Antonis Karamalegos Email & Phone Number

Greece

London Area, United Kingdom

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London, England, United Kingdom

• Conducting market research and providing intelligence for clients, focusing on biotech/pharmaceutical companies and products.
• Covering and reporting on Conferences, Analysis of presentations. Competitive Intelligence
• Contributing to reports, client PowerPoint presentations and article writing.

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

• PhD Research titled "Investigating the effects of natural compounds on health and ageing" - Expected submission date: Q1 2024
• Developed and established protocols for working with and screening for effects of small molecules, utilizing the model organism C. elegans.
• Compounds included natural compounds and synthetic compounds extracted from traditional Asian medicine plants, Kent cherries and compounds from bacteria, microalgae.
• Results will be published in 2024. Potential for commercial use of compounds in cosmetics with anti-ageing effects.
• Worked with Supramolecular self-associating amphiphilic salts (SSAs), a unique class of small molecules that offer potential as next-generation cancer drugs and therapeutic enhancement agents. Research published in.
• Confident and skilled public speaker, regularly presenting research findings at the University and conferences.

Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom

• Research Technician position at newly formed C. elegans lab working with the native microbiome.
• Researched the communication of the brain-gut axis and the microbiome’s effects on health and lifespan, using the nematode C. elegans.
• Trained MSc and PhD students and conducted practical demonstrations for Undergraduates.
• Managed the laboratory's reagent stock supplies and maintained the collection of bacterial and nematode strains.
• Documented protocols and efficiently organized laboratory equipment to ensure smooth operations.
• Fluorescent Imaging, Cloning, PCR, Nucleic Acid extraction, Bacterial Cultures.

Athens, Greece

• Microbiology Diagnostics Lab technician
• Worked in a microbiology diagnostics laboratory under sterile environment, handling human samples ( blood, urine, faecal etc).
• Main responsibilities included manually receiving, organizing and documenting large amounts of human samples,streak plating samples, handling samples through automated analyzers, evaluating results and documenting them.
• Handled hundreds of samples daily, on a strict and pressing time schedule.

• Assigned the role of my commanding officer's personal assistant
• Assumed management role of organizing and allocating personnel to duties, activities and shifts daily, during my mandatory 9-month service.
• Served as direct link between recruits and highest ranking officers.
• Worked under daily high-pressure and time-sensitive conditions, relying on multi-tasking, time management and efficiency.

Athens, Greece

• Performed my BSc internship and thesis experiments in a C. elegans lab working on mRNA turnover
• Researched the effects of mRNA turnover mechanism on health and ageing, focusing on the activity of the decapping mechanism in the nervous system of C. elegans nematodes.
• C. elegans handling, maintenance and breeding
• Microbiology techniques: bacterial cultures, bacterial transformation and cloning
• Molecular Biology techniques: PCR, DNA/RNA/plasmid extraction, gel electrophoresis, qPCR, RNAi
• Confocal Microscopy, Fluorescent Microscopy, microinjection on Inverted Microscope

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Genetics

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General

High School