Team

Dr. Spyros Gkelis        Associate Professor  Spyros got his Bachelor’s degree in Biology, as well his PhD in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His PhD thesis was on characterization of cyanobacteria and their bioactive peptides. Part of his PhD was at the University of Helsinki, Finland (in Prof. Kaarina Sivonen’s lab).

Since 2009 he has been lecturer assistant professor, and associate professor at the School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In addition to doing research (see research projects) he teaches  undergraduate/Master’s courses in Biodiversity, Phycology, Bioinformatics, Aquacultures. He is the deputy director of the MSc Program Ecological water quality and management at a river basin level and and serves in the board of the MSc Program Applied Bioinformatics. He is the Head of the Department of Botany (2022-2025).

Manthos Panou

BSc Biology, MSc Biotechnology and Microbiology Manthos is a biologist with Master Degree on Biotechnology-Molecular and microbiological analysis of products and food” master program in AUTH. His MSc thesis was on the characterization of cyanobacteria strains such as Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. He did his bachelor degree in Biology, in AUTH, Greece, whilst his bachelor thesis was on phytoplankton in Lake Karla, Greece. In 2018 he started his PhD thesis, supervised by Spyros Gkelis, in the field of isolation and characterization of cyanobacteria from lesser-known envirnoments. Particularly, his research  is dealing with the characterisation of cyanobacteria strains and the bioprospecting of bioactive compounds contributing to the emergence of the diversity of cyanobacteria, from Greece, at taxonomic, genomic and metabolic levels.

Member of  CyanoLab since 2013

Sofia Vergetzi

BSc Biology

Sofia is an Biologist working on Cyanolab. Her undergraduate thesis was on the application of CRISPR-Cas9 protocol on on Chlorella strains, to achieve enhancement of their beta-carotene production.

Member of Cyanolab since 2022

Sofoklis Keisaris

BSc Biology, MSc Student

Sofoclis is a biologist. On his bachelor thesis he investigated marine invertebrates. Currently, he is participating in the MSc of AUTh “Intergraded Management of River Basins and Coastal Areas” and he is thesis (co-supervised with Dr. Psomopoulos) is on Artificial intelligence and
Convolutional Neural Networks for taxa recognition and classification on cyanobacteria microscopy images.

Member since 2023

Dimitris Trainos

BSc Biology Student

Dimitris is an undergraduate student, currently working on the characterization of photosynthetic microbes from thermal springs.

Member of CyanoLab since 2022

Nicolas Karakitsios-Giantsios

BSc Biology Student

Nicolas is a graduate of the Faculty of History and Archeology specializing in Archeology and History of Art (2019). Currently he is an undergraduate student in the School of Biology an he is working on the metagenomic investigation of photosynthetic microorganisms in archaeological sites.

Member of Cyanolab since 2022

Georgios Asprogiannis

BSc Biology Student

Georgios Asprogiannis is an undergraduate student in the School of Biology, currently working on a study concerning Greek elements in the nomenclature of Cyanobacteria.

Member of Cyanolab since 2023

Evi Foutsitzi

BSc Biology student

Evi is an undergraduate student in the School of Biology, currently working on the characterization of photosynthetic microorganisms from lichens, archaeological sites and lakes.

Member of Cyanolab since 2023

Stavroula Kampantai

Stavroula is an undergraduate student in the School of Biology, currently working on the characterization of photosynthetic microorganisms from lichens, archaeological sites and lakes.

Member of Cyanolab since 2023