Dario Ghersi

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. I was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2020.

Teaching Interests

Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, Structural Bioinformatics, Biologically-inspired Computing, Linear Algebra, Machine Intelligence.

Research Interests

Cancer Genomics, Structural Bioinformatics, Immunoinformatics, Small Molecule Bioinformatics, Machine Intelligence, Agent-based modeling.

Service Summary

Some of my current service assignments:1. Graduate Program Chair for the M.S. in Biomedical Informatics, Cybersecurity, and IT Innovation.2. Co-director of the BISB track in the IGPBS Ph.D. program (joint effort with UNMC).3. Committee Member in the Bioinformatics Undergraduate Committee.4. Committee Member in the Doctoral Program in Biomedical Informatics.5. Committee Member in the Honors Program.6. Graduate Council Committee member.7. UCAT Committee member.

Education

Other, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, Medicine, 2004

Ph D, Mount Sinai School of Medicine/New York University, New York, NY, Structural Bioinformatics, 2010