Education:

• 1992, Degree in Biology, University of Athens
• 1996, Doctorate in Microbiology/Genetics, Institute of Microbiology, Karl-Franzens Universitaet Graz, Austria
• 1998-1999, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Electron Microscopy, St. Savas Hospital, Athens
• 2000–2002, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly

Research Interests & Achievements:

• The regulation of human hypoxia inducible transcription factor HIF-1.
• Posttranscriptional modifications of tRNA.

Selected publications:

• MgcRacGAP interacts with HIF-1 α and regulates its transcriptional activity. Lyberopoulou A., Venieris E., Mylonis I., Chachami G., Pappas I., Simos G., Bonanou S. and E. Georgatsou Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 20 (2007), 995-1006
• Reconstitution of human hypoxia inducible factor HIF-1 in yeast: A simple in vivo system to identify and characterize HIF-1α effectors Georgia Braliou, Venieris E., Alkmini Kalousi, George Simos Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 346 (2006) 1289-1296