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GIANNAKOUROU Antonia
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Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), P.O. Box 712, 19013, Mavro Lithari, Anavissos,
Attiki, GREECE
agiannak@ath.hcmr.gr
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Female
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Languages
Mother tongue: Greek
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English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Fluent Fluent Fluent
Education and training
1995: Ph.D. Marine Ecology, Univ. des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, Montpellier II, France [Title of thesis: Planktonic Food Webs in
larval Sea bream rearing] NATO Scholarship 1988-1990 , EU Scholarship (FAR) 1990-1993
1987: M.Sc. Aquaculture and Fisheries Management, Univ of Stirling, U.K. NATO Scholarship 1986-1987
1986: B.Sc. Biology, Univ of Thessaloniki, Greece.
TRAINING
1989: Laboratory of Zoology and Protistology, University Blaise Pascal Clermont II. Three-month training in identification of ciliates
- isolation - culture– trophic consumption (grazing) and study of trophic preferences.
1990: Laboratory of Hydrobiology, University Montpellier II. Three-month training on issues of bacteriology and fluorescence microscopy.
1991-1993: Plankton Laboratory Observatoire Oceanologique, Paris VI, Villefranche-sur-Mer. Microscopy and image analysis of pico-nano and
microplanktonic organisms.
1992-1995: Laboratory of Protistology, University Nice-Sophia Antipolis . Identification of protests - trophic relations - planktonic food webs -
flow of matter and energy .
1993: Advanced course: “Analyse multivariée des données numériques”, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Université Paris 6
1997: Laboratory of Luminy, University Marseille II 15days training on bacterial production, radioisotopes.
1999: Laboratory of Oceanography and BioGeoChemistry, University Marseille II, 15days training on the technique of flow cytometry.
SCIENTIFIC IDENTITY
Professional Scientific Experience ( the last 5 years)
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)

2006- : Researcher Grade C, Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR),
Athens, Greece.
2001-2006: Research Scientist, Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Athens,
Greece.
Scientific / Research Interests
Structure and function of the microbial food web, energy flux to the higher trophic levels. Qualitative and quantitative studies of bacteria and
protozoa (microscope, image analysis, flow cytometry). Techniques of measurement of production and growth/grazing processes (use of
radioisotops, fluorescently labeled organisms and molecular probes)
Ciliate ecology, systematics and mixotrophy
Culture in the lab of pico-nano and micro auto-and heterotrophic organisms
Marine mesocosms: dynamics of pelagic ecosystems, optimisation of blooms for fish larvae culture
Toxic Phytoplankton: toxic blooms, toxin transfer within the food web, dinoflagellate cysts.
Shellfish culture management: protection of the marine environment, optimisation of production
Participation in Research Projects ( since 2000)
2011-2012: Study of modern dinoflagellate cysts, Joint research and technology programme Greece-Turkey: “Microalgae resting cysts in recent
marine sediments and their role in the establishment of HABs in three eutrophicared bays in Greece and Turkey / GSRT, Scientific responsible.
2011-2013: Role of acidification on marine bacteria and viruses MEDSEA (Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a changing climate) / U, FP7,
Subtask Co-responsible.
2009-2011: Inter-basin exchange in the Mediterranean Sea: Impact on the microbial food web, MEDEX (Inter-basin exchange in the changing
Mediterranean Sea: Impact on the ecosystems in the vicinity of the Straits connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the adjacent Basins) /
MarinERA, EU-RTD , CO-responsible of several subtasks
2007-2010: Role of the pelagic microbial food web in assessing and predicting changes in the Southern European Seas, SESAME (Southern
European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes) / U, FP6, Co-responsible of several subtasks.
2005-2007: Prediction of the impact of climatic changes and anthropogenic pressure on the pelagic microbial food web in the Eastern
Mediterranean, EUR-OCEANS (European Network of Excellence for Oceans Ecosystems Analysis) / U, Subtask responsible
2003-2006: Microbial Food Web in transitional waters, TW-REFERENCENet (Management and sustainable development of protected
transitional waters)/ CADGES/INTERREG IIIB , Subtask responsible.
