Author: Giacomo Baruzzo

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University meets Industry: AI @ DEI

On November 20 and 21, 2024, the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padova, in collaboration with Fondazione UniSMART, organized two events on Artificial Intelligence: “AI@DEI for Industry” and “AI@DEI for Biomeds and Health”.

The events focused on innovative topics such as Generative AI, Data Analytics, AI in biomedical research and healthcare, Bioinformatics, and Health Informatics, showcasing practical applications and future perspectives for collaboration between University and Industry.

During the event, our researcher Giacomo Baruzzo presented the AI activities in Bioinformatics and Health Informatics carried out by the computer engineering group, including some research projects conducted by our research group.

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Great moments at BITS 2024 conference in Trento

Our group has attended the 20th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2024) in Trento. It was an incredibly successful event!
We are proud to have contributed to the event with 2 oral presentations from Gaia and Piero:

  • “Limitations of the co-occurrence-based approach in the inference of microbiota interaction networks” Piero Mariotto, Matteo Baldan, Barbara Di Camillo, Giacomo Baruzzo
  • “Interactive exploration of cell-cell communication results from single-cell RNA sequencing data through a webapp” Gaia Tussardi, Giulia Cesaro, Barbara Di Camillo, Giacomo Baruzzo

Also, Gaia co-chaired the “YOUNG BITS, RSG-Italy & CINI Young-InfoLife” Symposium, a supporting and stimulating forum for undergraduate, master, PhD students and early stage researchers to present their research and to connect with the wider Italian Bioinformatics Community.

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In two weeks we will attend the 19th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS 2023) with 1 oral communication & 3 poster contributions

  • Oral communication: “CClens: effective and efficient differential cellular communication analysis of large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data” (G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
  • Poster contribution: “Data-driven meta-simulation of realistic tumoral samples” (F. Longhin, E. Hazizaj, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)
  • Poster contribution: “mopo16Sweb: a cloud-based app for multi-objective optimization of bacterial 16S PCR primers” (M. Milia, N. Ferro, B. Di Camillo, G. Baruzzo)
  • Poster contribution: “From microbial ground truth network simulation to inference method benchmark” (M. Baldan, A. Rossato, M. Bellato, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo)

For more details, check the conference website: https://bioinformatics.it/bits2023