Bibi Androniki C.

Androniki C. Bibi is a postdoctorate researcher at the Metagenomics Laboratory of IMBB-FORTH. She is an Agronomist specialized in Plant Physiology. She graduated in 2002 (Bsc) from the Department of Agriculture Crop Production and Rural Environment, University of Thessaly. Then she graduated in 2005 (MS) and 2008 (PhD) from the Crop Soil and Environmental Sciences from the University of Arkansas, USA, earning her master and doctorate in Plant Physiology. She has been teaching at the Department of Agriculture in the Hellenic Mediterranean University since 2010. Her first work as a postdoctorate researcher (2014-2015) was in the Laboratory of Plant biotechnology, Hellenic Agriculture Organization (ELGO-DIMITRA), Heraklion, Crete. Since 2018 she works as postdoctorate researcher in the Metagenomic Laboratory of the late Dr. Kafetzopoulos D. in IMBB, FORTH. She works in five agro genomic projects that have to do DNA and RNA extractions for NGS as well as the molecular fingerprinting of various plants with microsatellite markers.

Marountas John

Ioannis Marountas is an Agronomist, a graduate of the Department of Natural Resources Utilization and Agricultural Engineering, specializing in 'Agricultural Engineering and Agricultural Constructions' of the Agricultural University of Athens. His dissertation aimed at developing software for the complete calculation of the parameters of mechanical ventilation in closed type livestock units. He has worked on computer projects with different types of data and has developed algorithms for managing different types of data (such as the stock market, e-commerce and agriculture). In the period 2012-2015 he worked in the research project THALIS GRBase of IMBB-FORTH for the development of the online application GALANTHOS. An application based on research data from Greece on the resistance to the active substances of important enemies of agriculture. The main goal of the application is to be an information tool for agronomists to reduce the use of pesticides in agriculture. In the period 2015-2018 he has been integrated in the Bioinformatics Support team of IMBB-FORTH for the technical support in matters of programming, databases and ontologies of IMBB. Since the beginning of 2018 he has been a member of the IT team of the Computer Center department of IMBB-FORTH.

Kafetzopoulos Dimitris†

Dimitris Kafetzopoulos studied Biology at the University of Thessaloniki, Biochemistry at the University of Toronto Graduate School, and he was awarded the doctorate degree in Applied Biology and Biotechnology from the Dept. of Biology of the University of Crete for his research in enzyme conversion of cell wall polysaccharides. During his postdoctoral research, as an EMBO, HFSPO and EU fellow at the University of Leiden, he studied molecular signaling in plant-microbe interactions. Since 1997, he was a researcher at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), leading the research group of Post-Genomic Applications and the Minotech Genomics Facility. In 2013, he was appointed deputy director of the institute. His research interests included drug development, molecular classification of cancer, personal genomics and diagnostic sequencing, biomedical informatics and most recently ancient DNA analysis. He had participated and coordinated more than 30 national and European research projects, including research contracts with the pharmaceutical industry, multidisciplinary research and technology foresight projects. He had published more than 60 research papers and he had been the main inventor of 5 patents. For his inventive work and innovative research had been awarded a prize by the Greek Patent Office, in 2002. He was teaching of post-genomic methodologies and innovation management topics at the University of Crete graduate programs.

Vontas John

John Vontas obtained a BSc in Agronomy (1992) and a PhD in Insect Genetics (1997) from the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA). Consecutive Marie Curie fellowships took him to Cardiff University (1998-2001), Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (2002) and IMBB-FORTH (2002-2004). He was appointed Lecturer at AUA (2005), Associate Professor at the University of Crete (2008-2013) and Professor at AUA lab and Group Leader at IMBB (2014+).