About

Hello, my name is Luca and this is my blog, where I occasionally post about the things that interest me.

I’ve had a keen interest in things that are alive, and have studied biology all my life. I have a Master’s degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology, and have combined my interest in biology with my passion for computer science late in my Master Degree course, so now I work as a Bioinformatician. I am based in Turin, Italy.

I’m currently working as a PHD candidate at Prof. Munaron Lab, under the supervision of Dr. Ruffinatti at the University of Turin. The goal of my PhD is to profile the gene expression in tumor cells to detect deregulations at a whole-transportome level. You can find most of my work in my Github page (here) or my lab’s github page (TCP-Lab, here). I mostly code in R and Python, although I’ve recently taken a liking for the Rust programming language and have started creating command line tools with it.

During my PhD and in general research work I’ve come in contact with the ideas of Open, Transparent and Reproducible Science, and now I’m interested in developing my skills in data management, experimental design, reproducibility, scientific philosophy and transparent, society-driven science. I’m currently chairman of the Open Science Community Torino, and I have taken the first ever italian data stewardship course in Turin, Italy, during most of 2024.

In my spare time I’m a PC gamer, and I play a ton of board games and other nerdy things, like Dungeons and Dragons. I also like walking, but that’s pretty much all the exercise I do.

Contact me

You can contact me by sending me an email at luca.visentin (at) unito.it, or alternatively on Mastodon (MrHedmad@genomic.social) or BlueSky @hedmad.bsky.social.

This website also hosts my curriculum vitae in italian and in English. You can find my OrcID here.

About this blog

I try to post about things that I like, or concepts that are not well explained on the internet. Many posts here are mainly my notes on some topic or other, for my future reference. But I guess someone may find them interesting or useful, so here they are.

If any links are dead, please send me an email or open a pull request on github.

This website is static, generated with HUGO, and the theme hello, friend! by Panr. Its source is hosted on GitHub and the generated content is hosted on GitHub Pages (from the same repository, look at the gh_pages branch). The live site builds itself on every push with a GitHub Action.

If you are curious to make your own website hosted on GitHub pages, I followed the HUGO quickstart guide and this guide by HUGO to host the site on GitHub and set up the auto-build.