Dr. Ioannis Eleftherianos

Prof. Dr. Ioannis Eleftherianos is a Professor of Biology at the Infection and Innate Immunity Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University. He received a B.Sc. from the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Larissa in 1996 and an M.Sc. from the University of Reading in 1999. Prof. Dr. Ioannis Eleftherianos obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Bath in 2002, where he did his Postdoctoral Research from 2003 to 2006. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the French National Centre for Scienti9c Research (CNRS)/Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) from 2007 to 2009. His research interests include host-pathogen interactions using a model insect (Drosophila), a nematode parasite (Heterorhabditis) and its symbiotic insect-pathogenic bacterium (Photorhabdus); RNA interference in the insect and nematode combined with bacterial genetics; molecular biology, basic microbiology and parasitology, cellular immunology, insect physiology/biochemistry, Drosophila genetics, insect and microbial genomics.