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Bruno Fosso is Associate Professore in Molecular Biology at University of Bari Aldo Moro and Leader of the ELIXIR-IT Tools platform. He obtained a PhD in Bioinformatics in 2014 at the University of Bari discussing a thesis about the deplotyment of a workflow for DNA-metabarcodingd data analysis.The metagenomic investigation of host-associated microbiomes and environmental prokaryotic communities is the main topic of his research activity. He is an active member of the BITS, SIBBM, ISCB and ELIXIR Microbiome Community. He is author of about 50 papers on international journals.

Castrense Savojardo is Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna. His research focuses on the development of computational methods based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict protein structure, function, and localization, with a special emphasis on membrane proteins and the impact of mutations. He is actively involved in the European infrastructure ELIXIR, serving as national deputy leader of the Tools platform and contributing to the 3DBioInfo Community and the Machine Learning Focus Group.