Lazaros Gagaletsios has a first degree in Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece and now he is a graduate student in Clinical Applications of Molecular Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Greece. His main research interests are focused on prevalence and analysis of CRISPR/Cas systems in Gram-negative bacteria. His projects aim to understand the mechanism and function of CRISPR/Cas systems (especially in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli, which were isolated in Greece) and to determine the origin of sequenced spacers. Additionally, he is interested in the evaluation of mechanisms involved in the virulence of pathogenic bacteria and the use of compounds to suppress the expression of those factors. Also, now he΄s working on Ration project as a biologist.

Stavroula Makri holds a University Diploma in Biology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MSc in Application of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Diagnostic Biomarkers from the University of Thessaly. Her postgraduate thesis focused on Bioinformatics, specifically predicting protein methylation sites using Machine Learning methods. She recently finished research training in Computational RNA Biology at the Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences in Frankfurt, Germany.

Anastasia Voulgara holds a BSc in Sociology from Panteion University of Social and Political Science in Athens. Since 2008 she has been working in the administrative support of research and educative programs at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly.
​ Over the last decade she has participated in a number of European and national projects as a project administrator, responsible for administrative and financial management.

Costas Papagiannitsis is an Assistant Professor in Microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Thessaly, Greece, since May 2018. His main research interests are focused on epidemiological surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (especially of resistance to carbapenems) in Gram-negative bacteria. His projects aim to execute molecular epidemiology of factors (like plasmids, transposons, insertion sequences and integrons) affecting dissemination of multi-drug resistance among nosocomial pathogens, and to characterize novel mechanisms conferring resistance to antibiotics. Additionally, he is interested in the evaluation of mechanisms involved in the virulence of pathogenic bacteria and the use of compounds to suppress the expression of those factors. Also, he is a Specialty Chief Editor in Antibiotic Resistance and New Antimicrobial drugs of Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. Asist. Professor Papagiannitsis has 87 publications in leading journals in the field of microbiology sciences, a Scopus H-index of 25 and 2092 citations (Google Scholar statistics: H-index of 29 and 2978 citations) and holds a Czech national patent (Czech Republic – PV 2013-473).

Sotirios Vasileiadis is an Assistant Professor in the field of Molecular Microbial Ecology – Genomics, at the group of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology (PEB), of DBB UTh, with main interests in stress microbial ecology and antibiotic resistance spread in environmental settings, and expertise in the fields of Microbial Ecology, Meta-Omics and associated Bioinformatics.

Academic: https://bio.uth.gr/en/professors-en/vasileiadis-sotirios-en/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=SwZ7i44AAAAJ&hl=en

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=54080600200

Kalliope K. Papadopoulou is an Assoc. Prof. in Plant Biotechnology at the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology, University of Thessaly

Kalliope K. Papadopoulou has a first degree in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from the Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens. She is in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology since October 2005. Before that she was an Associate Researcher at the National Agricultural Research Foundation and a Marie-Curie Grant Holder at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, U.K.

Her main research interests are in plant specialized metabolism (biosynthesis, production in heterologous systems, biological activities) and in plant-microbe interactions, with emphasis on endophytic fungi, symbiotic relationships and multi-partite interactions. She has 56 publications in leading journals in the field of plant sciences, an h-index of 24 and >1800 citations and holds a Greek patent (Code 1006119).

She is in the Advisory Editors Board of New Phytologist and is a regular reviewer for peer-reviewed journals and EU and National funding bodies. She has coordinated and participated in >30 projects, funded by the EU, National Bodies (GSRT-Greece, Ministry of Education, RPF-Cyprus), and by agro-industries. She is the Director of the MSc Programme “Applications of molecular biology” and currently,  acts as Deputy Director of the OMIC-ENGINE Research Infrastructure on Synthetic Biology in the Agrofood Sector.

Dimitrios Karpouzas is a Prof. in Environmental Microbiology and Biotechnology and Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, Greece. His work mainly focusses on the study of the interactions of pesticides and veterinary drugs with soil microorganisms leading either to biodegradation or toxicity. He has authored 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals (Citations 3368, h-index: 36). He has participated and coordinated several EU (MSCA-IF-H2020, MSCA-IAPP-FP7, MSCA-IRG-FP7, ERANETplus) and national funded projects (ARISTEIA II, HFRI, THALIS, RESEARCH-CREATE-INNOVATE).

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=IeQOCjoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1573-7983