Biography

Evangelos Kolettas is a member of the Biomedical Research Division-IMBB since 2007. He has a B.Sc.(Hons) in Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemistry, King’s College London (KCL), University of London (1986) and a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from KCL/Genetics Division, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London (1991). He received his postdoctoral training in the Department of Biochemistry, Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, University of London and at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell-Matrix Research/Biochemistry, University of Manchester. Since 2002, he has been working as an Assistant (2002-2007) and Associate Professor (2007-2014) of Molecular Physiology in Laboratory of Physiology, University of Ioannina Medical School. He is currently an Associate Professor of Molecular Cell Biology in the Laboratory of Biology, School of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece (2014). He serves as a guest co-editor for a special issue of CELLS on ‘The DNA Damage Response in Cell Physiology and Disease’, and for a joint special issue of CANCERS-CELLS on ‘NF-κB signalling in cellular responses to threats, cancer development and therapy’.

The current research interests of his lab are:

1. NF-κB signalling pathways and IKK/NF-κB-miRNA regulatory network in DNA damage and inflammation impacting on senescence and cancer, and

2. The identification of novel regulators of DNA damage, inflammation and cancer by employing domain-specific CRISPR/Cas9 screens