Researcher profile

KONSTANTINOS ALIFERIS

Skilled researcher experienced in: fungal and plant functional genomics (metabolomics) (GC/MS, FT-ICR/MS, Orbitrap MS/MS, & NMR analyzers), taxonomy of fungi (Ascomycetes and Basidiomycetes) based on their metabolite profiles and biomarkers (fungal chemotaxonomy), research on fungal bioactive metabolites (bioactivity, MoA, and toxicological risk assessment), pesticide R&D, study of mycoparasitism/biological control of fungal plant pathogens, effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on plant physiology, GM plant risk assessment, metabolic networking, shotgun proteomics, RNA sequencing data analyses, multi-level “omics” data integration, biomarker discovery, quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling, and food chemistry (chemoinformatics, pesticide residues). Knowledge of registration procedures for bioactive compounds. oExpert in the state-of-the-art mega-variate analyses (PCA, O2PLS, PLS-DA, OPLS-DA, SIMCA, HCA, Heatmaps), “omics” data fusion, bioinformatics analysis (SIEVE, Proteome Discoverer, Simca-P, Matlab, mzMine, R), metabolic networking, and biological interpretation of large-scale “omics” data (BioCyc tools, Cytoscape). Highly experienced in the preparation and management of multi-disciplinary research projects. CURRENT POSITION(S) Prof. of Pesticide Chemistry, Laboratory of Pesticide Chemistry, Agricultural University of Athens, Pesticide Metabolomics Group (Leader) Prof (Adj) McGill University, Montreal, Canada EDUCATION 2011-2015-Sr Research Associate, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (FAES), Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Canada. 2007-11 Postdoctoral Fellow, (FAES), Department of Plant Science, McGill University, Canada.