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Postdoctoral researcher with over 17 years of experience in computational biology and bioinformatics.

Profile Summary

Expertise in machine learning, multi-omics data integration, microbiome research, and metabolomics. Track record of developing innovative analytical workflows and software tools in international, interdisciplinary consortia. Experienced lecturer and MSc/BSc supervisor.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Computational Biology
• ★ Bioinformatics
• ★ R
• ☆ Chemoinformatics
• ☆ Evolutionary Biology
• ☆ Microbiology
• ☆ Microbiome Research
• ☆ Biostatistics
• ☆ Mathematical Biology
• ☆ Biochemistry
• ☆ Structural Biology
• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Microarrays
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Molecular Evolution
• ☆ Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
• ☆ DNA Sequencing
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Machine Learning
• ☆ Knowledge Management
• ☆ Taxonomy/Classification
• ☆ Phylogenetics
• ☆ Information Retrieval
• ☆ Library & Information Science
• ☆ Digital Libraries
• ☆ Information & Knowledge Management
• ☆ Data Storage
• ☆ Python
• ☆ SQL
• ☆ LaTex
• ☆ Markup Languages
• ☆ Cancer Research
• ☆ Cancer Biology
• ☆ Hypothesis
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Research Methodology
• ☆ Survey Design & Methodology
• ☆ Literature Search
• ☆ Gap Analysis
• ☆ Graphic Design
• ☆ Photography & Image Editing
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ☆ Experimental Protocols
• ☆ Case Studies
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Creative Writing
• ☆ Grant Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing, Creative Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Text Mining & Analytics, Data Mining, Data Cleaning, Data Processing, Data Insights

Product Development Concept Development, Prototyping, Device Fabrication

Work Experience

postdoc

Masarykova Univerzita

- Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

COSBI Microsoft Research, University of Trento

February 2015 - January 2017

Postdoctoral Researcher

Telethon Foundation TIGEM

June 2012 - January 2015

Postdoctoral Researcher

Max Planck Institute | TU Dresden

August 2009 - March 2012

Postdoctoral Researcher

Fondo Evo Tempia, Biella, Italy

December 2007 - December 2008

External PhD Student

CRS4 Pula, Sardiania, Italy

June 2007 - November 2007

External PhD Student

University of Tor Vergata Rome, Italy

May 2003 - May 2007

Junior Research Fellows

University of Milano-Bicocca

June 1999 - December 2002

Professional Fellows

Pharmacia Upjohn

March 2000 - September 2000

Education

graduated at BioHack Academy 4

Waag Futurelab

January 2017 - April 2017

Ph.D. in Computational Biology

University of Turin

November 2004 - December 2007

M.Sc. in Bioinformatics

University of Turin

November 2001 - March 2003

M.Sc. in Biological Sciences

University of Milan - Italy

October 1989 - February 1999

Certifications

• Responsible AI use in the classroom

  GPTZero

  https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-p-56766934/overlay/Certifications/1745425347/treasury/?profileId=ACoAAAc3bd8BuxD9ZEnXhQO6Rm4r0A8jUYzrDS8

  April 2026 - Present

• AI tools for Researchers 2.0

  Instats

  https://instats.org/cert/1768905948539x640106444047261500

  January 2026 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Qing Hua and Ondrej Adamovsky and Hana Vespalcova and Jonna Boyda and Jordan T. Schmidt and Marianne Kozuch and Serena L.M. Craft and Pamela E. Ginn and Stanislav Smatana and Eva Budinska and Maria Persico and Joseph H. Bisesi and Christopher J. Martyniuk(2020). Microbiome analysis and predicted relative metabolomic turnover suggest bacterial heme and selenium metabolism are altered in the gastrointestinal system of zebrafish (Danio rerio) exposed to the organochlorine dieldrin . Environmental Pollution. 268. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 115715. Elsevier {BV}

Ondrej Adamovsky and Amanda N. Buerger and Hana Vespalcova and Shahadur R. Sohag and Amy T. Hanlon and Pamela E. Ginn and Serena L. Craft and Stanislav Smatana and Eva Budinska and Maria Persico and Joseph H. Bisesi and Christopher J. Martyniuk(2020). Evaluation of Microbiome-Host Relationships in the Zebrafish Gastrointestinal System Reveals Adaptive Immunity Is a Target of Bis(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP) Exposure . Environmental Science & Technology. 54. (9). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 5719--5728. American Chemical Society ({ACS})

Lauria, M., Persico, M., Dordevic, N., Cominetti, O., Matone, A., Hosking, J., Jeffery, A., Pinkney, J., Da Silva, L., Priami, C., et al.(2018). Consensus Clustering of temporal profiles for the identification of metabolic markers of pre-diabetes in childhood (EarlyBird 73) . Scientific Reports. 8. (1).

Karali, M., Persico, M., Mutarelli, M., Carissimo, A., Pizzo, M., Singh Marwah, V., Ambrosio, C., Pinelli, M., Carrella, D., Ferrari, S., et al.(2016). High-resolution analysis of the human retina miRNome reveals isomiR variations and novel microRNAs . Nucleic Acids Research. 44. (4). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1525-1540.

Staiano, L., De Leo, M.G., Persico, M., De Matteis, M.A.(2015). Mendelian disorders of PI metabolizing enzymes . Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1851. (6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 867-881.

Hegde, R.N., Parashuraman, S., Iorio, F., Ciciriello, F., Capuani, F., Carissimo, A., Carrella, D., Belcastro, V., Subramanian, A., Bounti, L., et al.(2015). Unravelling druggable signalling networks that control F508del-CFTR proteostasis . eLife. 4. (DECEMBER2015).

Cancino, J., Capalbo, A., DiCampli, A., Giannotta, M., Rizzo, R., Jung, J.E., DiMartino, R., Persico, M., Heinklein, P., Sallese, M., et al.(2014). Control systems of membrane transport at the interface between the endoplasmic reticulum and the Golgi . Developmental Cell. 30. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 280-294.

Persico, M.(2013). Systematic analysis of interactomes in sequence properties space . Current Bioinformatics. 8. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 315-327.

Cesareni, G., Ceol, A., Gavrila, C., Palazzi, L.M., Persico, M., Schneider, M.V.(2005). Comparative interactomics . FEBS Letters. 579. (8). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1828-1833.

Persico, M., Ceol, A., Gavrila, C., Hoffman, R., Florio, A., Cesareni, G.(2005). HomoMINT: An inferred human network based on orthodology mapping of protein interactions discovered in model organisms . BMC Bioinformatics. 6. (SUPPL.4).

Granucci, F., Vizzardelli, C., Pavelka, N., Feau, S., Persico, M., Virzi, E., Rescigno, M., Moro, G., Ricciardi-Castagnoli, P.(2001). Inducible IL-2 production by dendritic cells revealed by global gene expression analysis . Nature Immunology. 2. (9). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 882-888.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Persico, M.(2010). A combinatorics based solution for input generation in the context of classification frameworks aimed to Learning Interacting protein Class . 2010 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, ACM-BCB 2010. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 684-690.