Short CV

Dr Panos Ioannidis is an environmental scientist with a PhD in molecular insect microbiology from the University of Ioannina. His PhD thesis (2008) was on the symbiotic Wolbachia bacterium and the different ways it interacts with its insect hosts. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in different labs: INRA-Nancy (2010-2011), where he studied the microbial metagenome of soil samples from forests. Univ Maryland Baltimore (2011-2013), where he studied horizontal gene transfer between animals and their symbiobic bacteria, and the transcriptome of the invasive brown marmorated stink bug. Univ Geneva (2013-2016), where he analyzed the genome of insects that belong to clades such as Palaeoptera, which were under-represented in terms of genomic resources. He also participated in the development of bioinformatics tools and resources. IMBB-FoRTH (2018-2023), where he analyzed RNAseq data in order to study genes related to insectide resistance. He also participated in various projects including the study of the evolution of lepidopteran P450s as well as the assembly and analysis of the carob tree genome. As of Dec 2023 he joined the Biodiversity Computing Group at ICS-FoRTH, in order to work on ways to analyze genome sequence data originating from various biodiversity projects.

Research Interests

• comparative genomics
• evolution of genes related to insecticide resistance
• development of computational tools