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How a single penny can kill your dog
Sierra, a West Highland terrier in Colorado, had 26 cents in her stomach.
But it was the single penny that killed her.
Owner Maryann Goldstein said Sierra was always attracted to change. As a puppy, the Westie swallowed 32 cents and had to have it surgically removed. In March, Sierra got sick again, and X-rays at the vet's office showed a quarter and penny in her stomach.
The smaller coin was the bigger concern.
Pennies minted after 1982 contain zinc, and that's toxic to dogs and cats, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Dr. Rebecca Jackson, a staff veterinarian at Petplan pet insurance, told CBSNews.com that newer pennies are toxic because gastric acid from the pet's stomach reaches the zinc center, causing it to be absorbed in the body rapidly.
She said zinc interferes with red blood cell production, and the longer the exposure, the greater likelihood red blood cells will be destroyed. Symptoms of zinc toxicity include vomiting, diarrhea, lack of appetite, lethargy, red-colored urine or looking jaundiced.
"Be sure to bank your spare change before curious pets can get their paws on it," warned Jackson. "and if they do, get them to the emergency vet immediately."
Goldstein, who now wears Sierra's ashes in a heart-shaped container on a necklace, shared her dog's story with CBS in Denver as a warning to others.
Posted by John Woestendiek April 25th, 2013 under Muttsblog, videos.
Tags: 1982, after, animals, caution, colorado, contain, death, dogs, health, lethal, minted, pennies, penny, pets, safety, sierra, toxic, veterinary, warning, west highland terrier, westie, zinc
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Surviving Butte: The story of The Auditor
Once upon a time in Butte, in a huge and barren expanse of waste that's part of the nation's largest Superfund site, there lived a dog.
Nobody knows how he got there, why he stayed, or how he managed to remain alive in the toxic confines of what's known as the Berkeley Pit. But live he did, for 17 years — during times of active mining, during its suspension, during its limited restart, during the ongoing clean-up effort and right up until the pit transitioned into one of the country's oddest tourist attractions.
He just showed up, back in 1986. Once miners figured out that the ghostly white image in the distance was a dog, they named him "The Auditor," because of his tendency to appear when he was least expected.
With matted ropes of white hair covering his legs, The Auditor — a Puli — sometimes appeared to be hovering when he moved, and he seemed to want nothing to do with humans. The miners would leave him food, and build him a house, and even started sticking baby aspirin in his food when they noticed he was limping, but The Auditor was mostly unapproachable up until the end.
He died peacefully in his dog house in 2003, but The Auditor — like mining — would leave a legacy. His name would live on — in statues, in science, and as a symbol for, well, lots of things.
Appropriately enough, for a mining site in the midst of a massive EPA clean-up that will continue for generations, The Auditor had a coat like a mop.
His yellowing dreadlocks covered his eyes, too, limiting his vision — similar to the blind eye Montana once turned to the environmental havoc mining would wreak on and beneath its landscape.
But perhaps more than anything else, the mysterious white dog became a metaphor for Butte, and its ability to survive hard times — of the hardy stuff of which Montanans are made.
Butte's still kicking — though not the way it once kicked. It's about a third of the size it was in its heyday. Once called the "Richest Hill on Earth" for its massive copper deposits, Butte in the early 1900s, boasted a population of 100,000.
When the mines shut down by 1982, Butte was left economically crippled and environmentally contaminated. Piles of mine waste and years of smoke from smelters contaminated the land and water around Butte with arsenic, mercury, lead and other metals.
In the 1980s, the Berkeley Pit and Butte's historic Uptown District were declared a Superfund site — one that extends 130 miles downstream due to tailings that settled along the Clark Fork River.
The Auditor lingers too. After the local newspaper brought him to the public's attention in 2003, a campaign began to honor him with a series of statues, three of which now sit in various locations around town, honoring him not for any heroics, but solely for staying alive in a place where not much does.
Berkeley Pit lies just a few blocks from the center of Butte. It stretches a mile-and-a-half across and is almost 2,000 feet deep. Barren soil surrounds a lake laden with heavy metals. In 1995, a flock of migrating geese landed in the water. The next morning 342 were found dead.
How The Auditor managed to survive all that time is as mysterious as the dog himself. Maybe his rope-like locks, instead of soaking in the toxins, kept them from reaching his skin. Maybe the toxins weren't as toxic as thought. Maybe, as dogs do, he adapted to them. The only company still in operation at the site — after mourning his loss — had The Auditor cremated.
Normally, that would slam the door shut on the mystery — but Holly Peterson already had her foot in it.
Peterson, an environmental engineer at Montana Tech in Butte, saw the article about The Auditor — 16 years old by then — in 2003. It tugged at her heartstrings as well as her scientific curiosity.
"How can that not touch you?" she said over the weekend, sitting in her office, which is decorated with photos of The Auditor. "I kept wondering, how can that thing survive? With all the contamination in Butte, I started thinking, how can we study that in a different way?"
With her students, she began getting samples of hair from dogs in Butte and the surrounding areas, and when she ran into an official from the mining company, Montana Resources, at a presentation, she asked about getting a sample from The Auditor.
The Auditor was first seen roaming the mine in 1986, the year Montana Resources started its operations. The company, due to plunging copper prices, shut down operations there in 2000, leaving only a skelton crew, but reopened in 2003.
After getting permission from the company, Peterson went to the site, where a mining company employee, wearing gloves, approached The Auditor, on his last legs by then, and snipped off a few locks of hair.
"You could tell he just wanted us to leave him alone," Peterson said.
Tests on the sample in July of 2003 revealed "elevated levels of almost every element imaginable," Peterson said, including 128 times the amount of arsenic in a typical dog's hair.
Peterson's research project would expand from there, shedding new light on the extent of environmental degradation in Butte and introducing a new, if not conclusive, way to measure it and the continuing efforts to clean it up. Her work marked the first time pet hair has been used to monitor toxins in a residential Superfund site.
Since then, the project has moved on to testing the hair of animals in Australia and Nairobi, and sampling the hair of animals bagged by hunters back home in Montana. Through taking samples at hunter check stations, they found far higher levels of metals in animals shot in the area around Anaconda, once home to a huge smelting operation.
The Auditor, as it turned out, inspired Peterson on several levels. She was the one behind the effort to install statues of him — created by a Texas sculptor — at several locations around town, including the one she showed me at the Butte Plaza Mall.
It's made of bronze, with a copper patina that has worn off in spots from people petting it. Most of funding for the sculpture came from a California couple, who read of The Auditor in a Puli Club of America newsletter.
Peterson's hope was that The Auditor — after his death on Nov. 19, 2003 — would become a mascot for Butte, or a mascot for environmental causes, that his legacy would serve as inspiration to others, and as a reminder to not abandon pets, or abuse the planet.
What she wasn't planning on was her own little Auditor.
Living with her 86-year-old mother, she didn't see a dog fitting into her life.
But after publicity about The Auditor, and connecting with the Puli Club, she started getting emails when a Puli would show up at a shelter in need of rescue.
That's how, three years ago, she ended up with Birke-Beiner.
"I couldn't pass him up when I saw the picture of him," Peterson said.
Birke-Beiner, who earlier in the day had gone to a Halloween Party — as a basket of yarn — came along on our trip to the mall, much of which he spent draped over Peterson's shoulder, looking something like a Lady Gaga fashion accessory.
Peterson says some people call him Little Auditor, but Birke is his own dog — playful, people-friendly and, one gets the impression, destined to live a happy and non-toxic life, far away from a giant hole in the ground known as the Berkeley Pit.
Posted by John Woestendiek November 2nd, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: abandoned, animals, arsenic, auditor, berkeley pit, butte, contamination, dog, dog's country, dogs, dogscountry, environment, epa, hair, history, holly peterson, levels, memorial, metals, miners, mining, mining waste, montana, montana resources, montana tech, pets, puli, puli club of america, research, science, site, statue, stray, superfund, testing, tests, the auditor, toxic, travels with ace
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Poisoned meat kills two dogs in Virginia
Investigators in Virginia are looking for the person who threw poison-spiked meatballs into the yards of at least three homes in Fairfax County, killing two dogs and making a third ill.
One of the fatalities in the Centreville neighborhood was a five-month-old pit bull puppy; the other, an adult West Highland terrier. The third was taken to a vet for treatment, NBC in Washington reported.
The meat was found around homes in the 15000 block of Olddale Road.
Fairfax County police haven't figured out what was in the meat, but they are warning all residents, especially those with children and small pets, to inspect their yards for anything suspicious.
Posted by John Woestendiek May 28th, 2010 under Muttsblog.
Tags: animals, centreville, dogs, health, killed, meat, meatballs, neighborhood, news, ohmidog!, pets, pit bull, poisoned, police, puppy, tainted, toxic, west highland terrier
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Toxic dumping turned Russian dogs green
A pack of wild dogs roaming the outskirts of the Russian city of Yekaterinburg have taken on a green tinge, and authorities suspect it's from scavenging for food in a dump that may be contaminated with chemical waste.
The greenish dogs are among a pack of about 20 strays, believed to be former guard dogs.
"I go past those dogs every day," villager Alexei Bukharovsky told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti. "They are usually reddish … but then I saw, running along the white snow, an almost completely emerald dog. At first I thought someone had been playing a joke."
A police spokesman told the news service that illegal dumping of chemical waste is probably to blame. The spokesman said local councils had been ordered to clean up the site.
You can see more photos here.
Posted by John Woestendiek December 17th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: chemical, color, dogs, dump, green, greenish, guard dogs, pack, photos, ria novosti, roaming, russia, russian, scavenging, strays, tinge, toxic, waste, wild, yekaterinburg
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Owners say cocaine-gulping dogs denied care
The anonymous owners of two dogs who swallowed cocaine in Florida say they may file a complaint against a West Palm Beach veterinary clinic that refused to treat their dogs because they didn't have enough money.
The story, as aired on TV station WPBF, is one of those that raises more questions than it answers — but apparently the couple took the dogs to Palm Beach Veterinary Specialists in West Palm Beach on Thursday after the animals suffered seizures.
