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Molecular Virology Laboratory
Hellenic Pasteur Institute

Personnel

• P. Mavromara, Ph.D., Director (penelopm@hol.gr)
• U. Georgopoulou, Ph.D., Researcher (uraniag@mail.pasteur.gr)
• A. Kakkanas, Ph.D., Staff Scientist (thanos@mail.pasteur.gr)
• H. Boleti, Ph.D., Associate Scientist (hboleti@mail.pasteur.gr)
• B. Laliotou, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (blaliotou@mail.pasteur.gr)
• E. Aslanoglou, M.Sc., Technical Staff
• A. Michailidou, Technical Staff (athena@mail.pasteur.gr)
• M. Kalamvoki, B.Sc., Doctoral Student (mkalamvoki@mail.pasteur.gr)
• K. Kalliampakou, B.Sc., Doctoral Student (kalliampakou@mail.pasteur.gr)
• V. Kouvatsis, B.Sc., Doctoral Student (vk@mail.pasteur.gr)
• E. Tsitoura, B.Sc., Doctoral Student (etsitoura@mail.pasteur.gr)
• P. Tsitoura, B.Sc., Doctoral Student (panagiota@mail.pasteur.gr)
• N. Vassilaki, B.Sc., Doctoral Student (vassilakiniki@mail.pasteur.gr)
• R. Kantzipa, Administrative Assistant (kantzipa@mail.pasteur.gr)

Research Interests

• Molecular biology of HSV.
• Epidemiology of HPV infection & cervical cancer in Greece.
• Molecular biology & pathobiology of HCV.

Selected Publications

• Psaridi, L., Georgopoulou, U., Varaklioti, A. and Mavromara, P. (1999). Mutational analysis of a conserved tetraloop in the 5' untranslated region of HCV identifies a novel RNA element essential for the internal ribosome entry site function. FEBS Lett. 453, 49-53.
• Varaklioti, A., Georgopoulou, U., Kakkanas, A., Psaridi, L., Serwe, M., Caselmann, W.H. and Mavromara, P. (1998). Mutational analysis of two unstructured domains of the 5' untranslated region of HCV RNA. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 253, 678-685.
• Labropoulou, V., Diakomanolis, E., Dailianas, S., Kalpaktsoglou, K., Balamotis, A., and Mavromara, P. (1997). Type-specific prevalence of genital human papillomaviruses in benign, premalignant and malignant biopsies in patients from Greece. Sex. Transm. Dis. 24, 469-474.
• Labropoulou, V., Diakomanolis, E., Dailinas, S., Kalpaktsoglou, K., Rodolakis, A., Beaudenon, S., Kakkanas, A., and Mavromara, P. (1996). Genital papillomavirus in Greek women with high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical carcinoma. J. Med. Virol. 48, 80-87.
• Miriagou, V., Argnani, R., Kakkanas, A., Georgopoulou, U., Manservigi, R., and Mavromara, P. (1995). Expression of the herpes simplex virus type 1 glycoprotein E in human cells and in Escherichia coli : protection studies against lethal viral infection in mice. J. Gen. Virol. 76, 3137-3143.
• Georgopoulou, U., Kakkanas, A., Miriagou, V., Michaelidou, A., and Mavromara, P. (1995). Characterization of the US8.5 protein of herpes simplex virus. Arch. Virol. 140, 2227-2241.
• Kakkanas, A., Papadogeorgaki, H., Manservigi, R., Miriagou, V., Georgopoulou, U., and Mavromara, P. (1995). Escherichia coli expressed herpes simplex virus gG1 and gG2 proteins in ELISA and immunoblotting assays. Intervirology 38, 346-351.
• Labropoulou, V., Balamotis, A., Tosca, A., Rotola, A., and Mavromara, P. (1994). Typing of human papillomaviruses in condylomata acuminata from Greece. J. Med. Virol. 42, 259-263.
• Georgopoulou, U., Michaelidou, A., Roizman, B., and Mavromara, P. (1993). Identification of a new transcriptional unit that yields a gene product within the unique sequences of the short component of the herpes simplex virus 1 genome. J. Virol. 67, 3961-3968.
• Ong, C. K., Chan, S. Y., Campo, M. S., Fujinaga, K., Mavromara, P., Labropoulou, V., Pfister, H., Tay, S. K., ter Meulen, J., Villa, L. L. et al. (1993). Evolution of human papillomavirus type 18: an ancient phylogenetic root in Africa and intratype diversity reflect coevolution with human ethnic groups. J. Virol. 67, 6424-31.