Centre for Research and Technology Hellas - CERTH
INSTITUTE OF APPLIED BIOSCIENCES (FORMER INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY) - IN.A.B
6th km. Charilaou-Thermi Road
P.O. Box 60361, 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
: + 30 2311 257531
: + 30 2310-498270
: http://inab.certh.gr
 | pmadesis@certh.gr, pmadesis@gmail.com |
CURRENT POST
2016-now Senior Researcher (B) in The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (Former Institute of Agrobiotechnology) (IN.A.B)
2011-2016 Researcher (C) in The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (Former Institute of Agrobiotechnology) (IN.A.B)
2008-2011 Researcher (D) in The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (Former Institute of Agrobiotechnology) (IN.A.B) )
EDUCATION
1999 – 2004 PhD “Development and analysis of transgenic plants”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture. (Interrupted by 18 months compulsory Army Service)
1996-1998 Master of Science in “Genetic engineering and plant physiology”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture.
1991-1996 Diploma in Agriculture. Grade 6,84 ( /10)
One year undergraduate research project in the laboratory of genetics and plant breeding.“Evaluation of F4 families of hard wheat and performance of selected wheat lines.” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture.
TEACHING
Protein Biotechnology. 1st semester of the Masters Degree “Bioactive compounds and protein technology”, Agriculture Univ. of Athens.
1 year teaching of Plant Breeding Lab in Technological Institute Of W. Macedonia, Florina
COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
Marie Curie PhD Fellowship 11/11/2002 – 10/11/2003.
IKY (State Scholarships Foundation) scholarship for Masters of Science and PhD 1997- 2002
Awarrds
2013 Award from the Greek President of Democracy
2013 Award from the Greek Ministry of Rural Development
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Workshop of European Weed Research Society. 'Optimizing herbicide use in a Integrated Weed Management (IWM) context', Heraklion; 03/2015, Analysis of genetic differences in R- and S- sterile oat (Avena sterilis L.) populations in Greece Xanthopoulou Aliki, Ganopoulos Ioannis, Madesis Panagiotis, Travlos Ilias, Chachalis Dimosthenis
19/22 September, 2011First results on the overexpression of CSGSTU isoenzymes in transgenic tobacco plants Proceedings of the Joint Meeting AGI-SIBV-SIGA Assisi, Italy –
4-7 May 2011 Barcode High Resolution Melting (Bar-HRM) analysis: Extending the DNA barcoding to detect, authenticate and quantitate of plants and their processed products. Plant GEM Istanbul .
19-22/09/2011 First results on the overexpression of CSGSTU isoenzymes
in transgenic tobacco plants Lo cicero L., Madesis P., Tsaftaris A., Lo piero A.R.
Proceedings of the Joint Meeting AGI-SIBV-SIGA Assisi, Italy
29/9/10 “Comparative study of HCV core expression in plant nucleus and chloroplasts.” EPSO Meeting, Finland
19/10/2009 Algae: The Energy Supplier of the Future, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece
11/01/2007 “Reverse genetics analysis of recombination proteins in chloroplasts.” North West Plant Science Meeting. Lancaster University.
12/09/2006 “Reverse genetics analysis of plastid recombination proteins” Plastid Preview, University of Essex.
22/04/2006 EU-FP6 workshop. “Transgene integration and excision: analyses of transgenic plants with altered levels of gyrase and RecA protein.” Warsaw, Poland.
10/09/2005 EU-FP6 workshop. “Elucidating the plastid DNA recombination pathway using comparative genomics” Naples, Italy.
11/12/2004 EU-FP6 workshop. “Isolation of cDNAs encoding plastid recombination proteins”. Cambridge, UK.
2000 Workshop on “Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis”. Thessaloniki, Greece.
1998 Presented poster. Annual Conference, The Greek Biological Society, Samos.
1998 Presented poster. Annual Conference, The Greek Plant Pathology Society. Athens.
SEMINARS
2010 7th Training Workshop “Computational genomics tools for exploring -omics data resources” 11th and Friday 12th March 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 «Mass Spectrometry Applications». University of Manchester.
2006 «Confocal Microscopy use and applications» Workshop University of Manchester.
2005 «Microarrays use and applications» Workshop University of Manchester.
1999 «Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis». European Commission Directorate General for Science. Research and Development Biotechnology Programme, Thessaloniki Greece. 21 - 25 November.
1997 «Plant Biotechnology and Applications» (intensive course). Mediterenian Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete, Greece May-June.
