Ms. Katerina Rizou, a 2nd year PhD student completed a two-and-a-half month Short-Term Scientific Mission at the Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. During this time, she joined the Twin4Promis advanced partner Vendruscolo Group, led by Professor Michele Vendruscolo, one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of protein misfolding and aggregation.…
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Dr Georgios Skretas, principal investigator and coordinator of Twin4Promis, was recently featured as an invited speaker at the International Symposium on Protein Interactions and Self‑assembly (ISPIS 2025), which took place from 14 to 16 July 2025 at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The symposium was organised within the framework of Twin2PIPSA, a Horizon Europe Twinning…
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Rome, Italy | July 2025 We are proud to announce that research supported by the Twin4Promis was awarded a Poster Prize at the 15th European Biophysics Congress (EBSA 2025), held in Rome from 30 June to 4 July 2025. The award was presented to Effie Karyda, PhD student at the Skretas Lab for her poster…
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The Kampranis Research Team, at the University of Copenhagen—a Twin4Promis advanced partner—has made a significant step toward suggesting a way to lower the cost and environmental impact of producing paclitaxel (Taxol), a widely used chemotherapy drug for cancers such as breast, ovarian, and lung cancer. Paclitaxel is a complex naturally-derived compound from the Pacific yew…
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Skretas Lab has been leveraging the fluorescence of Escherichia coli bacteria engineered to express fusions of misfolding-prone (MisP) human proteins with green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a high-throughput screening readout for identifying chemical compounds that rescue disease-associated protein misfolding and aggregation. In a newly published study in ACS Synthetic Biology, the team defined conditions that…
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From March 28 to 30, 2025, the city of Alexandroupoli, Greece hosted the inspiring 3rd Panhellenic Student Conference of Bioscientists, bringing together students, researchers, and innovators from across Greece. One of the presentations on the opening day, March 28, was given by Dr. Georgios Skretas entitled “Beneficial microbes as platforms for the discovery of novel,…
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We would like to inform you that on Friday, April 4, 2025, at 10:00 a.m., an online information event will take place regarding funding tools and upcoming calls under the European programme “Horizon Europe”, specifically related to research in the health sector. The event is being organized within the framework of the Twin4Promis project and…
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Twin4Promis presents ProteoSeeker, a breakthrough command-line tool that simplifies and accelerates protein discovery through metagenomic analysis. Developed by the Skretas Lab, this open-access resource is designed to empower researchers—regardless of computational expertise—to tap into the vast potential of microbial diversity. ProteoSeeker streamlines the process of identifying and annotating proteins in complex metagenomic datasets, operating in…
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Dr. Georgios Skretas, Coordinator of the Twin4Promis project, will be giving an invited lecture at the NextGen Biomed 2025 conference, held in London, UK, on March 13-15, 2025. His talk is scheduled for 16:55 on March 13, and is entitled:“Engineering Microbes for the Discovery of Cyclic Oligopeptide Rescuers of Pathogenic Protein Misfolding & Aggregation” NextGen…
Read article In her recent article, Vassiliki Michopoulou, our Science Communication Manager, highlights the value of Short Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) for the professional growth of young researchers. The article features insights from four young researchers, including Effie Karyda, who share their life-changing experiences of participating in these international laboratory missions. Effie Karyda, a junior PhD student…
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