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General Information
| Full Name | Dario Ghersi |
| Citizenship | American, Italian |
| Languages | English, Italian |
Education and Training
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2010 - 2014
Postdoctoral Fellow
Princeton University
- Structural bioinformatics and network-based approaches to study cancer mutations
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2005 - 2010
PhD
New York University, New York, NY
- Computational approaches for predicting and characterizing protein binding sites
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2004-2005
Research Fellow
Hospital for Joint Diseases, New York, NY
- Studying heterologous immunity in antiviral CD8+ responses with agent-based models
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1998-2004
MD
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
- Mathematical models of the immune system
Experience
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2020-now
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
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2022
Visiting Professor
Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern
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2014-2020
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Service
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2020-now
Associate Editor for BMC Bioinformatics
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2021-now
Associate Editor for Journal of Computational Biology
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2020-now
Co-director of the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Program at UNMC
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2018-now
Graduate Curriculum Chair, MS in Biomedical Informatics
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2015-2018
Undergraduate Program Chair, BS in Bioinformatics
Honors and Awards
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2025
- College of IS&T Outstanding Research Award
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2017
- First-year Faculty Award for Extramural Funding (UNO)
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2004
- Medal for Academic Achievements (University of Genoa)
Other Interests
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Too many to list them all!
- Collecting and playing guitars and other string instruments
- Rving around the U.S.
- Watching baseball games and studying baseball analytics
- Learning new languages