“What if we could disrupt the mosquitoes’ capacity to host viruses by manipulating their retrotransposons? What if we could genetically engineer retrotransposons to render mosquitoes incapable of transmitting diseases?”
Education:
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2023 – present
Dr. Carla Saleh’s Viruses and RNA Interference Unit
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Fulbright Fellow, 2021 – 2022
Dr. George Dimopoulos’ Vector Biology group
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
PhD, 2018 – 2023
Dr. Kostas Mathiopoulos’ Molecular Biology & Genomics lab
University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece
Research Assistant, 2017-2018
Dr. Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets’ Nanomalaria joint unit
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia & Barcelona Institute for Global Health,
Barcelona, Spain
MSc, 2016
Applications of Molecular Biology – Genetics – Diagnostic Biomarkers
University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece