ACHILLEAS THEOCHARIS
Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
biochemistry, molecular biology, bioinformatics, molecular visualisation, technology for teaching and learning
Postdoctoral fellow at NYU, former PhD student at Tel Aviv University, 17th Young Scientists' Forum Organizing Committee chair
Our lab uses genetically modified mouse models and a combination of cell biology, molecular biology, and biochemistry techniques to study the role of altered mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolism in human diseases. A primary analytical tool of the group is metabolomics, which enables the parallel quantification of hundreds of small molecule metabolites. The team also uses computational approaches to integrate datasets from multi-dimensional analyses, including metabolomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics, with the aim to model aging-related disorders and to generate mechanistic hypotheses that will be cross validated experimentally.