District of Columbia (DC)
Lida AnestidouThe National Academies, Senior Program Officer
Laboratory Medicine, Physiology, Animal Science, science policy, biomedical ethics
l.anestidou(at)me.com
Antonis Papanikolaou-Sengos
Georgetown University, Medical student
ap243(at)georgetown.edu
Grigoris Pattakos
Georgetown University, Medical student
gregpattakos(at)yahoo.com
Ioannis Elefherianos
The George Washington University, Assistant Professor
Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Immunology, Developmental Biology
My lab is intested in the molecular and evolutionary basis of the innate immune response to bacterial pathogens and parsites. We use the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model host organism because of the following advantages: (1) the ability to use powerful genetics to identify and characterize new mutations, (2) the genomic resources that make it easier to clone the corresponding genes and manipulate them in vivo and (3) the fact that many biological processes are conserved between flies and humans. My long-term goal is to take the information from studies in Drosophila immunity and use it for the identification and development of promising genetic targets for regulating inflammatory responses or for augmenting host resistance to bacterial infections in humans.
Ioannise(at)gwu.edu