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Emidio Capriotti is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna (Italy). He earned a PhD in Physical Sciences from the University of Bologna, with a scientific background in Structural Bioinformatics. In recent years, his research activity has shifted toward the study of the effects of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) resulting in single amino acid polymorphisms. He applies computational tools for the analysis of protein three-dimensional structures to predict the impact of single-point protein mutations on protein stability, developing machine learning methods to predict free energy changes upon mutation and to identify pathogenic variants. The main goal of his research is to understand the relationship between genomic variations and disease by leveraging large amounts of data generated by high-throughput techniques. He is particularly interested in designing new disease-specific algorithms and developing novel tools for personal genomics and personalized medicine.

Ernesto Picardi is Full Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of bari Aldo Moro and works is in the field of Omic Sciences, Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution. He deals with the development of new bioinformatics methodologies and specialized databases to investigate transcriptome and epitranscriptome dynamics in eukaryotic genomes. His research activity focuses on the analysis of transcriptomic and epitranscripromic data produced through novel massive sequencing technologies for the study of gene expression and post-transcriptional modifications such as alternative splicing, RNA editing and RNA modifications.

Dr. Flaviana Marzano is a Researcher at the Institute of Biomembranes, Bioenergetics and Molecular Biotechnologies of the National Research Council (IBIOM-CNR). Her scientific work focuses on molecular and cellular biology, with particular emphasis on the regulation of gene expression under physiological and pathological conditions. Over the years, she has developed extensive expertise in Genomics and Transcriptomics, contributing to the development and implementation of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) protocols. She has taken part in numerous national and international research projects and is co-author of publications in indexed, peer-reviewed journals, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.

Master degree in Computer Science. Bioinformatician from 2001 in CNR-ITB, Bari. Expertise in Research Data Management; design and development of biological database and data integration tools; application of FAIR principles for data and metadata standardization. Expert in DataCenter management for the storage and processing of Life Science-oriented data. Competences in development of pipelines for the analysis of omics data. In ELIXIR-IT RDM Community co-leader and Interoperbility plaform deputy in ELIXIR-IT.

Giacinto Donvito has a long-standing experience in coordinating and operating complex, distributed computing infrastructures for scientific research. Since 2004, he has served as system administrator of the CMS and Alice Tier-2 computing centre at INFN-Bari. Over the years, he has played key technical and coordination roles in several European projects, including acting as Technical Coordinator for H2020 INDIGO-DataCloud, eXtreme DataCloud, and EOSC-Hub. Giacinto has been actively involved in numerous EGEE and EGI initiatives, as well as national and international bioinformatics projects, supporting diverse scientific communities. He has contributed to the EGI Federated Cloud since its inception and led the implementation of a PaaS layer in the H2020 DEEP-HybridDataCloud project. Currently, Giacinto is engaged in multiple H2020 and Horizon Europe projects, such as EOSC-Life, DICE, EGI-ACE, C-Scale, InterTwin, AI4EOSC, and EuroScienceGateway. On the national level, he has led three major infrastructural projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research, supporting scientific applications in fields like physics, bioinformatics, and biodiversity, with a total budget of around 12 million euros. He is also local coordinator for several PNRR projects, responsible for implementing cloud and HPC platforms with investments of about 10 million euros. Giacinto is the Technical Coordinator of the EOSC Italian Node, leading cross-node use cases with CERN, BBMRI, and Elixir-IT, and represents INFN in the Italian ELIXIR and Lifewatch nodes. He also coordinates the ReCaS-Bari Data Center and leads the ELIXIR-IT Compute Platform, where he contributed to the Laniakea@ReCaS Galaxy on-demand service.

Gianluca Della Vedova is full professor of Computer Science at the University of Milano - Bicocca (UNIMIB). His research activity focuses on algorithms in Bioinformatics and especially in computational pangenomics, phylogeny inference, and alternative splicing prediction. Within ELIXIR-IT, he has organized several training events and he is the UNIMIB representative in the General Assembly.

Giuseppe is member of ELIXIR-IT impact assessment group. During his PhD in Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology (2022) at the University of Bari he focused his research on metagenomics (shotgun and amplicon-based) and in particular he developed kMetaShot a fast MAGs taxonomy classifier. Now, his main focus is the development of effective AI models for classification of eubiotic/disbiotic gut microbiomes relying on compositional profiling via DNA metabarcoding. His research is also focused on de-novo genome assembly, trascriptomics and curation of biological data.

Lab manager and technical coordinator at the BioComputing UP lab, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua. Currently involved in ELIXIR Interoperability platform projects and RDM Community (DATAREX Implementation Study)

Letizia is Associate Professor at Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science at University of Milan. She holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Biotechnology (2010) from University of Padova, where she moved from molecular biology to proteomics of barley response to rust Over the years, she has specialized in proteomics and metabolomics focusing in the plant-environmental interaction and the plant reponses to abiotic stress and the beneficial interactions occured among microbes and plants. Her research interests include proteomics, metabolomics, and system biology.

Loredana is the Training Coordinator of ELIXIR-IT. She holds a PhD in Computational Biology and coordinates the Bioinformatics Service at ISS - FAST, with a focus on functional genomics and the integration of omics data. She is involved in national/international projects and teaches in advanced courses and doctoral programmes. At the European level, she serves as task lead within the ELIXIR Training Programme, contributing to initiatives that promote standards, guidelines, and best practices in bioinformatics.

Luana is associate professor at the Department of Biology of the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the coordinator of MINT, the Molecular INTeraction database. MINT is part of the ELIXIR-Core Data Resources and of the Global Biodata Coalition Resources. She also co-coordinated the SIGNOR database (ELIXIR-IT service), a resource that annotates causal relationships between biological entities. Her research activity focuses on the analysis of the impact of pathogenic variants at the molecular interactions level to understanding the relationships between genotype and phenotype and characterize the molecular mechanisms underlying diseases.

Luca Pireddu is a Senior Researcher at CRS4, where he is a member of the Visual and Data-Intensive Computing group. His work focuses on novel data processing and management techniques for problems in bioinformatics and biomedical research. He is particularly interested in facilitating scalability of complex computational scientific workflows, secure and scalable methods to leverage sensitive data collections, and data and workflow re-use through the application of FAIR principles, with an focus on machine-actionable provenance of computational results.