Andrea Benazzo

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Telefono: +39 0532 455951

e-mail: andrea.benazzo@unife.it

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Curriculum Vitae esteso (pdf)

 

ATTIVITA' DI RICERCA

Coalescent theory and stochastic processes; phylogenetics; population genetics; molecular evolution;
Bayesian statistics; MCMC and ABC techniques; human population history; selection; domestication process; conservation genetics.


ATTIVITA' DIDATTICA

- Corso di Biostatistica Avanzata per la Laurea Magistrale in Ecologia ed Evoluzione e Scienze Biomolecolari e Cellulari

 

BREVE CURRICULUM VITAE

2012-present       Bioinformatic Tecnician, University of Ferrara.

2011                      Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara. (Supervisor: Prof. Giorgio Bertorelle. Thesis (in italian): Le simulazioni del processo coalescente in genetica di popolazioni: inferenze demografiche ed evolutive.).

2008                      Master Degree in BioMolecular Science at University of Ferrara, with final mark 110/110 cum laude. (Supervisor: Prof. Guido Barbujani. Thesis (in Italian): Relazioni genealogiche tra Sardi nuragici e popolazioni moderne: confronto tra modelli demografici.)

2006                     Degree in Biological Science at University of Ferrara, with final mark 110/110 cum laude. (Supervisor: Prof. Guido Barbujani. Thesis (in Italian): Analisi del Dna attraverso simulazioni in silico di modelli genealogici.)

 

PUBBLICAZIONI

  • Belle EM, Benazzo A, Ghirotto S, Colonna V, Barbujani G. 2009. Comparing models on the genealogical relationships among Neandertal, Cro-Magnoid and modern Europeans by serial coalescent simulations. Heredity. 102(3):218-25.
  • Barbujani G, Guimaraes S, Benazzo A, Milani L, Caramelli D 2009. Recent demographic changes account for the genealogical discontinuity between Etruscan, Medieval and modern Tuscans. American Journal of Human Anthropology. (Program of the seventy-eight Annual Meeting of the American Association of PhysicalAnthropologists. Pg 87
  • Silvia Guimaraes, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Benazzo, Lucio Milani, Martina Lari, Elena Pilli, Elena Pecchioli, Francesco Mallegni, Barbara Lippi, Francesca Bertoldi, Sauro Gelichi, Antonella Casoli, Elise M. S. Belle, David Caramelli, Guido Barbujani, 2009.Genealogical discontinuities among Etruscan, Medieval and contemporary Tuscans. Molecular Biology and Evolution; doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp126
  • Silvia Ghirotto, Stefano Mona, Andrea Benazzo, Francesco Paparazzo, David Caramelli, Guido Barbujani, 2010. Inferring Genealogical Processes from Patterns of Bronze-Age and Modern DNA variation in Sardinia. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2009; doi: 10.1093/molbev/msp2
  • Giorgio Bertorelle, Andrea Benazzo, Stefano Mona. ABC as a flexible framework to estimate demography over space and time: some cons, many pros. Molecular Ecology. Doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04690.x.
  • Silvia Ghirotto, Francesca Tassi, Andrea Benazzo, Guido Barbujani (2011). No evidence of Neandertal admixture in Cro-Magnoid and modern European mitochondrial genomes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146(2):242-52.

 

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