DEPARTMENT OF GENETICS, DEVELOPMENT AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Description
Located on the 7th and 8th floor of the building. It has 16 faculty members.
The Department has three Laboratories:
Laboratory of General Biology (Head: Prof Zacharias Scouras)
Laboratory of Development (Head: Prof Margarita Chatzopoulou-Cladaras)
Laboratory of Microbiology (Head: Prof Minas Arsenakis)
Facultystaff
PROFESSORS
- Abatzopoulos Theodore
> Characterization and Genetics of animal populations
- Arsenakis Minas
> Microbiology (except Medical Microbiology)
- Dimitriadis Vasilis
> Structure and Function of animal cells
- Thomopoulos George
> Cell Biology: Structure and Function of animal cells, Cellular organelles
- Koliais Stefanos
> Structure and Function of microorganisms
- Scouras Zacharias
> Genetics
- Chatzopoulou-Cladaras Margarita
> Developmental Biology - Biochemistry
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
- Yiangou Minas
> Immunobiology - Molecular Biology
- Kouvatsi Anastasia
> Human Genetics
- Mavragani-Tsipidou Pinelopi
> Genetics, Animal Cytogenetics
- Mosialos George
> Molecular Biology - Biochemistry - Biotechnology
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
- Sivropoulou Afroditi
> Microbiology (except Medical Microbiology)
- Triantafyllidis Alexandros
> Animal population genetics
- Foundouli Athina
> Developmental Biology of plants
LECTURERS
- Drosopoulou Eleni
> Molecular Biology - Animal Cytogenetics
- Touraki Maria
> Biochemistry
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
- Neophytou Eleftherios
SPECIAL LABORATORY AND TEACHING STAFF
- Karamanlidou Cherda
Courses
UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL
- G.1.5 Philosophy and modern tendencies in Biology
- G. 1.6 Microbiology
- G.2.7 Biochemistry
- G.2.10 Molecular Biology
- G.3.14 Cell Biology
- G.3.15 Genetics
- G. 4.19 Developmental Biology
- G.4.20 Evolution with elements of population genetics
- G.ΜΒ.5.1 Immunology
- G.ΜΒ.5.2 Special topics on Genetics
- G.ΜΒ.5.3 Human Genetics
- G.ΜΒ.5.4 Genetic Engineering
- G.ΜΒ.5.5 Special topics on Cell Biology
- G.ΜΒ.5.6 Special topics on Molecular Biology
- G.ΜΒ.6.7 Bioinformatics
- G.ΜΒ.6.8 Biotechnological applications of Microorganisms
- G.ΜΒ.6.9 Biotechnology of animals and plants
- G.ΜΒ.6.10 Economy and Legal aspects in Biotechnology
- G.ΜΒ.6.11 Special topics on Microbiology
- G.ΜΒ.6.12 Mechanisms of differentiation
- G.ΜΒ.7.1 Biological Anthropology
- G.ΜΒ.8.1 Ecotoxicology
Diploma thesis
POSTGRADUATE LEVEL
- Master – Applied Genetics and Biotechnology
Research
- Evolutionary biology - genomes analysis
- Population genetics – applications - on aquacultures
- on management of animals populations
- Cytogenetics
- Human diseases - responsible genes
- Molecular mechanisms of oncogenesis
- Mechanisms of genes expression regulation
- Cell biology - the process of secretion
- cellular biomarkers for the evaluation of pollutant’s activity
- Immunobiology
- Human herpes viruses
- Bacterial toxins for insects control
- Mechanisms of action of the essential oils of aromatic plants
- Determination of compounds in biological matrices