The couple says the clinic was treating the dogs with intravenous fluids, but kicked them out upon learning the owners didn't have enough money for the treeatment required.
The next day, they took the dogs to Safe Harbor Animal Hospital, whose director said the first clinic violated the law by declining to treat the dogs. "By Florida state statute, as a vet you must render care to an animal that is in critical condition or in a life or death situation," Safe Harbor Director Kay-Lynette Roca said.
A spokeswoman for the Palm Beach Veterinary Specialists denied they broke any laws and said the dogs were stable when they left their hospital. She said they even offered the pet owners discounts to make sure the dogs got the medical attention they needed. The pet owners chose to remove the animals from their facility against medical advice, she said.
The owners have not been identified, which leads me to wonder (A) if they, perchance, were the rightful owners of the cocaine the dogs gulped down, and (B) if so, they might want to set aside some of the money in their recreational drug budget for emergency veterinary care.
Posted by John Woestendiek October 19th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: cocaine, dogs, drugs, florida, health, palm beach veterinary specialists, pets, poison, safe harbor animal hospital, safety, swallowed, toxic, treatment, veterinarian, veterinary, west palm beach
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Marijuana brownie sends poodle on bad trip
When we pointed out the dangers of dogs eating marijuana last month, we didn't even stop to think about the possibility of this double whammy — dogs eating marijuana brownies.
Renee Morgan says her white standard poodle Saydy did just that last week.
Saydy ate a marijuana brownie someone tossed into Morgan's back yard in Danville, California, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Morgan returned home from work to find the two-year-old dog wasn't "her normal, rambunctious self." The dog had urinated on herself, couldn't stand and was shaking.
Morgan scoured the yard looking for something Saydy might have eaten, and collected some vomit for tests at a veterinary emergency center, where Saydy was checked for bee stings and other injuries.
Morgan said that when the veterinarian realized the street Morgan lives on is near a trail, he suggested drug testing. A few hours later, as her dog was recovering overnight at the animal hospital, Morgan was called with the results — Saydy was high on marijuana.
"We would have never thought it was this," said Morgan, who is a member of the town's Planning Commission. "I've never tried marijuana in my life. We don't even drink."
Morgan was told by police officers that hikers sometimes get high on the trail, disposing of their drugs when they see someone coming.
Saydy — despite the toxic combo of chocolate and pot — is fine after $1,500 worth of treatment and medical tests.
Posted by John Woestendiek July 6th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: brownies, california, canine, chocolate, danville, dog, drugs, grass, health, marijuana, pot, renee morgan, safety, saydy, standard poodle, tests, toxic, warning, weed
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Mulch law gets buried in Minnesota
Minnesota's legislature was on the verge of passing a simple little law — requiring retailers to post signs warning consumers that cocoa mulch can be fatal to dogs — when the governor stepped in and vetoed it.
Why? Because, he said, it was an example of "legislative overreach."
"I share the goal that we should take reasonable precautions to protect our pets," Gov. Tim Pawlenty wrote. "However, it is unreasonable to ask all retailers to post signs at the point of purchase for such products.
"A better approach would be to require manufacturers to post warning labels on the products themselves, where necessary and appropriate. We should also supplement efforts to protect our pets by raising public awareness regarding products that are potentially harmful to them."
The law, nicknamed "Moose's Law" for a chocolate Lab who died after ingesting cocoa bean shell mulch, was authored by state Sen. Scott Dibble. It would have required businesses selling the mulch to post signs, warning that the product is potentially poisonous to pets, and advising them to contact a veterinarian or the Animal Poison Control Center if a pet eats it.
Moose belonged to Terry and Dawn Hall who moved to Minneapolis from Atlanta, and laid down the mulch while landscaping their yard in the summer of 2007.
"The package said it was organic," Terry Hall says. "It was nice and dark, and we thought that would look really good."
A couple of days later, on a boat on the St. Croix River, they threw a Frisbee into the water for Moose to retrieve. He dove in and never came up. They spotted his body floating beneath the surface of the water.
Learn more about cocoa bean shell mulch here.
Posted by John Woestendiek May 19th, 2009 under Muttsblog.
Tags: bean, chocolate, cocoa, dog, dogs, fatal, governor, health, lab, legislature, minneapolis, minnesota, moose, moose's law, mulch, pawlenty, poisonous, safety, scott dibble, shell, toxic, veto
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Twenty years ago today a doddery old Ayatollah with only a few months to live issued a death sentence against a novelist he had never met, for writing a book he had never read. And so began one of the defining political and philosophical crises of our age. It still remains unresolved, though it's unlikely that The Satanic Verses would get published in its current form today. To a great extent, fear of the ugly mob has been internalised, even justified as sensitivity. The dying man's curse has not been exorcised; indeed, it has grown more potent with time. Only last year, a saccharine and (by all accounts) cringingly respectful historical romance about one of Mohammed's wives is withdrawn by a publisher fearing violence, or lost business, or both.
Yet Satanic Verses itself remains in print, and Salman Rushdie, once he emerged from some years in hiding, resumed a high-profile life of parties, writing, and divorces. You can buy a copy in any branch of Waterstone's, and you won't have to fight your way past demonstrators on the way out. Proof, surely, that facing down bullies works.
But what of the book itself? At around the time of the Fatwa, it was smart in some circles to dismiss it as unreadable, pretentious, not worth the trouble. "He should be killed for writing a rubbish novel", was a typical tear-him-for-his-bad-verses harrumph. It's an uneven book, to be sure: not a perfect work, like Rushdie's acknowledged masterpiece Midnight's Children; it has its longeurs. But in its depiction of the alienating experience of immigration it has seldom been matched. It is certainly superior to anything he has written since, with the possible exception of his miniature gem Haroun and the Sea of Stories, the child of his captivity.
And it has grown with time. There are passages and phrases that resound with pre-echoes of what was to come, as though the spirit of prophecy was upon him. Rushdie has always denied that he anticipated the fuss The Satanic Verses would cause. Yet it is impossible to read it today without feeling that, at some level, Rushdie knew exactly what would happen.
Take, for example, this.
The Grandee, vaguely, nods. "You like the taste of blood," he says. The boy shrugs. "A poet's work," he answers. "To name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep." And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his verses inflict, then they will nourish him. He is the satirist. Baal.
Or this, that now seems terribly resonant:
"Things are ending," he told her. "This civilisation; things are closing in on it. It has been quite a culture, brilliant and foul, cannibal and Christian, the glory of the world. We should celebrate it while we can; until night falls."
And was it blasphemy? Was it truly offensive? The passages concerning things sacred to Muslims are not central to the book, though they give it its name: they are dream sequences, in which one of the characters imagines himself to be the Archangel Gabriel, delivering the Koran to Mohammed (here called Mahound). It satirises - or rather riffs upon - the origins of Islam. It tells a story that is not the official one, that is a work of imagination, but that scpetics might find all too plausible. There follows one of the most contentious passages.
'I know you,' Baal said.
'The way you speak. You're a foreigner.'
' "A revolution of water-carriers, immigrants and slaves,"' the stranger quoted. 'Your words.'
'You're the immigrant,' Baal remembered. 'The Persian. Sulaiman.' The Persian smiled his crooked smile. 'Salman,' he corrected. 'Not wise, but peaceful.'
'You were one of the closest to him,' Baal said, perplexed.
'The closer you are to a conjurer,' Salman bitterly replied, 'the easier to spot the trick.'
And Gibreel dreamed this:
At the oasis of Yathrib the followers of the new faith of Submission found themselves landless, and therefore poor. For many years they financed themselves by acts of brigandage, attacking the rich camel-trains on their way to and from Jahilia. Mahound had no time for scruples, Salman told Baal, no qualms about ends and means. The faithful lived by lawlessness, but in those years Mahound - or should one say the Archangel Gibreel? — should one say Al-Lah? — became obsessed by law. Amid the palm-trees of the oasis Gibreel appeared to the Prophet and found himself spouting rules, rules, rules, until the faithful could scarcely bear the prospect of any more revelation, Salman said, rules about every damn thing, if a man farts let him turn his face to the wind, a rule about which hand to use for the purpose of cleaning one's behind. It was as if no aspect of human existence was to be left unregulated, free. The revelation — the recitation — told the faithful how much to eat, how deeply they should sleep, and which sexual positions had received divine sanction, so that they learned that sodomy and the missionary position were approved of by the archangel, whereas the forbidden postures included all those in which the female was on top.
Gibreel further listed the permitted and forbidden subjects of conversation, and earmarked the parts of the body which could not be scratched no matter how unbearably they might itch. He vetoed the consumption of prawns, those bizarre other-worldly creatures which no member of the faithful had ever seen, and required animals to be killed slowly, by bleeding, so that by experiencing their deaths to the full they might arrive at an understanding of the meaning of their lives, for it is only at the moment of death that living creatures understand that life has been real, and not a sort of dream. And Gibreel the archangel specified the manner in which a man should be buried, and how his property should be divided, so that Salman the Persian got to wondering what manner of God this was that sounded so much like a businessman.
This was when he had the idea that destroyed his faith, because he recalled that of course Mahound himself had been a businessman, and a damned successful one at that, a person to whom organization and rules came naturally, so how excessively convenient it was that he should have come up with such a very businesslike archangel, who handed down the management decisions of this highly corporate, if non-corporeal, God.
After that Salman began to notice how useful and well timed the angel's revelations tended to be, so that when the faithful were disputing Mahound's views on any subject, from the possibility of space travel to the permanence of Hell, the angel would turn up with an answer, and he always supported Mahound, stating beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was impossible that a man should ever walk upon the moon, and being equally positive on the transient nature of damnation: even the most evil of doers would eventually be cleansed by hellfire and find their way into the perfumed gardens, Gulistan and Bostan. It would have been different, Salman complained to Baal, if Mahound took up his positions after receiving the revelation from Gibreel; but no, he just laid down the law and the angel would confirm it afterwards; so I began to get a bad smell in my nose, and I thought, this must be the odour of those fabled and legendary unclean creatures, what's their name, prawns.
