Education
2009 - 2014: Ph.D in Bioinformatics, Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens.
Thesis title: "Bioinformatics studies in function and structure of membrane proteins", Supervisor: Professor Stavros J. Hamodrakas
2008 - 2010: M.Sc in Bioinformatics, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens.
Thesis title: "Bioinformatics studies in function and structure of membrane proteins", Supervisor: Professor Stavros J. Hamodrakas
2002 - 2008: B.Sc in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Athens.
Thesis title: "Transmembrane protein topology prediction", Supervisor: Professor Stavros J. Hamodrakas
Research Areas
Sequence analysis
Membrane protein structure and function, protein Disorder
Biological databases
Machine Learning, prediction algorithms
Protein-protein, protein-drug interactions
Computational genomics, clinical bioinformatics
Research Projects
March 2014 - March 2015: “Comprehensive Study of Membrane Receptors’ function and Correlation with Disease, using bioinformatics” Synergasia 2009 Project (Program for co-operation of Universities and Enterprises funded by the Greek Ministry of Education, Project Code: 09SYN-13-999).
September 2010 - September 2013: “Bioinformatics studies in function and structure of membrane proteins” Heracleitus II (Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), Project Code: 70/3/10927).
Reviewer for Peer-Reviewed Journals [Publons]
Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press)
BMC Bioinformatics (BioMed Central)
BioMed Research International (Hindawi Publishing Corporation)
Computers in Biology and Medicine (Elsevier)
Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine (Spandidos)
Oncology Letters (Spandidos)
Oncology Reports (Spandidos)
International Journal of Oncology (Spandidos)
Scientific Reports (Nature Research)
Awards / Distinctions
2011: Best poster award in the 6th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2011 Patras.
2010: 3 year PhD fellowship, by the European Union and Greek national funds through the Operational Programme: Education and Lifelong Learning of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF).
2009: Best poster award in the 4th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, 2009 NHRF, Athens.
Scientific Associations / Memberships
Member of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (HSCBB)
Member of the International Socienty of Computational Biology (ISCB)
Member of the Hellenic Society for Biological Sciences (HSBS)
Member of the Hellenic Association of Medical Geneticists (ΣΙΓΕ)
Member of the Human Variome Project (HVP) Consortium
Member of the Evidence-based Network for the Interpretation of Germline Mutant Alleles (ENIGMA)
Member of the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)
Member of the PTEN Variant Curation Expert Panel as a ClinGen Biocurator.
Member of the TP53 Variant Curation Expert Panel as a ClinGen Biocurator.
Talks
2 March 2018: : "Mutational load/burden. Clinical significance and management in NSCLC" Radiotherapeutic Oncology Congress, Thessaloniki.
25 November 2016: "Bioinformatics" Oncology Symposium on the multidisciplinary confrontation of Cancer, Athens.
29 January 2016: "Clinical Significance and Classification of Unknown Sequence Variants in Cancer Genes" International training, GeneKor MSA, Athens.
26 January 2016: "Clinical Significance and Classification of Unknown Sequence Variants in Cancer Genes" MSc in Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Athens.
4 December 2015: "Peripheral membrane proteins: visualization and analysis of interactions using graph theory" MSc in Systems Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Agriculturar University of Athens.
23 September 2015: "Data analysis and Bioinformatics for clinical next generation sequencing" GeneKor MSA, Athens.
19 June 2015: "Bioinformatics studies in function and structure of membrane proteins" MSc in Systems Biology, Department of Biotechnology, Agriculturar University of Athens.
9 October 2011: "Combined prediction of post-translational modifications and topology of transmembrane proteins using HMMs" 6th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Patras.
18 October 2010: "ExTopoDB: A database of experimentally derived topological models of transmembrane proteins" 5th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biolog & Bioinformatics, Alexandroupolis.
20 December 2009: "A computational approach to the optimal placement of a topology reporter: Implications to large-scale analysis" 4th Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, NHRF, Athens.
31 October 2008: "Transmembrane protein topology prediction improves by 30% incorporating experimental information" 3rd Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, CERTH, Thessaloniki
5 October 2007: "Correlation of the performance of protein structure prediction algorithms with the size of the training set" Hellenic Bioinformatics & Medical Informatics Meeting, BRFAA, Athens