The University of Newcastle, Researcher report.

Researcher: Associate Professor Pablo Moscato
School: School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science
Personal URL: http://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/expertise/138172.html

Funded Projects

Please note, only grants administered through the University of Newcastle Research Office are recorded here. For a more complete picture of the researcher's grant history a Personal URL may be supplied, above.

Research Team Initial Year Duration (Years) Funding Body/Client Award Type Title of Project Collaborating Partners Total Cash $ Total Inkind $
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott 2009 1 University of Newcastle Special Project Grant First Australian Workshop on Bioinformatics for Biomarker Discovery   25000  
Laureate Professor Robert Aitken;Professor Adam McCluskey;Doctor Mark Baker;Doctor Nicole Verrills;Associate Professor Marcel Maeder;Doctor Xiaojing Zhou;Associate Professor Eileen McLaughlin;Doctor Brett Nixon;Doctor Shaun Roman;Professor Raymond Rose;Associate Professor Richard Dunstan;Professor Christopher Grof;Professor Roger Smith;Conjoint Professor Peter Gibson;Conjoint Professor Alison Jones;Professor Michael Calford;Professor Keith Jones;Doctor Rick Thorne;Professor Peter Dunkley;Professor Paul Foster;Professor Leonie Ashman;Professor Gordon Burns;Associate Professor Phillip Dickson;Professor John Rostas;Professor Rodney Scott;Doctor Paul Tooney;Associate Professor Philip Hansbro;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Paul Dastoor;Associate Professor Peter Lewis 2009 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) Partner funding An Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility for Applications in Proteomics and Organic Chemistry   50000  
Laureate Professor Robert Aitken;Professor Adam McCluskey;Doctor Mark Baker;Doctor Nicole Verrills;Associate Professor Marcel Maeder;Doctor Xiaojing Zhou;Associate Professor Eileen McLaughlin;Doctor Brett Nixon;Doctor Shaun Roman;Professor Raymond Rose;Associate Professor Richard Dunstan;Professor Christopher Grof;Professor Roger Smith;Conjoint Professor Peter Gibson;Conjoint Professor Alison Jones;Professor Michael Calford;Professor Keith Jones;Doctor Rick Thorne;Professor Peter Dunkley;Professor Paul Foster;Professor Leonie Ashman;Professor Gordon Burns;Associate Professor Phillip Dickson;Professor John Rostas;Professor Rodney Scott;Doctor Paul Tooney;Associate Professor Philip Hansbro;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Paul Dastoor;Associate Professor Peter Lewis 2009 1 Australian Research Council Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF) An Advanced Mass Spectrometry Facility for Applications in Proteomics and Organic Chemistry   495000  
Conjoint Associate Professor Christopher Levi;Doctor Jonathan Sturm;Professor John Attia;Professor Rodney Scott;Doctor Lisa Lincz;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2009 2 National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant Australian stroke genetics collaborative - Genome-wide association study in ischaemic stroke   1108000  
Professor John Attia;Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2008 3 National Health & Medical Research Council Project Grant Genes and environment in the risk of early age-related macular degeneration: a population-based case-control study   701224  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2008 3 Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence ARC Centre of Excellence for Bioinformatics - UQ   247313  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott 2007 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Application of novel exact combinatorial optimisation techniques and metaheuristic methods for problems in cancer research   238291  
Professor Rodney Scott;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2007 3 Hunter Medical Research Institute MRSP Infrastructure Grant HMRI Emerging Research program - Information based medicine   624044  
Professor Rodney Scott;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2007 1 University of Newcastle Publication Performance Grant (8) PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)   21532  
Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith;Doctor Lisa Wood;Professor John Attia;Doctor Regina Berretta;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2007 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute Project Grant Healthy Airways and Obstructive Lung Disease (HAROLD)   20000  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott;Professor John Rostas;Professor John Forbes;Conjoint Professor Peter Hersey;Conjoint Professor Stephen Ackland;Conjoint Professor Wayne Smith;Professor Peter Dunkley;Professor Leonie Ashman;Professor John Attia;Associate Professor Phillip Dickson;Doctor Adrienne Milward;Professor Alistair Sim;Doctor Paul Tooney;Doctor Regina Berretta;Associate Professor David Sibbritt;Conjoint Associate Professor Christopher Levi;Conjoint Associate Professor Xu Zhang;Conjoint Associate Professor Patricia Crock;Doctor Jeannette Lechner-Scott 2006 4 University of Newcastle Priority Research Centre PRC - Priority Research Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM)   288290  
Professor Rodney Scott;Professor John Attia;Associate Professor David Sibbritt;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2006 1 University of Newcastle Near Miss Grant Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms that are associated with an increased risk of colectoral cancer   9050  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott 2006 1 University of Newcastle Near Miss Grant Application of novel parameterized complexity techniques to problems in functional genomics   19946  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2005 1 University of Newcastle Travel Grant The 6th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2005), 22-26 August 2005   2500  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Rodney Scott;Doctor Regina Berretta 2005 3 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Evolutionary algorithms for problems in functional genomics data analysis   218000  
Doctor Regina Berretta;Doctor Michael Hannaford;Associate Professor Frans Henskens;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Dr Richard Webber 2005 1 University of Newcastle Conference Establishment Grant Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW'05)   3000  
Emeritus Professor Patricia Michie;Associate Professor Michael Hunter;Professor John Rostas;Conjoint Associate Professor David Williams;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Associate Professor Frans Henskens 2005 1 Hunter Medical Research Institute HMRI Brain and Mental Health Research Program The Australian EEG Database - Infrastructure Support   20000  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato;Professor Michael Fellows 2004 3 Australian Research Council Centres of Excellence Centre for Bioinformatics - UQ   390000  
Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2003 1 University of Newcastle New Staff Grant Application of metaheuristics and evolutionary computation methods to large-scale optimisation problems in bioinformatics   10000  
Professor Michael Fellows;Associate Professor Pablo Moscato 2002 2 Australian Research Council Discovery Projects Approximate proximity for applications in data mining and visualization   46000  

