Journal of Pharmacy and Experimental Medicine

Editor Name: Andreas Papadakis

Country: Greece

Department: Department of Chemistry

Email: andreas.papadakis6@gmail.com

Research Interest: Chemistry - Pharmacy Medicine

Biography:

Working Experience

Biology teacher at Private Grammar School Limassol (12/2017- present).

Education

Erasmus + Placement in Laboratory of Biophysics and Biophysical (04/2017 - 07/207)

Chemistry (Professor: Tuomas Knowles) Department of Chemistry, University of

Cambridge, UK Master Student in Medicinal Chemistry - Drug discovery and Research (Departments of Chemistry - Pharmacy Medicine, University of Patras, Greece) (10/2015 09/2017). Thesis Title: Genetic association study of JAK2 and SOCS1 variants in Myasthenia gravis patients. Master Grade: 9.1 /10 - Excellent

Erasmus+ Placement, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, Behavioral neuroendocrinology, Uppsala University, Sweden (03/2015 - 06/2015)

Undergraduate student, Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, Greece (10/2010 08/2015:)

Bachelor grade: 6.52 /10 Very Good (BSc in Biology)

Thesis title Mutant KRAS promotes malignant pleural effusion formation (Published - Nature Communications)

Research Skills

Mouse handling (intraperitoneal and retroorbital injections, anesthesia, lung isolation)

Zebrafish handling

Cell culture

Transfection with plasmid DNA

Construction of mutant Îšras eukaryotic vectors

MTT assay (cell proliferation)

Western blot

ELISA

SDS- PAGE Electrophoresis

Immunofluorescence microscopy

In vivo tumor xenograft and malignant pleural effusion models

Real time in vivo bioluminescence imaging

cDNA synthesis

DNA isolation

RNA extraction

PCR

Real Time PCR (qPCR)

Microfluidic chip design (CAD software)

Soft lithography

Bright field and fluorescence microscopy

Plate reader experiments

Microfluidic techniques

Kinetic measurements

REFERENCE ESSAYS*

1. Neuroimaging

2. Genotype analysis of glutathiones transfer.

3. Tumors of the central nervous system.

4. Diagnosis and Cure of Brain Tumors.

5. Invasive species Aquatic Ecosystems.

6. molecular Therapy in the MicroRna Era.

7. Properties of erythrocyte membrane.

Publications:

1. Agalioti T, Giannou AD, Krontira AC, Kanellakis NI, Kati D, Vreka M, Pepe M, Spella M, Lilis I, Zazara DE, Nikolouli E, Spiropoulou N, Papadakis A, Papadia K Voulgaridis A, Harokopos V, Stamou P, Meiners S, Eickelberg O, Snyder LA, Antimisiaris SG Kardamakis D, Psallidas I, Marazioti A, Stathopoulos GT (2017). Mutant KRAS promotes malignant pleural effusion formation, Nature Communications, 8, p. 15205. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15205. (Nature Communications 2017),

2. Zoi Zagoriti, George Lagoumintzis, Gianluca Perroni, George Papathanasiou, Andreas Papadakis, Vincenzo Ambrogi, Tommaso Claudio Mineo, John S. Tzartos, Konstantinos Poulas Journal of Neuroimmunology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroim.2018.03.008 (Journal of Neuroimmunology 2018)

Conference - Workshops Attendance

17th Conference of Medicinal Chemistry (Main speaker James D. Watson)

67th Panhellenic Conference of the Hellenic Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

35^th Scientific conference of the Greek Society of Biological Sciences.

36^th Scientific conference of the Greek Society of Biological Sciences.

26th meeting of the Hellenic Society for Neurosciences.

8th Greek conference of Biosciences

10th Greek Educational Conference

Evolution of Oncology

6th Conference of Medicinal Chemistry