Corrado Priami
Computing as enabling technology for Systems Biology
Combinatorial complexity of biological systems and the increasing accumulation of knowledge due to omics technologies makes classical modeling approaches inadequate to address current challenges in systems biology. Computer science can play here the role that mathematics played for physics in the last century. A new ad-hoc programming language and its integration with user-friendly interfaces and smart simulation algorithms can help unraveling the mechanistic behavior of biological systems. Some examples will show how the proposed modeling and simulation framework can be applied to real problems.
Short CV
Corrado Priami obtained his Laurea and PhD degrees in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, visited as associate researcher at the laboratory LIX, ?cole Politechnique, Paris (1995) and the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure, Paris under an EC Marie Curie TMR grant (1996). He was a researcher and associate professor at the University of Verona (1997-2001). Currently, he is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Trento. The results of his PhD thesis on stochastic pi- calculus were the basis for the foundation of the Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI), of which he is the President and CEO. His research covers computational methods for the modelling, analysis, and simulation of biological systems, programming languages, and formal computational theories. He published over 130 papers in international journals and conferences, given more than 50 invited talks and lectures at conferences and universities around the world. He founded the international conferences “Computational Methods in Systems Biology (CMSB),” which is continuing to grow, and “Converging Sciences,” whose success has been described by many international journals. He was a member of ISTAG-FET (Information Society Technologies Advisory Group - Future and Emerging Technologies) of the European Commission.