Name: Elias Asimakis (Ηλίας Ασημάκης)

Date of Birth: 08/05/1983

Address: 13 Riga Fereou st. Agrinio, Greece

Contact info: e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] | skype: eliasasim

Education

20/02/2014 – Present Day || Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Patras

05/06/2007 – 05/10/2010 || M.Sc. in Bioinformatics (Grade 8.8), Department of Biology, University of Athens

11/10/2001 – 10/12/2007 || Degree in Biology (Grade 6.47), Department of Biology, University of Athens

Personal skills

Foreign languages: English (C2), Italian (C1) || Research skills: Molecular biology, Microbiology, Bioinformatics

Professional/Research experience

01/2020 - 12/2020 || Study of the genome and of the microbial communities related to the development and production of mass-reared sea bream and sea bass, University of Patras

06/2018 - 09/2019 || Study of symbiotic bacteria in aphids with the use of omic technologies with the aim of developing new environmentally friendly control methods, University of Patras

03/2016 – 07/2016 || “LOVE TO HATE - pesticides: felicity or curse for the soil microbial community?”, Enoveo SA, Bioengineering Environmental Solutions, Lyon, France

17/10/2013 – 30/06/2015 || “Thales - Symbiotic bacteria and Omics with the perspective of new, environmentally friendly methods for controlling harmful insects: the example of the Medfly (Symbiomics)”, University of Ioannina

Publications

1. Asimakis, E., Doudoumis, V., Gouvi, G., Tsiamis, G., 2019. Draft Genome Sequence of Enterobacter hormaechei ENT5, a Component of the Symbiotic Community of Tephritid Flies. Microbiol Resour Announc 8, e01364-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/MRA.01364-19
2. Asimakis, E.D., Doudoumis, V., Hadapad, A.B., Hire, R.S., Batargias, C., Niu, C., Khan, M., Bourtzis, K., Tsiamis, G., 2019a. Detection and characterization of bacterial endosymbionts in Southeast Asian tephritid fruit fly populations. BMC Microbiology 19, 290. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-019-1653-x
3. Asimakis, E.D., Khan, M., Stathopoulou, P., Caceres, C., Bourtzis, K., Tsiamis, G., 2019b. The effect of diet and radiation on the bacterial symbiome of the melon fly, Zeugodacus cucurbitae (Coquillett). BMC Biotechnology 19, 88. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12896-019-0578-7
4. Augustinos, A.A., Drosopoulou, E., Gariou-Papalexiou, A., Asimakis, E.D., Cáceres, C., Tsiamis, G., Bourtzis, K., Penelope Mavragani-Tsipidou, null, Zacharopoulou, A., 2015. Cytogenetic and symbiont analysis of five members of the dorsalis complex (Diptera, Tephritidae): no evidence of chromosomal or symbiont-based speciation events. Zookeys 540, 273–298. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.540.9857