Team:Thessaloniki/Attributions
iGEM Thessaloniki
@iGEMthessaloniki
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- Overview
- Our Team Members
- Our Advisors
- Principal Investigator
- Project Support
- Lab Support
- Dry Lab Support
- Help and Advice during Brainstorming
- Human Practices Support
- Education and Communication Support
- Public Relationship
- Previous iGEM Teams
- Graphics
- Our Sponsors
Attributions
Overview
Our team members
Anagnostakis Charalampos, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab and Dry Lab teams. He came up with the initial idea of using toehold switches to design a diagnostic tool. As a member of our Dry Lab, he was mainly responsible for our bioinformatics analysis that was performed to confirm the biomarkers we chose based on literature research, and participated in our toehold design and analysis. As a member of our Wet Lab team, he contributed to many experiments for our proof of concept, especially for testing of our sequences. He, also, participated in the “How to read COVID-19?” workshop organization for SFHMMY 12, the organization of “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar and 85th Thessaloniki International Fair and participated in the interview for Live Media. In addition, he was a member of our graphics team and he designed many of our promotional materials, banners and social media graphics. Finally, he organized our Promotional and Presentation Video.
Anastasiou Anna, BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics, DUTH and member of our Wet Lab. She contributed mainly to the literature research for choosing the appropriate biomarkers and the appropriate amplification technique. As a member of our Wet Lab, she developed our EXPAR protocol and ran the experiments to test it. She participated in our Public Engagement activities, as well, such as the interview for Molecular Cloud, ERT3, 85th Thessaloniki International Fair and the seminars for private educational institutes. She contributed to our Human Practices, organizing meetings with specialists on our subject and most importantly, she was responsible for the communication with the National Organization of Medicines. In addition, she was a member of our Content Team and she was responsible for revising the content of our Wiki. Finally, she oversaw the application for the impact grant, which we eventually won.
Varvari Anna, Undergraduate student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of our Dry Lab team. She was responsible for our Wiki coding, graphics and illustration. She participated in the design and analysis of our toehold switches and the design of the corresponding software tool. She, also, took our project idea one step further by adding the idea of designing the appropriate hardware to facilitate our diagnostic method and she was responsible for the design of this device. She was also engaged in our Education and Communication activities and she contributed to the “How to read COVID-19?” workshop for SFHMMY and she was in charge of preparing the educational materials for the asynchronous seminars. More specifically, she created the content and edited our educational video. Finally, she participated in our partnership by designing an interactive informative game for students using the Scratch platform.
Vergini Danai Eleni, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy and member of our Wet Lab team. As a member of our Wet Lab, she contributed to the literature research for the appropriate biomarkers and the amplification methods, as well as the design and implementation of our experiments regarding cloning and PCR. She, also, contributed to the documentation and organization of our experiments protocols and lab books in Benchling. As a member of our Content Team, she was responsible for the Proposed Implementation, Project Description and Title and Abstract criteria and for revising our Wiki content. In addition, she contributed to our project safety analysis, specifically for our Safety Form. She, also, participated in our Education and Communication activities, by preparing the presentation of our team for HelMSIC and SFHMMY and participating in the interview for ERT3. Finally, she was responsible for our participation in the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair.
Theodosiadou Anastasia, Undergraduate student at School of Biology, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab team. She was responsible for our partnership activities and communication with our fellow team iGEM Patras, as well as for our collaborations. In the context of our Partnership, she represented our team in organizing the FR and Graphics Workshops, the “Rosalind Chronicles” and the seminar “It’s all about iGEM: A SynBio Day”. She contributed to many of our Education and Communication activities and more specifically, in ESFIE presentation, SFHMMY presentation, the interview for ERT3, 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, the seminars for private educational institutes and she co-organized the iGEM Meetup: Greek Edition. She was, also, responsible for our social media, both as regards to the promotion of our team and outreach events and the communication with other iGEM teams and students. As a member of our Wet Lab, she contributed to the design and implementation of many experiments concerning cloning and PCR, as well as writing and organizing of our Wet Lab protocols and lab books in Benchling.
