Dr. Panayiota Poirazi

• 1992 – 1996
  Diploma, University of Cyprus, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Nicosia, Cyprus. G.P.A 9.17/10
  
  

• 1996 – 1998
  M.Sc., University of Southern California, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Los Angeles, California, USA. G.P.A 3.82/4
  
  

• 1996 – 2000
  Ph.D., University of Southern California, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Los Angeles, California, USA
  
  

• Sidiropoulou, K. and Poirazi, P. "Predictive features of persistent activity emergence in regular spiking and intrinsic bursting model neurons" PLoS Comp. Biol, 2012 Sept; 8(4): e1002489.

• Pissadaki, E.K., Sidiropoulou K., Reczko M., and Poirazi, P. "Encoding of spatio-temporal input characteristics by a single CA1 pyramidal neuron model" PLoS Comp. Biology, 2010 Dec;6(12): e1001038.

• Zhou Y, Won J, Karlsson MG, Zhou M, Rogerson T, Balaji J, Neve R, Poirazi P, Silva AJ. "CREB regulates excitability and the allocation of memory to subsets of neurons in the amygdala." Nature Neuroscience, vol. 12, No 11, pg. 1438-43, Nov 2009.

• Oulas, A. Boutla, A. Gkirtzou, K. Reczko, M. Kalantidis, K. and Poirazi, P. "Prediction of novel microRNA genes in cancer associated genomic regions: a combined computational and experimental approach" Nucleic Acid Research, vol. 7, pg. 3276-3287, June 2009.

• Poirazi, P. Brannon, T. & Mel, B.W. "Arithmetic of Subthreshold Synaptic Summation in a Model CA1 Pyramidal Cell." Neuron, vol 37, pg. 977-987, March 2003.

• Poirazi, P. Brannon, T. & Mel, B.W. "Pyramidal Neuron as 2-Layer Neural Network." Neuron, vol 37, pg. 989-999, March 2003.

• Poirazi, P. and Mel, B.W. "Impact of Active Dendritic Processing and Structural Plasticity on Learning and Memory." Neuron, vol 29, pg. 779-796, March 2001.

• ERC STG 2012: "dEMORY: Dissecting the Role of dendrites in memory", Funding: European Research Council, 2012 – 2017. Budget: 1,398,000 Euro

• REGPOT: "InnovCrete: Unlocking the innovative capacity of multidisciplinary structural biology-driven research in Crete", Funding: FP7-REGPOT-2012-2013-1, 2012 – 2015. Coordinator: M. Kokkinidis, Total Budget: 4,000,000 Euro

• Marie Curie Initial Training Network of the European Commission "Neuroelectronics and nanotechnology: towards a Multidisciplinary Approach for the Science and Engineering of Neuronal Networks" 2011 – 2015. Coordinator: University of Antwerp, Budget: 165,000 Euro

• Marie Curie Individual Outgoing Fellowship of the European Commission. "Computational modeling and physiological studies of neural form and function in the aging brain." 1/3/2008 – 28/2/2010, 204,142.00 Euro P.I & Fellow: Panayiota Poirazi

• EMBO Short Term Fellowship for visiting Alcino Silva's lab at UCLA and receiving training in electrophysiology techniques. Funding: EMBO, 15/1/2008 – 15/3/2008, 6,800 Euro. Fellow: Panayiota Poirazi

• Levendis Foundation Grant for the establishment of an Electrophysiology Unit at IMBB-FORTH, Funding: Levendis Foundation, 1/2006, 93,000 Euro.

• EMBO Young Investigator Award "Using Computational Methods to Understand Neural and Gene Function" Funding: EMBO 1/2005 – 12/2007. 75.000 Euro.

• Marie Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission. Project title "Using Expression Profiling to Identify Molecular Mechanisms in Malaria: Introducing Neural Networks for Microarray Data Analysis." Contract no: QLK6-CT2001-51031, 75.200 Euro, 1/2002 – 6/2004.

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

• Society for Neuroscience (SFN)

• Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS)

• European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO-YIP)

• Hellenic Society for Computational Biology (HSCB)

• Hellenic Society for Neuroscience (HSN)

• Marie Curie Fellows Association (MCFA)

• European Neuroscience Institute Network (ENI-NET)

• Interviews with Dr. Poirazi on national TV and radio channels (Kriti T.V., NET, New Crete TV) about her "woman of the year 2012" award and her research, March 2013.

• "Woman of the year award" by the L.I.F.O. magazine to Dr. Poirazi, January 2013.

• Article in the Greek daily "Vima" about the ERC Starting grant awarded to three young Greek scientists, one of which is Dr. Poirazi, September 2012.

• Press Release for the ERC Starting Grant 'dEMORY – Dissecting the Role of Dendrites in Memory' project, July 2012. Relevant articles in the local and national press: Kathimerini, Athens News Agency, Patris, KathimeriniCyprus, Antenna.

• Article in Science Illustrated (Greek version) covering the work of the Poirazi lab on single neuron models of information coding in the hippocampus, March 2011. Respective publication: Pissadaki et al, PLoS Computational Biology, 2010.

• Press release covering work of the Poirazi lab on single neuron models of information coding in the hippocampus, December 18th, 2010. Respective publication: Pissadaki et al, PLoS Computational Biology, 2010. Relevant article in the Greek national daily Eleftherotypia.

• Press release covering work of the Poirazi lab on the analysis of cancer phenotypes, July 11th, 2010. Respective publication: Petalidis et al, Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 2008. Relevant article in the Greek national daily Eleftherotypia.

• Press release covering work of the Poirazi lab on brain modeling, May 21st, 2007. Specifically, the role of dendrites in information processing in the hippocampus. Relevant article in the Greek national daily Eleftherotypia.

• Press release covering work of the Poirazi lab on computational methods for gene profiling in relation to cancer and modeling of gene regulatory networks in yeast, May 3rd, 2007. Relevant article in the Greek national daily Eleftherotypia.

Soft Skills

• Married to Panos Tsakalides, a professor in Computer Science at the Univ. of Crete

• Mother of two boys and one girl

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