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Dimitrios Zisis
First Name: Dimitrios
Last Name: Zisis
Date of Birth: 04-04-1986
Address 1: Male Garbary 95/A/107 Poznan,
Poland
Address 2: Vasileos Konstantinou Str. 24,
Ptolemaida, 50200, Greece
Mobile: +48 53 91 272 43
+30 697 43 72 190,
Email: [email protected]
[email protected]
Education
September Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.) GREECE MSc on
2009- June “Informatics and Management” (JPC IM). (Grade average 8,65 out of
2011
10 “Excellent”).
MSc.ThesisTitle:“Unification of Algorithms of Regrouping and
Bathmonomisis biomedical and Pharmaceutical Articles of Pubmed.”
Advisor: Prof. Eleutherios Aggelis
September
2004December
2009
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.) GREECE Diploma in
Computer Science, Department of Informatics (Grade average 6,64 out
of 10)
Dipl.ThesisTitle:“Simulation wavelength converter with semiconductor
optical amplifier (SOA) and bandpass filter (chirpfiltering) switching at
speeds 160 and 320 Gb / s“
Advisor: Prof. Nikos Pleros
Professional Experience
February
2013-Now
Early Stage Researcher in Bioinformatics and Statistics at Marie Curie
EpiTRAITS Project. Department of Biometry and Bioinformatics,
Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences (IPG PAS),
Poznań, Poland
Research focuses on:
 Computational and statistical methods for analysis of genomic
data of Arabidopsis thaliana.
 Statistical and bioinformatic concepts relevant to next-generation
sequence (NGS) data in a plant context
 Develop methods and analyze the EpiTRAITS next generation
sequencing (NGS) data sets (ChIP-seq, RNA-Seq, and 4C-seq).
 Evaluation of existing bioinformatic tools- Training in
bioinformatics and statistics.
 Develop system that is able to efficiently store and transfer large
data sets.
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Perform several different statistical and bioinformatic tasks: data
quality checks, mapping sequences, assembling sequences,
testing hypotheses, FDR , computations, clustering, data
integration.
Provide a protocol that can be used for the biological problems
and experimental designs (ChIP-seq, RNA-Seq, 4C-seq)
September
2011–May
2012
Computer Programmer and Analyst in the Office of Research on
Computer Science (ORCS) of the A’ Army Corps in the city of Kozani,
successfully participating in the following tasks:
 Providing technical support on network related applications (MS
Windows NT/2000/XP) running on the A’A Corps computer
network.
 Developing various applications needed by A’A Corps.
 Use of military applications and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel,
Power-Point, Access) 2000/XP/2003 Suite.
 Support and user training on the aforementioned applications, as
well as general computer usage topics.
 Local Network Administration for the A’A Corps network based
on Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server Active Directory.
 Maintenance, extension and technical support of the local
computer network of A’A Corps
 Repairing and maintaining A’A Corps computers
November
2011–May
2013
Website Support, Marketing and Management support in Create N
Paste 3D printing company in Thessaloniki, Greece
National and International grants
EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network EpiTRAITS
Project no: 316965
Project title: Epigenetic regulation of economically important plant traits
Project coordinator: Prof. Maike Stam , University of Amsterdam,
Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project leader at IPG PAS: Prof. Paweł Krajewski, Department of
Biometry and Bioinformatics, Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish
Academy of Sciences, Poland
Duration: 2012-2015
Web: http://www.epitraits.eu
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International fellowships / trainings - Courses
May2008Now
Scientific Writing (3)
Entrepreneurship-Business plan (3)
Dissemination skills (2)
Standardization of biological data (1)
Next generation sequencing (3)
Bioinformatics (1)
Presentation skills (2)
Mathematical Modelling for Biologists (1)
Image Analysis & Spatial Modelling (1)
Plant Breeding, IP and Marketing (1)
Project Management for bioinformatics (2)
Research Interests
Specialisation: Statistics for Next generation sequencing (NGS), 4Cseq, ChIP-seq, RNA-Seq. Statistical and bioinformatics analysis of
genome-wide data sets. Skills in handling and understanding large (epi)
genomic databases. Scripting in R. Statistical methods in knowledge
discovery from Web data. Statistical methods in simulation. IT
technologies in Marketing and Management.
Seminars
May 2013- List of seminars – conferences – posters available upon request
Now
Skills
Languages:
Greek (native), English (fluent), French (Elementary proficiency)
English: FCE - University of Michigan ,IELTS
Computer Skills :
Bioinformatics tools: 4Cseq, RNAseq, ChIP-seq, NGS tools, Galaxy ,
SAMtools
Languages and Scripts: R, Perl, C++, Bash, HTML
Software / Applications: Spss Statistic17, ImageJ, IGV-IGB, Simul8,
WordPress, Joomla, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office (Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage)
Operating Systems: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows
8, Linux Ubuntu
References
Available upon request
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