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