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Alessandro is the Infrastructure Manager and Node Coordinator of ELIXIR-IT. He holds a PhD in Computational Biology (2005) from the University of Padua, where he focused on genome sequencing and annotation of the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum. Over the years, he has specialised in genome data analysis and management, contributing to major projects such as the gene prediction and functional annotation of the Pinot Noir, Golden Delicious, strawberry, pear, and citrus genomes. His research interests include genomics, transcriptomics, and biological data management.

Diego is a Computational Biologist specialized in plant, currently serving as a Researcher at the Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM) in Trento, Italy, since 2016. His research focuses on the analysis of whole-genome sequencing data for de novo assembly and variant discovery, and developing molecular markers for QTL mapping, population genomics, and association mapping. He is contributing to the development of pipelines for filtering high-throughput genotyping data and analyzing sequences from MinION and Illumina platforms. Before my current role, Diego was a Postdoctoral Researcher at IRTA in Spain (2011–2013) for the Fruitbreedomics project, where I performed QTL mapping and GWAS in Peach. He hold a PhD (2008–2011) from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2011), and a Master's degree from the University of Padua (2007).