Event Schedule
October 8th, 2021
All times shown in Athens time zone (GMT+3)
10:00-10:10
Welcoming Address by Prof. George Kollias and students
Session I - "Omics"
10:10 – 10:35
Dr Athanasios Anagnostopoulos - Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens,
"Proteomic approaches in Biomedical Sciences"
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10:35 – 11:00
Dr Pierre Milpied - Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille - Luminy,
"Functional plasticity and recurrent cell states of malignant B cells in follicular lymphoma"
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11:00 – 11:25
Prof. Stylianos E. Antonarakis - University of Geneva Medical School,
"Human Genomes: Variability and Genomic Medicine"
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11:25 - 11:45
Break
Session II - "Bio-informatics" and Poster session
11:45 – 12:10
Assoc. Prof. Roderic Guigo - Centre for Genomic Regulation,
"The epigenetic logic of gene activation"
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12:10 – 13:20
Poster presentation session
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13:20 – 13:50
Lunch Break
Session III - "Bio-engineering"
13:50 – 14:15
Assoc. Prof. Leonidas Alexopoulos – Dept. of Mech. Engineering, National Technical University of Athens,
"Multi-omics data acquisition & pathway analysis in drug discovery: Applications for better efficacy and toxicity"
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14:15 – 14:40
Prof. Ioanna Zergioti –Dept. of Physics, National Technical University of Athens,
"Laser bioprinting technology and applications"
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14:40 – 15:05
Dr Despina Moschou - Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Bath,
"Lab-on-PCB technology and the COVID-19 outbreak case study"
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15:05 – 15:25
Break
Session IV - "Mechanisms of Diseases"
15:25 – 15:50
Prof. Debra J. Skene – School of Biosciences & Medicine, University of Surrey,
"Circadian rhythm disorders and treatment"
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15:50 – 16:15
Prof. Iannis Aifantis - Dept. of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine,
"3D Chromosomal Landscapes of Human Cancer"
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16:15 – 16:40
Prof. Nektarios Tavernarakis – Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology,
"Genome editing technologies and the CRISPR / Cas9 system"
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16:40 - 17:05
Dr Themis Alissafi - Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens,
"Mitochondrial oxidative damage underlies regulatory T cell defects in Autoimmunity"
17:15-18:00
Prof. G. Kollias, University of Athens, Medical School
Dr T. Anagnostopoulos, Co-founder of SciCo & National Geographic Explorer
Dr Z. Cournia, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens
Assoc. Prof. D. Sanoudou, University of Athens, Medical School
Dr A. Dimas, BSRC Alexander Fleming
Dr K. Konstantinidis, Global Marketing Director, AstraZeneca