The group

The group includes the PI, yours truly, and students with a passion for AI, computational modeling, statistics, and affine topics. Lab members belong to several institutions.

GiorginoLab group photo

Current members

  • Toni Giorgino, principal investigator (CNR-IBF).
  • Fabrian Behrens.

Principal investigator

Toni Giorgino
The PI in 2004...

Primo ricercatore (senior researcher) at the Italian National Research Council (IBF-CNR) since 2023. Tenured in 2012. In 2009 awarded a 3-year Beatriu de Pinos grant by the Generalitat de Catalunya for the in silico characterization of protein-protein and protein-drug interactions via large-scale all-atom simulations, developed in the Computational Biophysics Group at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (GRIB-IMIM-UPF). Before 2008 with the Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics “Mario Stefanelli” of the University of Pavia, conducting research on artificial intelligence for healthcare. PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics (University of Pavia, 2005), and degree in Physics (University of Pisa, 2001). Alumn of the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, 1995).

  • E-mail: first name dot last name at cnr.it
  • Profile on Google scholar
  • Publications
  • GitHub: @giorginolab (stable), @tonigi (work-in-progress)
  • ORCID: 0000-0001-6449-0596; ResearcherID: H-1866-2011 (if you are into curating such proprietary databases)
  • Abilitazione a professore II fascia: 09/G2 Bioingegneria (ASN 2016)
  • Abilitazione a professore II fascia: 03/D1 Chimica e Tecnologie Farmaceutiche, Tossicologiche e Nutraceutico-Alimentari (ASN 2021)
  • I am not on Facebook, Instagram, etc. See why. (Warning: satire)
  • On Mastodon: @giorginolab@mstdn.science

Where we work

We are located in the Department of Biosciences of the University of Milan. Due to the nature of computational work, we collaborate both in person and online.

Joining

Interested in joining? See Join us for thesis topics, positions and how to apply.

Alumni

  • F. Bacic Toplek, formerly a post-doctoral research collaborator.
  • S. Naik, formerly a pre-doctoral research collaborator.
  • F. Ballabio, formerly a post-doc with our group; now a post-doc at Helmholtz Center Munich.
  • I. Cazzaniga, formerly a research fellow; now a PhD student at UPF Barcelona and CSIC-IQAC.
  • C. Caprai, formerly a research fellow; now a PhD student at Sorbonne University and Institut Pasteur.
  • F. Santoro, formerly a research fellow.

Recently supervised students

  • G. S., Student of the Quantitative Biology Master Course at the University of Milan, “Benchmarking a novel clustering algorithm for the detection and characterisation of alternative pockets in GPCRs from large-scale molecular dynamics simulations”, 110/110 cum laude, now a SEMM PhD at Human Technopole.
  • S. E., Student of the Quantitative Biology Master Course at the University of Milan: “From Geometry to Forces: Algorithmic Differentiation of Collective Variables in Molecular Dynamics Simulations”.
  • C. C., Student of the Quantitative Biology Master Course at the University of Milan: “Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Approaches to Data-Driven Binding Mode Identification and Classification”, 110/110 cum laude.
  • I. C., Student of the Quantitative Biology Master Course at the University of Milan: “Temperature dependence of the intrinsic dimension of the protein dynamics manifold”, 110/110 cum laude.
  • M. A., Student of the Quantitative Biology Master Course at the University of Milan: “Deep Protein Language Models for Property Prediction and Data-Driven Sequence Design: an Application to Hemolytic Peptides”.
  • O. S., Laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, University of Pavia: “Automazione di simulazioni molecolari su calcolatore ad alte prestazioni per supporto e generazione di ipotesi farmacologiche”, 110/110 cum laude.
  • C. P., Laurea Triennale in Fisica, University of Milan: “Local latent space dimension of the dynamics of biopolymers”.
  • I. B., Corso di laurea in Chimica e Tecnologie Farmaceutiche, University of Milan: “Identificazione di un nuovo hotspot di instabilità della Gelsolina”.
  • E. F., Master degree in Molecular Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, University of Milan: “In silico and in vitro characterization of Type I BIR domains inhibitors in cancer therapy”, 110/110 cum laude.
  • I. B., Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Padova: “Eventi di legame rari in Dinamica Molecolare: il caso del dominio SH2 e del peptide pYEEI”.