CURRICULUM VITÆ & STUDIORUM

Giuseppe Insana

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Publications

• "DNA phonology: investigating the codon space"; Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge 2004
• "Unexpected similarities in codon composition between retroviral genomes and human protein families revealed by a novel method of codon usage analysis"; Poster at HUGO HGM Conference, Shanghai 2002
• (with Lehväslaiho, H.) "Mutable gene model Computational mutation expression toolkit"; Poster at ISMB Conference, Copenhagen 2001
• "Molecular modelling of plant light-harvesting proteins"; Master thesis, Verona 1999
• (cited) "The art of DNA; Back to bases"; Article on The Economist (print edition), April 24th 2003

Education

• 2000-2003 Cambridge University [http://www.cam.ac.uk] & European Bioinformatics Institute [http://www.ebi.ac.uk] -- Cambridge, UK
  Ph.D. degree, Bioinformatics
  
  • Research within the Ensembl [http://www.ensembl.org] group under the supervision of Heikki Lehväslaiho, Liisa Holm and Michael Ashburner.
• 1993-1999 University of Verona [http://www.univr.it] -- Verona, Italy
  Master degree ('laurea magistralis'), Biotechnology
  • Top final grade of 110/110
    
  • Bioinformatics research under the supervision of Henriette Molinari and Federico Fogolari.

Personal skills and interests

• Programming: excellent skills in Perl and Php programming, basic knowledge of C and Javascript
• Bioinformatics tools & techniques; biological and linguistic databases
• System installation and administration (HP-UX, Linux, Windows); servers, LAN & VPN setup
• Security, privacy, fault tolerance
• Web-design, html, css, ajax, lamp
• Computer graphics, svg, raytracing, 3d modelling

Languages:

• Italian -- mother tongue
• English -- excellent (February 2000 computer-based TOEFL score: 283, equivalent to 657 paper-based)
• Mandarin Chinese, Spanish (July 200, 88/100 Spanish B1 test, University of Verona Linguistic Centre) -- good mastery
• French -- conversational
• Russian, Japanese, Bulgarian -- simple communication

Photography and poetry [http://art.insana.net]:

• Exhibited in UK and in Italy

Linguistics:

• Development of language learning resources and of a semantic based multilingual dictionary
• Language modelling and creation of an international auxiliary language

Painting, calligraphy, philosophy, cryptography, graphic design, music, sea sports, travelling

Work experiences

• 1994-1996
  Faculty of science, University of Verona, Italy -- HP-Unix system manager
• 1997-1999
  A.T. Informatica sas, Schio, Italy -- System installation, webdesign and CGI programming
• 2001
  St.Paul's primary school, Cambridge, UK -- Chess teacher
• 2001-ongoing
  MediaGlyphs Project [http://www.mediaglyphs.org] -- Founder and director
• 2001-2003
  Cambrige University Photo Society, UK -- Website creation & maintenance
• 2002
  Sonic Genes Project, Wellcome Trust Science on Stage & Screen, UK -- Consultant and programmer
• 2003
  Red Coral diving club / Sheraton Resort Sanya, China -- Startup management of the promotion of scuba diving services
• 2004
  Chinese academy of tropical agricultural sciences, Hainan, China -- Visiting Assistant Professor, teaching two post-graduate courses: Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics
• 2004
  Zhuoda tourism college, Sanya, China -- English teacher for the two courses of Reading & Listening comprehension
• 2004-2005
  Haikou college of economics and vocational technologies, Haikou, China -- oral English teacher
• 2005-2006
  Sanya FengShen Tourism & Culture LTD / Italian Restaurant Roma, Sanya, China -- Manager and co-owner
• 2007-2008
  Sanya Gold & Black Tourism Development LTD / Mediterranea Restaurant, Sanya, China -- G.M. and owner
• 2009
  Professional Clinical Software GmbH, Klagenfurt, Austria / Pocemon project [http://www.pocemon.eu] -- Bioinformatics Consultant