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Fatwa Day
Twenty years ago today a doddery old Ayatollah with only a few months to live issued a death sentence against a novelist he had never met, for writing a book he had never read. And so began one of the defining political and philosophical crises of our age. It still remains unresolved, though it's unlikely that The Satanic Verses would get published in its current form today. To a great extent, fear of the ugly mob has been internalised, even justified as sensitivity. The dying man's curse has not been exorcised; indeed, it has grown more potent with time. Only last year, a saccharine and (by all accounts) cringingly respectful historical romance about one of Mohammed's wives is withdrawn by a publisher fearing violence, or lost business, or both.
Posted by Heresiarch at 10:34 am
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I'm not a fan of Rushdie's writing, but then I'm not a fan of modern literary writing anyway (Amis, Barnes, Winterson et al leave me cold). I also didn't used to like Rushdie himself much - he struck me as rather slimy and arrogant.
Then two (or maybe three?) years ago I heard him speak at the Hay Festival and completely changed my mind about him. He was funny, clever, surprisingly self-effacing, thoughtful and, I realised, incredibly courageous, sitting there in plain sight in a marquee full of people with no significant security. I still don't enjoy his novels but I have huge respect for the man himself.
- 14 February 2009 at 11:27
Agree with Waltz (greetings Waltz) - and have to disagree with you Heresiarch that
'it is impossible to read it today without feeling that, at some level, Rushdie knew exactly what would happen.'
There is a TV interview done by Rushdie before the Bradford burning, which one occasionally sees repeated (wonder if it's on youtube), in which Rushdie is interviewed beside a mild-mannered Muslim who says things like 'you know the book is quite offensive'. Rushdie dismisses the guy with such obvious contempt that I would say he didn't see it coming at all.
The old sherrif says in the film version of No Country for Old Men something like 'you can't see what's comin'' and says it's 'vanity' to suppose that whatever it is, it's coming because of you.
A few months ago, on Byres Rd in Glasgow, I saw two men talking outside Thornton's. They looked to be of South Asian origin. One of the men had a woman in full bin liner standing behind him, and when he moved his position she moved hers to maintain her distance at his back, eyes fixed on his feet.
One of the strangest things about this was that I didn't find this tableau that strange, and neither did others passing by. Ten years ago people would have stopped - gobsmacked - and stared. Now such scenes look like a normal occurrence on the British street. None of us saw that coming, either.
- 14 February 2009 at 17:49
- valdemar squelch said...
I remember an arts prog from the time that dramatised passages from the novel. I recall one about the psuedo-Khomeini very clearly. It was obvious that nobody expected the shitstorm that erupted.
That said, I found the book unreadable.
- 14 February 2009 at 19:19
- The Heresiarch said...
Thanks for that, Edwin. I'm sure you're right that Rushdie didn't consciously know what was going to happen. But it's there in the book. Rushdie the man may not have realised, but the writerly spirit within him did know. That probably sounds way too esoteric.
- 14 February 2009 at 21:20
- Edwin Moore said...
Heresiarch, I am ashamed to concede I have never read the book so I suppose my hunch is as baseless as ever!
I missed being one of Midnight's Children by two days and am afraid that's only one of several of my no doubt deeply irrational prejudices against Rushdie and his work.
Am sure he is a great writer (though not for me).
- 14 February 2009 at 21:47
- WeepingCross said...
Well, it all makes me think - not just this post, but all the Wildersbeest business as well. We all very blithely talk about the essential need for freedom of speech, and how exposing the arguments of fools rather than simply silencing them is the way to deal with them, because rational argument inevitably leads to the victory of truth. Do we really have any reason to believe this? How many people change their minds on the basis of argument? I became a Christian because of what I believed was the balance of the evidence, yet the majority of contributors to HC regard this as close to an admission of mental illness. When sensible human beings can look at the same facts and draw opposite conclusions from them, what exactly is going on when we debate with one another? Several people have in different contexts on this blog remarked about Icke-ites and the like to the effect that 'there's no use arguing with these people'. I still believe in freedom of speech, but only because I think oppression is evil and love cannot be compelled, not because I think that, left to their own devices, the majority of people will come round to the side of sweetness and light. That doesn't seem borne out by experience at all.
- 15 February 2009 at 15:21
@ WeepingCross - I suspect that the mistake you're making is to isolate debate and discussion from crucial contextual factors such as education - and not only education in terms of learning facts but also in terms of learning how to think analytically and critically.
IMO, every society will always have a small minority (say 5-10%) of extremists and nutjobs, be they of the far right, the far left, Heaven's Gate cultists or whatever. And, yes, "it's no use arguing with those people". But others can and do evolve or radically alter their views. If this wasn't the case, we'd all still be wearing skins and searching for the Magical Lake where sun drowns every night.
- 15 February 2009 at 17:38
- The Heresiarch said...
When sensible human beings can look at the same facts and draw opposite conclusions from them, what exactly is going on when we debate with one another?
What a deep question. But may I first beg leave to doubt that you became a Christian because of the "balance of evidence". I doubt anyone converts to any religion out of a weighing up of evidence: what comes over them is rather a sense of a divine presence in the universe, or in their own lives, or whatever. The evidence is then re-interpreted in that light. Take a matter such as the Resurrection: some evangelists take the view that they can "prove" the resurrection by appealing to "the evidence"; but if you take the view that the resurrection is a priori impossible, then any other theory, however outlandish, is more plausible - as Hume noticed. It's only once you've already come to believe in an interventionist God that the story even makes sense.
But to your main question. Most "debate", I agree, consists of little more than the assertion of opposing points of view. But that doesn't mean that it's impossible to sway the undecided, simply that (usually) it's impossible to sway the decided.
But does this really matter? I agree that free speech advocates usually claim that "exposing the arguments of fools rather than simply silencing them is the way to deal with them". And I made that clichéd claim myself; and I think to some extent you're right that it's often bullshit. Suppressing dissident opinions, if it were possible to do so rigorously, would defeat them because it would prevent most people from hearing them. (Though clearly that tactic has backfired rather spectacularly with Wilders). I would take my stand on a different consideration: that the price paid for censorship is too high, that silly, bad or unpleasant opinions shouldn't be suppressed, even if arguing against them wouldn't lead to their defeat, simply because it is not the business of the state or the law to police ideas.
I entirely agree with Waltz about the importance of education "in terms of learning how to think analytically and critically". On the other hand, I wonder to what extent this is actually achieved, or is any longer the aim of a system designed around the sausage machine of exam targets.
- 15 February 2009 at 18:21
- valdemar squelch said...
Father W, what were you before you became a Christian?
- 15 February 2009 at 19:31
- WeepingCross said...
Waltz: But do people actually change their ideas, or are they merely replaced by other people with different ideas affected by, as you so correctly say, different contextual factors?
Heresiarch: No, I may be exceptionally unusual (in fact my impression is that I am), but I didn't believe in God. Why on earth would I decide my vague sensations of peace, unity with things, and so forth, could justify believing in God? As you say, any other explanation is more plausible.
On the main matter: yes, I think you're right. The main justification is the limitation of human competence and power: we cannot know what the right opinions to enforce are. Probably. As to education, I mention only as an aside what the organiser of the Goth group I toddle along to said to me, that he was grateful to his Jesuit teachers 'for showing me how to think for myself'!
Valdemar: I was an atheist who thought Christianity was beautiful, to sum it up.
- 16 February 2009 at 16:57
@ Weeping Cross - yes, people sometimes change their ideas but I doubt it's often in a radical "I used to think X but now I think the opposite" sort of way". More likely, they modify some of their ideas. This can work in lots of ways - for example, you might think "I think X should be done!" and someone might point out to you that, yes, it seems desirable but it will also have certain unintended, undesirable consequences. So, although you might still want a particular outcome you can recognise that in fact it wouldn't really work that way, or would do more harm than good, or whatever.
This is where analytical and critical thought is crucial but - as Heresiarch points out - our education system no longer seems geared towards teaching kids these skills. Hopefully that will change before it's too late.
- 17 February 2009 at 10:19

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(Photos on Cambridge exam "lifestyle")
Pietro Lio'
- I am a Reader in Computational Biology
in the Computer
Laboratory which is the department of Computer Science of the University of Cambridge and I am a
member of the Artificial
Intelligence group of the Computer Laboratory.
- I have a MA from Cambridge, a PhD in Complex
Systems and Non Linear Dynamics (School of Informatics, dept of
Engineering of the University
of Firenze, Italy) and a PhD in (Theoretical) Genetics
(University of Pavia,
- Affliations: I am affiliated to Cambridge Computational Biology Institute. I am member of Cambridge Neuroscience, Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy,
Health, Medicine & Society, POEMS (Predictive mOdelling for
hEalthcare technology through MathS), ACM (Association for Computing
Machinery), VPH (Virtual Physiologycal Human) and SMB (society for
mathematical biology). I am Educational Affiliate Employee Member of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. Previous position: European Bioinformatics Institute (photo)
- Admin duties: Researcher Skill Development Coordinator (from 1st october 2016), Reviewer in University complaint and review procedure, Steering committee member of Cambridge Big Data.
- Office: FC20; tel:
(0)1223-763604; E_mail: Pietro.Lio at cl.cam.ac.uk
- I am happy to receive enquiries for PhD applications.
- I am listed in this: www.topitalianscientists.org/Top_italian_scientists_VIA-Academy.aspx
- Editing a IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics special issue with E. Bartocci (Wien) and N. Paoletti (New York)
- Editing a Springer Book on Automated Reasoning in Systems Biology and Medicine with P. Zuliani (Newcastle)
- Oshota et al. Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Systemic Infection of Wild Type and Immune-deficient Mice (2017).
Bioinformatics Software tools:
Metrade (with Dr Claudio Angione, multi-omic integration), Cytohic
(with Y. Shavit; DNA conformation capture), Dapper (with Dr S.
