Peter RAKITZIS
Date: December 9, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Tavernarakis
Vassiliki THEODOROU
Delidakis' Lab
Date: December 2, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Ioanna DASKALAKI
Tavernarakis' Lab (Maria Markaki)
Date: November 18, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Itay MAYROSE
Date: November 10, 2016 @ 11:00
Location: Seminar Room 1, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Kriton Kalantidis
Ioanna PERRAKI
(Mavrothalassitis' Lab)
Date: November 4, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Kyriakos PETRATOS
Date: November 4, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Vassilis DOURIS
Vontas' Lab
Date: October 14, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Main Amphitheater, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Vontas
Miles CARROLL & Stephan GÜNTHER
NIHR HPRU in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections -
PHE Lead Porton Down & Pathogen Detection and Characterisation Theme Leader
Department of Health, Public Health England & Bernhard Nocht Institute for tropical Medecine, Germany
Date: October 7, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: "Seminar Room 1", FORTH’s bldg
Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance.
Nature. 2016 Feb 11;530(7589):228-32.
Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26840485
Host: D. Kafetzopoulos
Ayse YARALI
Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning
Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Magdeburg, Germany
Date: September 30, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Main Amphitheater, FORTH’s bldg
Host: M. Monastirioti
Anastassis PERRAKIS
Principal Investigator / Staff Member
Department of Biochemistry (B8)
Netherlands Cancer Institute
Date: September 23, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Main Amphitheater, FORTH’s bldg
Host: M. Kokkinidis
James S. Michaelson, PhD
Dept. Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Director, Laboratory of Quantitative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Date: September 16, 2016 @ 11:30
Location: Seminar Room 1, FORTHʼs bldg
Host: Ch. Delidakis
Steven C. BORKAN, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Co-Director, MD-PhD Training Program
Boston University Medical School
Boston USA
Date: September 9, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1, FORTH’s bldg
Host: D. Kardassis
Xavier DUPORTIER
CEO at Eligo Bioscience
Date: August 26, 2016 @ 11:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: D. Tzeranis (Gravanis' Lab)
Thanos METAXAKIS
Date: July 22, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Tavernarakis
Grigoris TSAKNAKIS
Date: July 22, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Strouboulis
Elena DELIGIANNI
Date: July 15, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Siden-Kiamos
Spyros CHAVLIS
Date: July 15, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Poirazi
Nicky WYBOUW
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics
University of Amsterdam
Science Park 904, 1098 XH
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: July 14, 2016 @ 13:00
Location: “A Payatakes” Seminar Room, FORTH’s bldg
Host: J. Vontas
Babis SPILIANAKIS
Date: July 8, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Alexandra KOURGIANTAKI
Date: July 1, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Gravanis
Konstantina CHANOUMIDOU
Date: July 1, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Kretsovali
Eric CW So, PhD
Professor and Chair in Leukaemia Biology,
Head, Leukaemia and Stem Cell Biology Group,
Department of Haematological Medicine,
King's College London,
The University of London
London, UK
Date: June 28, 2016 @ 15:15
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: G. Garinis
Stefan DIMITROV
Director of Research, CNRS
Institut Albert Bonniot
INSERM 1209/CNRS UMR 5309
Grenoble
Date: June 24, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: J. Strouboulis
Pavlina HARAMIS
Assistant Professor
Institute of Biology, Leiden University,
Sylvius Laboratory, Rm 06.05.16b,
Sylviusweg 72, 2333 BE Leiden
The Netherlands
Date: June 23, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: G. Garinis
Ioannis SOTIROPOULOS
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS)
School of Health Sciences, Campus de Gualtar
University of Minho, Braga
Portugal
Date: June 22, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: I. Charalambopoulos
Emre YAKSI
Group Leader - NERF, a joint research initiative between imec
VIB and K.U. Leuven
Assistant Professor - Neurophysiology Department
KU Leuven
Date: June 21, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Abstract
The habenula (Hb) is a brain region with increasing popularity due to its strong link to addiction, mood disorders and experience dependent fear. We demonstrated that Hb neurons respond to odors and light asymmetrically. Moreover, we showed that Hb neurons exhibit structured spontaneous activity that is spatially and temporally organized. This spontaneous activity resembles neural attractors, which can switch the preferred state of the Hb and regulate the transmission of sensory information to downstream monoaminergic brainstem nuclei. In order to explore the source of Hb spontaneous activity, we investigate the local connectivity within Hb and the global functional inputs to Hb. Our results showed that recurrent excitatory connections within Hb is important for maintaining spatio-temporal organization of Hb activity. Moreover, we observed that functional inputs form zebrafish homologues of hippocampus (Dl) and amygdala (Dm) and sensory inputs from visual and olfactory systems are the major drivers of spontaneous Hb activity. Our results suggested that these limbic and sensory inputs are integrated in Hb in a non-linear fashion and can regulate sensory representations in Hb. We propose that Hb lies in the heart of a brain wide network and act as “a hub” or “a switchboard”, which can regulate or gate the communication of sensory systems and limbic forebrain areas with the monoaminergic brainstem nuclei that control animal behaviors.
Host: P. Poirazi
Maria KLAPA
Principal Researcher (Rank B)
Head, Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology Laboratory
Institute of Chemical Engineering Sciences (ICE-HT - FORTH)
Patras, GREECE
Date: June 16, 2016 @ 13:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: I. Siden-Kiamos
Effie THYMIAKOU
Date: June 10, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Kardassis
Giulia BONETTO
Date: June 10, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Karagogeos
Maria MONASTIRIOTI
Date: June 3, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Zoe VENETI
Eliopoulos' Lab
Date: May 13, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Eliopoulos
Srivathsa MAGADI
Delidakis' Lab
Date: May 13, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Delidakis
Marina VIDAKI
Postdoctoral Associate
Koch Institute, MIT
Date: May 6, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: D. Karagogeos
Thomas Gligoris, Ph.D
Nasmyth Lab, Dept. of Biochemistry
Oxford University
Date: April 26, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: I. Talianidis
Antonis TATARAKIS
Department of Cell Biology/HHMI
Harvard Medical School
Date: April 25, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: D. Karagogeos
Dimitris BEIS
Investigator C (Assistant Professor level)
Zebrafish models of Human Disease
Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens
Date: April 19, 2016 @ 13:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: N. Tavernarakis
Ioannis VLATAKIS
Kalantidis' Lab
Date: April 15, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Sarah Hélène MERKLING
Institut Pasteur, Paris
Date: April 12, 2016 @ 12:00
Location: Seminar Room 1 [FORTH's bldg]
Host: C. Louis
Bio-Rad’s Application Specialists
Date: February 26, 2016 @ 11:00
Location: “Seminar Room 1”, FORTH’s bldg
Host: Aggela Pasparaki