2001-2004: Development of toxic cultures and study of toxin transfer to microzooplankton, FATE (Transfer and Fate of Harmful Algal Bloom
(HAB) Toxins in European Marine Waters, /EU FP5 Subtask responsible.
2001-2004: Possible environmental (toxic blooms) effects of resuspended resting phytoplankton stages (cysts), INTERPOL ( Impact of Natural
and Trawling Events on Resuspension, Dispersion and Fate of Pollutants / EU FP5, Task Co-responsible
2001: The role of appendicularians (Oikopleura) in carbon flux, CE-LSF (Large Scale Facilities) , Greece-Denmark, Subtask responsible
2000-2002: Protist grazing in the Eastern Mediterranean, Joint research and technology programme Greece-France PLATON (The role of flow
cytometry and scanning flow cytometry in the study of marine microorganisms / GSRT.
2000-2002: Protist grazing in the Eastern Mediterranean, Joint research and technology programme Greece-T (Regulation of bacterial
concentration through protist grazing in polluted and non polluted areas/ GSRT.
1998-2001: Microbial Food Web in the oligotrophic N. Aegean Key, KEYCOP (Coastal processes in the mesotrophic Skagerrak and the
oligotrophic N. Aegean: A comparative study/ EU, Subtask Co-responsible.
2007-2010, 2004-2007: MONITORING OF SARONIKOS GULF , Responsible for microzooplankton.
1999-2001: Study of the environmental impact on the mussel culture zone in Thermaikos Gulf and Thessaloniki Bay, Management study
Scientific Co-responsible.
Participation in Committees, Conferences, Workshops ( since 2000)
ISCHA, 14 th International Conference on Harmful Algae, Crete, 1-5 November 2010 (Organising Committee)
39th CIESM Congress, Venice, Italy, 10-14 May 2010
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)

ASLO Aquatic Sciences meeting, Nice, France, 25-30 January 2009
9 th Hellenic Symposium on Oceanography and Fisheries, 13-16 May 2009, Patras, Greece.
ICES/CIESM Workshop to compare Zooplankton Ecology and Methodologies between the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic. 27-30
October 2008, Heraklion, Greece
EUR-OCEANS annual PIs meeting, Glyfada, Greece, 25-26 April 2007.
SESAME General Assembly Meeting, 29-31 October 2007, Bucharest, Romania.
SESAME training workshop in plankton, 2-7 July 2007, Athens, Greece.
TWReferenceNET Project - 2nd Annual meeting, Athens 30-31 January 2006.
8 th Hellenic Symposium on Oceanography and Fisheries, 4-8 June 2006, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Toxic Phytoplankton in Greek Seas: Institute of Oceanography, HCMR 18 March 2004, Athens, Greece.
EUROHAB Workshop Amsterdam 17-18 March 2003.
7 th Hellenic Symposium on Oceanography and Fisheries, 6-9 May 2003, Hersinissos Crete, Greece.
3 rd International Zooplankton Production Symposium, Gijon, Spain 20-23 May 2003
ONR Aegean Sea Workshop, Rhodos, Greece, 8-10 October 2002.
INTERPOL Final Workshop, Athens Greece, 21-23 November 2002
8 th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology, SAME-8. 25-30 October 2002, Taormina, Italy.
KEYCOP Final Workshop, Athens, Greece, 2001
INTERREG Meeting – N. Aegean System Functioning and Inter-Regional Pollution, Kavala, Greece, 28-30 May 2001
ISME 9, Interactions in the Microbial world, 2001 Amsterdam the Netherlands, Abstract book, p.282.
6 th Hellenic Symposium on Oceanography and Fisheries, 23-26 May 2000, Chios, Greece.
Mussel cultures in Thermaikos Gulf. 19-20 December 2000, Chalastra Thessaloniki, Greece
CIESM Workshop on ‘Microbial loops: Integrating microbes into Mediterranean marine environments’, Invited speaker, 5-10 May 2000, Israel.
Ocean Sciences Meeting AGU-ASLO, Research Across Bundaries, June 5-9 Copenhagen, Denmark 2000.
7 th European Marine Microbiology Symposium 17-20 September 2000, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands.
Publications
21 scientific papers published in International Referred Journals and book chapters. About 70 scientific papers presented at International and
National Conferences with proceedings. More than 20 oral communications (without proceedings) in meetings, workshops, etc.
315 cited references for the published papers, according to the databases a) SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED, SOCIAL SCISEARCH
CITATION INDEX and ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX of ISI®, b) the data base of Elsevier SCOPUS.
Publications in peer reviewed journals/book chapters
Zervoudaki S., Assimakopoulou G., Christou E.D., Gucu A.C., Giannakourou A., Orek H., Pagou K., Pitta P., Moutsopoulos A., Ycel N. Siokou
Frangou I., Ozsoy E., Papathanassiou E. (2011). Connecting plankton food web functioning and biogeochemical cycles in the Mediterranean
area affected by the Black Sea water inflow. J. Marine Sys in press.
Frangoulis K., Psarra S., Zervakis V., Meador T., Mara P., Gogou A., Zervoudaki S., Giannakourou A., Pitta P., Lagaria A., Krassakopoulou E.
Siokou I., (2009). Connecting plankton food web functioning and biogeochemical cycles in the Mediterranean area affected by the Black Sea
water inflow. J. Plankton Res. 32(8): 1203-1216
Zeri C., Kontoyannis H., Giannakourou A. (2009). Distribution, fluxes and bacterial consumption of total organic carbon in a populated
Mediterranean Gulf. Cont. Shelf Res. 29: 886-895.
Economou G., E.D. Christou, A. Giannakourou, E. Gerasopoulos, D. Georgopoulos, V. Kotoulas, D. Lyra, N. Tsakalis, M. Tzortziou, P.
Vahamidis, E. Papathanassiou, A. Karamanos (2008). Eclipse effects on field crops and marine zooplankton: the 29 March 2006 total solar
eclipse. Atmos. Chem.Phys. 8: 4665-4676.
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Reizopoulou S., E. Strogyloudi, A. Giannakourou, K. Pagou, I. Hatzianestis, C. Pyrgaki, E. Graneli (2008). Okadaic Acid accumulation in
macrofilter feeders subjected to natural blooms of Dinophysis acuminata. Harmful Algae 7: 228-234.
Zervoudaki S., E.D. Christou, T.G. Nielsen, I. Siokou-Frangou, G. Assimakopoulou, A. Giannakourou, M. Maar, K. Pagou, E. Krassakopoulou,
U. Christaki, M. Moraitou-Apostolopoulou (2007). The importance of small-sized copepods in a frontal area of the Aegean Sea. J. Plankton Res
29(4): 317-338.
Strogyloudi E., A. Giannakourou, C. Legrand, A. Ruehl, E. Graneli (2006). Estimating the accumulation and transfer of Nodularia spumigena
toxins by the blue mussel Mytilus edulis: an appraisal from culture and mesocosm experiments. Toxicon 48: 359-372.
Giannakourou A., T.Y. Orlova, G. Assimakopoulou, K. Pagou (2005). Dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments from Thermaikos Gulf,
Greece: Effects of resuspension events on vertical cyst distribution. Cont. Shelf Res 2585-2596.
Giannakourou A., K.A. Kormas, P. Pitta, U. Christaki (2005). Microbes and the Microbial Food Web In: Papathanassiou E. & Zenetos A (eds)
«State of the Hellenic Marine Environment», Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Athens p 330-335. (ISBN 960-86651-8-3).
Polymenakou P.N, A. Pusceddu, A. Tselepides, T. Polychronaki, A. Giannakourou, C. Fiordelmondo, E.Hatziyanni R.Danovaro, (2005).
Benthic microbial abundance and activities in an intensively trawled ecosystem (Thermaikos Gulf, Aegean Sea). Cont. Shelf Res 2570-2584.
Tönnesson K., M. Maar, C. Vargas, E Moller, S Satapoomin, S Zervoudaki, E. Christou, A. Giannakourou, A Sell, JK Petersen, TG Nielsen, P.
Tiselius, (2005). Selective feeding and grazing impact of Oikopleura dioica on an autumn protist community. Mar Biol Res 1:5 365-379.
Tiselius P, JK Petersen, TG Nielsen, M Maar, E Moller, S Satapoomin, K Tönnesson, S Zervoudaki, E. Christou, A Giannakourou, A Sell, C
Vargas (2003). Functional response of Oikopleura dioica to house clogging due to exposure to algae of different sizes. Mar. Biol 142: 253–261
Van Wambeke F., Christaki U., Giannakourou A., Moutin T., Katerina Souvemerzoglou K. (2002). Longitudinal and vertical trends of bacterial
limitation by phosphorus and carbon in the Mediterranean Sea. Microb. Ecol Vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 119-133.
Siokou-Frangou I., Bianchi M., Christaki U., Christou E.D., Giannakourou A., Gotsis O., Ignatiades L., Pagou K., Pitta P., Psarra S.,
Souvermezoglou E., Van Wambeke F. & Zervakis V. (2002). Carbon flow in the planktonic food web along a gradient of oligotrophy in the
Aegean Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Marine Systems, 33-34: 335-353.
Christaki U., Courties C., Karayanni H., Giannakourou A., Maravelias C., Kormas A.K., Lebaron P. (2002). Dynamic characteristics of
Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus consumption by bacterivorous nanoflagellates. Microb. Ecol Vol. 43, no. 3, p 341-352.
Vargas CA, Tönnesson K, Sell A, Maar M, Møller EF, Zervoudaki S, Giannakourou A, Christou E, Satapoomin S, Petersen JK, Nielsen TG,
Tiselius P (2002). Importance of copepods versus appendicularians in vertical carbon fluxes in a Swedish fjord. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser 241:125-
138
Pitta P., Giannakourou A., Christaki U. (2001). Planktonic ciliates in the oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea: longitudinal trends of standing stocks,
distributions and analysis of food vacuole contents. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 24: 297-311.
Christaki U., Giannakourou A., Van Wambeke F., Gregori G. (2001). Nanoflagellate predation on auto-and heterotrophic picoplankton in the
Oligotrophic Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Plankton Research 23 : 1297-1310.
Pitta P., Giannakourou A, Cristaki U (2001). Grazing impact of planctonic ciliates in the Mediterranean Sea. Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer Medit. 36:
205.
Pitta P., Giannakourou A. (2000). Planktonic ciliates in the oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean: vertical, spatial distribution and mixotrophy.
Marine Ecology Progress Series, 194: 269-282
Pitta P., Giannakourou A., Divanach P. & Kentouri M. (1998). Planktonic food web in marine mesocosms in the Eastern Mediterranean:
bottom-up or top-down regulation? Hydrobiologia, 363: 97-105
Kara M.H., Barnabe G., Giannakourou A. (1995). Influence de la taille des oeufs de Dicentrarchus labrax (Moronidae) sur les performances
précoces des larves à jeun. Cybium, 19(2): 179-186.
Papers in International conference proceedings (peer reviewed)
Giannakourou A., Pitta P., Magiopoulos I., Konstadinopoulou A., Zeri C., Krasakopoulou E., Papathanassiou E., 2010. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer
Médit., 39, p. 365
Zeri C., Besiktepe S., Pavlidou A., Giannakourou A., Krasakopoulou E., 2010. DOM stoichiometry in the Marmara Sea during September
2008. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., 39, p. 327
Pitta P., Giannakourou A. & Christaki U., 2001. Grazing impact of planktonic ciliates in the Mediterranean Sea. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit.,
36:
205
Pitta P. & Giannakourou A., 1995. Seasonal variability of nano- and microplankton in Heraklion Bay (South Aegean). Rapp. Comm. int. Mer
Médit., 34: 215
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