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Biography: EDUCATION:
1994-1998 Bachelor in Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Patras, Greece
1997-1998 Diploma thesis with Aglaia Athanassiadou at Department of General Biology, Division of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, Greece.
1998-2002 PhD thesis with Herbert Jäckle at Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Department Molecular Developmental Biology, Goettingen, Germany.
2003-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow with Nadia Rosenthal at EMBL Mouse Biology Unit, Italy
2008-ongoing Research Associate with Helen Blau at Stanford University, USA

Biography: I have concluded my Master degree in biological science in 2004 and then joint EMBL and served as a senior bioinformatician for 7 years.
During this period I was involved in the scientific activity of the outstation and also lead my own research interest which was focus in database and application development for the first three years and the last 4 years were involved in independent research activity in molecular evolution. I have applied a novel multidisciplinary approach to estimate the selective evolutionary constraints on the system level rather than the traditional gene centric one. I have further used my computational background to further study how complex systematic interaction between thousands of genes may constraint the phenotypic space with large implication on evolution theories.

Biography: Born in the US, Nadia Rosenthal obtained her PhD in 1981 from Harvard Medical School and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at NIH, then directed a biomedical research laboratory at Harvard Medical School, and served for a decade at the New England Journal of Medicine as editor of the Molecular Medicine series. In 2001 she moved to Europe to head the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Outstation in Rome, She is an EMBO member, with numerous awards and honors including the Ferrari-Soave Prize in Cell Biology and Doctors Honoris Causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and the University of Amsterdam. She spearheaded the election of Australia to EMBL as its first Associate Member, serving as its Scientific Head, and in 2008 she founded the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute at Monash University and Headquarters for the EMBL Australia Partner Laboratory Network. She is an NH&MRC Australia Fellow and holds a Chair in Cardiovascular Science at Imperial College London.
Professor Rosenthal’s research focuses on muscle and cardiac developmental genetics and the role of growth factors and stem cells in tissue regeneration, with over 160 primary research articles and prominent reviews in high impact international journals, including general reviews for Scientific American. She has attracted sponsored research funding from major pharmaceutical companies including Amgen, Genzyme and Novartis for her translational studies. She delivered the 2006 Howard Hughes Holiday Lectures on Potent Biology: Stem Cells, Cloning and Regeneration, co-edited the “bible” of the field, Heart Development and Regeneration and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Differentiation. She brings a unique and powerful perspective on stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at the interface of basic, biomedical and industrial life sciences. She is also an accomplished painter and illustrator, providing artwork for her books, journals and conferences.