People

Group Leader

Nervous system evolution, eukaryotic cellular transitions, gene family evolution, single-cell transcriptomics

PhD Student

Protein evolution, synapse origins, membrane transport, cell biology

PhD student

Olfactory receptor evolution, protein–ligand interactions, phylogenomics, machine learning

MSc Student

Comparative genomics, bioinformatics, biotechnology

MSc Student

Comparative genomics, molecular evolution

Undergraduate

Comparative genomics, molecular evolution

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Kostis Paterakis (MSc Student)

Melina Doudali (Undergraduate)

Amalia Kapsetaki (MSc Student) → now Bioinformatician in Pavlopoulos Lab at IMBB-FORTH

Elena Oikonomou (Summer 2024) University of Crete, Department of Biology, Heraklion, Greece

Dimitris Vlatas (Summer 2025) National Technical University of Athens, Chemical Engineering Department, Greece

Giorgos Tzormpatzakis (Summer 2025) University of Patras, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Greece

Maria Kabouraki (Rotation · Summer 2026) University of Crete, MSc MBB, Heraklion, Greece

Andreas Tsaousis (Rotation · Summer 2026) University of Crete, MSc MBB, Heraklion, Greece

Léa Pépi (Summer 2026) National Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux, ENSTBB Biotechnology Engineering, France

Stella Tsiourva (Summer 2026) University of Crete, Department of Chemistry, Heraklion, Greece

Konstantinos Fragkiadakis (Summer 2026) University of Thessaly, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics

Asya Naz Yalçın (Summer 2026) Boğaziçi University, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Istanbul, Turkey