Dimitris Beis
Investigator
Department of Surgery
BRFAA
Greece
Biography
Dimitris Beis graduated from the Biotechnology Department of the Agricultural University of Athens and received his PhD from the Molecular Cell Biology Department of the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands in the lab of Prof. Ben Scheres. During his graduate studies, he elucidated the mechanisms by which the plant hormone auxin patterns the Arabidopsis root and identified the PLETHORA transcription factors downstream of auxin that are necessary for patterning of the Arabidopsis root stem cell niche. Beis moved to Didier Stainier's laboratory in the University of California San Francisco to work on zebrafish cardiovascular development. He joined a group of post-docs from the Stainier and Baier labs in UCSF working on a large-scale forward genetic screen, looking for cardiovascular mutants. He identified more than a dozen, novel mutant lines that show defects in cardiac valve development. He is in BRFAA since 2006 as an ENTER fellow funded by the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology and became Investigator C in the Developmental Biology lab in May 2008.
Research Interest
Molecular Cell Biology
