Lab Leader

Dr. Antonios Kolocouris, Associate Professor
working hard to keep things going ...
E-mail: ankol@pharm.uoa.gr

Current Lab Members

Eleni Vrontaki, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Scholar (Apr. 2017 - present)
E-mail: evrontaki@pharm.uoa.gr
Education: 2016 Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry (University of Athens)
                  2012 M.Sc. in Organic Synthesis and its Applications in Chemical Industry (University of Athens)
                  2010 B.Sc. in Chemistry (University of Athens)
Skills: 3D-QSAR, MD Simulations
Current Working Project: In silico drug design of novel pharmaceutical molecules as selective inhibitors of adenosine receptors.

Christina Tzitzoglaki, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student (Feb. 2014 - present)
E-mail: tzitzo@pharm.uoa.gr
Education: 2014 Master's (two years) in Medicinal Chemistry (University of Athens)
                  2011 B.Sc in Chemistry (University of Athens)
Skills: Ligands and peptide synthesis, FEP calculations, MD simulations Current Working Project: Design and synthesis and unraveling binding properties of aminoadamantane ligands and their polar head targeting at influenza M2 WT, S31N ion channel proteins and other amantadine resistant mutants.

Panagiotis Lagarias, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student (Sept. 2015 - present)
E-mail: pilag@pharm.uoa.gr
Education: 2014 M.Sc. in Drug Design (UCL)
                  2012 B.Sc in Molecular Biology and Genetics (Democritus University of Thrace)
Skills: Virtual Screening, MD simulations, Supercomputing (HPC clusters)
Current Working Project: In silico drug design and binding understanding of novel selective inhibitors of adenosine receptor.

Athina Konstantinidi, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student (Mar. 2016 - present)
E-mail: athinakonst@pharm.uoa.gr
Education: 2016 M.Sc. in Organic Synthesis and its Applications in Chemical Industry (University of Athens)
                  2014 B.Sc. in Chemistry (University of Athens)
Skills: Ligands synthesis, FEP calculations, MD simulations, ssNMR, SWAXS (biophysics)
Current Working Project: Study of interactions of aminoadamatane compounds with their receptor Influenza A/M2TM using novel synthesized molecules, computational and structural methods.

Marianna Stampolaki, M.Pharm.
M.Sc. student (Nov. 2017 - present)
E-mail: stampolaki.marianna@gmail.com
Education: 2017 Master of Pharmacy
Skills: Synthesis
Current Working Project: Synthesis of novel agents against tuberculosis.

Dimitrios Stamatis, M.Pharm.
M.Sc. student (Nov. 2017 - present)
E-mail: distamatis@hotmail.com
Education: 2017 Master of Pharmacy
Skills: Docking and MD simulations
Current Working Project: In silico drug design and binding understanding of novel selective inhibitors of adenosine receptor using docking and MD simulations, cheminformatics.

Dimitrios Kolokouris, M.Pharm.
Graduate researcher (June 2017 - present)
E-mail: dimitris.kolokouris@gmail.com
Education: 2017 Master of Pharmacy
Skills: MD simulations, Western blot
Current Working Project: Study of the influenza A/WT virus M2 proton channel - amantadine complex and the system's relative stability and simulation accuracy when embedded in different membrane bilayers.

Sofia Kyriakidi, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student (Sep. 2017 - present, co-supervision with Prof. Thomas
Mavromoustakos)
E-mail: skyriakidi@gmail.com
Education: M. Phil Upsalla (Quantum Chemistry of Inorganic Reactions)
Skills: Quantum Chemistry calculations, MD simulations
Current Working Project: Quantum chemistry study of organic reaction mechanisms, MD
simulations of AT1 antagonists in complex with their receptor.

Ioannis Stylianakis, M.Sc.
Ph.D. student (Nov. 2017 - present, co-supervision with Prof. Thomas
Mavromoustakos)
E-mail: stylianakis@hotmail.com
Education: M.Phil Upsalla (NKUA, Department of Pharmacy, Medicinal Chemistry)
Skills: Ligands synthesis, quantum chemistry calculations
Current Working Project: Quantum chemistry study of organic reaction mechanisms, MD simulations of AT1 antagonists in complex with their receptor.

Past members

Harris Ioannidis, M.Sc.
E-mail: harris.ioannidis@hotmail.gr
Skills: MD simulations, FEP calculations, peptide synthesis

Antonios Drakopoulos, M.Sc.
E-mail: drakopoulosantonis@gmail.com
Skills: MD simulations, FEP calculations, ligands synthesis