Dario Ghersi, M.D., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
- School of Interdisciplinary Informatics
General Information
Biography
In 2004 I received an M.D. from the University of Genoa with a thesis on computational immunology. From 2004 to 2005 I worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Rheumatology at the Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City. In 2005 I enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Computational Biology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine working on the structural bioinformatics of protein binding, and I graduated in 2010. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University from 2010 to 2014, where I worked on large-scale genome sequencing data. In 2011 I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation. I joined the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the School of Interdisciplinary Informatics.
Teaching Interests
Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Biologically-inspired Computing
Research Interests
Cancer Genomics, Structural Bioinformatics, Small Molecule Bioinformatics
Service Summary
I serve as Bioinformatics Program Curriculum Chair.
Additional Information
Teaching Interests
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
- Genomics
Research and Creative Interests
- Cancer genomics
- Structural bioinformatics of protein binding
- Protein interaction networks
Education
- MD, University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy) 2004
- Ph.D., New York University (New York, NY) 2010
Awards
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American-Italian Cancer Foundation, 2012
Courses Taught
- BIOI1000 - Introduction to Bioinformatics