Member in
Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA)
Greek Plant Breeding and Genetics Society (Member of the board 2012-)
Greek Society for Biology research
Agriculture chamber
Researches Union (CERTH) (member of the board)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND POSITIONS HELD
I have hands-on knowledge of advanced molecular biology techniques, handling and manipulating DNA sequences, vector construction, cloning in E.coli, nuclear and plastid transformation of tobacco, pepper and sugarbeet using Agrobacterium tumefaciens or particle bombardment, expertise in plant tissue culture and plant breeding, RNA and protein manipulations and the analyses of genomes. My all round professional expertise has been developed during the tenure of a number of posts listed below:
01/10/2008 today Researcher D, The Center for Research and Thecnology Hellas /Institute of Agrobiotechnology .
Contract research projects
2014-COST Action no FA1101, Omics Technologies for Crop Improvement, Traceability, Determination of Authenticity, Adulteration and Origin in Saffron (SAFFRONOMICS)
2014- ARISTEIA II (member of the consortium) Aristeia II has been awarded to AUP
2013-2018 Research contract with 2 companies for plant breeding.
2013-2015 Bilateral grant Greece – Slovakia (member of the consortium)
2011-2013 Agri-Genomics Transfer and Dissemination Between Greece & Bulgaria
2011 Grant "THALIS" Glutathione transferases (GSTs): molecular tools for the development of basic and applied research in the fileds of green and red biotechnology. (INA Group Leader).
26/02/2007-30/09/2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester. BBSRC grant: “A genomic-based analysis of chloroplast replication/recombination/repair pathways using RNAi, proteomics and transplastomic plants (BB/E02445/1).”
26/02/2004-31/07/2007 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester. Supported by EU FP6. “Plastomics-a technology for improving human health”
2001-2004 Agricultural and financial projects. My role was to develop Agricultural and Financial knowledge to improve EU funding to local farmers
09/01/2002 – 31/06/02 Biology teacher in private school
Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant cultivation, Laboratory of genetics and plant breeding.
02/2000- 01/01“Molecular and biotechnological approaches for improving Cistus creticus spp.
05/1999-07/99 & 12/1999-01/2000 “HCV CORE gene expression in transgenic plants”
08/99-11/99 “Comparative sequence analyses of crop genes”
MAICH- Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete
18/07/94- 12/8/94. Placement in olive crop production and forestry department. Management of olive groves, landscape and pests.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English , Greek and Italian.
2016-now Senior Researcher (B) in The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (Former Institute of Agrobiotechnology) (IN.A.B)
2011-2016 Researcher (C) in The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (Former Institute of Agrobiotechnology) (IN.A.B)
2008-2011 Researcher (D) in The Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Institute of Applied Biosciences (Former Institute of Agrobiotechnology) (IN.A.B) )
EDUCATION
1999 – 2004 PhD “Development and analysis of transgenic plants”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture. (Interrupted by 18 months compulsory Army Service)
1996-1998 Master of Science in “Genetic engineering and plant physiology”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture.
1991-1996 Diploma in Agriculture. Grade 6,84 ( /10)
One year undergraduate research project in the laboratory of genetics and plant breeding.“Evaluation of F4 families of hard wheat and performance of selected wheat lines.” Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture.
TEACHING
Protein Biotechnology. 1st semester of the Masters Degree “Bioactive compounds and protein technology”, Agriculture Univ. of Athens.
1 year teaching of Plant Breeding Lab in Technological Institute Of W. Macedonia, Florina
COMPETITIVE SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED
Marie Curie PhD Fellowship 11/11/2002 – 10/11/2003.
IKY (State Scholarships Foundation) scholarship for Masters of Science and PhD 1997- 2002
Awarrds
2013 Award from the Greek President of Democracy
2013 Award from the Greek Ministry of Rural Development
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Workshop of European Weed Research Society. 'Optimizing herbicide use in a Integrated Weed Management (IWM) context', Heraklion; 03/2015, Analysis of genetic differences in R- and S- sterile oat (Avena sterilis L.) populations in Greece Xanthopoulou Aliki, Ganopoulos Ioannis, Madesis Panagiotis, Travlos Ilias, Chachalis Dimosthenis
19/22 September, 2011First results on the overexpression of CSGSTU isoenzymes in transgenic tobacco plants Proceedings of the Joint Meeting AGI-SIBV-SIGA Assisi, Italy –
4-7 May 2011 Barcode High Resolution Melting (Bar-HRM) analysis: Extending the DNA barcoding to detect, authenticate and quantitate of plants and their processed products. Plant GEM Istanbul .
