Dr. Francesco Asnicar | Leadership in Education | Best Researcher Award

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Dr. Francesco Asnicar | Leadership in Education Best Researcher Award

Department CIBIO, University of Trento, Italy

đź”— Professional Profiles

🔬 Summary: 

Francesco Asnicar, Ph.D., is a tenure-track researcher at the University of Trento, Italy, specializing in computational metagenomics and the human gut microbiome. He leads research at the Department of Cellular, Computational, and Integrative Biology (CIBIO), with a focus on microbiome-diet relationships using advanced computational methods.

đź“š Education:

  • Ph.D. in Information Technology, University of Trento, Italy, 2019 (cum laude)
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 2014
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 2012

👨‍🔬 Professional Experience:

Francesco previously served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Laboratory of Computational Metagenomics, where he led the local unit for the Human Microbiome Action H2020 project. He has also supervised multiple students at various academic levels.

🔍 Research Interests:

His research focuses on developing computational tools for phylogenetics analysis and exploring the connections between the human gut microbiome, diet, and health using machine learning and statistical approaches.

Notable Publications 

Paper Tittle: Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
Paper Tittle: Extensive unexplored human microbiome diversity revealed by over 150,000 genomes from metagenomes spanning age, geography, and lifestyle
Paper Tittle: Integrating taxonomic, functional, and strain-level profiling of diverse microbial communities with bioBakery 3
Paper Tittle: Mother-to-infant microbial transmission from different body sites shapes the developing infant gut microbiome
Paper Tittle: Compact graphical representation of phylogenetic data and metadata with GraPhlAn

Academic Leadership Distinction Award

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