Giulia Cesaro got a Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering at University of Padua in 2018 and received the Master Degree in Bioengineering (summa cum laude) at University of Padua on 2020. She collaborated in a research activity with Professor Di Camillo on bioinformatics field and currently she is a PhD student in Information Engineering at Univeristy of Padua. Her PhD project focuses on the development of a bioinformatics method to infer and analyse cell-cell communication from single-cell RNA sequencing data .

Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy

2015 - 2018
Thesis title: Analisi biomeccanica della corsa negli sprinter: confronto tra squadra maschile e femminile d’èlite.
Supervisor: Prof. Zimi Sawacha

Master's Degree in Bioengineering at the University of Padova, Padova, Italy

2018 - 2020
Thesis title: Inference and analysis of cell-cell communication using scRNA-seq data.
Supervisor: Prof. Barbara Di Camillo

Research Collaborator at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Feb 2021 - Sep 2021

PhD Student in Information Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

2021 - today

Visiting PhD Student at the Institute for Computational Genomics at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Jan 2024 - today

Long-Mobility Grant from "Fondazione Ing. Aldo Gini" - year 2023

November, 2023

"Best Flash Talk" at Italian Bioinformatics Society (BITS2022) PhD Student Symposium

June, 2022 - Verona, Italy

"Best Oral Presentation" at Student Council Symposium at ISMB/ECCB 2023

June, 2022 - Verona, Italy

Conference referee at 26th Annual International Conference on “Research in Computational Molecular Biology” (RECOMB2022), 21st International Conference of "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" (AIME2023) and 18th Conference on "Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics" (CIBB2023)

Journal referee at “IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics” (JBHI) and "Journal of Biomedical Informatics" (JBI)

Giulia Cesaro has served as co-supervisor for:

3 Master Degree student’s thesis in Computer Engineering.
2 Master Degree student’s thesis in Bioengineering.
1 Master Degree student’s thesis in Molecular Biology.
2 Bachelor Degree student’s thesis in Biomedical Engineering.
1 Second-level Short Specialisation Degree student’s thesis in Omic Data Analysis.

G. Baruzzo, G. Cesaro, B. Di Camillo, “Identify, quantify and characterize cellular communication from single cell RNA sequencing data with scSeqComm”, Bioinformatics, 2022, 38(7):1920-1929. (DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac036)
G. Cesaro, M. Milia, G. Baruzzo, G. Finco, F. Morandini, A. Lazzarini, P. Alotto, N.F. da Cunha Carvalho de Miranda, Z. Trajanoski, F. Finotello, B. Di Camillo, “MAST: a hybrid Multi-Agent Spatio-Temporal model of tumor microenvironment informed using a data-driven approach”, Bioinformatics Advances, 2022. (DOI: 10.1093/bioadv/vbac092)

Oral presentation: G. Baruzzo, G. Cesaro, B. Di Camillo, "scSeqComm: a bioinformatic tool to identify, quantify and characterize cellular communication from single cell RNA sequencing data" at 17th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS)

Virtual conference, July 1-2, 2021

Oral presentation: G. Baruzzo, G. Cesaro, B. Di Camillo, "Analyze cellular communication from single cell RNA sequencing data with scSeqComm" at Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (BBCC) 2021 Meeting

Virtual conference, December 1-3, 2021

Poster presentation: G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo and B. di Camillo, "Differential cellular communication analysis form single cell RNA sequencing data with scSeqComm" at 18th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS)

Verona, June 27-39, 2022

Oral presentation: G. Cesaro, M. Milia, G. Baruzzo, P. Alotto, N.F. da Cunha Carvalho de Miranda, Z. Trajanoski, F. Finotello, B. Di Camillo, “Simulate personalized tumor microenvironment evolution through a hybrid Multi-Agent Spatio-Temporal model informed by sequencing data” at 18th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS)

Verona, June 27-39, 2022

Oral presentation: G. Cesaro, “Development of computational models to infer and analyze cell-cell communication using scRNA-seq data” at Young BITS-RSG PhD Symposium at 18th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS)

Verona, June 27-39, 2022

Poster presentation: G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo, “Analysis of differential cellular communication from single cell RNA-seq data with scSeqComm ” at 21st European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) 2022

Sitges, Spain, September 12-21, 2022

Oral presentation: G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo, “Differential cellular communication analysis across multi-condition and multipatient scRNA-seq data” at Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (BBCC) 2022 Meeting

Virtual conference, December 13-15, 2022

Oral presentation: G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo, "CClens: effective and efficient differential cellular communication analysis of large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data" at 19th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society (BITS)

Bari, Italy, June 21-23, 2023

Oral presentation: G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo, "Interactive and effective visualization framework for interpreting and exploring cellular communication data" 31st Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & 22nd European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2023)

Lyon, France, July 23-27, 2023

Poster presentation: G. Cesaro, J.S. Nagai, A. Chiodi, V. Klöker, N. Gnoato, E. Mosca, I. Costa, E. Calura, B. Di Camillo and G. Baruzzo "Shedding light on cellular communication analysis: the present and the future" at 31st Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & 22nd European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2023)

Lyon, France, July 23-27, 2023

Oral presentation: G. Cesaro, G. Baruzzo, B. Di Camillo "Differential cellular communication analysis from large-scale single-cell RNA sequencing data" at 18th Conference on "Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics (CIBB2023)

Padova, Italy, September 6-8, 2023

Instructor at "Software containerization in bioinformatics: how to make reproducible, portable and reusable bioinformatics software&pipelines" Tutorial at 21st European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) 2022

Co-organizer and Instructor at online workshop "Introduction to Software Containerization in Bioinformatics"

Instructor at "How to make reproducible, portable and reusable bioinformatics software using software containerization" Tutorial at 31st Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology & 22nd European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB 2023)

Program committee, Local committee at 18th Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics (CIBB 2023)

Co-chair of RSG-Italy Young Symposium at 18th Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics & Biostatistics (CIBB 2023)

Member of International Society of Computational Biology - ISCB (role: member)

Committee of Italian Regional Student Group (RSG Italy) of Internation Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)

Member of Young-InfoLife group, InfoLife National Laboratory of CINI