A5004845879- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Gut microbiota and health
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Nitrogen and Sulfur Effects on Brassica
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications
- Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Probiotics and Fermented Foods
University of Crete
2018-2025
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research
2021
Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
2020
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord
2018
Gut microbes affect the physiology of their hosts. Studying diversity and functions is thus utmost importance as it will open new avenues towards discovery biomolecules treatment diseases. microbiome research currently boosted by unification metagenomics, which has dominated field in last two decades, cultivation, experiencing a renaissance. Each these approaches advantages drawbacks that can be overcome if used synergistically. In this brief article, we summarize recent literature own...
The domain of Archaea has gathered significant interest for its ecological and biotechnological potential role in helping us to understand the evolutionary history Eukaryotes. In comparison bacterial domain, number adequately described members is relatively low, with less than 1000 species described. It not clear whether this solely due cultivation difficulty or, indeed, characterized by constraints that keep low. Based on molecular evidence bypasses difficulties formal characterization,...
Crop wild relatives (CWRs) contain genetic diversity, representing an invaluable resource for crop improvement. Many of their traits have the potential to help crops adapt changing conditions that they experience due climate change. An impressive global effort conservation various CWR will facilitate use in breeding food security. The genus Brassica is listed Annex I International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources Food and Agriculture. oleracea (or cabbage), a species native southern western...
The order Saprospirales, a group of bacteria involved in complex degradation pathways, comprises three officially described families: Saprospiraceae, Lewinellaceae, and Haliscomenobacteraceae. These collectively contain 17 genera 31 species. current knowledge on Saprospirales diversity is the product traditional isolation methods, with inherited limitations culture-based approaches. This study utilized extensive information available public sequence repositories combined recent analytical...
Bacterial diversity is often analyzed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Commonly, sequences are clustered based on similarity cutoffs to obtain groups reflecting molecular species, genera, or families. Due the amount of generated sequencing data, greedy algorithms preferred for their time efficiency. Such rely only pairwise sequence similarities. Thus, sometimes with diverse phylogenetic background together. In contrast, taxonomic classifiers use position specific information in...
The evolution of a population by means genetic drift and natural selection operating on gene regulatory network (GRN) an individual has not been scrutinized in depth. Thus, the relative importance various evolutionary forces processes shaping variability GRNs is understudied. In this study, we implemented simulation framework, called EvoNET, that simulates forward-in-time population. fitness effect mutations constant, rather each evaluated phenotypic level, measuring its distance from...
The evolution of a population by means genetic drift and natural selection operating on gene regulatory network (GRN) an individual has not been scrutinized in depth. Thus, the relative importance various evolutionary forces processes shaping variability GRNs is understudied. Furthermore, it known if existing tools that identify recent strong positive from genomic sequences, simple models evolution, can detect when operates GRNs. Here, we propose simulation framework, called EvoNET,...