Wednesday, December 10, 2014 - 12:00
SPEAKER
Dr. Riccardo Beltrami (see bio below)
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LOCATION AND TIME
Siena, Via Roma 56 c/o INGEGNERIA -- ROOM 149
12:00 - Wednesday 10th December 2014
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ABSTRACT
Since many decades Biology has seen a consant increase of the importance of computing and data analysis. Advances in biotecnologies caused a data deluge and current computing infrastructures for the life science research have to deal with the exponential growth of data and complexity of the analysis process. Here a brief overview of the main issues and challenges of scientific computing for vaccine research are presented along with some use cases and examples of how HPC proved to be an enabling technologies for discovery in biology. Finally few ideas and opportunities ahead are highlighted with the aim to outline the future of bio-related scientific computing architectures.
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SHORT BIO OF THE SPEAKER
Dr. Beltrami holds a MSc in Electronic Engineering, Univ. of Pisa; Employed at the Research Center of Novartis Vaccines (former Chiron Vaccines) since 1998; Development and operation of the Scientific Computing Laboratory; Computational biology software and data integration applied to vaccine research: from Reverse Vaccinology to Systems Vaccinology and Data Science; Technical areas of interest within the vaccine research project teams: genomics, Deep Sequencing, Data Science, HPC; Current position: Head, Data Science Unit of the Vaccine Research
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LOCAL CONTACT
Prof. Roberto Giorgi - giorgi@dii.unisi.it