Lecture Title and Faculty
AL1 Metabolism, a key player in health and disease
Johannes Hirrlinger, Professor, University of Leipzig, Germany
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AL2 Agile Learning as the key for AI-driven standardized integrative omic analysis
Aristotelis Chatziioannou, Professor, SBC, BRFAA
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AL3 Gene regulation networks in nervous system development and cancer progression
Panos Politis, Associate Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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AL4 Mining comorbidities of Neurodegeneration, Inflammation, and Cancer
Ioanna Tzoulaki, Professor, SBC, BRFAA
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AL5 Interferons in health and disease
Vangelis Andreakos, Professor & Director, CETRC, BRFAA
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ATL1 Mining correct information from fluorescence microscopy images
Stamatis Pagakis, Research Professor, Director, Imaging Facility, BRFAA
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AL6 Exracellular vesicles as new avenue for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
Kostas Vekrellis, Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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AL7 Translating preclinical studies in drug development
Constantin Tamvakopoulos, Professor, BRC, BRFA
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AL8 Drosophila Disease Models in Neurodegeneration, Inflammation, and Cancer
Christos Zervas, Associate Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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ALT2 Zebrafish models of central nervous system (CNS) injury and regeneration
Vania Tsata, Senior Research Fellow, BRFAA
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ATL3 Applications of AI in Life Sciences and Healthcare
Konstantinos Vougas, Research Associate Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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AL9 Sex and the brain toward personalized medicine
Illana Gozes, Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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AL10 Biomolecular condensates and lipid rafts
Dimitra Mangoura, Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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SL1 Human origins: the view from Greece Katerina Havarti, Professor University of Tübingen
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SL2 Mediterranean and global diet Antonia Trichopoulou, Academician, Prof. Emerita NKUA
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AL11 The Genome of Europe Project and BRFAA’s Greek Genome Center
Dimitris Thanos, Academician, Professor & Director BRC, BRFAA
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AL12 Understanding telomere biology in ageing, anti-ageing and disease
Sarantis Gagos, Associate Professor, CETRC, BRFAA
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AL13 Signal transducers and activators of transcription in leukemic transformation
Elena Katsantoni, Assistant Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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AL14 Epigenetic deregulation and tolerance to DNA damage
Theodoros Rampias, Assistant Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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AL15 Human tissue organoids in disease modeling and drug discovery
Yasemi Koutmani, Research Staff Scientist BRFAA/ Ioannis Serafimidis,
Assistant Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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ATL4 Exploring cellular phenotypes in complex systems with high-dimensional cytometry
Nikos Paschalidis, Research Associate Professor, SBC, BRFAA
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AL16 Brain’s immune cells in health and disease: astrocytes and microglia
Spyridon Georgopoulos, Associate Professor, BRC, BRFAA
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AL17 Innate immune mechanisms of inflammation regulation during anti-viral responses Ioanna Galani, Associate Professor, CETRC, BRFAA
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AL18 Activated astrocytes regeneration-promoting properties degeneration and inflammation Mimika Thomaidou, Professor, Pasteur Institute Athens
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AL19 PIPs signalling in neurodevelopment
George Leondaritis, Assistant Professor, University of Ioannina
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ATL5 Genomics applications in oncology
Giannis Vatselas, Research Associate Professor, SBC, BRFAA
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AL: Advanced Lecture BRC: Basic Research Center
ATL: Advanced Technical Lecture CETRC: Clinical, Experimental Surgery &
SL: Special Lecture Translational Research Center
SBC: Systems Biology Center
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NKUA: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
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