Ageliki Tsagaratou
Ageliki received her BSc degree in Biology from the National and Kapodistrian University (Athens, Greece) in 2004 and pursued her PhD at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the laboratory of Dr. George Mosialos where she focused her research on the truncation of the catalytic domain of the cylindromatosis (CYLD) tumor suppressor. Dr. Tsagaratou was a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Anjana Rao at La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology and has served as an Instructor at the same institution. Her research program at La Jolla focused on T cell development and differentiation. She joined UNC in September 2018. Ageliki’s primary appointment is in the Department of Genetics. In addition, she is a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Inflammatory Diseases Institute and the Center for Translational Immunology. Since May 2020, Ageliki holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology. She is a faculty mentor in the UNC Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program (BBSP), the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular biology (GMB), the Curriculum in Cellular Biology and Physiology (CBP) and the PhD program in Microbiology & Immunology . Her research interests are focused on epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in T cell differentiation, function, and disease.
Mentor Training:
- Bias 101
- Faculty Mentoring Workshop for Biomedical Researchers
- Groundwater Approach: Building a practical understanding of structural racism
- Implicit Bias Awareness
- REI Phase I Training
- Safe Zone
- Culturally Aware Mentoring
Marianthi Gkioulmpasani
Research Specialist
M.Sc. in Protein Biotechnology, Biology Department at the University of Crete, Greece
B.Sc. in Biology (major in Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology), Biology Department, University of Crete, Greece.
Jair Ernesto Valenzuela
Graduate Student , Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)
University of North Carolina/North Carolina State University
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, concentration in Biotechnology/ Biomaterials
University of Virginia
Julia Buquera Bettes
Undergraduate Research assistant
Biology Major, Chemistry Minor at UNC Chapel Hill
Bioinformatics Collaborators
Dr. Tarmo Äijö
Ph.D. Bioinformatics and Computer Science
Aalto University Finland
M.Sc. Signal processing and Mathematics
B. Sc. Signal processing and Multimedia
Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Dr. Siyao Liu
Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill
Bioinformatics Scientist
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Former Lab Members
Dimitris Theofilatos
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Currently at NIEHS
Nikolas Tsiouplis
Undergraduate Research Assistant (February 2019-May 2021)
BIOL395 H
2020 Hagadorn Award Recipient
SURF 2020 Recipient
Class 2021
Current position: MD candidate at Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine
Fiona Wissink
Undergraduate Research Assistant (February 2019-November 2020)
BIOL395H
Program for Precision Medicine in Health Care (PPMH) SURF 2020 Recipient
Class 2021
Current position: MD candidate at University College, Dublin, Ireland
Ryan Sheehy
BBSP rotating graduate student
Fall Rotation 2020
Wes (David) Bailey
Research Technician (January 2020- September 2020)
B.S. in Microbiology, North Carolina State University
Jake Wrobel
Sonam Saxena
Lilly Chiou
1st year BBSP graduate student (Fall rotation)
B.S. Duke University
Current position: Graduate student at the Vaziri lab, UNC Chapel Hill
Ennessa Curry
Isaiah Kim
Research Assistant (September 2018-March 2019)
B.S. UNC Chapel Hill
