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Nicola
Chirico graduated in biology at the University of Insubria
of Varese (Italy) with a thesis in theoretical biology
on the biomass transfer efficiency and stability of
model food chains, under the supervision of Prof. Alfredo
Porati.
In the same university he completed a PhD thesis titled:
"Gene overlap in RNA and DNA viruses: a comparative
analysis" under the supervision of Dr. Alberto Vianelli.
During the PhD period he spent six month at the Department
of zoology of the University of Oxford (UK) under the
supervision of Dr. Robert Belshaw. Since 2010, he is
working (now with a PhD post-doc research fellowship)
in the QSAR and Environmental Chemistry Research Unit
of the University of Insubria of Varese (prof. Paola
Gramatica), where he develops QSAR software and works
on related statistics.
Publications:
Why
genes overlap in viruses. Nicola Chirico, Alberto Vianelli
and Robert Belshaw. Proc. Royal Soc. Biol, 2010, 277,
p. 3809-3817
Viral mutation rates. Rafael Sanjuān, Miguel R.Nebot,
Nicola Chirico, Louis M. Mansky and Robert Belshaw.
J. Virol, 2010, 84, p. 9733-9748
Platinum,
Palladium and Rhodium deposition to the Prunus laurus
cerasus leaf surface as an indicator of the vehicular
traffic pollution in the city of Varese area. An easy
and reliable method to detect PGEs released from automobile
catalytic converters. Alessandro Fumagalli, Bruno Faggion,
Matteo Ronchini, Giorgio Terzaghi, Marco Lanfranchi,
Nicola Chirico, and Laura Cherchi. Environ. Sci. Pollut.
Res., 2010, 17, p. 665-673
Real
external predictivity of QSAR models: how to evaluate
it?, Nicola Chirico and Paola Gramatica, submitted to
J. Chem. Inform. Model.
Meeting
presentation:
Nicola
Chirico, Ester Papa and Paola Gramatica, On the agreement
of external validation parameters for linear regression
QSAR models, SETAC-Europe 2011 - 21th Annual Meeting
SETAC-Europe, Milan, Italy, 15-19 May 2011, poster.
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