Dr. Anastasios D. Tsaousis

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Work description

Cellular localization of T. hominis mitochondrial Hsp70 (green fluorescence) within mitosomes of two microsporidia living inside a rabbit kidney cell, detected using an antibody raised to the T. hominis protein. The confocal microscopy is taken from Williams et al, 2002

As an undergraduate I have studied Biology at University of Crete, Greece. There, I had the opportunity to have my final year project on “studying mtDNA recombination in the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis”. On completion of my undergraduate studies I started working at Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics as a Research Technician where I was involved in different projects in the field of Human Genetics. In parallel, I was also working on a project in collaboration with different laboratories, in an attempt to discover possible recombination in mtDNA from sequences already published.

Currently, I have a PhD Scholarship from the School of Biology of University of Newcastle. The aim of my PhD is to address fundamental questions concerning the function of the microsporidian mitosome - the smallest ‘mitochondrion’ yet found, and the role of HGT in the evolution of microsporidia and eukaryotes. My project will combine theoretical, computational and wet-lab science to address these questions.

Tasos is currently working as a Marie Curie Fellow at Dalhouse University in Canada, his new contact details are:

Dr Anastasios D. Tsaousis

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

A. Roger Lab

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Dalhousie University

Rm 8B1, 5850 College St.

Halifax

N. S. B3H 1X5

Canada

Anastasios's publications

Hjort K, Goldberg AV, Tsaousis AD, Hirt RP, Embley TM. Diversity and reductive evolution of mitochondria among microbial eukaryotes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. vol 365 p. 713-27 (2010). pubmed
Goldberg AV, Molik S, Tsaousis AD, Neumann K, Kuhnke G, Delbac F, Vivares CP, Hirt RP, Lill R and Embley TM. Localization and functionality of microsporidian iron-sulphur cluster assembly proteins. Nature. vol 452 p. 624-8 (2008). pubmed
Tsaousis AD, Kunji ER, Goldberg AV, Lucocq JM, Hirt RP and Embley TM. A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi. Nature. vol 453 p. 553-6 (2008). pubmed
Tsaousis AD, Martin DP, Ladoukakis ED, Posada D and Zouros E. Widespread recombination in published animal mtDNA sequences. Mol Biol Evol. vol 22 p. 1-Sep (2005). pubmed