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Antonios Magoulas

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Date of Birth : April 20,1957
Nationality : Greek
Language : Greek:Native language
English: reading, writing and spoken English
at high professional level

Education

• 1980 B.Sc. in Biology from the National University of Athens, Greece.
  
• 1990 Ph.D. degree in Marine and Population Biology from the University of Crete, Greece.

Professional Experience

• 1985 - to date. Participation and coordination of research projects carried out by the Genetics Department of the Institute of Marine Biology of Crete and the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics of the University of Crete.

Other relevant activities

Member of the Scientific Council of IMBC (1995 - to date). Head of the Department of Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology of IMBC.

Current European Projects

• FAIR CT 96 1899. "The use of molecular genetic markers for the study of stock structure of anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) in the Mediterranean and adjacent seas". (European co-ordinator)
• FAIR CT 97 3494. "Genetic diversity and parasitic infections of European hake (Merluccius merluccius) as descriptors of fishing impact on Mediterranean and Atlantic stocks. (Scientific responsible)
• A multi-disciplinary approach using genetic markers and biological tags in horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus) srtock structure analysis Scientific responsible)
• FAIR CT 97 3941."The genetic structure of swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic: study by means of individual genetic tagging using microsatellite DNA markers". (Scientific responsible)
• FAIR CT 95 0421. "Genetical bases and variability of physiological traits involved in growth in Crassostrea gigas". (Scientific responsible)
• DG XIV Study Project 97/0048. Evaluation of the southern Greek anchovy stocks (Scientific responsible for Genetics)
• DG XIV Study Project 98/039. Evaluation of the southern Greek sardine stocks (Scientific responsible for Genetics).
• DG XIV Study Project 98/041. State of the stocks of European wreckfish (Polyprion americanus) (Scientific responsible for Genetics). Cephalopod resources dynamics: patterns in environmental and genetic variation

Selected publications

• Matsakis, E., Frentzos ç., Magoulas A., Molfetas S., and Bournazos D., 1984. Observations Bio-ecologiques sur certaines populations insulaires de Ligidium de Grece (Isopode, Oniscoidae). Biologia Gallo-Hellenica 11: 137-147.
• Magoulas, A., and Zouros E., 1993. Restriction-site heteroplasmy in anchovy indicates incidental biparental inheritance of mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Biology and Evolution 10(2):319-325.
• Magoulas, A., Kotoulas G., Tsimenides N., Zouros E., De La Serna J.M. and De Metrio G., 1993. Genetic structure of swordfish ,(Xiphias gladius) populations of the Mediterranean and the eastern side of the Atlantic: analysis by mitochondrial DNA markers. ICCAT Collective Volume of Scientific Papers, Vol. XL(1):126-136.
• Magoulas, A., Sophronides K, Patarnello T., Hatzilaris E. and Zouros E., 1995. Mitochondrial DNA variation in an experimental stock of gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata). Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology 4(2): 110-116.
• Kotoulas, G., Magoulas A., Tsimenides N., and Zouros E., 1995. Marked mitochondrial DNA differences between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations of swordfish, Xiphias gladius,. Molecular Ecology 4: 473-481.
• Magoulas, A., Tsimenides N., and Zouros E., 1996. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny and the reconstruction of the population history of a species:the case of European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus). Molecular Biology and Evolution 13(1): 178-190.
• Volckaert F., Alvarez M.C., Argenton F., Bonhomme F., Chatain B., Colombo L., Castilho R., Chevassus B., Gorshkova G., Kohler M., Magoulas A., Martinez G., McAndrew B., Piferrer F., Vandeputte M., and Zanuy S., 1997. Has time come for the genetic management of sea bass? Aquaculture Europe 22 (2): 46-47.
• Magoulas A, 1998. Application of molecular markers to aquaculture and broodstock management with special emphasis on microsatellite DNA. Cahiers Options Mediterrannes 34: 153- 168.
• Magoulas, A., Kotoulas G., Batargias K., and Zouros E., 1998. Genetic markers in marine biology and aquaculture research: when to use what. In Genetics and Aquaculture in Africa, J.F. Agnese (Ed.), Paris, ORSTOM, p. 67-78
• Magoulas A., Gjetvaj B., Terzoglou V., and Zouros E., 1998. Three polymorphic microsatellites in the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg). Animal Genetics 29(1): 69-70.
• Dermitzakis E., Clark A., Batargias C., Magoulas A., and Zouros E., 1998. Negative covariance indicates mutation bias in a two-locus microsatellite system in the fish Sparus aurata. Genetics 150: 1567-1575.
• Batargias C., Dermitzakis E., Magoulas A., and Zouros E., 1999. Characterization of six polymorphic microsatellite markers in gilthead sea bream, Sparus aurata (Linnaeus 1758). Molecular Ecology 8: 897-898.
• Magoulas A., Kotoulas G., Gerard A., Naciri-Graven Y., Dermitzakis E., and Hawkins A., 2000. Comparison of genetic variability and parentage in different ploidy classes of the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas. Genetical Research 76: 261-272.
• Hawkins ç., Magoulas A., Heral M., Bougrier S., Naciri-Graven Í., Day ç., and Kotoulas G., 2000. Separate effects of triploidy, parentage and genomic diversity upon feeding behaviour, metabolic efficiency and net energy balance in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas. Genetical Research 76: 273-284.
• Huvet A., Lapegue S., Magoulas A., and Boudry P., 2000. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA phylogeography of Crassostrea angulata, the Portuguese oyster endangered in Europe. Conservation Genetics 1: 251-262
• Palma, J., Alarcon, J. A., Alvarez, C., Zouros, E., Magoulas, A., and Andrade, J. P., 2001. Developmental stability and genetic heterozygosity in wild and cultured stocks of gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of UK 81(2): 283-288.
• Ladoukakis M., Saavedra C., Magoulas A., and Zouros E., 2002. Mitochondrial DNA variation in a species with two mitochondrial genomes: the case of Mytilus galloprovincialis from the Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Molecular Ecology11: 755-769.
• Naciri-Graven Y., Garnier-Géré P. H., Bougrier S., Magoulas A., Héral M, Kotoulas G, Hawkins A., and Gérard A, 2002. Influences of triploidy, parentage and diversity on growth of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas in two natural environments. Molecular Ecology 11: 1499-1514.