• Main activities and responsibilities
Computational analysis of microRNA-targets involved in colon cancer (miR17-92 cluster) ,
Integration of gene and microRNA expression data in Breast Cancer: sequence analysis of microRNAs
targeting different variants of the 3’UTR region in the BRCA1 gene
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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• Name and type of organization
providing education and training
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skills covered
January 2009 – August 2012
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Ph.D. School in Neuroscience
Bioinformatics, Genomics, Molecular biology
Received the nomination of ‘Expert in Bioinformatics’ ( October 2011, Università di Modena e Reggio
Emilia )
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providing education and training
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November 2007- November 2008
Università degli studi La Sapienza, Roma
Master (second level) in Bioinformatics: Biomedical and Pharmaceutical applications
Computational Biology, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Informatics, Pharmacology
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providing education and training
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October 2000 – November 2006
Università degli Studi di Parma
9 November 2006: Master Degree in Biological Sciences (110 cum laude)
Thesis Title: “Molecular Analysis of the origin of uricaemia in hominoids”,
Protein sequences analysis, multiple sequence alignment, phylogenetic analysis, visualization of 3D
protein structures (PDB, pyMOL)
PERSONAL SKILLS
AND COMPETENCES
INFORMATICS SKILLS
Programming languages: R, R-Bioconductor, Perl, Bash, Python
Software: NGS-data tools: BLAST, BLAT, Bowtie, BWA, MIRA-assembler, Sam-tools, Bed-tools,
R-pakcages for NGS-data analysis: GenomicRanges, EdgeR, DESeq.
Visualization tools: Integrative Genome Browser, UCSC Genome Browser.
MOTHER TONGUE
Italian
Other languages: English (B2/B2), French (B1/B1)
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS AND ABSTRACT
Benatti C, Alboni S, Blom J, Gandolfi F, Mendlewicz J, Brunello N; Tascedda F. Behavioural and
transcriptional effects of escitalopram in the chronic escape deficit model of depression.
Behavioural Brain Research
Moiani A, Suerth J, Gandolfi F, Rizzi E, Severgnini M, De Bellis G, Schambach A, Mavilio F . Genomewide analysis of alpha-retroviral, gamma-retroviral and lentiviral vector integration in human
hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Genes. 2014
Pasquariello M, Barabaschi D, Himmelbach A, Steuernagel B, Ariyadasa R, Stein N, Gandolfi F, Tenedini
E, Bernardis I, Tagliafico E, Pecchioni N, Francia E. The barley Frost resistance-H2 locus. Funct Integr
Genomics. 2014 Jan 18.
Maciotta S, Meregalli M, Cassinelli L, Parolini D, Farini A, Fraro GD, Gandolfi F, Forcato M, Ferrari S,
Gabellini D, Bicciato S, Cossu G, Torrente Y. Hmgb3 is regulated by microRNA-206 during muscle
regeneration. PLoS One. 2012;7(8):e43464. doi10.1371/journal.pone.0043464. Epub 2012 Aug 17.
Abstract: Gandolfi F, Moiani A,Vega-Czarny N, Mavilio F, Gyapay G. A computational workflow to study
lentiviral integrations in the human genome using a targeted genomic sequencing approach. XI
Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), 26-28 February 2014, Rome (Italy).
Abstract: E. Crippa, L. Lusa, E. Marchesi, L. De Cecco, J.F. Reid, F. Gandolfi, C.M. Croce, M.A. Pierotti,M.
Gariboldi. Integration of gene and miRNA expression data in breast cancer. TRANSFOG
Oncogenomics Technology Showcase ( 6-7 November 2008, University Foundation of Brussels, Belgium )
Abstract: F.Gandolfi, C. Valensisi, F. Ferrari, C. Benatti, E. Roncaglia, N.Brunello, F. Tascedda, S. Bicciato.
A combined approach for analyzing exon-profiling data from functionally relevant areas of the
central nervous system. RECOMB 2010 (Fourteenth International Conference in Computational
Molecular Biology. 12-15 August 2010, Lisbon (Portugal)
Abstract: F.Gandolfi, G. Malagoli Tagliazucchi, D. Albanese, M. Chierici, C. Furlanello, S.Bicciato.
A wavelet-based approach for the analysis of exon array data. VIII Annual Meeting of the
Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), 20-22 June 2011, Pisa (Italy)
CONGRESSES, WORKSHOPS,
OTHER COURSES
Courses, Workshops
Informatics course: Perl for life scientists, 25-27 November 2009, CINECA, Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna
(Italy)
Informatics course: Python for Computational Science, 29 November-1 December 2010, CINECA,
Casalecchio di Reno, Bologna (Italy)
Data Analysis Workshop, An Introductory course to GeneChipExon1.0ST Arrays, 9-11 December 2009,
Orbassano (Italy)
EBI-SLING Roadshow, 7-9 April 2010, Florence ( Italy ) : Ensembl databases, comparative genomics
databases, transcriptomic resources
Lipari International Summer School in Bioinformatics: Biological Sequence Analysis and High-troughput
Technologies, 2-9 July 2011, Lipari (ME – Italy)
NGS Day, 1st Unimore (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) Workshop on the Next Generation
Sequencing, 22 February 2011, Modena ( Italy )
EuGESMA Bioinformatics School, 11-14 September 2011, Modena ( Italy )
Advanced RNA-seq and ChIP-seq Data Analysis Course, 12-15 May 2014, EMBL-EBI,
Hinxton UK
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Congresses, Meetings
Next Generation Sequencing Congress
16-17 November 2009, Waldorf Hilton Hotel, London, UK
14th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB
2010), 12-15 August 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
2nd Meeting of the 454 Roche Technology Italian users. 3-4 March 2011, Bari ( Italy )
Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research: A challenge for the present, 3 May 2011,
Royal Carlton Hotel, Bologna ( Italy )
VIII Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), 20-22 June 2011, Pisa
(Italy)
XI Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS), 26-28 February 2014, Rome
(Italy).
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