19-22/09/2011 First results on the overexpression of CSGSTU isoenzymes
in transgenic tobacco plants Lo cicero L., Madesis P., Tsaftaris A., Lo piero A.R.
Proceedings of the Joint Meeting AGI-SIBV-SIGA Assisi, Italy
29/9/10 “Comparative study of HCV core expression in plant nucleus and chloroplasts.” EPSO Meeting, Finland
19/10/2009 Algae: The Energy Supplier of the Future, CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece
11/01/2007 “Reverse genetics analysis of recombination proteins in chloroplasts.” North West Plant Science Meeting. Lancaster University.
12/09/2006 “Reverse genetics analysis of plastid recombination proteins” Plastid Preview, University of Essex.
22/04/2006 EU-FP6 workshop. “Transgene integration and excision: analyses of transgenic plants with altered levels of gyrase and RecA protein.” Warsaw, Poland.
10/09/2005 EU-FP6 workshop. “Elucidating the plastid DNA recombination pathway using comparative genomics” Naples, Italy.
11/12/2004 EU-FP6 workshop. “Isolation of cDNAs encoding plastid recombination proteins”. Cambridge, UK.
2000 Workshop on “Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis”. Thessaloniki, Greece.
1998 Presented poster. Annual Conference, The Greek Biological Society, Samos.
1998 Presented poster. Annual Conference, The Greek Plant Pathology Society. Athens.
SEMINARS
2010 7th Training Workshop “Computational genomics tools for exploring -omics data resources” 11th and Friday 12th March 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 «Mass Spectrometry Applications». University of Manchester.
2006 «Confocal Microscopy use and applications» Workshop University of Manchester.
2005 «Microarrays use and applications» Workshop University of Manchester.
1999 «Genome Sequence and Comparative Analysis». European Commission Directorate General for Science. Research and Development Biotechnology Programme, Thessaloniki Greece. 21 - 25 November.
1997 «Plant Biotechnology and Applications» (intensive course). Mediterenian Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete, Greece May-June.
Member in
Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA)
Greek Plant Breeding and Genetics Society (Member of the board 2012-)
Greek Society for Biology research
Agriculture chamber
Researches Union (CERTH) (member of the board)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND POSITIONS HELD
I have hands-on knowledge of advanced molecular biology techniques, handling and manipulating DNA sequences, vector construction, cloning in E.coli, nuclear and plastid transformation of tobacco, pepper and sugarbeet using Agrobacterium tumefaciens or particle bombardment, expertise in plant tissue culture and plant breeding, RNA and protein manipulations and the analyses of genomes. My all round professional expertise has been developed during the tenure of a number of posts listed below:
01/10/2008 today Researcher D, The Center for Research and Thecnology Hellas /Institute of Agrobiotechnology .
Contract research projects
2014-COST Action no FA1101, Omics Technologies for Crop Improvement, Traceability, Determination of Authenticity, Adulteration and Origin in Saffron (SAFFRONOMICS)
2014- ARISTEIA II (member of the consortium) Aristeia II has been awarded to AUP
2013-2018 Research contract with 2 companies for plant breeding.
2013-2015 Bilateral grant Greece – Slovakia (member of the consortium)
2011-2013 Agri-Genomics Transfer and Dissemination Between Greece & Bulgaria
2011 Grant "THALIS" Glutathione transferases (GSTs): molecular tools for the development of basic and applied research in the fileds of green and red biotechnology. (INA Group Leader).
26/02/2007-30/09/2008 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester. BBSRC grant: “A genomic-based analysis of chloroplast replication/recombination/repair pathways using RNAi, proteomics and transplastomic plants (BB/E02445/1).”
26/02/2004-31/07/2007 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester. Supported by EU FP6. “Plastomics-a technology for improving human health”
2001-2004 Agricultural and financial projects. My role was to develop Agricultural and Financial knowledge to improve EU funding to local farmers
09/01/2002 – 31/06/02 Biology teacher in private school
Aristoteleio University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Plant cultivation, Laboratory of genetics and plant breeding.
02/2000- 01/01“Molecular and biotechnological approaches for improving Cistus creticus spp.
05/1999-07/99 & 12/1999-01/2000 “HCV CORE gene expression in transgenic plants”
08/99-11/99 “Comparative sequence analyses of crop genes”
MAICH- Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Crete
18/07/94- 12/8/94. Placement in olive crop production and forestry department. Management of olive groves, landscape and pests.
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English , Greek and Italian.
