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The Bio-Lab is a Bioengineering and Bioimages laboratory and it’s part of DIST (Department of Computer Science, Control Systems and Telecommunications- University of Genoa).
The main research activities of the laboratory are related to:

Bioimages: medical/biological image analysis and visualization methods are investigated, with a deep attention to the applications development for the driven therapy.

Bioinformatics: in this field, advanced technologies and knowledge related to production and treatment of gene expression microarray distributed data have been implemented.

Tissue Engineering: this research activity is addressed to the development and testing of biomaterials, coupled with adult stem cells for the in vivo bone formation.

Neuroinformatics: the interaction between results of functional neuroimaging and brain computational models has been studied.

The Bio-Lab collaborates with several research institutes and centers, such as the National Institute of Nuclear Physics, the National Research Council, the Advanced Biotechnology Center (visit Research area or Project area in the web site).

Promising collaborations are also on going with different technological companies in the national scenario.
Among the equipment of the Bioengineering Laboratory there are of particular interest: 2D-3D cell culture bioreactor systems and a "virtual reality" platform for the interaction person-bioimages, medical data and 3D models.
The Bio-Lab also manages a GRID node belonging to the international GILDA network, which is built by 6 server, for a total amount of 12 CPU, 7 GB RAM and 500 GB Disk Space.

The laboratory has been involved in several international and national projects funded by the European Commission and MUR.

Viale Causa 13, Villa Bonino (piano -1) 16145 - Genova
tel: +39 010 353 2789
fax: +39 010 353 2948

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