Kosmidou Maria, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab team. She was responsible for our fundraising and financial planning. As a member of our Wet Lab, she contributed to the experiments for testing our toehold switches. She participated in our Human Practices by organizing meetings with specialists in Molecular Diagnostics and Cancer, including the meeting with Labnet, Pfizer, Biogenea. She contributed to our Education and Communication activities, including the FR webinar and 85th Thessaloniki International Fair and she was responsible for organizing our “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar. She also helped in reaching the Greek Ministry of Education to approve our educational material. In addition, she contributed to our Public Relations, by taking part in many interviews for ERT3, TV100, DION TV, Radio Thessaloniki, 102 FM, 100 FM and the electronical newspaper karfitsa. Finally, she participated in the Next Stage Challenge competition and our entrepreneurship.
Trygoniaris Dimitrios, Undergraduate student at School of Physics and member of our Dry Lab. As a member of our Dry Lab team, he contributed to the design and analysis of our toehold switches, as well as the design of our mass kinetics model. He was responsible for the Engineering Success criteria and he also participated in our Education and Communication activities. More specifically, he participated in the interview with Molecular Cloud, our meeting with Biogenea, the organization of “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar and in the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair. Finally, as a member of our Human Practices team, he organized many of the meetings with specialists.
Tsigilis Alexandros, Undergraduate student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of our Dry Lab team. As a member of our Dry Lab team, he contributed to our analysis with the Nupack Software tool and in the design of our device. He also participated in the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair.
Tsouderou Konstantina, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy and member of our Wet Lab team. She was responsible for our entrepreneurship and business model analysis and she, also, participated in the Next Stage Challenge Competition. As a member of our Wet Lab, she was responsible for ordering the necessary reagents and consumables and for training members of our team to design and perform our experiments. She also contributed to the design of our g-blocks, by adding the necessary sequences for them to be cloned. Finally, she participated in the interview for TV100 and ERT3.
Chatzichristofis Emmanouil, Undergraduate student at School of Chemistry, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab team. He participated in literature research, both for choosing our biomarkers and the amplification method. He, also, contributed to our project safety analysis, both for our Wiki page. In addition, he was a member of our Content Team and he was responsible for revising our Wiki content.
Anastasiou Anna, BSc in Molecular Biology and Genetics, DUTH and member of our Wet Lab. She contributed mainly to the literature research for choosing the appropriate biomarkers and the appropriate amplification technique. As a member of our Wet Lab, she developed our EXPAR protocol and ran the experiments to test it. She participated in our Public Engagement activities, as well, such as the interview for Molecular Cloud, ERT3, 85th Thessaloniki International Fair and the seminars for private educational institutes. She contributed to our Human Practices, organizing meetings with specialists on our subject and most importantly, she was responsible for the communication with the National Organization of Medicines. In addition, she was a member of our Content Team and she was responsible for revising the content of our Wiki. Finally, she oversaw the application for the impact grant, which we eventually won.
Varvari Anna, Undergraduate student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of our Dry Lab team. She was responsible for our Wiki coding, graphics and illustration. She participated in the design and analysis of our toehold switches and the design of the corresponding software tool. She, also, took our project idea one step further by adding the idea of designing the appropriate hardware to facilitate our diagnostic method and she was responsible for the design of this device. She was also engaged in our Education and Communication activities and she contributed to the “How to read COVID-19?” workshop for SFHMMY and she was in charge of preparing the educational materials for the asynchronous seminars. More specifically, she created the content and edited our educational video. Finally, she participated in our partnership by designing an interactive informative game for students using the Scratch platform.
