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05.05.2024 
Jay Panda has been awarded a competitive FENS and IBRO-PERC Scholarship, to attend the course "Neural Circuit Development and Plasticity", in Utrecht, Netherlands! |
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22.12.2023 
The lab was awarded a highly competitive Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) Research Grant to pursue the research project GliaAge (Deciphering the role of glial autophagy in neurophysiology and ageing using in vivo chemo-optogenetics)! |
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08.05.2023 - 11.05.2023 
Crete, Greece |
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28.03.2023 
Dikaia Tsagkari has been awarded a highly competitive Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) Research Grant to pursue her doctoral studies in the lab!
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13.02.2023 
Dimitris Korovesis was awarded a highly competitive, EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship to initiate his research in our Lab! |
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22.07.2022 
Manolis Spanoudakis was awarded the prestigious Onassis Foundation Graduate Studies Fellowship to pursue his Master's thesis work in the lab (Announcement).
Manolis was also awarded the Bodossaki Foundation postgraduate fellowship, on July 15 (Announcement).
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01.07.2022 
Ilias Gkikas was awarded a competitive EMBL Christian Boulin Fellowship to visit the Metabolomics Core Facility, at the EMBL Heidelberg, in Germany! |
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30.05.2022 
Aggeliki Sotiriou was awarded a competitive National Fellowship Foundation (IKY) Doctoral Fellowship to pursue her PhD studies in the lab! |
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23.05.2022 - 27.05.2022 
Crete, Greece |
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23.09.2021 - 24.09.2021 
First Research Meeting of the European Commission Horizon 2020 DynAMic FET project |
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19.03.2021 
The lab was awarded a highly competitive Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) Research Grant to pursue the large scale research infrastructure project NeuroMitophagy (Mitochondrial autophagy in neuron quality control and survival during ageing)! |
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07.10.2020 - 11.10.2020 
Health in Aging and Mental Wellness in the new digital era
Heraklion, Crete, Greece |
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22.05.2020 
Konstantinos Palikaras has been awarded a competitive EMBO Short-Term Fellowship, to pursue postdoctoral studies for three months at the University of Cologne, in Germany! |
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08.05.2020 - 12.05.2020 
Crete, Greece Due to the COVID-19 developments, and the potential health risks posed by travels and attending meetings, the EMBO Workshop on Molecular Neurobiology will be postponed to 21-25 May 2021
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12.03.2020 
Konstantinos Palikaras has been awarded a competitive FEBS Short-Term Fellowship, to pursue postdoctoral studies for three months at the CECAD Research Center, in Cologne, Germany! |
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01.01.2020 
The European Commission Horizon 2020 Programme provides funding to the FORTH-led DynAMic FET project. |
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08.07.2019 - 12.07.2019 
2019 Lectures in Biology and Chemistry:
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07.05.2019 - 10.05.2019 
Polarity, Plasticity & Regeneration
Crete, Greece
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09.01.2019 
Andrea Princz was awarded a competitive EMBO Short-Term Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies at the University of Dundee, in Scotland, UK! |
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18.11.2018 
Samples of Caenorhabditis elegans strains from our lab were launched in space today from the Kennedy Space Center in USA, as part of an international research project
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15.10.2018 - 17.10.2018 
The 67th plenary meeting of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC) and the 1st International Conference of Greek ERC Grantees, hosted at FORTH!
(See also a relevant article in the ERC Magazine)
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08.05.2018 - 12.05.2018 
Crete, Greece
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22.03.2018 
Kostas Palikaras and Eirini Lionaki have each been awarded a highly competitive Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) Research Grant to pursue their studies in the lab!
Evaluation outcome | FORTH Press Release (Greek)
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28.12.2017 
Thanos Metaxakis was awarded a competitive Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (ARCHERS) to pursue his postdoctoral studies in the lab!
Evaluation outcome (Greek)
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05.12.2017 
Thanos Metaxakis acquired funding from the Region of Crete, for the development of low-cost methods for the production of urolithins, and for the study of their biological properties! |
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18.09.2017 
Kostas Palikaras received a "Best Poster Award" at the EMBO Conference on Autophagy: From molecular principles to human diseases, which was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia! |
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03.07.2017 
Kostas Kounakis and Christina Ploumi were each awarded a highly competitive Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) Doctoral Fellowship to pursue their PhD studies in the lab! Evaluation outcome | FORTH Press Release (Greek)
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13.05.2017 - 21.05.2017 
World Hellenic Biomedical Association
Itilo, Mani
Laconia, Greece
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07.05.2017 - 10.05.2017 
Polarity, Plasticity & Regeneration
Crete, Greece
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22.02.2017 
Eirini Lionaki was awarded a competitive National Fellowship Foundation (IKY) Post-Doctoral Fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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20.11.2016 
Kostas Palikaras received the 1st "Fotis Kafatos" award by the Hellenic Society of Bioscientists (PEV)!