Haider; mass
spectra), chromoR (with Y. Shavit; DNA conformation
Fishical (with Dr Y. Shavit, Calibration Fish-HiC), LDA (drug
repositioning pathways analysis, with N. Pratanwanich), ComoR (with Dr
M. Moni; data fusion),
(with Dr M. Moni; data visualisation); Nuchart (with Dr I. Merelli;
fusion), Pogo (with Dr M. Moni, data fusion), PASSML (with Dr N.
Goldman, phylogenetic inference and protein
structure). Other: collaboration for Vitadock (EU Mission T2D project).
Recent Papers
Methods in Computational Biology and BioMedicine
Heffernan K. , Liò P. and Teufel S. (2017) Multilayer Data and Document Stratification for Comorbidity Analysis (2017) Thirteenth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics. LNBI
Vijayakumar S., Conway M., Liò P. and Angione C. (2017) Multi-omic genome-scale models: methodologies, hands-on and perspectives. Springer Verlag
Vijayakumar S. Conway M., Liò P. and Angione C. (2017) Seeing the wood for the trees: a forest of methods for omic-network integration in metabolic modelling. In press on Briefings in Bioinformatics
Dimitri MG and and Liò P. (2017) DrugClust: a machine learning approach for drugs side effects prediction. Computational Biology and Chemistry (10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2017.03.008).
Brouwer T. and Liò P. (2017) Bayesian Hybrid Matrix Factorisation for Data Integration. Accepted at AISTATS 2017; PMLR 54:557-566
Saheb Kashaf S., Angione C., Liò P. (2017) Making life difficult for Clostridium difficile: augmenting the pathogen's metabolic model with transcriptomic and codon usage data for better therapeutic target characterization. BMC Syst Biol. 11(1):25. doi: 10.1186/s12918-017-0395-3
Narula P., Piratla V.,Bansal A., Azad S., Liò P. (2016) Parameter estimation of tuberculosis transmission model using Ensemble Kalman filter across Indian states and union territories. Infection, Disease & Health.Volume 21, Issue 4, December 2016, Pages 184–191
Moni M., Liò P. Infectome, diseasome and comorbidities of Zika infection. International Journal of Infectious Diseases Volume 53, Supplement, December 2016. International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance
Veličković P., Wang, D., Lane N., Lio', P. (2016) X-CNN: Cross-modal Convolutional Neural Networks for Sparse Datasets. IEEE SSCI 2016 (http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/) CoRR abs/1610.00163
Tordini F., Aldinucci M., Milanesi L., Pietro Liò, Merelli I. The genome conformation as an integrator of multi-omic data: the example of damage spreading in cancer. Accepted in Frontiers in Genetics.
Dimitri G , .., Lio', P. (2016) A multilayer network approach for the analysis of Intracranial Pressure and Heart Rate data in traumatic brain injuries patients.
Tordini F., Drocco M., Misale C., Milanesi L., Lio` P., Merelli I., Torquati, M and Aldinucci M., (2016) NuChart-II: The road to a fast and scalable tool for Hi-C data analysis. The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 1–16.
Brouwer T., Frellsen J. and Liò P. (2016) Fast Bayesian Non-Negative Matrix Factorisation and Tri-Factorisation. NIPS Workshop on Advances in Approximate Bayesian Inference , Barcelona arXiv:1610.08127, CoRR abs/1610.08127 (2016) 12 Oct 2016
Dimitri MG. et al., Computational challenges for the analysis of Intracranial Pressure and Heart Rate data in traumatic brain injuries patients. in press in Frontiers, (neuroinformatic workshop in Reading).
Pratanwanich N., Liò P. , Stegle O. (2016). Warped Matrix Factorisation for Multi-View Data Integration. Accepted at ECMLPKDD2016.
Iuliano A., Occhipinti A, Angelini C., De Feis I., Liò P. (2016). Cancer markers selection using network-based Cox Regression: a methodological and computational practice. in press on Frontiers in Physiology, section Computational Physiology and Medicine(Article type: Methods).
Angione C., Lio', P. , Pucciarelli S. (2016) Bioinformatics challenges and potentialities in studying extreme environments. LNBI 9874 post proceedings CIBB2015
Peng He, Yuming Mao, Qiang Liu, Pietro Liò, Kun Yang, Channel modelling of molecular communications across blood vessels and nerves. ICC 2016: 1-6
Veličković P. Lio', P. (2016) Muxstep: an open-source C++ multiplex HMM library for making inferences on multiple data types, Bioinformatics. 2016 Apr 13. pii: btw196.
Sansom C., Castiglione F., Liò, P. (2016) Metabolic disorders: how can systems modelling help?. Lancet Endocrinology pii: S2213-8587(16)00047-4. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(16)00047-4.
Schwarz, E et al., (2016) Protein interaction networks link schizophrenia risk loci to synaptic function. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2016 Apr 7. pii: sbw035..
Nardi F., Liò, P., Frati F. (2016) Animal inference on human mitochondrial diseases. Computational Biology and Chemistry, Comput Biol Chem. 2016 Feb 16;62:17-28. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2016.02.002.
Bartocci E, Lio', P. (2016) Computational modeling, formal analysis and tools for systems biology. Plos Computational Biology. 12(1): e1004591. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004591.
Capobianco E. and Liò, P. (2015) Electronic Health Systems: Golden Mine for Precision Medicine? The Journal of Precision Medicine http://www.thejournalofprecisionmedicine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ENRICO.pdf
Claudio Angione and Pietro Lio' (2015) Predictive analytics of environmental adaptability in multi-omic network models. Scientific Reports Oct 20;5:15147. doi: 10.1038/srep15147.
S. Haider, Z. Lipinszki, M. R Przewloka, Y. Ladak, P.P. D'Avino, Y. Kimata, P. Lio' and D. M. Glover (2015) DAPPER: A data-mining resource for protein-protein interactions. BioData Mining 2015, 8:30.
Veličković P. Lio', P. (2015) Molecular multiplex network inference using Gaussian mixture hidden Markov models. Journal of Complex Networks doi: 10.1093/comnet/cnv029
Shavit, Y., Merelli I, Milanesi L. & Lio', P. (2015) How computer science can help in understanding the 3D genome architecture. Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2015, Brief Bioinform. Oct 3. pii: bbv085
Moni, MA, Haoming Xu, Liò, P (2015). Network regularised Cox regression and multiplex network models to predict disease comorbidities and survival of cancer. Computational Biology and Chemistry (in press).
Felicetti, L., Femminella, M., Reali, G., Lio', P. (2015) Applications of molecular communications to medicine: a survey. Nano Communication Networks, 7: 27–45; http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nancom.2015.08.004
Conway, M, Angione, C., Lio' P. (2015) Iterative multi level calibration of metabolic networks. Current Bioinformatics, 11 (999):1
Angione C, Costanza J. , Carapezza G., Lio' P, Nicosia G. (2015) Multi-target analysis and design of mitochondrial metabolism. PLoS ONE 10(9): e0133825. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0133825
Castellani et al, Lio' P. (2015) Systems medicine of inflammaging. Briefings in Bioinformatics, Aug 24. pii: bbv062.
Ascolani G., Occhipinti A., Lio' P. (2015) Modelling circulating tumour cells for personalised survival prediction in metastatic breast cancer. Plos Computational Biology May 15;11(5):e1004199. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004199. eCollection 2015.
Angione C, Pratanwanich N., Lio' P. (2015) A hybrid of metabolic flux analysis and Bayesian factor modeling for multi-omics temporal pathway activation. ACS Synthetic Biology, 10.1021/sb5003407
Bosi, et al. (2015) MeDuSa: a multi-draft based scaffolder. Bioinformatics. 2015 Mar 25. pii: btv171 (pubmed/25810435).
Smedley et al. (2015) The BioMart Community Portal: an innovative alternative to large, centralized data repositories. Nucleic Acids Research, Apr 20. pii: gkv350.
Iuliano A., Occhipinti A, Angelini C., De Feis I. and Lio' P. (2015) Network-based survival analysis methods for pathway detection in cancer. Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 8623 (in press).
Boutorh A, Pratanwanich N, Guessoum A. and Lio' P. (2015) Drug repurposing by optimizing mining of genes target association. Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 8623 (in press).
Capobianco E. and Liò, P. (2015). Comorbidity
Networks: beyond disease correlations. The Journal of Complex Networks , jcomplexnetw (2015) doi: 10.1093/comnet/cnu048
Moni MA, Liò P (2015). How to build personalised multi-omics
comorbidity profiles. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, section Systems Biology. Front. Cell Dev. Biol. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2015.00028.
Moni, MA, Haoming Xu, Liò, P (2014). CytoCom: a Cytoscape app to visualise, query and analyse disease comorbidity networks. Bioinformatics 31:969-71.Capobianco E. and Liò, P. (2014). Advances in translational biomedicine from systems approaches. Frontiers in Genetics, 14 August 2014 doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00273 (Editorial)
Korhonen A., Guo Y, Yetisgen-Yildiz M., Stenius U., Narita M. and Lio' P. (2015) Improving Literature-Based Discovery with Text Mining Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 8623
Pratanwanich, N. and Liò, P. (2014) Exploring the complexity of pathway-drug relationships using latent Dirichlet allocation. Computational Biology and Chemistry. 53:144-52. doi: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2014.08.019
Pratanwanich, N. and Liò, P. (2014) Who Wrote This? Textual
Modeling with Authorship Attribution in Big Data. ICDM 2nd Workshop for
High Dimensional Data Mining.
Moni, M.A. and Lio`, P. (2014) Network-based analysis of comorbidities risk during an infection: SARS and HIV case studies. BMC Bioinformatics 2014, 15:333
Felicetti, L., Femminella, M., Reali, G., Lio', P. (2014)
Effect of Aging, Disease vs Health Conditions in the design of
Nano-Communications in Blood Vessels
Springer series on Modeling, Methodologies and Tools for Molecular and
Nano-scale Communications. pp 447-471 Date: 16 March 2017
S, Lio P. (2014) Emerging trends of malaria-dengue geographical
coupling in the Southeast Asia region. J Vector Borne Dis. 51(3):165-71.