Vergini Danai Eleni, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy and member of our Wet Lab team. As a member of our Wet Lab, she contributed to the literature research for the appropriate biomarkers and the amplification methods, as well as the design and implementation of our experiments regarding cloning and PCR. She, also, contributed to the documentation and organization of our experiments protocols and lab books in Benchling. As a member of our Content Team, she was responsible for the Proposed Implementation, Project Description and Title and Abstract criteria and for revising our Wiki content. In addition, she contributed to our project safety analysis, specifically for our Safety Form. She, also, participated in our Education and Communication activities, by preparing the presentation of our team for HelMSIC and SFHMMY and participating in the interview for ERT3. Finally, she was responsible for our participation in the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair.
Theodosiadou Anastasia, Undergraduate student at School of Biology, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab team. She was responsible for our partnership activities and communication with our fellow team iGEM Patras, as well as for our collaborations. In the context of our Partnership, she represented our team in organizing the FR and Graphics Workshops, the “Rosalind Chronicles” and the seminar “It’s all about iGEM: A SynBio Day”. She contributed to many of our Education and Communication activities and more specifically, in ESFIE presentation, SFHMMY presentation, the interview for ERT3, 85th Thessaloniki International Fair, the seminars for private educational institutes and she co-organized the iGEM Meetup: Greek Edition. She was, also, responsible for our social media, both as regards to the promotion of our team and outreach events and the communication with other iGEM teams and students. As a member of our Wet Lab, she contributed to the design and implementation of many experiments concerning cloning and PCR, as well as writing and organizing of our Wet Lab protocols and lab books in Benchling.
Kosmidou Maria, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab team. She was responsible for our fundraising and financial planning. As a member of our Wet Lab, she contributed to the experiments for testing our toehold switches. She participated in our Human Practices by organizing meetings with specialists in Molecular Diagnostics and Cancer, including the meeting with Labnet, Pfizer, Biogenea. She contributed to our Education and Communication activities, including the FR webinar and 85th Thessaloniki International Fair and she was responsible for organizing our “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar. She also helped in reaching the Greek Ministry of Education to approve our educational material. In addition, she contributed to our Public Relations, by taking part in many interviews for ERT3, TV100, DION TV, Radio Thessaloniki, 102 FM, 100 FM and the electronical newspaper karfitsa. Finally, she participated in the Next Stage Challenge competition and our entrepreneurship.
Trygoniaris Dimitrios, Undergraduate student at School of Physics and member of our Dry Lab. As a member of our Dry Lab team, he contributed to the design and analysis of our toehold switches, as well as the design of our mass kinetics model. He was responsible for the Engineering Success criteria and he also participated in our Education and Communication activities. More specifically, he participated in the interview with Molecular Cloud, our meeting with Biogenea, the organization of “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar and in the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair. Finally, as a member of our Human Practices team, he organized many of the meetings with specialists.
Tsigilis Alexandros, Undergraduate student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and member of our Dry Lab team. As a member of our Dry Lab team, he contributed to our analysis with the Nupack Software tool and in the design of our device. He also participated in the 85th Thessaloniki International Fair.
Tsouderou Konstantina, Undergraduate student at School of Pharmacy and member of our Wet Lab team. She was responsible for our entrepreneurship and business model analysis and she, also, participated in the Next Stage Challenge Competition. As a member of our Wet Lab, she was responsible for ordering the necessary reagents and consumables and for training members of our team to design and perform our experiments. She also contributed to the design of our g-blocks, by adding the necessary sequences for them to be cloned. Finally, she participated in the interview for TV100 and ERT3.
Chatzichristofis Emmanouil, Undergraduate student at School of Chemistry, AUTH and member of our Wet Lab team. He participated in literature research, both for choosing our biomarkers and the amplification method. He, also, contributed to our project safety analysis, both for our Wiki page. In addition, he was a member of our Content Team and he was responsible for revising our Wiki content.
Our advisors
Valatsos Panagiotis, Undergraduate Student at School of Informatics, AUTH. He contributed to the analysis of our toehold switches using the ViennaRNA software tool, our mass kinetics model and also the development of our machine learning prediction models. He, also, helped with our Education and Communication activities by participating in our “How to read COVID-19” workshop for SFHMMY.
Arampatzis Asterios, , MSc student in Biotechnology in ETH Zurich. He helped us with the design of cloning procedures and subsequently with correctly designing our toehold switches and adding the essential parts for the cloning and function of our toehold switches. He guided us throughout the cloning and helped us troubleshoot our experiments, giving ideas and advice on how to improve them.
Lalagkas Panagiotis-Nikolaos, MSc in Primary Health Care, Department of Medicine, DUTH. He helped our Dry Lab team with the bioinformatics analysis.
Sionakidis Aristeidis, PhD student (MRC DTP in Precision Medicine), at the Institute of Genetics & Cancer of the University of Edinburgh. He helped our Dry Lab team with the bioinformatics analysis.
Arampatzis Asterios, , MSc student in Biotechnology in ETH Zurich. He helped us with the design of cloning procedures and subsequently with correctly designing our toehold switches and adding the essential parts for the cloning and function of our toehold switches. He guided us throughout the cloning and helped us troubleshoot our experiments, giving ideas and advice on how to improve them.
Lalagkas Panagiotis-Nikolaos, MSc in Primary Health Care, Department of Medicine, DUTH. He helped our Dry Lab team with the bioinformatics analysis.
Sionakidis Aristeidis, PhD student (MRC DTP in Precision Medicine), at the Institute of Genetics & Cancer of the University of Edinburgh. He helped our Dry Lab team with the bioinformatics analysis.
Principal Investigator
Dr. Vizirianakis Ioannis, Associate Professor of Molecular Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics, Laboratory of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy and our Primary Principal Investigator. He allowed us to work in his lab and offered us the necessary equipment and reagents. He also contributed to our lab work by suggesting us literature and troubleshooting. In addition, he gave us access to Aristotle Docs, the AUTh High Performance Computing infrastructure and helped our dry lab team with the bioinformatics analysis. He helped us with our Human Practices by getting in touch with many specialists and stakeholders related to our project, including Diagnostic Centers, Pharmaceutical Companies and the Greek Ministry of Education to approve our educational material. Finally, he helped us with our fundraising, through the communication with many possible sponsors.
Project Support
Especially, we would like to thank:
Dr. Aivaliotis Michalis, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, AUTH and our former Principal Investigator. He guided and supported our team throughout the first year of our journey. He contributed to our brainstorming by suggesting literature and sharing his experience and ideas with us, he guided us to researchers and professionals specialized on our project ideas and gave us access to a zoom platform to facilitate our communication and educational activities during the pandemic.
Dr. Batzias Georgios, Professor, School of Veterinary Sciences, AUTH and Mystridis Georgios, Pharmacist and PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy AUTH, for their advice on our kinetics model.
Dr. Silvana Debernardi, Professor of Molecular Pathology and Biomarkers, Barts Cancer Institute and Dr. Silvana Debernardi, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Barts Cancer Institute, for answering all our questions about their research, which was very helpful for choosing the appropriate miRNAs as biomarkers.
Dr. Papadopoulou Lefkothea, Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for allowing us to work in her lab, supplying us with our first reagents, training us on the basic safety rules of our lab and finally, for her presentation in our “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar.
Michailidis Dimitrios, Business Analyst and iGEM Judge, for sharing his opinion about our ideas with us and answering our questions.
Tsiotos Leandros, BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UTH and iGEM Ambassador, for his help as a member of iGEM Thessaly 2019 and for keeping us informed about news of iGEM and upcoming events and for answering all our questions, as an iGEM Ambassador for 2021, as well as for sharing his ideas and experiences with us, inspiring us to work further on our Safety.
Tsoniotis Nikolaos, Partner Ideas Forward, for his help in the development of our Business Model and for coaching our team during the Next Stage Challenge competition.
Dr. Aivaliotis Michalis, Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, AUTH and our former Principal Investigator. He guided and supported our team throughout the first year of our journey. He contributed to our brainstorming by suggesting literature and sharing his experience and ideas with us, he guided us to researchers and professionals specialized on our project ideas and gave us access to a zoom platform to facilitate our communication and educational activities during the pandemic.
