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Cecilia Arighi, Ph.D.


Research Associate Professor
Department of Computer & Information Sciences
University of Delaware (UD)

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC)

Contact

Office: 147 Ammon-Pinizzotto Biopharmaceutical Innovation Center

Mailing address:
Delaware Biotechnology Institute
590 Avenue 1743, Suite 147
Newark, DE 19713

Phone: (302) 831-3444
E-Mail: arighi@udel.edu

Education

B.S.: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ph.D.: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Postdoctoral: National Institutes of Health, USA

Previous Positions

Research Assistant, Department of Biological Chemistry, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1992-1996)
Postdoctoral Fellow. Laboratory of Dr. Juan S. Bonifacino, Cell Biology and Metabolism Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH, MD (2001-2005)
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cell Biology, GUMC (2005-2009)
Research Assistant Professor. Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, UD (2009-2012)

Honors, Professional Appointments and Activities

Honors

2001-2003     PEW Trust Latin American Fellowship for the Biomedical Sciences
2003-2005 National Institutes of Health Visiting Fellowship
2008 Fellowship to attend Computational and Comparative Genomic Course, Cold Spring Harbor Lab
2010-2011 Travel expenses to chair the PIR workshop at Plant and Animal Genome XVIII meeting

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

2004-present     Ad hoc reviewer, scientific journals such as BMC Bioinformatics, BMC genomics, PeerJ, Proteomics, J Proteomics Bioinformatics, PloS, Nucleic Acids Research, Immunology, Faculty1000
2010-present   Member, PIR Executive Board
2010-present   Member, Scientific and organizing committee of BioCreative series BioCreative III to VII, and organizer of text mining session at ISB 2010, 2012 and ISB 2015
2013   External grant reviewer, Swiss Science Foundation
2013-2014   Course Director of BCHB521 Bioinformatics at GUMC.
2014-present   Member, Editorial Board of Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation
2015-2018   Member, Executive Board of the International Society for Biocuration (Chair in 2018)
2016   External grant reviewer, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
2017-2021   Member (Chair 2019-2021), Faculty Library Senate Committee at University of Delaware
2017   Co-Editor, Book Protein Bioinformatics: From Protein Modifications and Networks to Proteomics. Methods in Molecular Biology 1558 (2017).
2017-present   Director of e-learning course BIOINF644 Introduction to Bioinformatics at UD
2018   External reviewer ELIXIR French node
2018-present   Co-Chair, Text mining session (2018-2019) and text mining COSI (2020- ) at ISMB
2019-present   Member, Advisory Board for Europe PubMed Central
2019-2021   Member, Coordinating Committee on Education at University of Delaware
2021-present   Member, Instructional Computing and Research Support Committee
2021-present   Member, Open and Affordable Teaching Materials working group
2021-present   Member, Advisory Board for HGNC

Research interest

My general interest is in the accurate representation of protein information (e.g sequence, evolution, function, post-translational modifications, and pathways), that can be reasoned both by humans and computers, to provide the basis for hypothesis generation. I work within the framework of many international and interdisciplinary Consortia, such as UniProt (lead of curation group and text mining efforts at PIR), Protein Ontology (lead of curation team, and workshop organizer), and BioCreative (current PI of the NIH BioCreative Conference grant, and since 2009 workshop organizer, organizer of the User Interactive Text Mining track, user advisory group chair). Activities in my group include (i) database curation and bibliography mapping (UniProtKB), (ii) curation of proteoforms for the Protein Ontology, (iii) the development (in collaboration with text mining group) and evaluation of natural language processing tools to assist the researcher in retrieving information about genes, proteins and miRNAsin collaboration with Dr. Vijay Shanker, iV) bioinformatics/text mining support for other research groups

Publications

Full list of publications available here.

Current Projects

  • UniProt: https://www.uniprot.org/
  • BioCreative: https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/
  • iTextMine: https://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/itextmine/integrate
  • iPTMnet: https://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/iptmnet/
  • emiRIT: https://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/emirit/
  • Incorporating image-based features into biomedical document classification

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