ATHANASIOS LYKIDIS Ph.D.

 

Scientist, Genomes and Lipids Group

Athanasios (Thanos) Lykidis holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and he specializes in lipid metabolism. He did his postdoctoral studies at the St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN, working on phospholipid metabolism. He then joined Integrated Genomics Inc. where he was responsible for the curation of Lipid metabolism. Thanos joined the Genome Biology program at the JGI in 2004, to lead the function prediction and metabolic reconstruction group. He is also leading the JGI’s gene QA pipeline. The main focus of his research interests is on recognizing the genes participating in lipid metabolic pathways and on reconstructing the lipid metabolism of organisms, based on their genome sequence.
 

Current projects:

    Lead Scientist

• Bioengineering and Selection for Biodiezel production in Bacteria (in progress).
• Metagenomic Analysis of a Terephthalate-Degrading Microbial Community (in progress).
• Genome analysis of  Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 (in progress).
• Genome analysis and Metabolic reconstruction of Lipid and Cofactor metabolism
• JGI Gene QA pipeline

    Collaboration Projects

• Genome analysis of Ignicoccus sp. (in progress).
• Genome analysis of Halothermothrix orenii. (in progress).
• Development of the IMG and IMG/M systems.

 

Older projects:

• Genome analysis of Thermofilum pendens (completed)
• Comparative genomics and evolution of eukaryotic phospholipid biosynthesis. (completed)
• Genome analysis of the major degrader of plant cell walls bacterium, Thermobifida fusca (completed).
• Genome analysis of the dog intracellular pathogen Ehrlichia canis (completed)
• Genome analysis of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a (completed).