Anastasia Tsiola

Curriculum Vitae

Submitted by Anastasia Tsiola on Fri, 2013-11-29 10:51

Personal Information

Last name:

Tsiola

First name:

Anastasia

Phone:

00302810337713

e-mail:

atsiola@hcmr.gr

Function at IMBG:

PhD Student

Expertise / Research Interests

Microbial Ecology
Microbial Diversity
Viral Ecology

Languages


Greek	native language
English	excellent

Education and Training


01/07/2013	Ph.D. candidate at the MicroB3 project. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and University of Crete, Department of Biology. Ph.D. thesis title "Interdisciplinary study of viral and prokaryotic interactions in both natural (oceanic and coastal) and controlled conditions (mesocosms)"
01/10/2009-01/10/2010	M.Sc. in Oceanography, Marine Biology & Ecology. National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and University of Southampton, UK.
01/09/2005-01/10/2009	B.Sc. in Biology, Environmental Biology & Management of Biological Resources. University of Crete, Department of Biology, Crete, Greece.
15/02/2009-15/05/2009	Erasmus practical training (Applications of Flow Cytometry in Marine Biogeochemistry). National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK.

Specific Training


October 2013	Participation in the Workshop "When Genetics meets Oceanography", Observatoire Oceanologique de Banyusl-sur-Mer, Banyusl-sur-Mer, France
November 2012	Participation in the Workshop "International Course in Methods in Microbial Ecology", Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
October 2012	Participation in the Workshop "Next Generation Sequencing Technologies & Informatics tools for studying Marine Biodiversity & Adaptation", Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece

Professional Activities


to be executed between January-February 2014	"Virus-Host systems in contrasting environments of the North Western Mediterranean Sea", Georgios Kotoulas, Anastasia Tsiola. Funding received from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007‐2013) ASSEMBLE (9th call)
01/07/2012-01/06/2013	Laboratory technician, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece, in the framework of the MEDSEA project (Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate)
01/07/2011-01/07/2012	Laboratory technician, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece, in the framework of the MESOAQUA project
01/09/2013-15/09/2013	Participation in the MedSeA Crete mesocosm experiment, within the framework of the MEDSEA project, Crete Greece. Addressing ecologic and economic impacts from the combined influences of anthropogenic acidification and warming
15/02/2013-25/03/2013	Participation in the MedSeA Villefranche mesocosm experiment, within the framework of the MEDSEA project, Villefranche-sur-Mer France. Addressing ecologic and economic impacts from the combined influences of anthropogenic acidification and warming
01/07/2012-25/07/2012	Participation in the MedSeA Stareso mesocosm experiment, within the framework of the MEDSEA project, Corsica France. Addressing ecologic and economic impacts from the combined influences of anthropogenic acidification and warming
01/05/2012-15/05/2012	Participation in the ATMOMED mesocosm experiment, within the framework of the MESOAQUA project, Crete Greece. The impact of atmospheric deposition on the microbial food web of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
01/03/2012-30/03/2012	Participation in the PHAEONIGMA mesocosm experiment, within the framework of the MESOAQUA project, Espegrend, Norway. A novel cross-disciplinary approach to solve an old enigma: the food-web transfer of the mass-blooming phytoplankter Phaeocystis
01/09/2011-15-09/2011	Participation in the LAMP (LAgrangian Mesocosm Platform) mesocosm experiment, within the framework of the MESOAQUA project, Crete Greece. Assessing the impact of Inorganic vs. Organic Phosphorus additions on the microbial food web of the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Dia Island
2008-2009	Participation in the SESAME project (Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modeling Environmental Changes), as an undergraduate student
2011-2012	Participation in the MEDEX project (Interbasin exchange in the changing Mediterranean Sea: Impacts on the ecosystems in the vicinity of the straits connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the adjacent basins), as a laboratory technician

Research Activities

Organization of Workshops and Symposia


October	2012	Recent Achievements and Future Directions in Aquatic Mesocosm Research	Member of the organizing committee

Participation in National Committees, Conferences, Workshops


May	2012	10th National Symposium on Oceanography and Fisheries	Athens, Greece

Participation in International Committees, Conferences, Workshops


October	2013	40th CIESM Congress, The Mediterranean Science Commission	Marseille, France
September	2013	SAME13 EMBO Conference, Aquatic Microbial Ecology	Stresa, Italy
August	2013	Goldschmidt Conference	Florence, Italy
October	2012	Symposium in Recent Achievements and Future Directions in Aquatic Mesocosm Research	Heraklion, Greece

History

Member for: 10 years 22 weeks