Research Higher Degree Supervision

For a more complete picture of the researcher's supervision history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Current Student Supervision

Program Supervision Level Research Topic
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor A Comparative Study Between Formal Concept Analysis and Other Techniques for Identifying the Genetic Profile of Diseases
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Algorithms for the Non-Unique Probe Selection Problem Project Description
PhD (Computer Science) Principal Supervisor Graph Algorithmics for Large- Scale Visualization and Interpretation of Molecular Pathways of Cancer Cells
PhD (Medical Genetics) Co-Supervisor Microarray Studies of Genome-Wide Changes in Brain Gene Expression in Mouse Models of Iron Overload

Total Equivalent Full-time Student Units (EFTSU):

Supervision Level EFTSU
PhD 2.950

Student Completions

NB - the completions shown here are only those for the University of Newcastle obtained since 2001.

Program Year Research Topic
PhD (Computer Science) 2005 Systematic Kernelization in FPT Algorithm Design
PhD (Software Engineering) 2007 Principled Computational Data Mining Methods for Biomarker Discovery Using Microarray Technologies
PhD (Computer Science) 2008 An Integrated and Scalable Approach Based on Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for the Analysis of Microarray Data

Research Publications

Please note, the publications listed here:
(1) relate to the researcher's position at the University of Newcastle only
(2) are for selected categories of publications, and
(3) relate to publication year 1998, onwards.
For a more complete picture of the researcher's publication history a Personal URL may be supplied at the top of this page.

Journal Article

Rosso Osvaldo Anibal, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Rostas John Andrew, Hunter Michael, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Distinguishing childhood absence epilepsy patients from controls by the analysis of their background brain electrical activity’, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 177 461-468 (2009) [C1]

Rosso Osvaldo Anibal, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, Rostas John Andrew, Hunter Michael, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Distinguishing childhood absence epilepsy patients from controls by the analysis of their background brain electrical activity (II): A combinatorial optimization approach for electrode selection’, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 181 257-267 (2009) [C1]

Bahlo Melanie, Booth David R, Broadley Simon A, Brown Matthew A, Foote Simon J, Griffiths Lyn R, Kilpatrick Trevor J, Lechner-Scott Jeannette, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Perreau Victoria M, Rubio Justin P, Scott Rodney, Stankovich Jim, Stewart Graeme J, Taylor Bruce V, Wiley James, Clarke Glynnis, Cox Mathew Brian, Csurhes Peter A, Danoy Patrick, Drysdale Karen, Field Judith, Greer Judith M, Guru Preethi, Hadler Johanna, McMorran Brendan J, Jensen Cathy J, Johnson Laura J, McCallum Ruth, Merriman Marilyn, Merriman Tony, Pryce Karen, Tajouri Lotfi, Wilkins Ella J, Browning Brian L, Browning Sharon R, Perera Devindri, Broadley Simon, Butzkueven Helmut, Carroll William M, Chapman Caron, Kermode Allan G, Marriott Mark, Mason Deborah, Heard Robert N, Pender Michael P, Slee Mark, Tubridy Niall, Willoughby Ernest, ’Genome-wide association study identifies new multiple sclerosis susceptibility loci on chromosomes 12 and 20’, Nature Genetics, 41 824-828 (2009) [C1]