Dr. Batzias Georgios, Professor, School of Veterinary Sciences, AUTH and Mystridis Georgios, Pharmacist and PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy AUTH, for their advice on our kinetics model.
Dr. Silvana Debernardi, Professor of Molecular Pathology and Biomarkers, Barts Cancer Institute and Dr. Silvana Debernardi, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Barts Cancer Institute, for answering all our questions about their research, which was very helpful for choosing the appropriate miRNAs as biomarkers.
Dr. Papadopoulou Lefkothea, Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for allowing us to work in her lab, supplying us with our first reagents, training us on the basic safety rules of our lab and finally, for her presentation in our “National Cancer Survivors Day” webinar.
Michailidis Dimitrios, Business Analyst and iGEM Judge, for sharing his opinion about our ideas with us and answering our questions.
Tsiotos Leandros, BSc in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UTH and iGEM Ambassador, for his help as a member of iGEM Thessaly 2019 and for keeping us informed about news of iGEM and upcoming events and for answering all our questions, as an iGEM Ambassador for 2021, as well as for sharing his ideas and experiences with us, inspiring us to work further on our Safety.
Tsoniotis Nikolaos, Partner Ideas Forward, for his help in the development of our Business Model and for coaching our team during the Next Stage Challenge competition.
Lab Support
Especially, we would like to thank:
Dr. Paspaltsis Ioannis, Specialized Teaching Staff in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for his help with many experimental procedures throughout the competition and especially, for training us on how to use the Real Time PCR device of the laboratory.
Dr. Tsolaki Magda , LND Lab, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Balkan Center, for conceding to use her lab in KEDEK for our presentation video.
Dr. Panagiotidis Christos, Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for allowing us to use equipment of his lab, supplying us with our first reagents and also, for his advice.
Dr. Rekka Eleni, Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for giving us permission and training us on how to use the fluorometer in her lab.
Dr. Salifoglou Athanasios, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry with Emphasis on Science of Advanced Materials, Chemical Engineering Department , AUTH and Dr. Tsave Olga, PhD candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, AUTH, for giving us permission and training us on how to use the fluorometer of their lab.
Dr. Sklaviadis Theodoros, Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, and his team, Prion Diseases Research Group, for allowing us to use equipment in their lab.
Dr. Georgiou Sofia, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for supervising us and answering all our questions regarding many experimental procedures and troubleshooting.
Dr. Patelou Efstathia, Research Assistant, for giving us reagents and consumables and also, for training us on how to use the PCR device of their lab.
Angelis Georgios, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy, AUTH , Akrivou Melpomeni, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy, AUTH , and Theodoroula Nikoleta, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for providing us with day-to-day guidance for many protocols and troubleshooting of our experiments.
Konstantinidou Maria, MSc student in Industrial Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, AUTH and Tsikli Vasiliki, MSc in toxicology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UTH, for their help and advice in many protocols and especially preparation of competent cells, PCR and PCR cloning.
Dr. Paspaltsis Ioannis, Specialized Teaching Staff in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for his help with many experimental procedures throughout the competition and especially, for training us on how to use the Real Time PCR device of the laboratory.
Dr. Tsolaki Magda , LND Lab, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Balkan Center, for conceding to use her lab in KEDEK for our presentation video.
Dr. Panagiotidis Christos, Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for allowing us to use equipment of his lab, supplying us with our first reagents and also, for his advice.
Dr. Rekka Eleni, Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for giving us permission and training us on how to use the fluorometer in her lab.
Dr. Salifoglou Athanasios, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry with Emphasis on Science of Advanced Materials, Chemical Engineering Department , AUTH and Dr. Tsave Olga, PhD candidate, Department of Chemical Engineering, AUTH, for giving us permission and training us on how to use the fluorometer of their lab.
Dr. Sklaviadis Theodoros, Professor in the Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, and his team, Prion Diseases Research Group, for allowing us to use equipment in their lab.
Dr. Georgiou Sofia, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for supervising us and answering all our questions regarding many experimental procedures and troubleshooting.