Press Release (Greek)
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10.10.2016 
The lab was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept Grant!
(see also a relevant Press Release and some Press coverage bits: ERT, Proto Thema, Haniotika Nea, Nea Kriti)
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08.09.2016 
Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou was awarded a prestigious and highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Starting Investigator Grant, to pursue her research at IMBB!
(see also a relevant Press Release and some Press coverage bits: ERT, EfSyn, Nea Kriti, Haniotika Nea)
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25.07.2016 
Christina Ploumi was awarded the prestigious Bodossaki Foundation fellowship to pursue her doctoral studies in the lab! |
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08.06.2016 
Konstantinos Palikaras was awarded the highly competitive AXA Research Fund Post-Doctoral Fellowship to pursue his postdoctoral studies in the lab!
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09.05.2016 
Konstantinos Palikaras was awarded the prestigious Bodossaki Foundation long-term fellowship to pursue his postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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25.04.2016 
The lab was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant, for the second time!
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11.04.2016
Αnnouncement / Call (in Greek) for the Postgraduate Studies Program on "BioInformatics" of the UoC Medical School, for the academic year 2016-2017.
Revelant Government Gazette issue (598/7.3.2016, Β’) | Program Web Site
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04.02.2016 
Thanos Metaxakis was awarded a highly competitive, EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship to initiate his research in our Lab! |
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27.01.2016 
Kostas Palikaras received the DeLill Nasser Early-career award by the Genetics Society of America (GSA)! |
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15.10.2015
Christina Ploumi received a "Best Poster Award" at the international 2015 FEBS/EMBO Course on Mitochondria in life, death and disease, which was held in Fodele, Crete, Greece! |
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20.04.2015 
Press Release
Press release, covering recent work of the lab published in Nature, reveals an intricate molecular mechanism that coordinates the biogenesis and selective elimination of mitochondria, to regulate cellular energy homeostasis during ageing.
Relevant articles in the Greek Press: Vima-Science, Proto Thema, Hmerisia, Patris, Nea Kriti, Ethnos, in.gr, EKT, E&T
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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07.01.2015 
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05.01.2015 
The General Secretariat for Research and Technology has launched the new National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures which includes among others the large BioImaging-GR Infrastructure that is coordinating by IMBB |
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19.11.2014 
The study of Nikos Kourtis and Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou, published in Nature, on a novel molecular mechanism that defends against necrotic cell death triggered by extreme temperature and multiple other insults received the prestigious BioMedical Research Award of the Academy of Athens!
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17.06.2014
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09.06.2014 - 13.06.2014 
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17.05.2014 - 25.05.2017 
World Hellenic Biomedical Association
Itilo, Mani Laconia, Greece
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29.11.2013 
Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive EU Marie Curie long-term fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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10.08.2013 - 16.08.2013
Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) & Gordon Research Conference (GRC)
on the Biology of Aging
Renaissance Tuscany Il Ciocco Resort Lucca (Barga), Italy
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12.07.2013 - 13.07.2013
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17.06.2013
2nd Applied Research & Innovation Competition Forum
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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07.06.2013
Procurement
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13.12.2012 
Nikos Charmpilas and Ioanna Daskalaki were both awarded graduate studies fellowships from the State Scholarships Foundation! |
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09.11.2012 - 11.11.2012
Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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12.09.2012 
Press Release
Press release, covering recent work of the lab published in Nature, reveals a novel molecular mechanism that strongly and generally defends against necrotic cell death triggered by extreme temperature and multiple other insults.
Relevant articles in the Greek national daily To Vima and the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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27.07.2012
Seminar: Dr. Daniele Bano
"AIF as regulator of ageing and neurodegeneration"
German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Bonn, Germany
Place/Time: Mediterranean Studies Room, 2:00 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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29.03.2012
Seminar: Dr. Dimitris Kalamatianos
"In silico modeling of alpha-synuclein oligomerization effects on dopaminergic neuron homeostasis"
Hamilton Institute, NUI Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12:30 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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16.03.2012 
The lab was awarded an Excellence Research Grant from the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Greek Ministry of Education! |
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18.01.2012
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14.12.2011
Press release covering recent work of the lab, published in the EMBO Journal, uncovering a novel molecular mechanism required for degeneration of nerve cells.
