Marco Rosario Capodiferro

Research

Awards

  • 2019: Best PhD thesis in Genetics by the “Italian Genetics Association (AGI)”.

Conference Talks

  • 2023: "Archaic ancestry inference in imputed ancient human genomes", SMBE 2024. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
  • 2022: "Geographical and Chronological patterns of archaic introgression in ancient Human genomes", ISBA 2023. Tartu, Estonia.
  • 2018: "Exploring the genetic history of Panamanians through ancient genomes", FISV 2018. Rome, Italy.
  • 2017: "Looking into the Swamp Buffalo Genetic History Through the Whole Mitogenome Analysis", ASPA 2017. Perugia, Italy.

Invited Speaker

  • 2024: "Unraveling Admixture and Isolation Patterns in South America", Leiden, Netherlands.
  • 2024: "Archaic introgression in ancient Human genomes", University of Pavia, Italy.
  • 2023: "Knowledge discovery from ancient reads", Cortona Summer School, Italy.
  • 2019: "Genomic history of Panama", Sevilla, Spain.
  • 2019: "From modern mitogenomes to archaeogenomics", Cortona, Italy.

Conference Organization

  • 2024: Co-Organizer, "Ancient DNA Beyond Allele Frequencies", SMBE satellite meeting, Dublin, Ireland.
  • 2021: Co-Organizer, "Host-pathogen co-evolutionary dynamics", SMBE 2023, Ferrara, Italy.

International Training

  • 2018: Estonian Biocentre, University of Tartu, Estonia.
  • 2017: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
  • 2017: Innsbruck Medical University, Austria.

Education

  • 2015–2019: Ph.D. in Genetics, University of Pavia
  • 2011–2014: M.Sc. in Applied Biomolecular Sciences, University of Perugia
  • 2006–2011: B.Sc. in Biological Sciences, University of Perugia