Affiliation: University of Verona, Strada le Grazie 8, 37134 Verona, Italy, School of Medicine, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, Laboratory of Computational Genomics

Prof. Giovanni Malerba received a degree in Biological Sciences (University of Padua), a PhD in Biotechnology Applied to Biomedical Sciences (University of Verona), and a Specialization in Medical Genetics (technical address, University of Verona). He has carried out research activities at the laboratories of the University of Verona, the Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, USA), INSERM U794, CEPH Institute (Paris, France), and the Sanger Center (Hinxton, UK). Since 2003, he has been affiliated with the University of Verona. His research focuses on big-data analysis in humans and microbes genomics, epigenomics, and transcriptomics. Currently, he is leading projects which employ innovative technologies such as single-cell, shotgun metagenomics, and long-read sequencing.