Team:Athens/Team
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Team
team
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two or more people working
together to achieve a common goal.Every small or great achievement throughout this journey, every milestone of this endeavour and every step that brought us closer to our final goal, was a product of teamwork. Some of us knew each other before iGEM, others were complete strangers just some months ago, but we all joined this effort with the same passion! We came together to form the second-ever Athenian iGEM team and, while pursuing a spot in this year’s Giant Jamboree, we received more than we ever asked for… We made new friends and interacted with interesting people, we spent countless hours together, we worked hard, had fun, shared beautiful experiences with one another. We found support in each other and laughed away moments of great stress, we celebrated every bit of success that came our way, we inspired and found inspiration in each other’s passion for Science, we explored our potential, as individuals and young scientists, and surpassed our limits by throwing ourselves into unfamiliar situations… And it’s for all these that it was well worth every minute of our journey!
Scroll down to find our team and click on the images to learn more about each one of us!
Meet our team!
Name: Anastasios Galanis
School: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (MSc in Neurosciences)
Worked in: Wet lab, Human Practices, Fundraising
iGEM made me a Master of panicking about sequences design only to realise everything was under control or at least we thought so
Fun Fact about me: I joined iGEM Athens out of pure procrastinationAnastasios Galanis
Name: Nikolas Kalavros
School: Biology Department, UoA
Worked in: Wet Lab, Dry Lab, some HP
iGEM made me a Master of Closely regulating the intervals between my consumption of coffee cups. Yes, I do actually eat the cups.
Fun Fact about me: I can't handle music that is in Greek.Nikos Kalavros
Name: Fani Zoumpou
School: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
Worked in: Wet Lab, Human Practices, Fundraising
iGEM made me a Master oftime, crisis and stress management, oh I'm a real pro now...
Fun Fact about me: Once, they wrote my name "Funny" at Starbucks :)Fani Zoumpou
Name: Nikolaos Karvelas
School: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
Worked in:Wet Lab, Human Practices, Dry Lab
iGEM made me a Master of Zen Buddhism. And DNA sequences. These are the reasons I turned to Buddhism anyway.
Fun Fact about me: I love weird stuff. It's on the T-shirt, people. It has to be true.Nikolaos Karvelas
Name: Alexandra Karvela
School: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
Worked in: Wet lab, Human Practices, Fundraising
iGEM made me a Master of realizing how little I actually know...
Fun Fact about me: … but I currently feel motivated to learn things (until I return from Boston and probably become a post-iGEM sleepy and always cold couch potato again)Alexandra Karvela
Name: Iason Milionis
School: National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Worked in: Dry Lab, Human Practices, Social Media
iGEM made me a Master of handling a multitude of things at the same time...
Fun Fact about me: I absorb as much information about anything as can literally be possible!Iason Milionis
Name: Anna Maria Tsiatsiani
School: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
Worked in: Wet lab, Human Practices
iGEM made me a Master of preparing agarose gels and loading gel dyes. So watch out people!!
Fun Fact about me: I don't know lolAnna Maria Tsiatsiani
Name: Iason Papadopoulos
School: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School
Worked in: Wet Lab, Human Practices, Entrepreneurship
iGEM made me a Master of delivering SynBio speeches impromptu
Fun Fact about me: I get dangerously confident when I'm sleep deprivedIason Papadopoulos
Name: Marilena De Pian
School: National Technical University of Athens, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Worked in: Dry Lab, Wiki Design
iGEM made me a Master of not panicking when I am trying to change the wiki page and no matter how many different things I try nothing really changes or everything else is changing. Oh, and also believing that "Beginning is already half the entire task."
Fun Fact about me: All my out-of-the-box ideas came to me in the showerMarilena De Pian
Primary Instructors
| Spiros Efthimiopoulos | Professor of Animal & Human Physiology and Neurobiology, Department of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
| Georgios Diallinas | Professor of Molecular Microbiology,Department of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
| Michael Koutsilieris | Professor of Experimental Physiology, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
| Anastasios Philippou | Associate Professor of Experimental Physiology and Physiology of Exercise, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Spiros Eftimiopoulos 
Georgios Diallinas 
Michael Koutsilieris 
Anastasios Philippou Instructors
| Sotirios Amillis | PhD research assistant and lab teaching assistant, Department of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
| Panagiotis Lembessis | Research Laboratory Supervisor at the Experimental Physiology Laboratory, School of Medicine, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
| Alexandros Savvidis | Scientific Associate at the Section of Botany, Department of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Sotirios Amillis 
Panagiotis Lembessis 
Alexandros Savvidis Advisors
| Georgia Papadaki | Angeliki Maria Dionysopoulou | Sofia Dimou | PhD students at Diallinas Lab, Department of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
| Pothos Grevias | Undergraduate student at Diallinas Lab, Department of Biology, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens