Pantelis Katharios
Dr. Pantelis Katharios is a Research Director at the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research. His main research topic is the study and control of diseases in aquaculture. The main object of his research are the pathologies affecting novel aquaculture fish species and the new emerging diseases. In recent years he has emphasized on the understanding of the molecular mechanisms that determine the virulence of pathogenic microorganisms and their interaction with the fish. In the field of disease control, he has worked extensively with the use of bacteriophages as a means of prevention and treatment and with the development of autogenous vaccines. He has participated in over 20 research projects, which are financed either by national or international / European sources. He has served as coordinator at 5 projects. Among these research projects is AQUAPHAGE project, funded under the Marie Curie FP7 program and FISHPHAGE project, which was funded by the EXCELLENCE program of the Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs (GSRT). He is the founder of Aquatic Biologicals, a spinoff company of HCMR that develops autogenous vaccines and phage therapy products for the Mediterranean aquaculture industry. He has active collaboration with the Department of Biology, University of Crete, participating in teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, hosting students of the Department for practicing in his lab and supervising undergraduate or graduate theses. His published work includes 70 papers in peer reviewed international scientific journals included in the Science Citation Index.
Kleoniki Keklikoglou
Mrs Kleoniki Keklikoglou is a PhD student with an MSc in Environmental Biology and Management of Terrestrial and Marine Biological Resources. Her main research interests include marine biodiversity (especially benthic invertebrates), ecology, Micro-Computed tomography (micro-CT), ocean acidification and coastal light pollution. She has 12 publications and participated in more than 20 conferences. She is experienced in micro-CT technology, development of scanning protocols (sample preparation, scanning parameters), management of micro-CT image datasets and digitization of biological collections specimens. She has participated in the creation and management of the micro-CT Virtual Laboratory for LifeWatchGreece RI. She has knowledge on biodiversity data management and quality control using DarwinCore standards.
Irene Filiopoulou
is a mobile developer at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR). She received her BSc and MSc degree in the fields of Information Systems and E-commerce Technologies in Computer Science Department from the University of Crete. She has worked in the Multimedia Laboratory at the University Of Crete as a mobile developer and in the Transformation Service Laboratory, also at the University of Crete, where she has been involved in several projects. She has taught informatics lessons at Technological Educational Institute of Crete as an external laboratory partner (2009-2014).
Emmanouela Panteri
Emmanouela Panteri is a Web Developer at the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR). She has a BSc degree in Computer Science, specialized in Database Development, Data Integration and Web-Based Applications. Currently involved in the development and implementation of citizen science projects, that aims at engaging citizen scientists in a coastal marine biodiversity observation network. Her focus is on data integration between web-based platforms and mobile/tablet applications. Within Aquapath Project she is now developing/supporting the Aquapath website.