Mattia Forcato

Mattia receives the MS degree in Bioengineering in 2008 at the University of Padua with a thesis about the classification of microRNA promoter sequences using a machine learning approach. From May to December 2008 he joins the Computational Genomic Lab at the University of Padua to study promoters and non canonical roles of microRNAs. From 2011 to 2012 he is a temporary research fellow at the department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. In February 2012 he receives the Ph.D. degree in Science and Technologies for Health Products at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia with a thesis titled “Identification of gene expression signatures as prognostic tumor markers”. Since October 2012 he is assistant professor at the Department of Life Sciences.His research activity mainly concerns the design and application of computational and bioinformatics tools for the analysis of data coming from high-throughput technologies, in particular ChIP-seq, RNAseq and HiC. His research activity is currently carried out in collaboration with the department of Biology (Prof. S. Piccolo) of the University of Padua. He currently teaches “Analysis of the genomes: methods and applications” at the Master’s degree programme in Medical Biotechnology.