Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

Biography

EDUCATION   Ph.D. Plant Pathology, University of California, Berkeley, USA,1993 M.Sc. Plant Pathology, Montana State University, USA, 1987 B.Sc. Agricultural University of Athens, GREECE, 1984 SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS Agricultural Microbiology Microbial Ecology (Bacterial Ice Nucleation) Microbial Biosensors Biological Control of Plant Pathogens INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS Institute of Life Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, USA Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Montana State University, Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Bozeman, Montana, USA HONORS Fulbright Scholarship 2008-2009. Visit at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University and the Department of Plant Sciences and Plant Pathology, Montana State University, USA Funding for a visit at the Hebrew Univesity of Jerusalem, Israel (November 2014) by the Hellenic Ministry of Education (Bilateral cooperation program) SOCIETIES Hellenic Phytopathological Society International Organization on Biological Control Mikrobiokosmos, Hellenic Society for Microbiology CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 8th Conference of the Hellenic Phytopathological Society, October 1996, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Workshop «Biological control of Plant Pathogens: from Research to Agricultural Production». Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 2001 4th Microbiokosmos Conference, Athens, December 2012 Conference «Enzymes in Sustainable Food Production: a Lean Green Approach». June 2013, Chalkidiki, Greece. Final event of the FP7 Marie Curie «LeanGreenFood» Project XVI ISMPMI Congress (International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions), ΡÏŒδος, Ιούλιος 2014 6th Microbiokosmos Conference, Athens, April 2015

Research Interest

Biochemical and genetic characterization of bacterial antagonists of phytopathogenic fungi and their incorporation in sugar beet seed pellets. Total budget 126000 euros. Principal Investigator. National Funding. Greece-France 2003-06: Les sources et quantités de noyaux glacogènes de l'origine bactérienne dans l'atmosphère et leur rôle dans les processus atmosphériques (Sources and quantity of bacterial ice nuclei in the atmosphere and their role in atmospheric processes). Total budget 24210 euros. Principal Investigator. French partner : Dr. Cindy E. Morris, INRA-Avignon. National Funding. Pythagoras II 2005 : Development and application of whole cell bioluminescent biosensors for toxicity evaluation. Total budget 90000 euros (30000 euros for the Laboratory of General and Agricultural Microbiology). Partner to the Laboratory of Chemistry, AUA.  National Funding. LeanGreenFood 2009-2013. (EU-7th Framework Programme-People-Initial Training Network). Total budget (AUA) 629000 euros. Partner. EU Funding.