Dr Evangelia Papadopoulou has a first degree in Agriculture and an MSc in Crop Protection from the School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). She was awarded her PhD working jointly in the Laboratory of Pesticide Science, AUTH & in the Laboratory of Plant & Environmental Biotechnology, University of Thessaly (UTH) in December 2013.  The title of her PhD was highly relevant to the project: Study of the behaviour of selected biological and synthetic pesticides in soil and their impact on the soil microbial community. She has so far 13 publications in peer reviewed journals. She was seconded from University of Thessaly to AEIFORIA twice spending in total 9 months in AEIFORIA. Evangelia was responsible for setting up and running the laboratory experiment for the assessment of the toxicity of pesticides on soil microbes and establishing the analytical protocols for the analysis of pesticides and their main metabolites. In her second secondment period she worked on the adsorption of the target pesticides in soil

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Mr Panagiotis Karas has a first degree in Agriculture from the Technical University of Kalamata and an MSc in Biotechnology in Nutrition and Environmental Quality from the University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Panagiotis has been  a PhD student of the University of Thessaly working under the supervision of Dr D. Karpouzas on the use of biobed systems for the depuration of pesticide-contaminated wastewaters from the fruit packaging industry. He was seconded by UTH to AEIFORIA for a period of 6 months (October 2013 – March 2014) working on the completion of the measurements of the dissipation and metabolism of pesticides in the lab study and the set up and running of the field experiment for assessing the soil microbial toxicity of pesticides. Panagiotis is the co-author of  10 articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He was only recently awarded his PhD (20 December 2016)

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Mrs Sonia Nikolaki has a first degree in Physics, University of Crete and an MSc in Biotechnology from the Agricultural University of Athens. She joined the MGM Research Group of the University of Patras as a PhD student and she is currently working on Microbial communities and pesticide interactions in oilseed and sunflower. She was seconded to AEIFORIA and ENOVEO working on the laboratory and field dissipation of pesticides, determination of soil enzymatic activities in the lab and field tests and on the determination of the impact of pesticides on the diversity of bacterial and fungal communities

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Miss Georgia Pertile has a first degree in Forestry and Environmental Sciences from University of Padova and a second degree in Sciences and Forestry management from the University of Florence. Since 2009 is a PhD student in Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza and associated with AEIFORIA srl., working under the supervision of Prof. M. Trevisan (president of AEIFORIA srl) on the Synthetic and Natural agrochemicals compounds: ecological impacts on the soil system and effects on plant production. She was seconded by AEIFORIA to INRA, University of Thessaly and University of Patras for 8, 6 and 3 months respectively where she was responsible for soil DNA extraction, determination of the impact of pesticides on the abundance of key microbial taxa and functional microbial groups and finally she tested the impact of pesticides on the soil bacterial diversity using PhyloChip®. In March 2016 she was awarded her PhD by UNICATT.

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Miss Veronika Storck obtained her M.Sc. degree at University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) in 2013. Her main research fields are microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry and chemical analysis. Veronika Storck joined the Love-to-hate project (Marie Curie actions) in November 2013 as Ph.D. student at INRA of Dijon (France) with Dr. Fabrice Martin-Laurent as dissertation director. She was seconded by INRA to AEIFORIA initially for a period of 6 months where she worked on the development of analytical methods for identifying the metabolic pathway of tebuconazole using advanced analytical tools and molecular typology. Subsequently she was seconded for a second 6-month period to ENOVEO where she was involved in the determination of the effects of pesticides on the soil microbial diversity using next generation sequencing and then in the bioinformatic and statistical analysis of the data. In November 2016 she was awarded her PhD. She is the author of 4 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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Dr. Chiara Perruchon has a first degree in Biotechnology and a Master-equivalent degree in Industrial Biotechnology both obtained at the University of Pavia, Italy. She was awarded of her PhD in June 2014 by the University of Thessaly (UTH), Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Greece, after working in the Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology under the supervision of Dr. D. Karpouzas. The title of her PhD was: Isolation and study of bacteria able to degrade pesticides contained in the wastewaters produced by the fruit-packaging industry. She was seconded by UTH to ENOVEO for a period of 6 working on the NGS-Illumina analysis of bacteria and fungi from the field experiment. She is the author of 9 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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Miss Céline Baguelin has completed her Bachelors in Biochemistry at the University of Rouen (France) and her Masters in Microbial Ecology at the University of Lyon (France). Since 2010 she is a project engineer with ENOVEO (Lyon – France), working on bioengineering projects concerning soil and site bioremediation as well as compound biodegradation. She was seconded from ENOVEO to INRA where she worked on soil DNA extraction and determination of the impact of pesticides on the abundance of key microbial taxa. Subsequently she was seconded for two more period in the University of Thessaly where she worked on the determination of the impact of pesticides on the abundance of key functional microbial group, investigated how soil properties might affect the impact of pesticides on soil microbes and finally she worked on the set up of a pipeline for isolating novel pesticide biocatalytic enzymes using functional metagenomics from soil samples and biobed samples.