Dr. Patelou Efstathia, Research Assistant, for giving us reagents and consumables and also, for training us on how to use the PCR device of their lab.
Angelis Georgios, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy, AUTH , Akrivou Melpomeni, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy, AUTH , and Theodoroula Nikoleta, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for providing us with day-to-day guidance for many protocols and troubleshooting of our experiments.
Konstantinidou Maria, MSc student in Industrial Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, AUTH and Tsikli Vasiliki, MSc in toxicology, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, UTH, for their help and advice in many protocols and especially preparation of competent cells, PCR and PCR cloning.
Dry Lab Support
Especially, we would like to thank:
Dr. Malousi Antigoni, Specialized Teaching Staff, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, AUTH and Dr. Xanthopoulos Konstantinos, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for their advice and guidance regarding the bioinformatic analysis and research for suitable miRNA biomarkers.
Ousoutzoglou Orestis, Undergraduate student at School of Informatics, AUTH, for training our dry lab team on how to use the GitHub platform.
Dr. Malousi Antigoni, Specialized Teaching Staff, Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, AUTH and Dr. Xanthopoulos Konstantinos, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacognosy-Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy, AUTH, for their advice and guidance regarding the bioinformatic analysis and research for suitable miRNA biomarkers.
Ousoutzoglou Orestis, Undergraduate student at School of Informatics, AUTH, for training our dry lab team on how to use the GitHub platform.
Help and Advice during Brainstorming
Especially, we would like to thank:
Dr. Georgiou Elisavet, Assistant Professor of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Biological Chemistry School of Medicine, AUTH, for sharing ideas and discussing with us about blood biomarkers during our first brainstorming.
Dr. Papatsi Aikaterini, Associate Professor, 2nd Department of Dermatology, AUTH, for discussing with us about the anatomy and pathology of skin during our first brainstorming.
Dr. Skouroliakou, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, for discussing with us our idea of tackling malnutrition using the gut microbiome.
Dr. Veizis Apostolos, Director of the Medical Operational Support Unit for Doctors Without Borders, for discussing with us about a project idea we had to tackle malnutrition using the gut microbiome.
Karagiannidis Stratos, PhD candidate, School of Medicine, AUTH, for discussing with us and sharing his ideas about cardiovascular diseases and heart attack during our first brainstorming.
Laspia Nikoleta, BSc in School of Chemistry, AUTH and former member of our team, for her contribution in our brainstorming and planning of our activities throughout the first year of our journey.
Dr. Georgiou Elisavet, Assistant Professor of Medical Biochemistry, Department of Biological Chemistry School of Medicine, AUTH, for sharing ideas and discussing with us about blood biomarkers during our first brainstorming.
Dr. Papatsi Aikaterini, Associate Professor, 2nd Department of Dermatology, AUTH, for discussing with us about the anatomy and pathology of skin during our first brainstorming.
Dr. Skouroliakou, Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University of Athens, for discussing with us our idea of tackling malnutrition using the gut microbiome.
Dr. Veizis Apostolos, Director of the Medical Operational Support Unit for Doctors Without Borders, for discussing with us about a project idea we had to tackle malnutrition using the gut microbiome.
Karagiannidis Stratos, PhD candidate, School of Medicine, AUTH, for discussing with us and sharing his ideas about cardiovascular diseases and heart attack during our first brainstorming.
Laspia Nikoleta, BSc in School of Chemistry, AUTH and former member of our team, for her contribution in our brainstorming and planning of our activities throughout the first year of our journey.
Human Practices Support
Especially, we would like to thank:
Dr. Emmanouilides Christos Em., Medical Oncologist in Interbalkan European Medical Center, for discussing with us about the future implementation of our project and the psychological impact the misdiagnosis of cancer has.
Dr. Gravanis Iordanis, Head of Office of the Scientific Advice, Scientific Evidence Generation Department, European Medicines Agency, for discussing with us about the development and distribution of a diagnostic tool.
