PERSONAL DETAILS
DATE OF BIRTH: 18 June 1985
NATIONALITY: Greek
ADDRESS: 21/3 Corbaci Sk, Taksim, Istanbul
PHONE: +90 554 908 5725, +90 212 361 4948, +30 694 730 4188

EDUCATION
2009-2010 DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE, GREECE Department of Medical School M.Sc Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics: Graduation date, August 2010.
Thesis title: “Chemotherapy of Cancer Cell Lines Using Inflammasome Stimulation and Mithochondrial Cell Death Signaling” Supervisors: Assosiate Professor Dr Nesrin Özören Assosiate Professor Dr Ekaterini Chatzaki
2009-2010 BOGAZIÇI UNIVERSITY, TURKEY Molecular Biology and Genetics department , ERASMUS program Conducted research for my M.Sc thesis at Apoptosis and Cancer Immunology Laboratory (AKIL)
2003-2008 DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE, GREECE B.A. Molecular Biology and Genetics department
Dissertation title: “Molecular mechanism of apoptosis at rat liver”
2000-2003 3rd High- School of Kozani, Greece, graduated with distinction.

OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
May ’08 Took part in an INTERREG IIIA/PHARE CBC program titled “Creation of a cooperation network between Greece and Bulgaria as far as it concerns aspects of Public Health and Hygiene and Sefety in labour” in collsboration with the departments of Medical and Public Health School of Plovdiv and Sofia Universities respectively.

Conferences
59th Panhelenic Conference of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Athens 7-9 December 2007.
9th Panhelenic meeting of Pharmacology Athens 8 March 2009.
1st Conferene of Public Health and Health Care in Greece and Bulgaria: The challenge of the cross-border collaboration, Alexandroupolis 8-10 May 2009
7th Summer School of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Alexandroupolis 9-22 September 2009.
Golden Helix Symposium of Pharmacogenomics :”Paving the path to personalized medicine” Athens 15-17 October 2009.
60th Panhelenic Conference of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Athens, 20-22 November 2009.

Undergraduate research
“Minigenes impart odorant receptor-Specific axon guidance in the olfactory bulb”
“ Social Darwinism and it’s theory”
“Genetically modified rice, (golden rice), is it an answer?”
“Cebus abella’s biology of behavior”
“Duchenne muscular dystrophy, apprehension of the disease”

EMPLOYMENT AND WORK EXPERIENCE
June-August 2004 Worked as an undergraduate student at the Gastroenterology Laboratory of Medical School, University of Crete under the supervision of the Associate Professor Dr Georgios Kolios.
July ’07: Worked as an undergraduate student at the Pharmacology Laboratory of Medical School, University of Crete under the supervision of Professor A. Gravanis.
October 2006-December 2009: Worked at the laboratory of Pharmacology doing basic research under the supervision of Assistant Professor of Dr. Aikaterini Chatzaki
September 2007- December 2009: Worked at the Clinical Pharmacology Laboratory of the Academic General Hospital of Alexandroupolis, doing diagnostic tests and research.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Tsaroucha AK, Chatzaki E, Lambropoulou M, Despoudi K, Laftsidis P, Charsou C, Polychronidis A, Papadopoulos N, Simopoulos CE (2008). “Megalin and cubilin in the human gallbladder epithelium”. Clin Exp Med., 165-70.
  • Paschos KA, Charsou C, Constantinidis TC, Anagnostoulis S, Lambropoulou M, Papachristou F, Simopoulos K, Chatzaki E. “Corticotropin-releasing hormone receptors mediate opposing effects in cholestasis-induced liver cell apoptosis”.Endocrinology. 2010 Apr;151(4):1704-12. Epub 2010 Feb 26.
  • Evaggelos Polakis, Maria Lambropoulou, Chara Charsou, Xristina Xeimonidou, Kleanthi Chalkiadaki, Ekaterini Chatzaki 2008 “The expression of the Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) system of neuropeptides and receptors in mouse microglia cells”. .Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics, Vol. 22, No 2, 297-299.
  • Ekaterini Chatzaki, Constantinos Pasxos, Maria Lambropoulou, Stavros Anagnostoulis, Chara Charsou, Efterpi Chouridou, Michailidou Evropi, Fotini Papachristou, Theodoros C. Constantinidis, Constantinos Simopoulos. 2008 “Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) and liver apoptosis”. Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics, Vol. 22, No 2, 297-299.

AWARDS/PRIZES
5th Panhelenic Conference of Pharmacology Athens 23-24 May 2008, where our research team of Evaggelos Polakis, Maria Lambropoulou, Chara Charsou, Xristina Xeimonidou, Kleanthi Chalkiadaki, Ekaterini Chatzaki apprehended the Best Project Reward for the project “The expression of the Corticotropin Releasing Factor (CRF) system of neuropeptides and receptors in mouse microglia cells”

LANGUAGE AND COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Operating Systems and Office, Access, Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop, Publisher , Real Time PCR software(MxPro Stratagene), FACS(Fluorescence-activated cell sorting) softaware, Rasmol, Raswin, Primer Premier, Linux.

Native languages: Greek and English (Cambridge Lower, Michigan Proficiency) , working knowledge of French and Turkish.

INTERESTS AND ACTIVITIES
Part of contemporary theatrical team in Istanbul
Part of the political-cultural group Casus Belli, vivid interest and participation in social issues.
Part of the Kozani’s swimming team of for 7 years, ballet, part of the school basketball team.
Studies in Violin at Kozani Music Conservatoire for 11 years as well as at Alexandroupoli’s Music School for 4 years
Holder of Theory of Music, Harmonics, Solfege and Dictee degrees.
Member of Kozani’s and Thrace’s Symphony Orchestra.