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Biography: 1988-1993 Department of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
1993-1997 Department of developmental genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany. Sub
1998-1999 Eight months post doc in the department of developmental genetics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany (German Cancer Research Center Fellowship)
1999-2001 Post doctoral fellow in the Computational Genomics Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) Cambridge, UK. (EU Fellowship)
2001- 2003 Researcher at Institute of Agrobiotechnology. Thessaloniki, Greece
2004 – 2004 Researcher – Consultant at Biovista (http://www.biovista.com)
2004 – 2008 Researcher in the University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Crete
2008 May Lecturer in the University of Crete, Medical School, Heraklion, Crete

Biography: I graduated in 1982 as an engineer (MEng) with a dissertation on the sequencing of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA border regions. The experimental work was performed at the Department of Genetics, University of Ghent (HoD, Prof. M. Van Montagu). My first job was as a Technical Assistant to Prof. M. Zabeau at the EMBL, Heidelberg, working on the EcoRI modification system. By the end of 1983 I moved back to Ghent to work in Plant Genetic Systems where I was involved in various projects but by 1986 I decided to 'go back to school' and travelled to South Africa for PhD studies in Microbiology. After obtaining my PhD in 1990 (University of Cape Town) for my work on nitrogen metabolism in Clostridium acetobutylicum I did a 2-year post-doc in Prof. L. Sonenshein's lab at Tufts University, Boston, once again working on nitrogen metabolism but this time in B. subtillus. This was followed by several post-doc positions in Wageningen, Leiden, and Ghent, entailing taxonomic studies on the genera Acinetobacter, Aeromonas, and Xanthomonas (1996-1998), and a Glaxo-Wellcome post-doctoral Fellowship at the Rega Institute of the Catholic University of Louvain (1998-2000). From January 2000 to early 2002 I was a TMR Fellow in Bioinformatics at the EBI-Hinxton (Cambridge). I worked briefly at the University of Liege in frame of an ongoing project for the European Space Agency to study genetic stability of bacteria under space conditions. I now continue this work at the SCK-CEN as a tenured scientist, while pursuing other research interests entailing T-RFLP based community analysis, bacterial radiotolerance, bioremediation, in-house genome projects (Cupriavidus metallidurans, Arthrospira platensis), and reconstruction of transcription regulatory networks.

Biography: http://gr.linkedin.com/in/christosao

Biography: 1995 - "licenciatura" in biochemistry - Lisbon university
2001 - PhD in Biomedical Sciences - Oporto University
2002-2003 - Post-doctoral fellow at EMBL-EBI
2004 - Research Associate MRC - Laboratory of Molecular Biology
2004 - Career Development Felow MRC LMB
2006 - Principal investigator - 'Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia'

Biography: First degree in Chemistry (AUTH, Greece), MSc in Food Biotechnology (U of Reading, UK), PhD in Biochemical Engineering (U College London, UK).
Postdoctoral work in Enzyme Food Biotechnology (NTUA, Greece) (1996-1998) then moved to the UK and the EBI for postdoc at the Computational Genomics Group (Leader: C Ouzounis, period 1998-2001). In 2001 I was the recipient of an MRC Special Training Fellowship in Bioinformatics and worked at the EBI as Staff Scientist atthe Computational Genomics Group on issues of metabolic reconstruction from genome data, analysis and prediction of protein interactions and automated protein function assignment.