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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10.10.2011
Seminar: Prof. Yves-Alain Barde
"Neurotrophic factors in development and disease of the nervous system"
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Place/Time: FORTH Main auditorium, 12 noon
Info: Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou
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11.08.2011 
Eirini Lionaki and Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou have both been awarded long term postdoctoral fellowships in the recent competition of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, to pursue their studies in the lab!!!
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27.07.2011
Seminar: Dr. Emmanouil Dermitzakis
"Cellular Genomics in Human Populations"
Department of Genetic Medicine and Development, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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16.06.2011
Seminar: Dr. Emmanouil Kyriakakis
"Travelling to Rome: inflammation, endoplasmic reticulum stress and angiogenesis during atherosclerotic plaque development"
Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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02.06.2011
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07.05.2011 - 10.05.2011 
Polarity, Plasticity & Regeneration
Crete, Greece
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07.04.2011
The Ministry of Education of Greece appointed the new members of the National Life Sciences Council.
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01.04.2011 - 15.04.2011
Medical School, University of Crete
Presentation of the Museum of Medicine
Basilica of Saint Mark, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
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10.12.2010 
The Ministry of Education of Greece appointed National Representatives to the scientific committees of the European Union framework programmes and science organizations.
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08.12.2010 
Giorgos Nikitas was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Marie Curie long-term fellowship to pursue his postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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03.12.2010 
Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive EMBO long-term fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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01.11.2010
Seminar: Dr. Yidong Shen
"Nudel in Cell Migration" "MicroRNAs in C. elegans Ageing"
Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing
Place/Time: Mediterranean Studies Room, 1:00 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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09.10.2010 - 11.10.2010 
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14.05.2010
Seminar: Dr. Vassiliki Nikoletopoulou
"Using embryonic stem cells to study neural patterning and degeneration"
Biozentrum, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Place/Time: Mediterranean Studies Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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11.05.2010
Seminar: Dr. Costas Demetriades
"Molecular mechanisms of Epstein-Barr mediated tumorigenesis"
Department of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece
Place/Time: Mediterranean Studies Room, 10:30 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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03.05.2010 
Evgenia Megalou was awarded the prestigious Bodossaki Foundation long-term fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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08.04.2010
Seminar: Dr. Kassiani Skouloudaki
"Scribble links Fat1 to the Hippo signaling cascade during zebrafish pronephros development"
Renal Division, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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04.02.2010
Seminar: Dr. Georgios Nikitas
"Microbial interactions with the intestinal barrier: the Listeria monocytogenes model"
Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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19.10.2009
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announces the election of 66 life scientists to its membership.
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08.10.2009
Press release covering recent work of the lab, published in Nature, on the mechanisms regulating metabolism and mitochondrial function during ageing in C. elegans.
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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06.07.2009 - 17.07.2009
EMMI Optical Imaging Summer School
FORTH, Crete, Greece
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27.06.2009
Nikos Kourtis received a "Best Poster Award" at the 17th International C. elegans Meeting, which was held at the University of California in Los Angeles! |
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02.06.2009
Seminar: Dr. Elise Kikis
"C. elegans as a model system to study the genetic underpinnings of protein misfolding diseases"
Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
Place/Time: FORTH Mediterranean Studies Room, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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28.04.2009
Seminar: Georgia Rapti
"Dissecting an extracellular scaffold for clustering of acetylcholine receptors at the C. elegans neuromuscular junction"
INSERM U789, Biologie Cellulaire de la Synapse, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 11 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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18.02.2009 
Presentation of the Greek editions of two books just published by Crete University Press:
by Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi
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by Eric Kandel |
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05.12.2008
Press Release
Press release covering work of the lab on learning and memory in C. elegans.
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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26.11.2008
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Alexander Pintzas
"Distinct Oncogenic RAS and BRAF signatures in colon cancer cells, Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and sensitisation pathways to TRAIL"
Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 2 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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31.10.2008 
Artemis Andreou was awarded the prestigious Bodossaki Foundation long-term fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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10.10.2008 
The lab was awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigator Grant!
(see also a relevant Press Release and some Press coverage bits: Eleftherotypia & Patris 1, 2, 3, 4)
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29.05.2008
Seminar: Dr. Takis Benos
"What can evolution tell us about gene regulation?"