Dr. Virginia Safra, Deputy Head of the Medical Devices Assessment Department, National Organization for Medicines, for discussing with us the procedures and challenges of the development and distribution of a diagnostic tool.
Dr. Daramilas Christos, President of the Panhellenic Federation of Associations of People with Diabetes, for discussing with us the challenges of the implementation of our diagnostic methods for people with diabetes.
Dr. Chatzopoulou Fani, Biologist at Labnet, for discussing with us about the implementation of new molecular diagnostic methods in laboratories and the desired characteristics of these tools.
Dr. Tsamourlidis Georgios, Surgical Resident at the General Hospital “O Agios Demetrios”, for giving us new perspectives on how to increase the specificity and sensitivity of our project.
Dr. Livieratos Antonis, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Bensansson Simon, Council Member at Municipality of Thessaloniki, for their speeches in the session "Entrepreneurship Alert" of iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Dr. Skretas George, Research Associate Professor, Institute of Chemical Biology and Bisia Alexandra, PhD candidate in Chromosome and Developmental Biology, University of Oxford, for their speeches in the session "The road to Synthetic Biology" of iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Chatzoudis Pavlos, Undergraduate student in Animation & Interactive Media, Akto - Middlesex University in Thessaloniki and Nazlidis Alexandros, MSc in Biomedical Visualization, University of Illinois, Chicago, for their graphics workshop in the iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Galanis Anastasios, Kalavros Nikolaos, Megagiannis Platonas and Ragios Konstantinos, iGEM Alumni, for their participation in the "A nBlast from the Past" session for the iGEM Meet up: The Greek Edition.
Michailidis Dimitrios, iGEM Alumni and Judge and Tsiotos Leandros, iGEM Alumni and Ambassador for their participation in the “A nBlast from the Past” session for the iGEM Meet up: The Greek Edition.
Kartsidis Panagiotis, Research Assistant and Bioethics Officer at the lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, AUTH, for the Medical Statistics Workshop in iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Dr. Tsamardinos Ioannis, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UOC and Poirazi Panagiota, Research Director and Head of the Dendrites Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, for their speeches for the “The Brain: Bio & Machine” session, in iGEM Meet up: The Greek Edition.
Dr. Emmanouilides Christos Em., Medical Oncologist in Interbalkan European Medical Center, for discussing with us about the future implementation of our project and the psychological impact the misdiagnosis of cancer has.
Dr. Gravanis Iordanis, Head of Office of the Scientific Advice, Scientific Evidence Generation Department, European Medicines Agency, for discussing with us about the development and distribution of a diagnostic tool.
Dr. Virginia Safra, Deputy Head of the Medical Devices Assessment Department, National Organization for Medicines, for discussing with us the procedures and challenges of the development and distribution of a diagnostic tool.
Dr. Daramilas Christos, President of the Panhellenic Federation of Associations of People with Diabetes, for discussing with us the challenges of the implementation of our diagnostic methods for people with diabetes.
Dr. Chatzopoulou Fani, Biologist at Labnet, for discussing with us about the implementation of new molecular diagnostic methods in laboratories and the desired characteristics of these tools.
Dr. Tsamourlidis Georgios, Surgical Resident at the General Hospital “O Agios Demetrios”, for giving us new perspectives on how to increase the specificity and sensitivity of our project.
Dr. Livieratos Antonis, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Bensansson Simon, Council Member at Municipality of Thessaloniki, for their speeches in the session "Entrepreneurship Alert" of iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Dr. Skretas George, Research Associate Professor, Institute of Chemical Biology and Bisia Alexandra, PhD candidate in Chromosome and Developmental Biology, University of Oxford, for their speeches in the session "The road to Synthetic Biology" of iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Chatzoudis Pavlos, Undergraduate student in Animation & Interactive Media, Akto - Middlesex University in Thessaloniki and Nazlidis Alexandros, MSc in Biomedical Visualization, University of Illinois, Chicago, for their graphics workshop in the iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Galanis Anastasios, Kalavros Nikolaos, Megagiannis Platonas and Ragios Konstantinos, iGEM Alumni, for their participation in the "A nBlast from the Past" session for the iGEM Meet up: The Greek Edition.
