Prof. George Diallinas

Prof. Diallinas obtained in B.Sc in Cell Biology from Essex University in 1984 and a M.Sc in Microbiology from the Université de Paris Sud-XI in 1985, where he also got his PH.D thesis on Molecular Genetics in 1989, under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Scazzocchio, a leading figure in the field and history of Fungal Genetics. His thesis concerned the molecular and functional characterization of the first purine transporter to be reported, the UapA transporter of Aspergillus nidulans. After Paris, he worked as a Ph.D. fellow at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) in Crete on the regulation of gene expression by amino acid availability in yeast, in the lab of Prof. George Thireos. In 1994-1996 he moved back to the Université de Paris-Sud, with a Marie-Cure fellowship, where he developed Aspergillus nidulans as a model system to study transporters. In 1997 he returned to IMBB with an extend Marie-Cure Repatriation Grant, as a Research Associate, and in 1998 he was elected lecturer at the Department of Biology in the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). From 2013 he is full Professor at NKUA and in 2018 he was elected EMBO member. His work is reflected in > 100 scientific publications.