Editor Name: Papadakis Andreas

Country: Greece

Educational Qualification: 

Designation:  Professor:

Department: Department of Chemistry

Email:  andreas.papadakis6@gmail.com 

Research Interest: Chemistry - Pharmacy – Medicine

Biography: 

Working Experience 

Biology teacher at Private Grammar School Limassol (12/2017- present).

Education 

• Erasmus + Placement in Laboratory of Biophysics and Biophysical (04/2017 - 07/207)

• Chemistry (Professor: Tuomas Knowles) Department of Chemistry, University of 

• Cambridge, UK 

• Master’s Student in Medicinal Chemistry - Drug discovery and Research (Departments of Chemistry - Pharmacy – Medicine, University of Patras, Greece) (10/2015 – 09/2017). Thesis Title: Genetic association study of JAK2 and SOCS1’s variants in Myasthenia gravis patients. Master’s Grade: 9.1 /10 - Excellent 

• Erasmus+ Placement, Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, Behavioral neuroendocrinology, Uppsala University, Sweden (03/2015 - 06/2015)

• Undergraduate student, Department of Biology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Patras, Greece (10/2010– 08/2015:) 

• Bachelor’s grade: 6.52 /10 – Very Good (BSc in Biology) 

• Thesis title Mutant KRAS promotes malignant pleural effusion formation (Published - Nature Communications)

Research Skills

• Mouse handling (intraperitoneal and retroorbital injections, anesthesia, lung isolation)

• Zebrafish handling

• Cell culture

• Transfection with plasmid DNA

• Construction of mutant Κras eukaryotic vectors

• MTT assay (cell proliferation)

• Western blot

• ELISA

• SDS- PAGE Electrophoresis

• Immunofluorescence microscopy

• In vivo tumor xenograft and malignant pleural effusion models

• Real time in vivo bioluminescence imaging

• cDNA synthesis

• DNA isolation

• RNA extraction

• PCR

• Real Time PCR (qPCR)

• Microfluidic chip design (CAD software)

 Soft lithography

• Bright field and fluorescence microscopy

• Plate reader experiments

• Microfluidic techniques

• Kinetic measurements

REFERENCE ESSAYS*

1. Neuroimaging»

2. Genotype analysis of glutathione’s transfer.

3. Tumors of the central nervous system.

4. Diagnosis and Cure of Brain Tumors.

5. Invasive species – Aquatic Ecosystems.

6. Îœolecular Therapy in the MicroRna Era.

7. Properties of erythrocyte membrane.

Note: These essays are written in Greek as part of the assessment of different undergraduate courses I have attended