9th Hellenic Pasteur Institute Young Scientists Conference - Day 2nd

DAY 2|Tuesday, 29 September, 2026
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 Oral Session III | Neuroscience & Clinical Neurology
Chairs: Dr. Florentia Papastefanaki, Dr. Era Taoufik
● Extracting clinical phenotypes from nationwide prescription data: A computational
pipeline with an application in bipolar disorder
Vasileios Karageorgiou, Second Department of Psychiatry, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
● Maternal Immune Activation in the A53T α-Synuclein Mouse Model: Early Microglial
Priming and the Developmental Origins of Neurodegeneration
Aikaterini Maria Karampeidou, Department of Neurobiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
● Kallikrein-6-driven α-Synuclein clearance mitigates Parkinson's disease pathology
Marina Skarveli, Center for Basic Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy
of Athens
● Association of α-Synuclein with the Exocyst Complex
Konstantina Dimoula, Department of Chemistry, National & Kapodistrian University of
Athens
● Understanding the Traumatized Brain: Brain Networks, Neuroplasticity and Recovery
Following Psychological Trauma
Charis Spathari, Scientific College of Greece
● Impact of TET Protein Family in Gliomas
Ioannis Vasilakis, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
12:30 – 13:15 Bridging Science and Industry: Advances in Biotechnological Innovation
Industry Session
● Beyond the Genome: Empowering Biological Discovery through Multiomic Integration
Maria Georgomanoli, MSc, PhD & Elena Traka, MSc, BioAnalytica
● Trust in every drop: Cell Signaling Technology validated antibodies and solutions for your
research
Maxime Jacquet, PhD, Cell Signaling Technology (CST)
● Every discovery begins with a question: Using innovative technologies to decode biological
complexity
Androniki Tasiopoulou, M.Sc, & Marios Athanasopoulos, M.Sc, P. ZAFIROPOULOS S.A.
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 Poster Session II
15:00 – 16:30 Oral Session IV | Immunology & Disease Modeling
Chairs: Dr. Vasiliki Kyrargyri, Dr. Dionyssios Sgouras
● SARS-CoV-2 Reactivates Epstein-Barr Virus and Precipitates the First Clinical Episode in a
Greek Cohort of Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Vasileios Gouzouasis, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University
of Thrace
● Pharmacokinetic optimization of an antigen-specific therapy for myasthenia gravis
Eleni Ntoukaki, Department of Immunology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
● Dysregulated sympathetic nervous system in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus promotes the
autoimmune phenotype of B cells
Ariadne Damanaki, Laboratory of Autoimmunity and Inflammation, Biomedical Research
Foundation of the Academy of Athens
● CD20×CD3 Bispecific Antibodies in B-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas: From Immune
Redirection to Emerging Therapeutic Strategies
Polyxeni Giamaiou, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
● Spatial Epigenomics Reveals Neuropeptide-Driven Chromatin Remodeling at Neuro-
Immune Interfaces
Ourania Dimopoulou, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
● Human viruses in relation to autoimmune diseases
Eleni Paximadi, Former Hellenic Pasteur Institute Member
16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote Lecture|Dissecting antigen processing to understand adaptive
immunity: from polymorphic variation to therapeutic potential
Efstratios Stratikos, PhD, Professor of Department of Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
Chair: Dr. Marios Zouridakis