Duccio Cavalieri

Dr. Duccio Cavalieri is a Geneticist who received his PhD from the University of Pavia, Italy in 1998. He began his postdoctoral work at the University of Catania, Italy and finished at Harvard University, USA. From 2001 to 2004 Duccio was a Harvard Genomics Fellow, Principal Investigator and Group Leader for the Yeast Comparative Genomics Group with the Bauer Laboratories & Molecular and Cellular Biology Department (Harvard University). While at Harvard he pioneered the application of functional genomics to yeast population genetics. Currently, Cavalieri is an Associate Professor for Biotechnology at the University of Florence. He also works as the Department Head and Group Leader for the Comparative Genomics Unit in the Department of Computational Biology at Fondazione E. Mach (CRI). Duccio is a leader in the application of computational biology to complex agricultural systems and the connection between nutrition, the microbiome, and human health. Cavalieri’s work has delved into the evolutionary biology of the “holo biome” and the complex network of symbiotic interactions linking the microbiome and the host (including immune system regulation). Cavalieri’s Computational Genomics research unit at CRI, integrates biological, bioinformatics and statistical expertise necessary for the development of systemic approaches, integrating information from DNA-Microarrays, Next Generation Sequencing, Metagenomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics.