Education
| Dates | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 - current | MPhil/PhD | Bioinformatics. King's College London. Next Generation Sequencing, software development and data analysis, under the supervision of Prof. Costas S. Iliopoulos. Grant awarded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) in 2010, for postgraduate research in biology abroad. |
| 2006 - 2008 | MSc | Bioinformatics. University of Athens. Degree Project on the prediction of amyloidogenic determinants in proteins, under the supervision of Prof. Stavros J. Hamodrakas. Award received for finishing first of my class. |
| 2002 - 2006 | Degree. | Biology. University of Athens. Degree project on single-spanning transmembrane proteins, under the supervision of Prof. Stavros J. Hamodrakas. |
| 1996 - 2002 | Secondary education | 57th Gymnasium and Unified Lyceum of Athens. Course specialization in Sciences. |
Publications
- Transcriptome map of mouse isochores. Arhondakis S, Frousios K, Pissis S, Tischler G, Iliopoulos CS, Kossida S. BMC Genomics 2011; 12:511.[Open Access]
- Approximate string-matching with a single gap for sequence alignment. Tomas Flouri, Kimon Frousios, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Kunsoo Park, Solon P. Pissis and German Tischler. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB 2011). ACM Digital Library (to appear).
- REAL: An efficient REad ALigner for next generation sequencing reads. Kimon Frousios, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Laurent Mouchard, Solon P. Pissis and German Tischler. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB 2010), pp.154-159. ACM Digital Library.
- Amyloidogenic determinants are usually not buried. Frousios KK, Iconomidou VA, Karletidi CM, Hamodrakas SJ. BMC Struct Biol. 2009 Jul 9;9:44.[Open Access]
Conference Presentations
- REAL: An efficient REad ALigner for next generation sequencing reads. Kimon Frousios, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Laurent Mouchard, Solon P. Pissis and German Tischler. 1st International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ACM-BCB 2010), Niagara Falls, USA, 2-4 Aug 2010.
- Amylpred: A web tool for a consensus prediction of amyloidogenic determinants. Frousios Kimon, Iconomidou Vassiliki and Hamodrakas Stavros. 3rd Conference of the Hellenic Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (HSCBB), Thessaloniki, Greece, 30-31 Oct 2008.
- Amyloidogenic determinatns do not hide. K.K.Frousios, V.A.Iconomidou, C.M.Karletidi, S.J.Hamodrakas. 4th Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association, Athens, Greece, 26-27 Sept 2008.
- Analysis of Structural and Functional domains in single-spanning transmembrane proteins. Frousios K., Litou Z.I., Hamodrakas S.J. 28th Annual Conference of the Hellenic Society for Biological Sciences, Ioannena, Greece, 18-20 May 2006.
Awards and Grants
- International Travel Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering, to attend ACM-BCB 2010 and present oral paper. (£800)
- Full scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) to carry out postgraduate research in Bioinformatics. (tuition fees & stipend)
Activities
- London Stringology Days and London Algorithmic Workshop LSD/LAW 2011, hosted by King's College London.
- Winter Stringmasters 2011, Rouen, France.
- Joint Workshop with the Hong Kong University, hosted Sept 2010 by the Hong Kong University.
- London Stringology Days and London Algorithmic Workshop LSD/LAW 2010, hosted by King's College London.
AMYLPRED: A consensus tool for amyloid propensity prediction