Efstathios Giotis
Researcher
Faculty of Medicine
National Heart Lung Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Giotis received his DVM degree in Veterinary Medicine from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 2001 and his MSc and PhD degrees in biotechnology and molecular microbiology respectively from the University of Ulster. His PhD was awarded for studies on the genomic and proteomic regulation of Alkali-Tolerance Response in Listeria monocytogenes in 2006. Since then, he worked at the Illinois State University, the Royal Veterinary College, London, and the Roslin Institute, in research projects involving mainly genomic work on MRSA in humans and animals, and Chicken Anaemia Virus respectively. In 2011, he moved to the Imperial College in London to work as a postdoctoral scientist in the lab of Dr MA Skinner and since 2013 he is the main postdoctoral scientist in the 5-year BBSRC-funded strategic LoLa project ‘Developing Rapid Responses to Emerging Virus Infections of Poultry’. His current focus is on the complexity of avian innate immunity, in particular the antiviral type I interferon system, and viral mechanisms to modulate the host responses.
Research Interest
Virology
Publications
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Long JS, Giotis ES, Moncorgé O, et al., 2016, Species difference in ANP32A underlies influenza A virus polymerase host restriction, Nature, Vol:529, ISSN:0028-0836, Pages:101-104
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Giotis ES, Robey RC, Skinner NG, et al., 2016, Chicken interferome: avian interferon-stimulated genes identified by microarray and RNA-seq of primary chick embryo fibroblasts treated with a chicken type I interferon (IFN-alpha), Veterinary Research, Vol:47, ISSN:0928-4249