Moni M.A. and Liò, P. (2014). ComoR: a software for disease comorbidity risk assessment. Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2014, 4:8 doi:10.1186/2043-9113-4-8.
Ascolani, G. and Liò, P. (2014) Modeling TGF-beta in early stages of cancer tissue dynamics. Plos One 9(2):e88533
Capobianco E. and Liò, P. (2013), Comorbidity:
a multidimensional approach. Trends in Molecular Medicine
Vicenzi, E., Liò, P., & Poli, G. (2013). The puzzling role of CXCR4 in human immunodeficiency virus infection. Theranostics, 3(1), 18-25. doi:10.7150/thno.5392
Bartocci, E., Liò, P., Merelli, E., & Paoletti, N. (2012). Multiple Verification in Complex Biological Systems: The Bone Remodelling Case Study. T. Comp. Sys. Biology, 14, 53-76. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-35524-0_3
Liò, P., Merelli, E., & Paoletti, N. (2012). Disease processes as hybrid dynamical systems. EPTCS 92, 2012, pp. 152-166. doi:10.4204/EPTCS.92.11Liò, P., Paoletti, N., Moni, M. A., Atwell, K., Merelli, E., & Viceconti, M. (2012). Modelling osteomyelitis.. BMC Bioinformatics, 13 Suppl 14, S12. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-13-S14-S12
Paoletti, N., Liò, P., Merelli, E., & Viceconti, M. (2012). Multilevel computational modeling and quantitative analysis of bone remodeling. IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform, 9(5), 1366-1378. doi:10.1109/TCBB.2012.51
Felicetti, L., Femminella, M., Reali, G., Lio', P. Endovascular Mobile Sensor Network for Detecting Circulating Tumoral Cells. 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks. BODYNETS - 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks, September 29–October 1, 2014, London,
L. Felicetti, M. Femminella, G. Reali, P. Lio', A Molecular Communication System in Blood Vessels for Tumor Detection, ACM NANOCOM 2014, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 13-14, 2014 - DOI: 10.1145/2619955.2619978
L. Felicetti, M. Femminella, G. Reali, P. Lio', Book chapter Effect of Aging, Disease vs Health Conditions in the design of Nano-Communications in Blood Vessels, published in the Springer book "Modeling, Methodologies and Tools for Molecular and Nano-scale Communications", Springer nanocom 2014
Methods for MultiOmic data integration
Angione C, Conway M. and Pietro Lio' (2016) Multiplex methods provide effective integration of multi-omic data in genome-scale models. BMC Bioinformatics. 17 Suppl 4:83. doi: 10.1186/s12859-016-0912-1.
Shavit Y., Walker B., Lio' P (2015) Hierarchical block matrices as efficient representations of chromosome topologies and their application for 3C data integration. Bioinformatics 2015 Dec 17. pii: btv736.
Bardozzo F, Lio P and Tagliaferri R, (2015) Multi omic oscillations in bacterial pathways. IJCNN2015, Dublin.
Hamey F., Shavit Y., Maciulyte V., Town C., Lio' P. and Tosi S. (2015) Automated Detection of Fluorescent Probes in Molecular Imaging. Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 8623
I Merelli, F Tordini, M Drocco, M
Aldinucci, P Liò, L Milanesi (2015) Integrating Multi-omics
features exploiting Chromosome Conformation Capture data. Frontiers in
genetics Feb 11;6:40. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00040. eCollection 2015.
M Fondi, P Liò (2015) Multi -omics and metabolic modelling
pipelines: challenges and tools for systems microbiology.
Microbiological Research Feb;171:52-64. doi: 10.1016/j.micres.2015.01.003. Epub 2015 Jan 7.
Shavit, Y., Hamey F. & Lio', P. (2014) FisHical: an R package for iterative FISH-based calibration of Hi-C data. Bioinformatics Jul 23. pii: btu491.
Shavit, Y., & Lio', P. (2014). Combining wavelet changepoint and Bayes Factor for analysing chromosomal interactions data. Molecular BioSystems 10(6):1576-85.
Taffi M., Paoletti N., Liò P., Pucciarelli S., Marini M. (2015) Bioaccumulation modelling and sensitivity analysis for discovering key players in contaminated food webs: the case study of PCBs in the Adriatic Sea. Ecological Modelling 306:205-215 04 Jun 2015 doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2014.11.030 (Best Young Researcher Award at ISEM 2016).
Taffi, M., Paoletti, N. , Angione, C., Pucciarelli, S., Marini, M., Liò, P. (2014) Bioremediation in marine ecosystems: a computational study combining ecological modelling and flux balance analysis.
Frontiers in Genetics, section Systems Biology. 5: 319.Published
online Sep 12, 2014. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00319 (see also
related editorial).
F. Tordini, M. Drocco, C. Misale, P. Liò, I. Merelli, M. Aldinucci: NuChart-II: the road to a fast and scalable tool for Hi-C data analysis, in International Journal of High Performance Computing Application, 2015. (submitted)
F. Tordini, I. Merelli, P. Liò, M. Aldinucci and L. Milanesi: NuchaRt: embedding High-Performance Computing in R for augmented DNA Exploration, in Proc. of the 12th Intl. meeting on Computational Intelligence methods for Bionformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB), Naples, Italy, 2015.
M. Drocco, C. Misale, G. P. Pezzi, F. Tordini, and M. Aldinucci: "Memory- Optimised Parallel Processing of Hi-C Data," in Proc. of Intl. Euromicro PDP 2015: Parallel Distributed and network-based Processing, Turku, Finland,
Ivan Merelli, Fabio Tordini, Maurizio Drocco, Marco Aldinucci, Pietro Liò, and Luciano Milanesi. Integrating multi-omic features exploiting chromosome conformation capture data. Frontiers in Genetics, 6(40), 2015
Fabio Tordini, Maurizio Drocco, Claudia Misale, Luciano Milanesi, Pietro Liò, Ivan Merelli, and Marco Aldinucci. Parallel exploration of the nuclear chromosome conformation with NuChart-II. In Proc. of Intl. Euromicro PDP 2015: Parallel Distributed and network-based Processing. IEEE, March 2015.
I. Merelli, P. Liò, L. Milanesi (2014). Describing the genes social networks relying on chromosome conformation capture data. EMBnet.journal, 19:73-75, oct. 2013. ISSN 2226-6089.
Bartoszek, K & Lio', P. (2014) A Novel algorithm to reconstruct phylogenies using gene frequencies and expression data. Proceedings of 2014 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology. Gdansk 14-16 May, 2014.
F. Tordini, M. Drocco, I. Merelli, P. Li` o, L. Milanesi, and M.
Aldinucci: "NuChart-II: a graph-based approach for the analysis and
interpretation of Hi-C Data," in Proc. of the 11th Intl. meeting on
Computational Intelligence methods for Bionformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB), Cambridge, UK, 2014
Merelli I, Liò P, Milanesi L (2013) NuChart: An R Package to Study
Gene Spatial Neighbourhoods with Multi-Omics Annotations. PLoS ONE
8(9): e75146. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075146
Shavit, Y., & Lio', P. (2013). CytoHiC: a cytoscape plugin for visual
comparison of Hi-C networks. Bioinformatics, 29(9), 1206-1207.
Liò, P., Angelini, C., De Feis, I., & Nguyen, V. A. (2012). Statistical approaches to use a model organism for regulatory sequences annotation of newly sequenced species.. PLoS One, 7(9), e42489. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042489
Methods in Synthetic Biology
Alarcon E. et al, (2016) MolComML: The Molecular Communication Markup Language. ACM NANOCOM 2016: 16:1-16:6
Angione C, Costanza
J. , Carapezza G., Lio' P, Nicosia G. (2015) Analysis and Design of
Molecular Machines, Theoretical Computer Science 599: 102-117
M Fondi, P Liò (2015) Genome-Scale Metabolic Network Reconstruction, Bacterial Pangenomics, Methods in Molecular Biology Volume 1231, 233-256
Angione C., Bartocci E., Bortolussi L., Lió P., Occhipinti A., Sanguinetti G., (2014) Bayesian Design for Whole Cell Synthetic Biology Models. Proceedings HSB. Third International Workshop on Hybrid Systems Biology Vienna, Austria, July 23-24, 2014 at CAV 2014.
Vitaly Petrov, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Rahmi Lale, Dmitri Moltchanov, Pietro Lio', Yevgeni Koucheryavy (2014) Forward and Reverse Coding for Chromosome Transfer in Bacterial Nanonetworks Nano Communication Networks 5: 1-2. March-April.
C. Angione, G. Carapezza, J. Costanza, P. Lió, and G. Nicosia, Pareto Optimality in Organelle Energy Metabolism Analysis,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2013
G. Carapezza, R. Umeton, J. Costanza, C. Angione, G. Stracquadanio, A. Papini, P. Lió, G. Nicosia, Efficient Behavior of Photosynthetic Organelles via Pareto Optimality, Identifiability and Sensitivity Analysis, ACS Synthetic Biology Journal, 2(5), 274-288, 2013Brilli, M., Liò, P., Lacroix, V., & Sagot, M. F. (2013). Short and long-term genome stability analysis of prokaryotic genomes.. BMC Genomics, 14, 309. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-14-309
C. Angione, G. Carapezza , J. Costanza, P. Lió, and G. Nicosia, Computing with Metabolic Machines, in Proceedings of Turing100: The Alan Turing Centenary Conference. University of Manchester, UK. June 22-26, 2012, pp. 1-15. Best paper award presented by Sir Roger Penrose
Balasubramaniam, S., & Lio', P. (2013). Multi-hop conjugation based bacteria nanonetworks. IEEE Trans Nanobioscience, 12(1), 47-59. doi:10.1109/TNB.2013.2239657. Ranked 5th among most popular articles in IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience. Listed here among IEEECOM Best readings
J. Costanza, G. Carapezza, C. Angione, P. Lió, and G. Nicosia, (2012) Robust Design of Microbial Strains, Bioinformatics 28, 3097-3104.
