Prof. Dr. Silvio C. E. Tosatto's Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Silvio C E Tosatto

Born on the 21st December 1974 in Bressanone (Italy).

Associate Professor in Bioinformatics (Professore Associato Confermato, SSD BIO/10, Biochemistry) and Principal Investigator at the Biocomputing UP lab of the Dept. of Biology, Facoltà di Scienze MM.FF.NN., Università degli Studi di Padova. (2007 - present)

PhD (Dr. rer. nat., Grade: Magna cum laude, 2002) in bioinformatics (computer science) and Graduate in Computer Science & Business Administration (Diplom Wirtschaftsinformatiker, 1998) from the Universität Mannheim (Germany).

Professional Address:

BioComputing Laboratory
Department of Biology
Università di Padova
Viale G. Colombo 3
I-35121 Padova
Italy

Tel: +39-049-827 6269
Fax: +39-049-827 6260

E-mail: silvio.tosatto AT unipd.it
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Group Homepage: http://protein.bio.unipd.it/

Publications

Previous Positions:

Brain gain ("Rientro dei cervelli") Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology, University of Padova. (2003 - 2007)

Highlights:

Journal Editor for:
- PLoS One (Public Library of Science), Editor since 2012.
- Amino Acids (Springer), Editor (Bioinformatics) since 2011.
- Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Frontiers Media), Review Editor since 2011.
Program committee member for conferences:
- Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) (since 2007)
- European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) (since 2007)
- International Conference on Bioinformatics (BIOINFORMATICS, part of BIOSTEC) (since 2009)
Referee for grant proposals:
- Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR) grants, since:
  PRIN 2008, FIRB Futuro in Ricerca 2009 and FAR 2012.
- Romanian National Council for Scientific Research grants, since 2011.
- University of Trieste grants, since 2013.
- ECOS-SUD Committee (Comité Evaluation - Orientation de la Coopération Scientifique, France), since 2013.
Total funding received (since 2003) ca. 1,650,000 Euro.
- FIRB Futuro in Ricerca (funding rate: ca. 1 out of 40)
- AIRC My First AIRC Grant
Technology transfer:
- Commercial licensing of the PASTA software to Boehringer Ingelheim (2011).
Bibliometric indices (Hirsch, 2005): H-index = 19, M-index = 1.9.
- Total peer-reviewed papers 50+.
- Total citations 940+.
- Number of citations in most recent year 200+.
- Total impact factor 250+, average impact factor 4.4.
- First paper published in 2002.

Additional:

Member of the Board of Directors for the Uni Padova Information Technology Service Center. (2012-2015)
Member of the Scientific Area Commission in Biological Sciences (Uni Padova). (2008 - 2012)
Chairman of the Information Technology Commission (Dept. of Biology, Uni Padova). (since 2008)
Organizer (jointly with Prof. Flavio Seno, 2003-2005, Dr. Antonio Trovato and Prof. Roberto Battistutta, 2005-2009) of the monthly P2P seminar series and yearly symposium.
Editorial board member for:
- Current Bioinformatics (since 2006)
- The Open Applied Informatics Journal (and sister journals, since 2007)
- The Open Bioinformatics Journal (and sister journals, since 2007)
Referee (70+ papers / year) for:
Author of numerous posters and conference abstracts.
Speaker at 40+ invited talks and seminars, including:
- Bologna Winter School on Bioinformatics (Italy)
- Argentinean Conference on Bioinformatics (Argentina)
- BITS - Italian Conference on Bioinformatics (several times, Italy)
- University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
- University of Basel (Switzerland)
- Max-Planck-Institut for Informatics (Saarbruecken, Germany)
- Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncologicas (Madrid, Spain)
- University College Dublin (Ireland)
- University College London (UK)
- University of Bayreuth (Germany)
- University of Cologne (Germany)
- University of Trento (Italy)
- University of Udine (Italy)
- University of Florence (Italy)
Attended 60+, predominantly international, conferences and 6 summer schools & courses, including:
- International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB, several times)
- European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB, several times)
- Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI)
- Critical Assessment of techniques for protein Structure Prediction (CASP, several times)
- Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB)
- Bologna Winter School on Bioinformatics (several times)
- Lipari Summer School on Bioinformatics
- BITS - Italian Conference on Bioinformatics (several times)
- SIB - Italian Biochemistry Society conference
- Argentinean Conference on Bioinformatics
Group leader in the worldwide Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI) experiment (since 2011).
- Assessor for the P16 challenge (2013).
- Ranked 2nd out of 33 for the Crohn's Disease challenge (2011).
Group leader at the worldwide biannual Critical Assessment of techniques for protein Structure Prediction (CASP) experiment (since 2000):
- Ranked 1st of 45 in CASP-8 model quality assessment category. (2008)
- Ranked 1st of 16 in CAFASP-4 MQAP (model quality assessment program) category. (2004)
- Ranked 2nd of 20 for disorder prediction and in top 5% for comparative modelling (easy) in CASP-6. (2004)
- Ranked 1st of 38 for secondary structure prediction in CASP-5. (2002)
Participation in the EMBO Laboratory Management Course for independent group leaders (2011).

Teaching Activities:

Titular of the "Bioinformatica" course (40 hours of lectures, 8 hours of practicals, exams) in the second-level degree in Informatics (Universitá di Padova). (since AA 2008/2009)
Titular of the "Bioinformatica II" course (24 hours of lectures, 16 hours of practicals, exams) in the second-level degree in Evolutionary Biology (Universitá di Padova). (since AA 2007/2008)
Titular of the "Bioinformatica Strutturale" course (32 hours of lectures, exams) in the second-level degree in Molecular Biology (Universitá di Padova). (since AA 2005/2006)
Titular of the "Bioinformatica II" course (32 hours of lectures, 16 hours of practicals, exams) in the first-level degree in Molecular Biology (Universitá di Padova). (since AA 2005/2006)
Titular of the "Domini Proteici" course (16 hours of lectures, exams) in the second-level degree in Molecular Industrial Biotechnology (Universitá di Verona). (AA 2007/2008)
Titular of the "Genomica B" course (40 hours of lectures, 32 hours of practicals, exams) in the second-level degree in Molecular Biology (Universitá di Padova). (AA 2003/2004, AA 2004/2005)
Various (7+) short courses held from 2001 to 2004.
Participation in a workshop (32 hours) on university didactics. (WS 2001/2002)
Supervisor of:
- twenty diploma theses,
- twenty undergraduate student projects,
- three graduate exchange students,
- six graduate collaborators,
- seven PhD students,
- four PostDocs.

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