RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS AND EXPERIENCES:


Adjunct Professor, University of Bologna, Italy.
Dates: 8th June 2017 - today.
Supervisor: Prof. Enrico Sangiorgi.

Post-doctoral research fellow, IRST- IRCCS Cancer Research Hospital, Italy.
Dates: 13th February 2017 - today.
Supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Martinelli.

Post-doctoral research fellow, ARCES, University of Bologna, Italy.
Dates: 1st January 2013 - 13th February 2017.
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Bevilacqua.

UICC YY International Cancer Study Grant, Biological Research Center (BRC), Szeged, Hungary.
Dates: 22nd May 2020 - 02nd August 2020.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath.

UICC Technical Fellowship, Biological Research Center (BRC), Szeged, Hungary.
Dates: 21st May 2019 - 27th July 2019.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath.

NEUBIAS Short-Term Fellowship, Biological Research Center (BRC), Szeged, Hungary.
Dates: 30th April 2018 - 29th June 2018.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath.

Italian Embassy in Seoul Short-Term Fellowship, to establish collaborations with Universities/Institutes in South Korea.
Dates: 27th August 2017 - 3rd September 2017.
Supervisor: Prof. Francesco Canganella.

EACR Short-Term Fellowship, Biological Research Center (BRC), Szeged, Hungary.
Dates: 1st May 2017 - 31st July 2017.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath.

FEBS Short-Term Fellowship, Biological Research Center (BRC), Szeged, Hungary.
Dates: 1st April 2016 - 31st July 2016.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath.

EMBO Short-Term Fellowship, Biological Research Center (BRC), Szeged, Hungary.
Dates: 17th May 2015 - 24th July 2015.
Supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath.

Light Microscopy and Screening Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Dates: 9th May 2011 - 26th August 2011, 7th May 2012 - 8th August 2012.
Supervisor: Prof. Gabor Csucs.

Eurocoating S.p.A., Pergine Valsugana, Trento, Italy
Dates: 24th July 2013 - 24th July 2014.
Supervisor: Dr. Enrico Lucarelli

Osteoarticular Regeneration Laboratory, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy
Dates: 20th April 2009 - 31st December 2015.
Supervisor: Prof. Alessandro Bevilacqua, Dr. Enrico Lucarelli

Laboratory of Biosciences, IRCCS-IRST, Meldola (FC), Italy
Dates: 6th July 2010 - 31st December 2015.
Supervisor: Dr. Anna Tesei

VISITING RESEARCHERS:

 

1. Ervin Tasnadi, PhD Student in Computer Vision
   Biological Image Analysis and Machine Learning Group (BIOMAG), Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
   Topic: development of an application to segment and annotate single cells in 3D multicellular aggregates
   Home-supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath
   Date of the stay: 27/08/2018-07/09/2018
   Location: IRST IRCCS, Meldola (FC), Italy

2. Maria Harmati, PhD Student in Biology
   Biological Image Analysis and Machine Learning Group (BIOMAG), Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
   Topic: testing of several systems for the generation of cancer multicellular sphroids
   Home-supervisor: Prof. Krisztina Buzas
   Date of the stay: 05/11/2017-29/11/2017
   Location: IRST IRCCS, Meldola (FC), Italy

3. Timea Toth, PhD Student in Bio-Engineering
   Biological Image Analysis and Machine Learning Group (BIOMAG), Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
   Topic: analysis of tools for extracting data from cancer multicellular spheroids
   Home-supervisor: Prof. Peter Horvath
   Date of the stay: 05/11/2017-29/11/2017
   Location: IRST IRCCS, Meldola (FC), Italy

 

MAJOR COLLABORATORS:

Unfortunately to build a complete list of contacts and collaborators is impossible. I apologize in advance to the ones missing.

1. Prof. Alessandro Bevilacqua, Computer Vision Group (CVG), Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems (ARCES), University of Bologna, Italy. Topic: Biomedical image processing techniques applied to develop software tools for microscopy.

2. Prof. Peter Horvath, Biological Image Analysis and Machine Learning Group (BIOMAG), Biological Research Centre (BRC), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary. Topic: Analysis of cellular images, in particular cell tracking and cell classification.

3. Prof. Antonella Carbonaro, Data Science For Health (DS4H), Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI), University of Bologna, Italy. Topic: Sensor applications and informatics techniques applied to big data collection and analysis.

4. Prof. Kevin Smith, Science for Life Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Topic: Non-parametric models to correct the illumination field of microscopy images.

5. Prof. Gabor Csucs, Scientific Center for Optical and Electron Microscopy (ScopeM), ETH Zurich, Stockholm, Switzerland. Topic: Analysis of high-content screening images regarding human-genome wide screens.

6. Dr. Enrico Lucarelli, Orthopaedic Pathology and Osteoarticular Tissue Regeneration Unit, Orthopaedic Institute (IOR), Bologna hospital, Italy. Topic: Analysis of mesenchymal stem cells capability to regenerate bone tissue. In particular, analysis of adhesion, proliferation, and motility in different situations.

7. Dr. Anna Tesei, Biosciences Laboratory, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST), Forli'-Meldola (FC) hospital, Italy. Topic: Creation and analysis of in vitro-built cancer multicellular spheroids, then routinely employed as 3D tumour model.

8. Dr. Anna Sarnelli, Medical Physics Unit, Istituto Scientifico Romagnolo per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori (IRST), Forli'-Meldola (FC) hospital, Italy. Topic: Radiomics in SPECT, PET, MR, and CT images.

9. Prof. Emanuele Domenico Giordano, Cellular and Molecular Engineering Laboratory, Biomedical Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy. Topic: Automatization of widefield fluorescence microscopes for quantitative analysis of genetically modified bacterium.

 

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