Social Networks, Collective Awareness of Genome and ICT technologiesScatà M., Di Stefano A., La Corte A., Liò P. (2016) The Impact of Heterogeneity and Awareness in Modeling Epidemic Spreading on Multiplex Networks, Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 37105 (2016)
Bianchi L, Liò P. (2016) Opportunities for community awareness platforms in personal genomics and bioinformatics education. Briefings in Bioinformatics 2016 Aug 30. pii: bbw078.
Reali G. et al. Liò P., (2016) Simulation Tools for Molecular Communications. IEEE TCSIM Newsletter
Scatà M., Di Stefano A., La Corte A., Liò P. , Catania E. , Guardo E. , Pagano S. (2016) Combining evolutionary game theory and network theory to analyze human cooperation patterns. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 91, 17–24, October 2016.
X. Lu. Liò P. Hui P. (2016) A Cross-network Mobile Peer to Peer Content Dissemination Model to Offload Cellular Network Traffic. Sensors 2016, 16(6), 878; doi:10.3390/s16060878
Lu, X , Liò P. and Lió, P. (2015) Privacy Information Security Classification and Comparison between the Westerner and Chinese 2015 International Conference on Identification, Information, and Knowledge in the Internet of Things
Di Stefano, A., Scata' M. , Lió, P. et al. (2015) Quantifying the Role of Homophily in Human Cooperation Using Multiplex Evolutionary Game Theory. PLoS One. 2015 Oct 23;10(10):e0140646. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140646.
Alessandro Di Stefano, Aurelio La Corte, Pietro Lió , Marialisa Scatá (2015) Bio-Inspired ICT for Big Data Management in Healthcare. in Intelligent Agents in Data-intensive Computing, editors: Kołodziej, J., Correia, L., Manuel Molina, J. Springer.
Xiaofeng Lu , Pietro Lio , and Pan Hui A Content Dissemination Model for Mobile Internet to Minimize Load on Cellular Network Electronics, Communications and Networks IV, Proceedings of the 4TH Internationa Conference on Electronics, Communications and Networks, 12 – 15 December 2014, Beijing, China Edited by Amir Hussain and Mirjana Ivanovic CRC Press 2015, Pages 289–294. Print ISBN: 978-1-138-02830-2
Bianchi, L., Fernandes, P., Lió, P. Improving Collective Awareness and Education about the Privacy and Ethical Issues Connected with the Genome Technologies. Proceedings of the International Conference on The Future of Education. Florence, Italy 13 - 14 June 2013
H. Kim, W. M. Khoo and Pietro Lio' (2012) Polymorphic Attacks against Sequence-based Software Birthmarks, SSP: The 2nd ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Software Security and Protection, held in conjunction with ACM PLDI, Beijing, China, 2012
Stajano, F., Bianchi, L., Lio', P., Korff, D., Forensic Genomics: kin privacy, driftnets and other open questions. Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria (VA), USA, October 2008. See: https://dais.cs.uiuc.edu/wpes08/
Bianchi, L., Lio', P. (2007) Forensic DNA and bioinformatics. Brief Bioinform (2007) 8 (2): 117-128.
doi: 10.1093/bib/bbm006
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- Research
- Teaching
- Publications
- Awards
- Invited Talks
- 15th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2018)
- Visiting at Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto.
- February 2018 Organisation of Euromicro PDP Computer Laboratory, Cambridge; website.
- December 2017 Invited to Computational Metabolomics, Dagstuhl.
- Talk at Microsoft Research Cambridge.
- October 2017, Invited talk, Computational Genomics meeting at George Washington University
- October 2017 Invited talk to
Internationla School : Computational Systems Biology and
Bioinformatics, University of Milano Bicocca
- 29 September 2917, Tutorial on Molecular Communication at ACM NanoCom 2017, Washington DC, USA
- 12-15 September 2017, talk accepted at ParCo2017 Parallel Computing Conference in Bologna.
- 11-13 September, abstract submitted to ARM Research Summit, Cambridge
- 11 September, Sheffield, Insigneo, MultiSim Modelathon 2017
- September 2017 - visit to the University of Padova
- 7-9 september 2017, Special session on Molecular Communication and Computational Intelligence at CIBB 2017
- 20-27 August 2017 Organisation of Multi omics statistics : workshop and school. Computer Laboratory, Cambridge
- 22-25 July 2017 poster accepted at MathPsych/ICCM in Warwick.
- 9-12 July 2017 Invited talk -
Session Biostatistics for High Dimensional Data, 38th Annual Conference
of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics, Vigo
- 6-7 July 2017, invited talk, Bits 14th Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society Cagliari
- 4 July 2017, KBTU training (Machine learning) at Churchill College
- 30 June Invited talk, SIS2017 Statistics and Data Science: new challenges, new generations, Firenze.
- 26-28 June 2017 Invited speaker at LASR Leeds Annual Statistical Research workshop: Biostatistics and machine learning methods in omics research, Leeds
- June 27-30 2017 Invited speaker at the workshop on Bio-Math Modelling (MOBI-2017).
- Visit Dept of Parasitology, University of Milano
- 7-9 June 2017, Third Workshop on Soft Tissue Modelling School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Glasgow
- 3 June 2017, PhD examiner (dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).
- 29-31 May - Talk on Multiscale methodologies at State of the Art in
Mesoscale and Multiscale modeling. Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique
et Moléculaire, CECAM IRL, Dublin.
- 24 May 2017, Lecture on Machine Learning (deep learning) at the dept of computer science at the University of Milano.
- 23 May Lecture on Machine Learning for Health data at Perugia Data Mining Master
- 22 May 2017 - Frontiers in Epigenetic Chemical biology, Royal Society.
- 9-11 May 2017 Lecturer/Panel chair at the Spring School and Workshop in Molecular Communication, Dublin.
- 3-5 May 2017, attending Cell and Tissue motility at Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Geneve
- 27 April 2017, PhD examiner at the European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton.
- 25-27 April 2017, attending a hands-on Microscopy Cambridge Light Microscopy 2017 Course at University of Cambridge.
- 25 April 2017, Epigenetic Meeting in Utrecht
- 21 April 2017 Quantifying uncertainty in multiscale models for biomedical applications, University of Sheffield
- 9-12 April 2017, Lecturer on Deep Learning, Computer Science, University of Salerno/ meeting CNR Naples.
- 30-31 March, Clare Hall, attending CDT DREAM: Big Data and Risk Practitioner.
- 21 March, poster (X-CNN:
Cross-Modal Convolutional Neural Networks for Sparse Datasets) at
Fourth Edinburgh Deep Learning Workshop, Edinburgh
- Member of the editorial board of Digital Health (Frontiers)
- 2 March 2017 attending Computing for the future of the planet, The Royal Society, London
- 1-2 March 2017 attending What will the internet of the future look like? Next Generation Internet,Cambridge
- 6 February 2017 Talk on inflammatory diseases modeling at ARCISPEDALE S. MARIA NUOVA. Reggio Emilia.
- 1-2 February 2017 Digital Social Innovation Fair Rome.
- 17 January 2017, Lecture on
Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Modelling: from mouse to
computer and back. Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven.
- 12-13 January 2017 Poster accepted at Statistical Methods for Post Genomic Data (SMPGD), Imperial College.
- 15 December - talk on Bioinformatics at ARM-University of Cambridge meeting, University of Cambridge.
- 12-14 December - Multiscale Biology Study Group
- 1 December - early detection programme. Cambridge
- 30 November 2016, Next Generation Internet Expert group. Brussels.
- 24 November - Epigenetic Innovation in Pharmacology in Cambridge.
- Petar Veličković got the Silver medal at Northwestern Europe Regional Contest
- 15 November, co-organisation of the Workshop on Methods in Ecology, Computer Laboratory.
- 5 November 2016, IMED 2016 talk on Zika Comorbidity Bioinformatics in Vienna.
- 31 October talk (Methodologies for integrating clinical and molecular data) at Insigneo (in silico medicine), Sheffield.
- MASAMB 2016 - Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology- (co-organised with Oliver Stegle, Lara Urban and Max Conway), 3-4 October 2016, The Computer Laboratory.
- 1st October 2016, admin task: Researcher Development Coordinator (Research skills) at Computer Laboratory.
- Outreach: Officina di didattica e divulgazione della Fisica (Educational workshop and dissemination of Physics), Como, organised by Giorgio Mantica.
- 26-28 September 2016, Virtual Physiology Human (VPH), Conference. Amsterdam. Talk and Poster accepted.
- 20-23 September 2016. Organisation of CMSB 2016 - Computational Methods in Systems Biology (with Ezio Bartocci, Nicola Paoletti and Claudio Angione) - The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge (link to Workshop website). Proceedings published in Springer LNBI.
- 20th September, International Workshop
on Automated Reasoning for Systems Biology and Medicine (ARSBM 2016)
Paolo Zuliani: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/events/cmsb2016/workshop.html
- 15-16 September, short paper accepted and talk at ARM Research Summit in Cambridge.
- 12-13 September, two Seminars on Data
science (Decision trees and Deep Learning) applied to biomedical data.
Dept of Computer Science, University of Salerno
- 7-9 September, Invited
speaker (talk Computational Intelligence applications in Health) at Research and Technologies for Society and
Industry Technologies for smarter societies. organised by IEEE Italy section and University of Bologna.
- 6 September 2016, talk on Machine learning approaches to combine multi omic and clinical data at Karolinska Institutet (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics), Stockholm.
- 4 September. Poster at Neuroinformatics 2016, Reading.
- The paper "Bioaccumulation modelling
and sensitivity analysis for discovering key players in contaminated
food webs: The case study of PCBs in the Adriatic Sea" (M. Taffi first
author) has won the 2016 BYRA first prize at ISEM (The International Society for Ecological Modelling Global Conference) 2016 and the MCED (Modelling Complex Ecological Dynamics) 2016 Award second prize.
- 28 August-2 September 2016
Invited at Next Generation Sequencing – Algorithms, and Software For
Biomedical Applications, Dagstuhl seminar.
- 17-18 August 2016 - co-Chair of IWBDA 2016 in Newcastle Upon Tyne (with Anil Wipat).