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Miss Camille Chabanis has a first degree in microbial ecology and a master degree in microbiology applied environment from the University of Lyon.  She is based on ENOVEO company as project engineer in molecular biology. She was seconded for two periods in the University of Patras working on the determination of the impact of pesticides on the soil microbial diversity using next generation sequencing and PhyloChip®

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Dr Angela Sacchi has an MSc in Natural Science from the University of Florence and obtain in 2011 a PhD in Aquatic Ecotoxicology from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Piacenza, Italy. Her PhD thesis was focused on the ecotoxicological effects of xenobiotics on aquatic organisms. Research undertaken at INRS‐ETE, Quebec, Canada; UFZ, Leipzig, Germany; National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy with the application of different techniques as molecular biomarkers and bio‐indicators. Since 2011 she worked as contract researcher at Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in risk assessment of Plant Protection Products for the National and Zonal Authorisation. Then in 2013 she was awarded a EC JRC- IHCP grant working on the scientific/technical activities related to Biocides Review Program. She has been part of different EU Project related to the effects of chemical stressors on aquatic compartment as ECsafeFOOD and GLOBAQUA. She was then  employed by AEIFORIA from where it was seconded to the University of Patras working on the determination of the impact of pesticides on the soil microbial diversity using PhyloChip®. She is now employed by EFSA

   

 


 

Dr. Dermou Eftychia has a first degree in Environmental and Natural Resources Management, University of Ioannina (biological processes in the treatment of drinking water and wastewater). She was awarded her PhD on 2007 working in the Laboratory of Environmental Systems, Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management, UI, in the biological reduction of hexavalent chromium from industrial wastewater using trickling filters. During the LOVE TO HATE project she was seconded from the University of Patras to AEIFORIA for a period of 7 months working on the identification and the quantification of candidate metabolites of the fungicide tebuconazole.

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Dr Najoi El Azhari has a first degree in Agronomy Genetics and Plant Breeding. She continued with a PhD in Microbial Ecology at the INRA, Dijon, under the supervision of Dr Fabrice Martin-Laurent. Her work focused on the development of molecular markers to track microbial communities (diversity, structure, abundance) involved in the degradation of aromatic contaminants. As a post-doc at DTU Environment (Denmark) she studied gene transfer in synthetic biofilms. In 2008, she was recruited as Project Manager at SATT GRAND EST (Welience Agro-environment department, spin-off of the Universities of Burgundy, Lorraine and Franche-Comté) associated with INRA, Dijon. Her main work topics was the development of molecular markers applied to plant diversity (vineyard, blackcurrant), microbial ecology (pollutant degradation), ecotoxicology. Within the LOVE-TO-HATE project she was seconded from INRA to AEIFORIA to study in depth the establishment of the metabolic pathway of tebuconazole in soils. She was then seconded for a second period from INRA to ENOVEO working on the determination of the impact of pesticides on soil microbes using next generation sequencing approaches. She is the author of fiver papers in peer-reviewed journals.

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Mr. Lucio Botteri has a First Degree in Agro-Environmental Science and an MSc in Agricultural Sciences and Technologies both by the Università del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza. He worked from 2005 to 2009 at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza, Laboratory of Agricultural Chemistry  as field investigator in carrying out G.L.P. studies on pesticides and pollutants risk assessment. Since 2009 he is a founding member of Aeiforia s.r.l. where he works as Field Manager in field leaching studies, groundwater monitoring programs and studies on operators and by-standers exposure during and after the application of PPPs, in particular soil fumigants. In the frame of the LOVE-TO-HATE project he was seconded to the University of Thessaly for a period of 8 months where he investigated the dissipation of selected pesticides on different soils from the three geographical zones of EU. He was then seconded for a second period from AEIFORIA to INRA where he investigated the mineralization of the same pesticides in the three different soils using 14C-labelled chemicals. He is currently registered for an Industrial PhD in UNICATT while working in AEIFORIA.

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Miss Vasiliki Skiada has a first degree in Biology from the University of Athens, and an MSc from the Agricultural University of Athens. She is a PhD candidate in the University of Thessaly working on plant- microbe interactions and specifically on the interactions of a suppressive endophytic Fusarium solani strain with other endophytic microorganisms like arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the plant. He has expertise in plant and environmental biotechnology and experience in a wide array of molecular biological techniques. In the frame of the LOVE TO HATE project she was seconded to ENOVEO for a period of 6 months (working on the development of a functional microarray platform called PestiChip

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Dr Panagiota Stathopoulou is working as a postdoc researcher in the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources Management based in Agrinio (University of Patras) for the last 2 years. She received her bachelor degree in Biology from University of Athens and completed her PhD in Microbial Biotechnology at the same university. After that, she worked as a post doc molecular biologist in the National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens. Her main research interests include: (a) study of the microbial diversity in various environments using –omic technologies (b) bioprospecting for novel microbial industrial enzymes from extreme environments (c) hydrolytic enzymes (production, purification, biochemical characterization and biotechnological applications). She has worked on a variety of projects concerning the discovery, biosynthesis and production of thermophilic hydrolytic enzymes (lipases, cellulases, xylanases), the consolidated bioprocessing of lignocellulosics for ethanol production by F.oxysporum, the study of Minos transposon in A. nidulans, the discovery of potentially therapeutic compounds against protein misfolding diseases and the cultivation of insect symbionts. In the frame of the LOVE TO HATE project she was seconded to ENOVEO (Lyon-France) for a period of 3 months (December 2015 – February 2016). She has published 6 scientific papers and she is a reviewer in international scientific journals. She has also participated in more than 15 international or national conferences with oral or poster presentations and was a member of the organizing committee at 2 of them.

   

 


 

Mr Elias Asimakis obtained his first degree in Biology and his Master’s degree in Bioinformatics from the University of Athens. He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, at the University of Patras, working on bacterial endosymbionts of insect species that have a significant agricultural and environmental impact. He is mostly focused on studying the microbial diversity in various insect hosts, using both –omic technologies and molecular biology techniques but he has also worked with structural bioinformatics and bacterial proteomics. In the frame of the LOVE TO HATE project he was seconded to ENOVEO (Lyon) working on the development and evaluation of a functional microarray platform name PestiChip®.

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