University of Pittsburgh, USA and University of Crete, Greece
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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20.05.2008
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Nikos Chronis
"Lab-on-chip technologies for biological and medical applications"
University of Michigan, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ann Harbor, USA
Place/Time: Mediterranean Studies Room, 2 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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01.05.2008
Nikos Kourtis and Markella Katidou have been awarded the Manasaki Doctoral Fellowship for 2008-2009!
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17.01.2008
Seminar: Dr. Theofilos Papadopoulos
"Getting overexcited in the absence of a guanine-nucleotide exchange factor: An analysis of collybistin knockout mice"
Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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10.01.2008
Seminar: Dr. Artemisia Andreou
"T-box, SUMO and head development"
Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, Imperial College, London, UK
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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08.10.2007
Seminar: Dr. Jerome Teuliere
"A screen for mig-15 enhancers identifies new genes directing axonal migration in C. elegans"
IGBMC, Strasbourg, France
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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28.09.2007
Seminar: Dr. Olga Martins de Brito
"Keeping ER and mitochondria together"
Dulbecco-Telethon Institute, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Padova, Italy
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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02.07.2007 - 06.07.2007 
2007 Lectures in Biology:
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01.07.2007 
The lab becomes member and team leader of the Network of European Neuroscience Institutes (ENI-NET). |
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10.04.2007
Seminar: Dr. Patrick Laurent
"From orphan GPCRs to physiological functions"
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Cambridge, UK
Place/Time: FORTH Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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05.02.2007
Press Release
Press release covering work of the lab on mechanisms regulating ageing in C. elegans.
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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04.12.2006
Seminar: Dr. Smaragda Lamprianou
"Biological role of Nervous System Receptor Tyrosine Phosphatases revealed from analysis of knock-out mice"
Pasteur Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Paris, France
Place/Time: FORTH Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room, 2 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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06.10.2006
Seminar: Dr. Africa Couto
"Establishing target specificity in the Drosophila Olfactory system"
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Cambridge, UK
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 11 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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30.09.2006
Prof. Oliver Hobert
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA
"Mechanisms that generate cellular and functional diversity in the nervous system of C. elegans"
Place/Time: Main Amphitheatre, University of Crete, Medical School, 9:00 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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30.09.2006
Dr. Mario de Bono
Laboratory of Molecular Biology, MRC, Cambridge, UK
"Oxygen sensing and the evolution of neural circuits"
Place/Time: Main Amphitheatre, University of Crete, Medical School, 10:00 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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17.07.2006 - 21.07.2006 
2006 Lectures in Biology:
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13.06.2006
IMBB Seminar: Prof. Jonathan Hodgkin
Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
"Bacterial infection, innate immunity and MAP kinase signaling in the nematode C. elegans"
Place/Time: Main Amphitheatre, FORTH, 1:00 pm
Info: Giannis Voglis
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29.04.2006 - 03.05.2006
Important dates: Abstract Submission - 17 March 2006 Financial Aid Application - 24 March 2006 Early Registration - 24 March 2006
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29.04.2006 - 03.05.2006 
The 2006 European Worm Meeting will take place in Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, between the 29th of April and the 3rd of May Organizer:
Organizing Committee:
See you all in Crete!
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24.04.2006
Press release covering work of the lab on the cellular mechanisms underlying necrotic cell death in C. elegans.
