Biochemical Journal Best Poster Prize Winner

Aggelos Banos

Aggelos Banos graduated from the University of Athens as a biologist in 2005. He got his Ph.D. degree in 2011 in Biochemical Sciences from the Medical School of Athens and Biomedical Research Center of the Academy of Athens. As a Ph.D. student he studied the role of stochasticity and interchromosomal interactions in regulation of gene expression during the immune response. He clarified the role of NF-κB transcription factor in regulating antiviral genes through certain structures in the cell nucleus. His work also focused on the process of building an interaction map of genes and regulating elements before or after virus induction, as well as on a 3D reconstruction of the nucleus during reprogramming of human genome in response to virus induction. His current research aims to understand the role of histone variant macroH2A in ES cell biology and differentiation processes.