Paolo Abondio

Paolo Abondio is a PhD student in Earth, Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Bologna. His research is carried out at the Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and focuses on the analysis of whole-genome sequencing data to recover signals of neutral and adaptive evolution in human populations; in particular, he is interested in examining the influence of diets enriched in specific nutrients on the adaptation of human metabolic pathways. He previously obtained a MSc in Bioinformatics at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on the genomic structure of the Italian population, and a BSc in Biology at the University of Parma, briefly describing an experimental setup to test hemoglobin allosteric models.