9th Hellenic Pasteur Institute Young Scientists Conference - Day 3rd

DAY 3|Wednesday, 30 September, 2026
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 Oral Session V | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Chairs: Dr. Artemis Hatzigeorgiou, Dr. Timokratis Karamitros
● Integrative single-cell profiling of melanoma reveals a tumor microenvironment signature
predictive of immunotherapy response
Eirini Goula, Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of
Athens
● MREseeker : Predicting miRNA targets through Machine Learning
Rafail Adam, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
● Targeted genomic masking ensures high-fidelity variant calling while suppressing NGS
artifacts
Chrysoula Kaligerou, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
● Spatial transcriptomics data reveal colocalization patterns among age-specific cell types in
the heart
Antonios Somarakis, The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
12:00 – 13:00 Poster Session III
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:30 Oral Session VI | Advances in Cancer Treatment
Chairs: Dr. Konstantinos Kambas, Dr. Marios Zouridakis
● Olive Oil Total Phenolic Extract Attenuates Doxorubicin-Induced Toxicity in Immunocompetent
BALB/c Mice
Olga S Koutsoni, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute
● RANKL promotes bone metastasis from prostate cancer and melanoma, which is
suppressed by its pharmaceutical inhibition in TgRANKL mice
Christos-Chrysovalantis Syrigos, Department of Biotechnology, Agricultural University of
Athens / Institute for Bioinnovation, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander
Fleming”
● Serum biomarkers for the prognosis of non-small cell lung cancer patients: a proteomics
perspective
Anastasia Georganta, 3rd Department of Medicine "Sotiria Hospital", Medical School,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
● Targeting c-MYC with PROTAC Degraders: Mechanistic and Metabolic Insights into
Therapeutic Strategies for Difficult-to-Treat Cancers
Alexandra Lampropoulou, Center for Clinical, Experimental Surgery and Translational
Research, Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens
● Proteomic and Genomics study of solid tumors/biopsies from patients with non-small cell
lung cancer
Ioannis Voyiatzis, Center of Systems Biology, Biomedical Research Foundation of the
Academy of Athens
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote Lecture|The Geography of Gene Function: Spatial constraints in
gene expression and regulation in eukaryotic genomes
Christoforos Nikolaou, PhD, Associate Professor Level at Bioinformatics and Computational
Biology Division, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”
Chair: Dr. Timokratis Karamitros
17:00 – 17:30 Pasteur Beyond Research: A capturing view of our Institute
Georgios Mpalis, Photography Instructor
17:30 – 18:00 Scientific Image Contest
18:00 – 18:30 Closing remarks | Award Ceremony *
18:30 – … Early Dinner by the Garden with Music 🎶