Insects and Vector Borne diseases
John Vontas
Some of the most acute challenges that the world faces now and in the foreseeable future are caused by insecticide resistant arthropods that seriously threaten human health and food security...
Linda Grigoraki
Mosquito transmitted diseases are of global importance causing morbidity and mortality worldwide. The main way to prevent these diseases is through vector control. Insecticide-based vector control...
Michail Kotsyfakis
In our research projects, ticks serve as model organisms to address fundamental topics in the field of disease vector biology such as: 1) Improving our understanding of the basic molecular...
Pantelis Topalis (Staff Scientist - Bioinformatics)
The main interests of the group are a) to analyze gene expression and regulation from high throughput sequencing datasets and b) to assemble...
Emeritus / Alumni
Inga Siden-Kiamos
Malaria is a disease having a huge impact on human health and economic development with about half a million lethal cases every year. It is primarily a disease of less developed countries...
Christos (Kitsos) Louis
Research in my laboratory has centered on two main foci of biology of disease vectors and parasitology: These are, firstly, the study of the molecular mechanisms...
Affiliated and Adjunct Faculty
Professor George Dimopoulos
Dr. Dimopoulos received a BSc in microbiology from Stockholm University in 1990, a PhD in biology from the University of Crete in 1996, and his MBA from Johns Hopkins University...