Maria Klapa
Talk Title: Therapeutic application V: Metabolic & Protein Networks
Maria Klapa (Chemical Engineering Diploma, NTU Athens, 1995; PhD in Metabolic Engineering, minoring in Optimization methods for biological networks, Chemical Engineering Dept., MIT, 2001) is Research Director, Head of Metabolic Engineering and Systems Biology Laboratory (MESBL), FORTH/ICE-HT, Patras, Greece. Post-doctoral fellow, MIT (2001) and The J. Craig Venter Institute (2002) in eukaryotic genomics and integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses; Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dept, U. Maryland-College Park (2002–2005). MESBL research focuses on: metabolic network activity analysis through development and application of metabolomics & fluxomics methodologies, multi-omics in systems biology, and mathematical modelling of metabolic and protein interaction networks. MESBL has substantial contribution in the standardization of experimental & computational protocols for mass spectrometry-based metabolomics in various biomedical contexts and the investigation of the genetic architecture of diseases through protein and metabolic network analyses. Klapa is Deputy Head of Node of ELIXIR-GR and co-leader of ELIXIR-EU Metabolomics Community.