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                Professor  

                                             

                                           PHD:           1995, University of Nottingham
                

 

Biology of Organisms, Populations, Environmental and Marine Biology
 
 

Courses

(Winter Semester 39h hours)
(26h Spring Semester hours)
(6h hours)

Recent publications

  • Kallemi, P, Verret F., Andronis C, Ioannidis N., Glampedakis N., Kotsabasis K., Kalantidis K. 2024. Stress-related transcriptomic changes associated with GFP transgene expression and active transgene silencing in plants. Acepted for publication. Scientific Reports.
  • Srivastava R, Bazakos C, Tsachaki M, Žanko D, Kalantidis K, Tsiantis M, Laurent S. (2024). Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece. Genome Biol Evol. 2023 Dec 1;15(12):evad226. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evad226.
  • Grypioti E, Richard H, Kryovrysanaki N, Jaubert M, Falciatore A, Verret F, Kalantidis K. 2024. Dicer-dependent heterochromatic small RNAs in the model diatom species Phaeodactylum tricornutum. New Phytol.  Jan;241(2):811-826. doi: 10.1111/nph.19429. Epub 2023 Dec 3
  • Tselika M, Belmezos N, Kallemi P, Andronis C, Chiumenti M, Navarro B, Lavigne M, Di Serio F, Kalantidis K, Katsarou K. 2023. PSTVd infection in Nicotiana benthamiana plants has a minor yet detectable effect on CG methylation. Front Plant Sci. 2023 Oct 31;14:1258023. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1258023. eCollection 2023
  • Bardani E, Kallemi P, Tselika M, Katsarou K, Kalantidis K.2023. Spotlight on Plant Bromodomain Proteins. Biology (Basel). 2023 Aug 2;12(8):1076. doi: 10.3390/biology12081076.
  • James A., Andronis C., Kryovrysanaki N., Goumenaki E., Kalantidis K., Katsarou K. 2023. First Report of Southern Tomato Virus from Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in Greece. (2023) Plant Disease, 107 (1), pp. 237. Doi: 10.1094/PDIS-02-22-0250-PDN.
  • Katsarou K, Adkar-Purushothama CR, Tassios E, Samiotaki M, Andronis C, Lisón P, Nikolaou C, Perreault JP, Kalantidis K. 2022. Revisiting the Non-Coding Nature of Pospiviroids. Cells. 2022 Jan 13;11(2):265. doi: 10.3390/cells11020265.
  • Katsarou K, Kryovrysanaki N, Kalantidis K. 2022. Detection of Viroid RNA and vd-siRNA in N. benthamiana Plants: Northern Blot Analyses for Viroid and vd-siRNAs. Methods Mol Biol.;2316:287-312. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-1464-8_24.
  • Kryovrysanaki N, James A, Tselika M, Bardani E, Kalantidis K. 2021. RNA silencing pathways in plant development and defense. Int J Dev Biol. 2021 Nov 22.
  • Sassalou CL, Katsarou K, Lotos L., Orfanidou C., Maliogka VI, Kalantidis K, Katis N, Pappi P. 2020. First report of Grapevine Yellow Speckle Viroid-2 in Grapevine in Greece. Plant Disease, 104:6, 1879-1879. https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-12-19-2540-PDN
  • Katsarou K, Chiumenti M, Kalantidis K, Mathioudakis MM. 2020 First Report of Citrus Viroids Infecting Persian (Tahiti) Lime in Greece. Plant Disease, 104:3, 998-998. https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/
  • Ales Pecinka, Christian Chevalier, Isabelle Colas, Kriton Kalantidis, Serena Varotto, Tamar Krugman, Christos Michaelidis, María-Pilar Vallés, Aitor Muñoz, Mónica Pradillo, 2020. Chromatin dynamics during interphase and cell division: similarities and differences between model and crop plants. Journal of Experimental Botany, Aug 17;71(17):5205-5222. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31626285
  • Dimopoulou A, Theologidis I, Liebmann B, Kalantidis K, Vassilakos N, Skandalis N. 2019. Bacillus amyloliquefaciens MBI600 differentially induces tomato defense signaling pathways depending on plant part and dose of application. Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 13;9(1):19120. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55645-2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31836790
  • Katsarou K, Bardani E, Kallemi P, Kalantidis K*. 2019. Viral Detection: Past, Present, and Future. Bioessays. 2019 Aug 22:e1900049. doi: 10.1002/bies.201900049. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31441081
  • Kryovrysanaki N, Alexiadis A, Grigoriadou AM, Katsarou K, Kalantidis K*.; 2018. SERRATE, a miRNA biogenesis factor, affects viroid infection in Nicotiana benthamiana and Nicotiana tabacum. Virology, 29;528:164-175. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30599275
  • Athanasakoglou A, Grypioti E, Michailidou S, Ignea C, Makris AM, Kalantidis K, Massé G, Argiriou A, Verret F, Kampranis SC.; 2018. Isoprenoid biosynthesis in the diatom Haslea ostrearia New Phytol. Nov 5. doi: 10.1111/nph.15586. [Epub ahead of print] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30394540
  • Katsarou K, Mitta E, Bardani E, Oulas A, Dadami E, Kalantidis K*., 2018. DCL-suppressed Nicotiana benthamiana plants: valuable tools in research and biotechnology. Mol Plant Pathol. Oct 21. doi: 10.1111/mpp.12761. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30343523
  • Alexiadis A. Delidakis Ch. Kalantidis K*.2017 The Drosophila Enhancer of RNAi (Eri1) homologue is involved in histonic mRNA processing. FEBS lett. Jul;591(14):2106-2120. https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/1873-3468.12719
  • Cordero T, Cerdán L, Carbonell A, Katsarou K, Kalantidis K, Daròs JA. 2017. Dicer-Like 4 Is Involved in Restricting the Systemic Movement of Zucchini yellow mosaic virus in Nicotiana benthamiana. Mol Plant Microbe Interact.  Jan;30(1):63-71.
  • Katsarou K, Mavrothalassiti E, Dermauw W, Van Leeuwen T, Kalantidis K. (2016) Combined Activity of DCL2 and DCL3 is crucial in The Defense Against Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid. PLoS Pathog. 12(10):e1005936.
  • Mermiga R, Helm JM, Schumacher TH, Vlatakis I, Vamvaka E, Kalantidis K. (2016) The Plant Homologue of Enhanced RNAi 1 (ERI-1) is Involved in Chloroplast Development. Plant J. doi: 10.1111/tpj.13304. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Dadami E, Boutla A, Vrettos N, Tzortzakaki S, Karakasilioti I, Kalantidis K. (2013) RNA silencing pathways may have a positive effect on Potato spindle tuber viroid infectivity in Nicotiana benthamiana. Mol. Plant 6:232-234.
  • Kalantidis K, Schumacher TH, Alexiadis T, Helm MJ. (2008) RNA silencing movement in plants. Biology of the Cell 100: 13-26.
  • Kalantidis K, Denti M, Tzortzakaki S, Marinou E, Tabler M, Tsagris M. (2007) Viroid binding protein 1 is necessary for the infection of potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd). JVI 81: 12872-880.