Anastasis Oulas

Curriculum Vitae

Submitted by Anastasis Oulas on Mon, 2012-01-09 17:16

Personal Information

Last name:

Oulas

First name:

Anastasis

e-mail:

oulas@hcmr.gr

Function at IMBG:

Research fellow

Expertise / Research Interests

Microarray data analysis, next generation sequencing data analysis, computational prediction of microRNA genes and targets, web applications development, databases

Languages


	native language
English	excellent

Education and Training


2003 - 2009	Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Affiliated with The University Of Crete. Department of Bioinformatics. PhD Title: Computational Prediction of Gene Classifiers and miRNAs in Cancer.
2001 – 2002	Imperial College of Science, Technology and bMedicine. Department: School of Biological Sciences. MSc in Computational Genetics and Bioinformatics. MSc was completed with a distinction.
1998 – 2001	University of Sussex. Department: School of Biological Sciences. BSc in Molecular Genetics in Biotechnology. Degree class: 2.1 honours.

Professional Activities


01/01/11-31/11/11	Postdoctoral fellow at the RNA Laboratory, Institute of Molecular Biology, Foundation of Resarch and Technology. Head of laboratory: Dr.Kriton Kalantidis (Assis. Professor).
01/10/09–31/12/10	Postdoctoral fellow at the Bioinformatics Laboratory, Division of Medicine, University of Crete. Head of laboratory: Dr. Ioannis Iliopoulos.
01/02/03–30/09/03	Research assistant at the Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, under the supervision of Dr. Yiota Poirazi.

International Recognition of Scientific Work

Citations (excluding self-citations):

Self-citations:

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Scholarships / Awards


2003-2005	PROGNOCHIP: “Development and Establishment of DNA Microarray Technology in Greece: Identification and Validation of Classification and Prognosis Molecular Markers for Breast Cancer”, Funding: General Secretary of Research and Technology, Hellas, €350.000. P.I. George Thireos, Panayiota Poirazi Partner.
2004-2005	A.G. Leventis Foundation Grant for postgraduate studies, based on academic excellence.
2005	EU program Human Research Potential & the Socio-Economic knowledge base: Access to Research Infrastructures (ARI). Short visit - Linnaeus Center for Bioinformatics, Uppsala, Sweden, Project – “MiRNA gene prediction from human genomic sequences”.
2005-2008	PENED “Development of computational methods for genomic data analysis”, Funding:General Secretary of Research and Technology, Hellas, €228.000. P.I. Dr. Panayiota Poirazi

Teaching Activities

Postgraduate courses


2008	Participating in teaching the postgraduate level course ‘Algorithms in Bioinformatics.’ Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete.

General teaching activities


2011	Workshop - Introduction to Programming Using Python, June 15th-24th, IMBG,HCMR
2011	Workshop - Literature Mining for Biologists, March 19th, University of Cyprus. Talk titled: “Biomedical textmining - applications in miRNA target prediction”.
2010	Workshop for the Hellenic Society of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics October 17th-19th, Thraki Palace Conference Centre, Alexandroupolis. Talk titled: “miRNA target prediction”.
2004	Workshop in Bioinformatics, September 13th-18th, University of Crete and IMBB-FORTH. Tutorial on “Methods for Microarray Data Analysis and Inference”.

Research Activities

Organization of Workshops and Symposia


June	2011	Introduction to Programming Using Python	Co-organizer

Participation in National Committees, Conferences, Workshops


December	2011	Hellenic Conference of Biochmeistry and Molecular Biology - Talk title: Prediction of miRNA gene targets – a combined computational and experimental approach. Anastasis Oulas, Nestoras Karathanasis, Annita Louloupi, Ioannis Iliopoulos, Panayiota Poirazi, Kriton Kalantidis.	Athens, Greece
September	2011	Workshop - Joint HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE HPC Summer Training.	Athens OTE Academy, Marousi, Greece
September	2010	HSCBB-10: 5th conference of the hellenic society for computational biology, Poster spotlight talk titled: Improved prediction of miRNA gene targets.	Thraki Palace Conference Centre, Alexandroupolis, Greece
June	2009	HSCBB-09: 4th conference of the hellenic society for computational biology,Poster spotlight talk titled: Development of a microRNA target prediction tool.	NHRF, Athens
October	2008	HSCBB-08: 3rd Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Poster spotlight talk titled: SSCprofiler: a combined Sequence, Structure and Conservation profile HMM tool accurately predicts microRNA gene.	CERTH, Thessaloniki, Greece
December	2006	2nd International Advanced Research Workshop on In SilicoOncology, Talk titled: Prediction of novel miRNAs and their gene targets with implications in tumourigenesis, Anastasis Oulas , Martin Reczko, Panayiota Poirazi.	Kolympari, Chania, Greece.
December	2006	1st Cretan Bioinformatics Forum, FORTH. Building Scientific Networks (Invited Talk): Analysis of Microarray Data and Prediction of MiRNA genes using Computational tools.	Crete, Greece
July	2004	Workshop in Bioinformatics, Jointly organized by The Department of Biology, University of Crete(UoC) The Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH), Tutorial Presentation on Microarray Analysis Tools.	Crete, Greece

Participation in International Committees, Conferences, Workshops


July	2011	ISMB/ECCB - Poster Title: Prediction of miRNA gene targets – a combined computational and experimental approach. Anastasis Oulas, Nestoras Karathanasis, Panayiota Poirazi, Kriton Kalantidis.	Vienna, Austria
September	2011	Workshop - Literature Mining for Biologists. Talk titled: “Biomedical textmining - applications in miRNA target prediction”.	University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
August	2010	Cancer Bioinformatics Workshop . Poster spotlight talk titled: Development of a microRNA target prediction tool using hidden Markov models	Cambridge Research Institute, UK
July	2007.	Computational Biology Workshop.	Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS), Split, Croatia
September	2006	The Fifth BioSapiens European School in Bioinformatics. Talk: Computational Prediction of MiRNA in Cancer.	Budapest, Hungary
March	2004	ISMB/ECCB. Poster Title: Biologically Inspired Neural Network and Genetic algorithms for microarray data classification and Identification of informative genes. Anastasis Oulas , Martin Reczko, Panayiota Poirazi	Glasgow, Scotland, UK

History

Member for: 12 years 20 weeks