Lectures, Talks, and other dissemination stuffs!

Researchers need to get their research out there. Here is a list of talks I given at conferences, summer schools, or just at events that invited me. Here you can find also course materials I currently adopt to teach computer science related disciplines and bioinformatics to undergraduate and PhD life science students. Modern biology has been strongly build up with computational ideas developed by bioinformatics pioneers in the last three decades and computational biology is a frontier with still unexplored boundaries, so it is challenging to teach such discipline to modern life science students.

To make things more arduous, bioinformatics is often considered as just applications of computer science in biology and, especially in biomedical community, there was a time when bioinformaticians were considered as "research parassites" (Markowetz F., PLoS Biology, 2017). Things then changed over time and currently we can say that bioinformatics is considered a vital part of modern biology and stringly contributes to the advancement of knowledge in biology. Modern life science students should then be equiped with strong bioinformatics skills and acquire an adequate computational thinking versatility.

My approach in teaching bioinformatics and computer science related disciplines to life science students is inspired by the group of University of California in San Diego. The approach is based on active learning classrooms where the professor fosters students to construct as much understanding of the material on their own as possible and then - through lectures and practical sessions - advise students to address increasingly challenging biological questions.

All these material is for public use if not differently specified. Of course my students have their own student portal to get current semester course materials and exams tests.