Capp Anne, Inostroza-Ponta Mario, Bill Dana, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Lai Chi, Christie David, Lamb David, Turner Sandra, Joseph David, Matthews John, Atkinson Chris, North John, Poulsen Michael, Spry Nigel A, Tai Keen-Hun, Wynne Chris, Duchesne Gillian, Steigler Allison, Denham James, ’Is there more than one proctitis syndrome? A revisitation using data from the TROG 96.01 trial’, Radiotherapy and Oncology, 90 400-407 (2009) [C1]

Rosso Osvaldo Anibal, Craig David Hugh, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Shakespeare and other English Renaissance authors as characterized by Information Theory complexity quantifiers’, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 388 916-926 (2009) [C1]

Ravetti Martin Gomez, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Identification of a 5-protein biomarker molecular signature for predicting Alzheimer's disease’, PLoS ONE, 3 e3111 (2008) [C1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, ’Benchmarking a Memetic Algorithm for Ordering Microarray Data’, Biosystems, 88 56-75 (2007) [C1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Selection of discriminative genes in microarray experiments using mathematical programming’, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, 39 287-299 (2007) [C1]

Franca P M, Gupta J N D, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Veltink K J, ’Evolutionary algorithms for scheduling a flowshop manufacturing cell with sequence dependent family setups’, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 48 491-506 (2005) [C1]

Lalinka De Campos Teixeira Gomes, Fernando J Von Zuben, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’A proposal for direct-ordering gene expression data by self-organising maps’, Applied Soft Computing, 5 11-21 (2004) [C1]

Luciana Buriol, Paulo M Franca, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’A new memetic algorithm for the asymmetric traveling salesman problem’, Journal of Heuristics, 10 483-506 (2004) [C1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Carlos Cotta, ’A memetic-aided approach to hierarchical clustering from distance matrices: application to gene expression clustering and phylogeny’, Biosystems, 72 75-97 (2003) [C1]

Carlos Cotta, Alexandre Mendes, Vinicius Garcia, Paulo Franca, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Apply Memetic Algorithms to the Analysis of Microarray Data’, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2611 22-32 (2003) [C1]

Mendes A, Franca P, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Garcia V, ’Population Studies for the Gate Matrix Layout Problem’, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, . 319 (2002) [C1]

Chapter in Book

Ravetti Martin Gomez, Berretta Regina Esther, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Novel biomarkers for prostate cancer revealed by ([alpha, beta]) -k-feature sets’, Foundations of Computational Intelligence Volume 5: Functional Approximation and Classification, Springer, Berlin, 149-175 (2009) [B1]

Atkinson Rebbekah Josephine, Rosso Osvaldo Anibal, Figliola Alejandra, Serrano Eduardo, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Hunter Michael, Rostas John Andrew, ’Use of the domestic chicken to investigate mechanisms of brain maturation’, Translational Neuroscience and Its Advancement of Animal Research Ethics, Nova Science Publishers, New York, 29-53 (2009) [B1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Costa Wagner Emanoel, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Combinatorial optimization models for finding genetic signatures from gene expression datasets’, Bioinformatics, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 363-377 (2008) [B1]

Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Genetic signatures for a rodent model of Parkinson's disease using combinatorial optimization methods’, Bioinformatics, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 379-392 (2008) [B1]

Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Scott Rodney, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Microarrays - Identifying molecular portraits in prostrate tumors with different gleason patterns’, Clinical Bioinformatics, Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey, 131-151 (2008) [B1]

