CGLab
I am interested in understanding how biological complexity emerges and which genetic changes underlie it. Genome fusion, lateral gene transfers, gene duplications and functional diversification, all continuously generate new material for selection and innovation, and have contributed to major shifts in evolution such as the emergence of complex eukaryotic cells, multicellularity, neural system and behavior. To gain insights, in the lab we use sequence diversity approaches, genome comparisons, we thoroughly study how key genes evolve via phylogenetic analyses, and integrate functional information coming from experimental and computational sources. I try and enjoy to approach questions by combining perspectives and methods, and by looking for connections across different levels of biological organization.
- Biology degree University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- MSc Bioinformatics Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
- PhD in Comparative Genomics (Gabaldon lab) Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain
- Postdoctoral Researcher (Kim lab) American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, US
- EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow (Keeling lab) University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada
- Fellow of the College for Life Sciences Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies (WIKO), Berlin, Germany
- Postdoctoral Researcher (Arendt lab) European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany
- Principal Investigator HFRI (hosted by Diallinas lab) University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
- Group Leader (CGLab) Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB-FORTH), Heraklion, Crete
Research Interests
- Nervous System Evolution
- Eukaryotic cellular transitions
- Gene family evolution
- Single-cell transcriptomics
- Data analysis in biological data