User:LindaF

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Name
Linda Fiaschi
Country
Italy
Education
B.Sc., M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering with Biomedical Specialization at University of Pisa
Research interests

  • Bioinformatics
  • Medical Applications
  • Data Mining
  • SNPs Analysis

E-mail
Website
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~lxf


Dissemination
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)

Talks


Conferences and Workshops

  • EURO XXIII, Bonn, Germany (2009-07-05 - 2009-07-08)
  • BIOPTRAIN Workshop, Florence, Italy (2009-06-10 - 2009-06-12)
  • BIOPTRAIN Workshop, Innsbruck, Austria (2009-01-12)
  • CIBCB 2009 - IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Nashville (TN), USA (2009-03-30 / 2009-04-02)

Publications

  • Book Chapter: Linda Fiaschi, Jonathan M Garibaldi, Multiple-Test Analysis of Sequences of SNPs for Determining Susceptibility to Pre-eclampsia. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Vol 196 : Computational Intelligence and Bioengineering (in honor of prof. Antonina Starita). Ed Masulli, Micheli and Sperduti, IOS Press 2009.
  • Conference paper: L Fiaschi, JM Garibaldi, N Krasnogor A Framework for the Application of Decision Trees to the Analysis of SNPs Data in Proceedings of the CIBCB 2009 - IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (IEEE SSCI 2009).
Year 3 (Sep 2007 - Aug 2008)

Talks

Year 2 (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)

Talks

Conferences and Workshops

  • EURO XXII, Prague, Czech Republic (2007-07-09 - 2007-07-11)
  • Next Generation Decision Support, Nottingham 2007-02-05
Year 1 (Sep 2005 - Aug 2006)

Talks

  • Alzheimer Analysis: Weka results, Queens Medical Center, Nottingham 2006-08-04
  • Decision Trees, Queens Medical Center, Nottingham 2006-03-17



Networking, teaching and training activities
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)

Secondment


Courses

  • Statistical course. School of Computer Science, Nottingham, 2008-12-16.


Year 3 (Sep 2007 - Aug 2008)

Courses

  • Introduction Presentation Skills (2007-10-05)
Year 2 (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)

Fellowship meetings

  • 2007-01-09, School of Computer Science

Courses

  • Getting started with research design and statistics (2006-11-27 - 2006-12-11)

Research skills

  • Preparing and presenting an effective CV (2007-01-16)

Training events

  • Public Communication Training Day, Nottingham (2006-09-19)
Year 1 (Sep 2005 - Aug 2006)

Fellowship meetings

  • 2006-03-02, School of Computer Science

Communication skills

  • Academic Speaking Module - Discussion Skills (2006-02-14 - 2006-03-21)
  • Academic Speaking Module - Conversational English (2006-02-14 - 2006-03-21)
  • Academic Speaking Module - Seminar Presentation and Practice (2006-02-17 - 2006-03-24)
  • Academic Listening Module - Listening (2006-02-17 - 2006-03-24)

Research skills

  • Thinking ahead - What can PhDs do and how can they get there?, Graduate School (2006-06-13)

Courses

  • Post-genomics and Bioinformatics, School of Biosciences (2006-05-15 - 2006-05-17)
  • Research Practice, School of Computer Science (2006-02-02 - 2006-05-31)
Ongoing activity
Year 4 (Sep 2008 - Aug 2009)
  • Synthesized DB for case control analysis
  • Writing up a conference paper and book chapter
  • Attributes redundancy analysis
  • Study of non-linear interaction between attributes
  • Artificial datasets for SNPs redundancy analysis


Year 3 (Sep 2007 - Aug 2008)
  • Writing up a paper on a new strategy for SNPs analysis with Decision Tree tools
  • Case-Control Analysis on PE: C4.5 and ADTree
  • Multiple Phoenotypes Analysis on PE
Year 2 (Sep 2006 - Aug 2007)
  • Transmission Disequilibrium Test
  • Pre-processing of new PE database: SQL
  • TRANSMIT software
  • 1st Year activity report
  • SNPs analysis: TRANSMIT modification and FBAT
Year 1 (Sep 2005 - Aug 2006)
  • Genetic literature review
  • LCS and XCS
  • Weka and decision tree algorithms
  • Data mining theory in data pre-processing
  • SNPs Analysis: Pre-eclampsia and Alzheimer analysis with Weka and XCS
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