Cotta C, Langston M, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Combinatorial and algorithmic issues for microarray data analysis’, Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 74-1-74-14 (2007) [B1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Cotta Carlos, ’Memetic algorithms’, Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics, Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, FL, 27-1-27-12 (2007) [B1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Carlos Cotta, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Enhancing the performance of memetic algorithms by using a matching-based recombination algorithm’, Metaheuristics: Computer Decision-Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 719 (2004) [B1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Carlos Cotta, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, ’Memetic Algorithms’, Studies in fuzziness and soft computing - new optimization techniques in engineering, Springer, New York, Not Known (2004) [B1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Carlos Cotta, ’Scheduling and production & control: MA’, Studies in fuzziness and soft computing - new optimization techniques in engineering, Springer, New York, Not Known (2004) [B1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Alexandre Linhares, ’VLSI design: gate matrix layout problem’, Studies in fuzziness and soft computing - new optimization techniques in engineering, Springer, New York, Not Known (2004) [B1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Carlos Cotta, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Enhancing the performance of Memetic Algorithms by using a Matching-Based Recombination Algorithm’, Maetaheuristics: Computer Decision Making, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 65-90 (2003) [B1]

Conference Publication

Cheung Luciana Montera, Do Carmo Nicoletti Maria, Da Silva Flavio H, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’An effective mutation-based measure for evaluating the suitability of parental sequences to undergo DNA shuffling experiments’, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008, Hong Kong (2008) [E1]

Inostroza-Ponta Mario, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’An integrated QAP-based approach to visualize patterns of gene expression similarity’, Progress in Artificial Life, Gold Coast, QLD (2007) [E1]

Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Genetic biomarkers for brain hemisphere differentiation in Parkinson's Disease’, Computational Models for Life Sciences (CMLS '07): 2007 International Symposium. Conference Proceedings, Gold Coast, QLD (2007) [E1]

Cox M, Bowden Nikola Ann, Moscato Pablo Alberto, Berretta Regina Esther, Scott Rodney, ’Memetic algorithms as a new method to interpret gene expression profiles in multiple sclerosis’, Multiple Sclerosis (Abstracts of the 23rd Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis and the 12th Annual Conference of Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis), Prague, Czech Republic (2007) [E3]

Garcia Vinicius Jacques, Franca Paulo Morelato, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’A Parallel Memetic Algorithm Applied to the Total Tardiness Machine Scheduling Problem’, IPDPS 2006, 20th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006, Rhodes Island, Greece (2006) [E1]

Inostroza-Ponta Mario, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’An automatic graph layout procedure to visualize correlated data’, Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice, Santiago, Chile (2006) [E1]

Mahata Pritha, Costa Wagner Emanoel, Cotta C, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Hierarchical clustering, languages and cancer’, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2006: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC Proceedings), Budapest, Hungary (2006) [E1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, ’A New Memetic Algorithm for Ordering Datasets: Applications in Microarray Analysis’, Proceedings of MIC2005, Vienna, Austria (2005) [E2]

Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Cotta C, Garcia V, Franca P, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Gene Ordering in Microarray Data Using Parallel Memetic Algorithms’, International Conference Workshops on Parallel Processing, 2005. ICPP 2005 Workshops, Oslo, Norway (2005) [E1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Berretta Regina Esther, Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Cotta Carlos, ’Genes related with Alzheimer's disease: A comparison of evolutionary search, statistical and integer programming approaches’, Applications on Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkkshops 2005: EvoBIO, EvoCOMNET, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoMUSART, and EvoSTOC, Lausanne, Switzerland (2005) [E1]

Berretta Regina Esther, Cotta C, Hourani Mou'Ath Adeib, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Hacia una Mejor Compresion del Perfil Genetico de la Enfermedad de Alzheimer a Traves de Metaheuristicas’, Proceedings of the MAEB2005, Granada, Spain (2005) [E2]

Berretta Regina Esther, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Integer Programming Models and Algorithms for Molecular Classification of Cancer from Microarray Data’, Proceedings of the twenty eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2005) Newcastle, Australia, January, 2005, Newcastle, N.S.W (2005) [E1]

Moscato Pablo Alberto, Mathieson Luke, Mendes Alexandre De Sousa, Berretta Regina Esther, ’The Electronic Primaries: Predicting the U.S. Presidency Using Feature Selection with Safe Data Reduction’, Proceedings of the twenty eighth Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2005) Newcastle, Australia, January, 2005, Newcastle, N.S.W (2005) [E1]

Cotta Carlos, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’The Parameterized Complexity of Multiparent Recombination’, Proceedings of the MIC2005, Vienna, Austria (2005) [E1]

Carlos Cotta, Christian Sloper, Moscato Pablo Alberto, ’Evolutionary search of thresholds for robust feature set selection: application to the analysis of microarray data’, Proceedings of The EvoWorkshops 2004, Not Known (2004) [E1]

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