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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31.10.2005 - 04.11.2005
Workshop:
University of Crete, Heraklion, Physics building, 3rd floor Seminar Room
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05.10.2005
Seminar: Dr. Nuria Flames Bonilla
"Tangential migration of cortical interneurons: Role of Neuregulin-1 in cortical attraction"
Instituto de Neurociencias, University of Alicante, Spain
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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12.07.2005 - 16.07.2005 
2005 Lectures in Biology:
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18.04.2005
Seminar: Dr. Maria Doitsidou
"Molecular mechanisms governing primordial germ cell migration in zebrafish"
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Goettingen, Germany
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 3, 11 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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14.04.2005
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Jonathan Ewbank
"Specificity in C. elegans innate immunity"
Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Marseille, FRANCE Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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24.03.2005
Seminar: Dr. Jacopo Novelli
"Genetic and molecular characterization of dpy-31, a gene encoding an essential BMP-1 homologue"
Genetics Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 11 am
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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18.03.2005
Seminar: Anne Glass
"Worming out the secret of Parkinson’s Disease"
Department of Medical Genetics, University of Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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09.11.2004 
Marta Artal-Sanz was awarded the prestigious and highly competitive Marie Curie long-term fellowship to pursue her postdoctoral studies in the lab! |
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03.11.2004
Seminar: Dr. Geraldine Maro
"Investigating Boundary Cap cells function during nervous system development"
Biologie Moleculaire du Developpement-INSERM U368, Ecole Normale Superieure
Place/Time: FORTH Mediterranean Studies Seminar Room, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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06.10.2004 - 08.10.2004
Workshop:
University of Crete, Heraklion, Physics building, 3rd floor Seminar Room
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12.07.2004 - 16.07.2004 
2004 Lectures in Biology:
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03.05.2004
IMBB Seminar: Prof. Ralf Baumeister
Department of Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics, University of Freiburg, Germany
"Presenilins and Parkinson: C. elegans models for neurodegenerative diseases"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 3, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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06.04.2004
Seminar: Dr. Anastasia Koutsolioutsou
Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
"The role of the soxRS regulon in resistance to antibiotics and reactive nitrogen species"
Place/Time: FORTH Mediterranean Studies Room, 1 PM
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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01.01.2004
The European Commission 6th Framework Programme provides funding to the IMBB-led NemaGENETAG project. Main objectives are the development and evaluation of efficient transposon-based tools for mutagenesis and transgenesis in the nematode C. elegans. These tools will ultimately be exploited to generate comprehensive transposon-insertion mutant libraries.
For more information, please contact the coordinator Nektarios Tavernarakis (tavernarakis@imbb.forth.gr)
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18.12.2003
Seminar: Dr. Nikos Kyrpides
Integrated Genomics Inc. Chicago, USA
"Bioinformatics: Tools and comparative approaches in the era of sequenced genomes"
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 Noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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22.09.2003
IMBB Seminar: Prof. Bernard Rossier
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
"Epithelial sodium channel (ENaC): lessons from human diseases and mouse models"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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19.09.2003
Seminar: Dr. Marta Artal-Sanz
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"The role of the PHB complex in mitochondrial biogenesis: Functional and structural studies in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Caenorhabditis elegans"
Place/Time: IMBB Common Room, 12 noon
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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14.07.2003 - 18.07.2003 
2003 Lectures in Biology:
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08.05.2003
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Barbara Conradt
Department of Genetics, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
"Specification of programmed cell death in C. elegans"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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08.04.2003
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Jan Vijg
Department of Physiology, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, USA
"Aging of the genome: Genomic instability, DNA repair and cellular aging"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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01.11.2002
Press Release
Press release covering work of the lab on the identification of genes responsible for neurodegeneration in C. elegans.
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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20.08.2002 
IMBB is now hosting the Genomes OnLine Database (GOLD).
The site is visible at http://gold.imbb.forth.gr/ For any problems concerning the site at IMBB, please contact Nektarios Tavernarakis (tavernarakis@imbb.forth.gr).
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08.07.2002 - 12.07.2002 
2002 Lectures in Biology:
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23.05.2002
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Tom Johnson
Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
"Increased resistance to environmental stressors and diseases of aging: common-ground among all gerontogenes"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 2 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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08.05.2002
IMBB Seminar: Dr. William Wadsworth
Department of Pathology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, USA
"Moving around in a worm: Netrin UNC-6 and circumferential axon guidance in C. elegans"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 1 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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16.04.2002
IMBB Seminar: Dr. Erik Jorgensen
Department of Biology, University of Utah, USA
"Molecular mechanisms of synaptic vesicle exocytosis in the nematode C. elegans"
Place/Time: FORTH Seminar Room 1, 2 pm
Info: Nektarios Tavernarakis
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23.02.2002 
The IMBB mirror of WormBase has been launched.
The site is visible at http://wormbase.imbb.forth.gr. For any problems concerning the mirror at IMBB, please contact Nektarios Tavernarakis (tavernarakis@imbb.forth.gr).
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27.01.2002 
IMBB is now mirroring the Caenorhabditis elegans WWW Server. The official server was set up and is maintained by Leon Avery
(leon@eatworms.swmed.edu), at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA. The URL of the official site is http://elegans.swmed.edu/. The IMBB mirror is reachable at: http://elegans.imbb.forth.gr. For any problems concerning accessibility of the mirror at IMBB, please contact Nektarios Tavernarakis (tavernarakis@imbb.forth.gr). |