- 11-15 July 2016 Co-organiser with Dr Gianluca
Ascolani of the mini symposium: Analyzing emergent behaviour in
cellular automaton models of cancer invasion. European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretial Biology - ECMTB 2016 Nottingham.
- 11-15 July 2016 co-organiser with Annalisa Occhipinti of the ECMTB/SMB 2016 minisymposium: Inspiring young generations with Mathematical Biology. Nottingham.
- 26 June - 1 july , Talk on Multi dimensional methodologies for multi omic data integration, given at the Integration of Expert Knowledge for Interpretable Models in Biomedical Data Analysis, Dagstuhl, Germany.
- Curating the clinical genome 2016 (Kenneth Lu, has a poster accepted), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge.
- 10 June - PhD school on Multiscale Bioengineering: from Molecules to organs (µMBioEng) - Perugia.
- Meeting on Genetics of wine in Montalcino (Siena).
- 24 -27 May Invited Speaker at Cancer Development and Complexity School in Como.
- PhD Examiner in Edinburgh (School of Informatics)
- 22 April 2016, Biomathematics - THE INITIATIVE FOR DIALOGUE BETWEEN CLINICIANS & MODELLERS. University of Glasgow.
- 20-21 April Edinburgh - Hacking the Boundaries" event in multi-scale biological modelling
- 11-12 April - Organiser of Workshop on Molecular Communication at the Computer Laboratory.
- 4,5 April, Multi Omics meeting, Leiden
- 1st April 2016, PhD examination, Computer Science dept, Universita' di Torino
23-25/03/2016 "Multiplex multi-omic networks", and "FactorNet: a
complex network analysis for biclusters identification"accepted at
CompleNet 2016 - 7th Workshop on Complex Networks, Dijon, France
- Reunion at David MacKay Symposium
- 14-18/03/2016 Open ML workshop Lorentz Centre, Leiden.
- 8, 9 March 2016, Meeting on Integrative Biology, Liverpool.
- 22 February 2016, talk at Sensor CDT , Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site, Cambridge.
- 11-13 february, Epigenesys, Paris.
- 3rd February 2016 - talk at Systems Biology seminar , Department of Mathematics & Statistics,
University of Reading
- 22 January 2016 - Talk at the Cambridge Big Data Workshop on Multi Scale Machine Learning Methodologies for Molecular Biology Data
- Marianna Taffi (Camerino & Cambridge) awarded BEST YOUNG RESEARCHER PAPER PRIZE from ISEM.
- 15,17,18 December 2015, talk and lecturing Bioinformatics at University of Rome.
- 14 December 2015 - Seminar at the University of Camerino.
- 11 December 2015 -Seminar at University Bicocca in Milano
- Poster
accepted at Cambridge Metabolic Network Conference on "Why is exercise
good for us? - complementing genetics for better metabolic regulation
- 4 December 2015, PhD viva examination, UCL.
- 1 December, Talk at Computer Science dept, University of Newcastle.
- 25 November 2015 - Talk at Cambridge Computational Biology Institute, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
- Claudio Angione got a lecturship at Middleborough University.
- 6-7 October 2015. Organisation of Modeling Metabolic Health - Linking gut microbiome, inflammation and type 2 diabetes (with F. Castiglione), The Computer Laboratory, Cambridge. Link to the program (photo: walk to the CL)
- 5 October. PhD examination Imperial College.
- 28 September, Talk on Multi-omics Statistics, LUMC, Leiden (Social event at Boerhaave Museum).
- 27-30 September 2015, Lara Urban (internship) is awarded Best Poster at the German Conference on Bioinformatics.
- Outreach Activity: 26 September 2015, Talk at Cambridge Alumni Festival (Alison Richard Building).
- Predictive Medicine meeting, Sheffield.
2015 (Naples): organisation of a special session on Multi-Omic metabolic models
and statistical Bioinformatics of adaptations and biological
- 7-11 September, Invited talk at NDES 2015 (Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems) – Como, Italy Photo1(Giorgio Mantica) , Photo2 (with Lou Pecora, Boccaletti) .
- 23-26 August, invited at Design
of Microfluidic Biochips: Connecting Algorithms and Foundations of Chip
Design to Biochemistry and the Life Sciences, , Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany Photo1, Photo2 (from Dr Mirela Alister). Joint session with Computational mass spectrometry.
- August 2015, Lecturing at RSSSO2015: Research Summer School in Statistical Omics. Split (Croatia); Photo1
- 10-14 July, ISMB/ECCB
2015: special session on Algorithms, Machine Learning and Data
Complexity: From Chromatin Interactions to Nuclear Function (Dublin), photo1, photo2
- June 2015, Invited lectures (4 hours) on Principles of systems level molecular communication at the 1-st IEEE ITALY SECTION SUMMER SCHOOL in Perugia.
- June 17-19, 2015: Invited talk at Summer Solstice 7th International Conference on Discrete Models of Complex Systems, Fields Institute, Toronto. Photo1
- Talk at Bits2015: Combining pathway identification and survival prediction via screening-network analysis
- UK Nottingham. Multiscale Biology Network
- 27-29 May, Internet Science Conference in Brussels.
- 24-28 May, Deep Learning Workshop:
Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Bertinoro Photo1(Fariselli and Sperduti), Photo2 (Poggio and Baldi)
- 18 May - Talk at Random Walks and Nonlinear Dynamics in the Life of Cells, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden. Photo1, Photo2
- 13-14 May, POEMS. A vision for Mathematics in Healthcare. London. (Drawing from Nick Payne)
- 29-31 March, Posters accepted at Frontiers in Stem Cells & Cancer, Heidelberg (poster 1).
- 23rd-27th March. Organisation of a
Workshop and Training school on Bioinformatics approaches to adaptation, genome
evolution and biological associations, Computer Laboratory (http://www.metable.eu/project/training-school-persons).
- 2 March 2015. A multi omic methodology
for the analysis of large gene families involvement in human diseases
Talk at Epihealthnet meeting. Utrecht.
- Talk at IMAGING INFLAMMATION. Les Houches, France. Photo1
- 24 January 2015, Awarded a Honorary MA (degree of Master of Arts) at Cambridge University.
- 21/01/2015 Comorbidity modeling. Talk at MPhil in Computational Biology, Cambridge
- Associate member of EPIGENESYS
- Bringing Maths
to Life (Invited session: Statistical challenges in omics research
within Life Sciences; Comorbidity with multiple omics datasets)
- Nettab 2014 in Turin (http://www.igst.it/nettab/2014/)
- 30th September: Talk at BodyNets
2014, 9th International Conference on Body Area Networks
(Unconventional Intrabody Communications)
- 26 September 2014: Invited speaker at ECCS
2014 in Lucca (the workshop in a church: Photo1)
- 22-24 Sep 2014: Keynote speaker at FMMB 2014 First
International Conference on Formal Methods in Macro-Biology (Nouméa, New
Caledonia), Photo1 at Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre , Photo2: students.
- 8-9 September 2014:Talk at the Workshop - Systems Biology of Ageing (Jena, Germany).
- Editor of Frontiers special issue: Computational Systems Medicine (with E. Capobianco).
- A paper accepted at IWBDA 2014 for oral presentation.
- Organisation of CIBB 2014
(International Meeting on Computational
Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and
Biostatistics), 26-28 June 2014, Cambridge.
- Fiona Hamey won the prize for the best Systems Biology dissertation
- PhD student Annalisa Occhipinti selected for Heidelberg Laureate Forum (she also won a prize at recent women@cl 10th Anniversary)
- Workshop in honour of A. Philip Dawid (with Luisa Berardinelli and Carlo Berzuini) 1,2
- Royal Society Meeting: Bio-nano interactions: new tools, insights and impacts. 29-30 April-1 May 2014.
- Blueprint-Epigenesys-Epihalthnet modeler meeting in Cambridge (Christ College). Group Picture.
- Digital Patient RoadMap -Editor of chapter on modeling. Chapter.
- 10/12/2013 Talk "Statistical
approaches in multi omics
integration" Sanger Lecture Theatre Department of Biochemistry,
University of Cambridge
Lagrange Fellow (ISI Turin
and Easter Piedmont
University: Complexity in medicine of comorbidities; October 2013).
Lectures on Modeling Comorbidity at the dept of Medine in Novara.
- 10-14 September 2013 Lecturer, Summer school in
Bioinformatics, (Biology Computation
and Information), https://bci2013.units.it/ (Trieste)
- PhD student Claudio Angione selected
for Heidelberg Laureate
Forum www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/ detail
- Invited speaker ECCS 2013 satellite: Modelling the complexity of the immune system, 16-20 September, Barcelona.
- Co-organisation of satellite
workshop on
Complexity in Online
Social Networks and Big Data at ECCS 2013, 16-20 September, Barcelona
- Co-organisation of ECAL 2013
Life, Taormina,
216 submissions and 12
satellite workshops!!
- Invited, August 18 – 23, 2013,
Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop
ICT Strategies for Bridging Biology and Precision Medicine
- Poster at SB 6.0 and two talks
at IWBDA: International
Workshop on Biodesign Automation, London July 12-13.
- Co-organiser of BioP4Med -
"Un-conference" at Instituto
Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, PT June 24-25, 2013
- Co-organiser of the 3rd International Workshop on Molecular and Nanoscale Communication (MoNaCom) for ICC 2013, Budapest. Link to CFP
- Speaker
(Improving collective awareness and education about the privacy and
ethical issues connected with the genome technologies): The
future of Education conference, Florence, 16-17 June
- DAC 50 (Design Automation Conference), Austin Texas.
- Speaker at International
Summer School on Nanocommunications, 21-23 May, The
Nanocommunications Center, Tampere institute of technology
- Keynote
Speaker at Bioinformatics
2013 (Biostec 2013), 11-14 February Barcelona, Spain- A twitter
I found.