Michailidis Dimitrios, iGEM Alumni and Judge and Tsiotos Leandros, iGEM Alumni and Ambassador for their participation in the “A nBlast from the Past” session for the iGEM Meet up: The Greek Edition.
Kartsidis Panagiotis, Research Assistant and Bioethics Officer at the lab of Medical Physics, Medical School, AUTH, for the Medical Statistics Workshop in iGEM Meet up: Greek Edition.
Dr. Tsamardinos Ioannis, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UOC and Poirazi Panagiota, Research Director and Head of the Dendrites Lab at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, for their speeches for the “The Brain: Bio & Machine” session, in iGEM Meet up: The Greek Edition.
Education and Communication Support
Especially, we would like to thank:
Dr. Patrinos Georgios, Professor of Pharmacogenomics and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, University of Patras, for his speech on Molecular Diagnostics for our “National Cancer Survivors Day” and for discussing with us about our project as the Principal Investigator of our partners, iGEM Patras.
Melidou Pinelopi, Health Psychologist, for her speech on how to support cancer survivors for our “National Cancer Survivors Day”.
Dr. Patrinos Georgios, Professor of Pharmacogenomics and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Department of Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine, University of Patras, for his speech on Molecular Diagnostics for our “National Cancer Survivors Day” and for discussing with us about our project as the Principal Investigator of our partners, iGEM Patras.
Melidou Pinelopi, Health Psychologist, for her speech on how to support cancer survivors for our “National Cancer Survivors Day”.
Public Relationship
Especially, we would like to thank:
Louizou Eleni, Director of the Press Office of AUTH, for organizing many of our interviews and for promoting many of our Education and Communication activities.
Louizou Eleni, Director of the Press Office of AUTH, for organizing many of our interviews and for promoting many of our Education and Communication activities.
Previous iGEM Teams
Especially, we would like to thank:
iGEM Thessaloniki 2019 and especially, Athanasiou Aliki, Chanagian Kristine, Ioannidis Apostolos-Stephanos, Karava Kyriaki, Malathounis Charalampos, Megagiannis Platon and Moysiadou Sofia, for their support and guidance, especially during our first steps as a team, as well as their advice and ideas on our project design.
iGEM Thessaly 2019 and especially, Delkis Nikolaos, Katsaouni Afroditi and Tsiotos Leandros, for sharing their experience with us, supporting us, as well as sending us the Parts they created for their project.
iGEM Thessaloniki 2019 and especially, Athanasiou Aliki, Chanagian Kristine, Ioannidis Apostolos-Stephanos, Karava Kyriaki, Malathounis Charalampos, Megagiannis Platon and Moysiadou Sofia, for their support and guidance, especially during our first steps as a team, as well as their advice and ideas on our project design.
iGEM Thessaly 2019 and especially, Delkis Nikolaos, Katsaouni Afroditi and Tsiotos Leandros, for sharing their experience with us, supporting us, as well as sending us the Parts they created for their project.
Graphics
Especially, we would like to thank:
Tourna Tatiana and Gallou Foteini from TShop Marketing Group for the production and editing of our Promotional Video and Presentation Video.
Stamatis Nikolaos, Undergraduate student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for designing our new logo.
Tourna Tatiana and Gallou Foteini from TShop Marketing Group for the production and editing of our Promotional Video and Presentation Video.
Stamatis Nikolaos, Undergraduate student at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, for designing our new logo.
Our Sponsors
We would like to thank our Financial Supporters:
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, RGCC, Pfizer, Uni-Pharma, Antisel, New England Biolabs, Integrated DNA Technology, Bioline, Biogenea, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation of Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. and Pharmaceutical Union of Thessaloniki.
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, RGCC, Pfizer, Uni-Pharma, Antisel, New England Biolabs, Integrated DNA Technology, Bioline, Biogenea, Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation of Research Corporation Technologies, Inc. and Pharmaceutical Union of Thessaloniki.