Daniele Santoni - Curri culum Vitae
Personal Details:
Place and date of Birth:
Rome, Italy, July 31 1971
Citizenship:
Italian
E-mail:
[email protected]
Sex:
Male
Languages:: English, French, Portuguese.
Education:
Since November 2006: Phd student at University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Department of Genetics and
Molecular biology - Charles Darwin.
September 2008: Summer School of advanced Computing – CASPUR – Villa Florio Grottaferrata,
Rome, Italy.
August 2008: Scholarship to attend “3rd Annual Summer School in Computational Immunology” Symposium “Systems Biology of Innate Immunity” - School of medicine - Yale
University – New Haven, USA.
May 2008: Microarray data analysis course - “Bioinformatics training course Microarray Data Analysis
using GEPAS and Babelomics – MDAGBA08” - Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Lisbon,
Portugal.
2003:
Secondary level master in Bioinformatics, University of Rome La Sapienza (cum laude).
1999:
Graduated in Mathematics (110/110), University of Rome La Sapienza under the guide of
Professor Aldo de Luca. Thesis on: DNA Computing, Information theory. Title: Computational
models, NP problems and DNA.
1990:
High School Degree (Liceo Scientifico Statale Cavour, Rome) note 60/60.
Job Experience:
February 2009 – Present: Post-Doc position at the “Institute for Research in Biomedicine” (IRB) Barcelona
Spain.
April 2007 – February 2009: Research fellow at the “Institute for Computing Application” IAC – National
Reasearch Council (CNR) Rome Italy.
October 2008: Winner of a Study Fellowship, "Short-term mobility program of researchers", sponsored by the
Italian National Research Council (CNR) - Department of International Exchanges; visiting-scholar program at
“Knowledge Discovery and Bioinformatics group - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e
Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento INESC-ID” – Lisbon - Portugal.
October 2006 - 2007: Professor at “University of Rome III” Rome - Italy. Exercise Course in
Computational Models (IN2).
September 2003 – April 2007: Research fellow at the IUSM (University of Movement Science, Department of
Health Sciences - Laboratory of Bioinformatics), Rome-Italy.
February 2007: Visiting researcher at NUGEN (Nucleo di genomica e bioinformatica) at the Public University
of Cearà – Fortaleza – Brasil.
September-October 2006: Winner of a Study Fellowship, "Short-term mobility program of researchers",
sponsored by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) - Department of International Exchanges; visitingscholar program at “The Technical University of Denmark - Center for Biological Sequence Analysis Comparative microbial genomics group”.
March-June 2004: Professor in Post-graduate Course: Bioinformatics and Biotechnology in Public Health,
IUSM, Rome-Italy.
March 2002 September 2003: Research grant with CASPUR (Inter-University Consortium for the Application
of Super-Computing for Universities and Research, Rome-Italy) on the topics: applications for seismological
simulations (WISA).
December 2000 March 2002: Isinet srl: Project analysis and development in an Internet Server Provider in
Rome, doing web programming under UNIX (perl javascript CGI-PHP) and Windows (VBScript javascript
ASP).
Computer Science Skills: Operating systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows. Programming languages: Perl,
Fortran, C, Pascal, Javascript, Vbscript, Matlab, SQL, HTML. DBMS: MySql.
Publications:
Bhatt TK, Kapil C, Khan S, Jairajpuri MA, Sharma V, Santoni D, Silvestrini F, Pizzi E, Sharma A. (2009).
A genomic glimpse of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. BMC
Genomics. 10:644.
Pedone F, Santoni D. (2009) Sequence-dependent DNA Helical Rise and Nucleosome Stability. BMC Mol
Biol. 10:105.
Santoni D, Romano-Spica V. (2009) Comparative genomic analysis by microbial COGs self-attraction rate.
J Theor Biol. 258: 513-520.
Cacchiarelli D, Santoni D and Bozzoni I. (2008) MicroRNAs as prime players in a combinatorial view of
evolution. RNA biol. 5(3).
Santoni D, Pedicini M and Castiglione F. (2008) Implementation of a regulatory gene network to simulate
the TH1/2 differentiation in an agent-based model of hyper-sensitivity reactions. Bioinformatics. 24(11):
1374-1380.
Paparini A, Ripani M, Giordano GD, Santoni D, Pigozzi F and Romano-Spica V. (2007). ACTN3
Genotyping by Real-Time PCR in the Italian Population and Athletes. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 39(5):810-815.
Brandi G, Sisti M, Paparini A, Gianfranceschi G, Schiavano GF, De Santi M, Santoni D, Magini V,
Romano-Spica V. (2007). Swimming pools and fungi: an environmental epidemiology survey in Italian
indoor swimming facilities. Int J Environ Health Res.17(3):197-206.
Paparini A, Santoni D, Romano-Spica V. (2006). Bioinformatics and microbial biodiversity: analysis of
vibrios by the GenEnv system. J Prev Med Hyg. 47(3):100-104.
Santoni D, Romano-Spica V. (2006). A gzip-based algorithm to identify bacterial families by 16S rRNA.
Lett Appl Microbiol. 42:312- 314.
Pedone F, Mazzei F, Santoni D. (2004). Sequence-dependent DNA torsional rigidity: A tetranucleotide
code. Biophysical Chemistry. 112: 77-88.
Robaud V, Magini V, Sabatini A, Montuori E, Santoni D, Pascale S, Paparini A, Romano-Spica V. (2004).
Obesità infantile e dati antropometrici in una scuola elementare: aspetti legati alla suscettibilità genetica ed
al ruolo delle attività motorie adattate. J Prev Med Hyg, 45(4):394 in italian.
Romano-Spica V, Santoni D, Paparini A, Orsini M, Castrignanò T. (2004). Il database GenEnv: un nuovo
strumento di bioinformatica per la sanità pubblica. J Prev Med Hyg, 45(4):160-161 in italian.
Magini V, Robaud V, Montuori E, Sabatini A, Santoni D, Pascale S, Paparini A, Romano-Spica V. (2004).
Attività motorie e prevenzione dell'obesità infantile: aspetti genetici e antropometrici. L’Igiene Moderna.
123: 49-69 in italian.
Romano-Spica V, Santoni D, Paparini A, Orsini M, Canali A, Giammanco G, Castrignanò T. (2004)
Bioinformatics and GenEnv database in biological risk management. Sanità Pubblica 6:401-420 in italian.
