Participants

Department of Pharmacy

• Dr. Georgios A. Spyroulias, Biomolecular NMR Spectroscopy, Protein production, labeling (uniform or selective/specific) & biophysical characterisation, Structural Biology, Biomolecular Simulations.
• Dr. Konstantinos Poulas, Protein production & characterisation, X-ray Crystallography, Molecular modelling and Bioinformatics.
• Dr. George P. Patrinos, Human genomics, pharmacogenomics, Bioinformatics and genetic databases.
• Prof. Andreas Papapetropoulos, Cellular Signalling, Protein-Protein Interactions, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Inflammation, Pre-clinical drug screening & Development.
• Dr. StavrosTopouzis, Use of preclinical, cell-based (in vitro) and animal-based (in vivo) models, for the study of human fibroproliferative and inflammatory diseases.

Department of Medicine

• Nicholas Moschonas, Protein production in bacteria and animal cells, gene expression and functional analysis of proteins, in vitro and cell-based assessment of protein-protein interactions.
• Zoi Lygerou, Functional imaging, protein analysis in human cells and yeast, systems biology.
• Stavros Taraviras, Generation and analysis of genetically modified mice, isolation and culturing of embryonic haematopoietic and neural stem/progenitor cells, biochemical characterisation of protein complexes, determination of gene and protein expression, live-cell imaging techniques.

Department of Chemistry

• John Matsoukas, Organic, Peptide synthesis and Characterization of Bioactive Molecules, Structure-Activity Relationship Studies.
• Theodore Tselios, Rational Design, Synthesis & Characterization of Bioactive Molecules, Biomolecular and Docking Simulations.
• Alexios Vlamis-Gardikas, Overexpression and purification of recombinant proteins, protein-protein interaction analysis, bacterial genetics, molecular biology, enzyme assays (especially those related to antioxidant enzymes).

Department of Biology

• Kostas Flytzanis, Gene regulation in early embryonic development of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus, study of the transcription factors and SAR studies on nuclear receptors (e.g. COUP-TF; Chicken Ovalbumin Upstream Promoter–Transcription Factors).
• Irene Margiolaki, Method development and application of Crystallography & Structural Biology. Extensive knowledge of powder and single crystal diffraction, structure determination, model building, refinement, and skills in Small Angle X-ray Scattering, optical/electron microscopy etc.