2012 The 10th Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology,
3-5 October 2012
The Royal Society, London, UK
- ECCS 2012 (Bruxells) Conference on Complex
Systems; talks at 3 satellite conference
(1) Genomic complexity, (2) Data-driven modeling of contagion
processes; (3) Information Processing In Complex Systems (IPCS'12)
2012 The 11th International Conference on Artificial Immune System (Taormina)
- Invited talk on Computational
immunology at KAVLI Royal Society at Chicheley
Hall (details and action)
- Talk on Modeling tgfbeta in bone
at Virtual Physiological
Human (VPH) Pompeu Fabra
- Invited talk
VI Giornata del Dottorato di
- Invited
Talk at Master in Intelligent Systems and Soft Computing in Granada,
the speakers
- Organiser
of Social Networks
and SocialMedia
- Organiser
of ICARIS
2011 The 10th International Conference on Artificial Immune System (Cambridge)
- Organiser
of BIOCAD
satellite workshop of ICSB 2011 - Heidelberg, 27 August 2011
- Talk on on Pareto Optimal
in Bacterial Knockout Strategies at the Design at the DAC48
Design Automation Conference 5-10 June 2011, San Diego, US
Predictive models in Personalised medicine
Methods for combining Multi scale, Multi omics and Multi physics modelling of molecules-cell-tissue-organ interactions
Developing and testing methodologies for modeling biomedical systems
Super meta: Meta Analysis and Omics integration informatics
Bioinspired methods in health computer science and engineering
2) Mathematical Modeling of Disease Comorbidities - MPHIL Comp Biology, CCBI, Dept of Mathematics (Lent term 2016).
3) Biomedical Informatics - MPhil in Advanced Computing, Computer Laboratory (with Anna Korhonen and Nigel Collier), Lent term 2017
4) Tripos in Systems Biology - Part III (forth year) Systems Biology, Cambridge (Lent term 2017).
5) Machine Learning and Algorithms for Data Mining (Decision trees, Random Forests, Neural networks, Deep Learning)- MPhil in Advanced Computing, Computer Laboratory (Lent term 2017); with Mateja Jamnik and Thomas Sauerwald.
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My job is feeling very uncertain right now :(
I'm not sure what's changed but my manager has met with me several times regarding my "performance". I feel as if I'm being railroaded right now. Yesterday she gave me a list of requirements I must meet. Some of them are my fault. I've been dealing with issues in my home life and I'd been sloppy in my work. Some Ridiculous things such as
letting her know when I'm attending educational programs. Even though they are offered at my place of work and during my lunch hour! I took a phlebotomy class for a new skill set and even though it was after work she said that I never told her I was taking it when I had indeed!
letting her know when I plan on leaving campus during my lunch.
if I have an problem or an issue I'm to come to her with the issue and two resolutions.
There's been some new hirings in my small dept and I don't quite fit in anymore. Its quite sad as I've been there 5 years and I truly enjoy it. I'm going to try to jump through the hoops that have been set before, but I def need to come up with a Plan B.
btw - I'm 37 and the new team is umm....late 20's, early 30's. I keep hearing comments about "not hiring someone who is 40" and of course I'm thinking, thse guys are no spring chickens seriously?
The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA)~Russ07-13-2012, 10:27 AM #3
It sounds like they are starting the process to move you out if they decide to. You need to start documenting everything. Make sure you have past performance reviews in hand to show that you have been a good performer in the past. You will need to fight this as long as possible - but start looking for another job now. Do everything by the book from now on. If they write you up - don't sign it and challenge it with HR - anything to delay the process - anything to give you more time to look for jobs. Also - you need to start sucking up to your co-workers and possibly try to buy them lunch once a week - give them reasons to like you - not hate you. Make them feel like you really care about them - so if one of them is actually instigating the situation you can turn the staff on them and away from you. Can you get socially involved with your co-workers after work? Possbily organize a dutch happy hour after work once a week - You want to make yourself the most likable co-worker. Don't talk about the performance issues with anyone besides your leader and people above him. Your co-workers do not need to know anything about it - and if they ask just say you have had some meetings with your leader about ways to improve the company - put a good spin on it - don't make it sound bad or reply with a response that is bad tact.
I have seen this happen to so many co-workers. I know how the process goes. I have been there to help get rid of people and help save people that I didn't want to get fired or laidoff.Sponsored Links Remove Advertisements07-13-2012, 01:26 PM #4
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Ditto the above. Make sure there is an email trail, or a paper trail. Print out everything. Keep a log. It works wonders when you are dealing with job issues, landlord issues, whatever. If you have the documents proving something, it helps.
At the same time, be looking. My husband was hired at a company. He lasted 4 months. My theory is they needed to tighten their belt but they also wanted a "valid" reason to let someone go. Rather than just say, hey, we need to let you go because we're having financing issues, they decided to go the performance and evaluation route. He, too, was having personal issues that were taking his mind off of things and meant he had to take time off of work. They still used his "not performing to standard and taking too much time off" as an excuse to let him go. Didn't matter that he had just had a baby die and the funeral to arrange, etc.
The thing is, he still kept everybody informed about what was happening with us. Immediate co-workers and supervisors sent condolences but the bosses, who had known me because I had worked for that company when there were only 5 people there, didn't. I think they were too embarrassed about what they did. That is what leads me to believe my theory as to why they let him go.07-13-2012, 01:57 PM #5
Sorry you are going through this; I've had similar issues at a job once, and it was horrible. The anxiety of coming into a job like that every day was unbearable.
I actually had a coworker recording how many times I left my desk and reporting to the boss! If I asked for time off for a dr's appointment, my boss would ask me specifically what it was for. My boss used to criticize my clothes. We had weekly meetings where our boss would scream and berate people for doing something wrong - and would threaten our jobs all the time. The boss was clearly doing shady things with sales numbers and would do anything possible to look good to his bosses and increase his revenue. The last time I was written up for something stupid, I got up the nerve to asked to be let go - I think they were thrilled and they gave me severance and I was able to collect. I had been there for several years and it took me a long time to recover from all of that. I have since finished my degree and have changed careers, and although I work in an office, I will never go back to a corporate environment.07-13-2012, 02:48 PM #6
Great advice all, I so appreciate it. I'm fortunate that my DH has a good job. I just wish I were farther along on the road to being debt free. I've hardly made a dent and if my income were to drop.... **gulp.07-13-2012, 02:59 PM #7
Great advice all, I so appreciate it. I'm fortunate that my DH has a good job. I just wish I were farther along on the road to being debt free. I've hardly made a dent and if my income were to drop.... **gulp.07-13-2012, 07:38 PM #8
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I also have been thru this...it is so hard...I got so depressed as I liked the job...I agree with the other posters in that you should look seriously for another job and document EVERYTHING!!!Blessed and Highly Favored!!!!
From $78K in debt to debt free and purchased a house with 100% cash...God is sooo Good!!!
Goal: Build EF and cash flow graduate degree and REMAIN DEBT FREE!!!08-10-2012, 11:21 AM #9
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a few years ago I got a new boss, who was extremely different than the previous boss who I had worked for for 8 years. New boss was "gung ho", had extremly high expectations and low tolerance for under performers. He actually wrote on my review that I had 6 months to get it together or I was out of a job. I had been with the company for 20 years at that point and was devistated.
but after I recovered from the shock of it, I put my big girl panties on and sat down with him and had the most open and honest and nerve racking conversation of my life. One thing that helped is that he was very specific in what he wanted from me. So, I sucked it up and did everything he wanted, or at least tried my very best.
Guess what? three years later i'm still here, we have a great working relationship and he just told me this week that if I keep up my performance I'm in line for a bonus.
I think my circumstance is a little different than yours but there is the success story behind it. If I could do it, so could you.
Good luck!08-11-2012, 08:29 PM #10
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Can you make a lateral move to another department where you already know the boss? It could save your arse.
Take a short vacation for an attitude adjustment before you start new job. If whatever you are dealing with that is affecting your work performance can be ditched, take the stepts to make this happen. There is no one you can count on for a living except yourself...if you are having problems with your spouse, your best asset for survival is your employment in good standing.
I once let a personal problem affect my work. I was sexually harassed by a coworker who was favorite of my boss which didn't help me. I was eventually asked to leave due to the male coworker's conduct for which I got blamed. I let the situation upset me so much I had a nervous breakdown. Now I'm on SSDI and have worked 8 short jobs in 8 years. Problem started to stalk me and vandalize stuff. It left me in major debt...I'm leaving the area to deal with this.08-13-2012, 04:04 PM #11
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One by one:
Letting her know when you're attending educational programs: This sounds to me like she is either interested in those skill sets to see whether they can be used in your current position, or maybe even as leverage to get you into the next position "higher up". Alternatively, she may want to see if the skills seem to indicate that you are planning on leaving.
When having problems going to her and presenting two resolutions: That is pretty normal in my experience and, in fact, a sign that a boss really cares and is willing to help resolve problems. However, some work has to come from your side, too (the two resolutions), just so you take some time to reflect on the real origin of the problem yourself.
Obviously, she has noticed your sloppiness (as you have put it) and it seems as if she might be genuinely interested in helping you to get back to normal - or even better.
Letting her know when you are off campus for lunch: Now that just is odd. I'd be surprised if this was legal to begin with.
I can see two semi-reasonable interpretations: Either she is indeed trying to make you feel uncomfortable and hence trying to get you out, or, just as likely from my perspective, that she is VERY worried that you are trying to jump ship. Many interviews of people holding a job with other potential employers is done during lunch breaks, after all.
It's been a while since you posted, so I am curious to hear if there have been any new insights on this from your side? Have you even tried to ask your boss about the recent changes?08-14-2012, 03:18 PM #12
Hmm... that is an interesting perspective. Makes me wonder if the boss is interpeting the sloppiness as "I've already mentally checked out."11-11-2012, 10:05 AM #13
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What happened?
Are you still working at this job?
Did the manager leave?
Have you found something else?
Just curious....Blessed and Highly Favored!!!!
From $78K in debt to debt free and purchased a house with 100% cash...God is sooo Good!!!
Goal: Build EF and cash flow graduate degree and REMAIN DEBT FREE!!!11-11-2012, 07:44 PM #14
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I'm interested in knowing how this has worked out for you. I hope it has gotten better.
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