Personal Details


Date of Birth 1971
Marital status single
Military Service completed (1996 – 1997)

Education


PhD in Bioinformatics

University of Athens 2002-2006
Thesis:
“Non linear analysis and visualization of the genome of evolutionary newer organisms”

Master of Science in Informatics

University of Athens 2002
Grade 9.32 (out of 10)
Thesis:
“Statistical Algorithms for Analyzing Oligonucleotide Combinations:
Applications in Human Chromosomes 21 and 22”

University Degree in Biology

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 1999
Grade 7.45 (out of 10)
Thesis:
“Computer simulation of chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics”

Public High School

Galatsi 1989
Graduation grade 19 6/11 (out of 20)


Employment


Member of Prof. Hatzigeorgiou bioinformatics group at
Alexander Fleming Biomedical Sciences Research Center,
Athens , Greece 4/2007 - today

Development of Biomedical visualization applications
Faculty of IT, University of Houston, USA 1/2003 - 7/2003

Biology Applications Programmer
Biology Department, University of Athens 3/2001 - 12/2002

System Administrator / Web Developer
Network Operation Center, University of Athens 9/2000 - 10/2001

Languages


Greek
English
German


Publications


Theses

P. Katsaloulis, Non linear analysis and visualization of the genome of evolutionary newer organisms, PhD Thesis, University of Athens, Greece (2006)

P. Katsaloulis, Statistical Algorithms for Analyzing Oligonucleotide Combinations: Applications in Human Chromosomes 21 and 22, Master Thesis, University of Athens, Greece (2002)

Refereed Journals

P. Katsaloulis, T. Theoharis, W.M. Zheng, B.L. Hao, A. Bountis, Y. Almirantis, A. Provata, Long range correlations of RNA polymerase II promoter sequences across organisms, Physica A, 336, p.308 (2006)

P. Katsaloulis, T. Theoharis, P. Simos, A. Papanicolaou, D. Francis, I. Kakadiaris, Visualization and co-Registration of Multiple MEG Activation Records over a 3D Talairach Model Brain, Computer Graphics & CAD / CAM, 1(4), p.122 (2006)

P. Katsaloulis, T. Theoharis, A. Provata, Statistical algorithms for long DNA sequences: oligonucleotide distributions and homogeneity maps, Scientific Programming, 13, p.117 (2005)

P. Katsaloulis, A. Provata, T. Theoharis, Statistical Algorithms for Analyzing Oligonucleotide Combinations: Applications in Human Chromosomes 21 and 22, Physica A, 314, p.380 (2002)

Conference Publications

P. Katsaloulis, E. Floros, A. Provata, Y. Cotronis, T. Theoharis, Gridification of Statistical Biocomputation Algorithms, ITAB 2006, publisher IEEE and EMB, Ioannina, Greece, (2006)

P. Katsaloulis, A. Provata, T. Theoharis, Long range distributions in complete chromosomes of higher eucaryotes, 18th Congress of Non-Linear Dynamics and Complexity (Volos, Greece, 2005), publisher University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (2006)

A. Provata, P. Katsaloulis, Dynamic mechanisms of DNA evolution, 13th Congress of Non-Linear Dynamics and Complexity (Chania, Greece, 2000), publisher Pneumatikos, Athens, Greece (2001)

Conference Abstracts

P. Katsaloulis, T. Theoharis, A. Provata, Nonlinear analysis and visualization of the genome of evolutionary newer organisms, Abstracts of the 19th Congress of Non-Linear Dynamics and Complexity, Salonika, Greece (2006)

P. Katsaloulis, T. Theoharis, A. Provata, Bioinformatics: correlations and representations of the DNA structure, Abstracts of the 18th Congress of Non-Linear Dynamics and Complexity, Volos, Greece (2005)

P. Katsaloulis, P. Simos, D. Francis, A. Papanicolaou, I. Kakadiaris, T. Theoharis, 3D Visualization of MEG Activation Records within a Semi-Transparent Talairach Model Brain, Abstracts of 1st International Conference on Geometric Modeling, Visualization & Graphics, JCIS, Utah, Salt Lake City, USA, (2005)

P. Katsaloulis, A. Provata, T. Theoharis, Long range correlations of RNA polymerase II promoter sequence, Abstracts of 20th Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, HSEMB, Houston, (2003)

P. Katsaloulis, A. Provata, T. Theoharis, Statistical analysis of oligonucleotides distribution in the genome of higher organisms, Abstracts of the 15th Congress of Non-Linear Dynamics and Complexity, Patras, Greece (2002)

P. Katsaloulis, A. Provata, Statistical distribution analysis of human chromosomes 21 and 22, Abstracts of the 14th Congress of Non-Linear Dynamics and Complexity, Patras, Greece (2001)

P. Katsaloulis, S. Sgardelis, Computer simulation of the chlorophyll II fluorescence kinetics, Abstracts of the 20th Congress of Biological Sciences, Pythagorio, Samos, Greece, (1998)

Talks

P. Katsaloulis, Non linear analysis and visualization of the genome of evolutionary newer organisms. National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece, 2006

P. Katsaloulis, Statistical analysis of the oligonucleotides distribution in the genome of higher organisms, University of Athens, Athens, Greece (2004)

Publications in popular I.T. magazines

P. Katsaloulis, Series of articles concerning AmigaBasic, Computer Magazine Pixel, Athens, Greece (1988)


Honors and Scholarships


University of Athens
During my PhD studies I was able to receive scholarship for my work in biocomputational analysis, from the Hellenic Ministry of Education, HERAKLEITOS research program 70/3/7156 with emphasis on basic research, for the period 2003-2005.

Teaching Experience


OpenDX tutorials for the course “Graphics, Visualization, Fractals”, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens, Spring 2004 and Spring 2005

OpenGL tutorials for the course “Graphics I”, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens, Autumn 2004

Lectures on the course “Graphics I”, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens, Autumn 2003

A series of practical sessions which support the “Computers in Biology” course, Dept. of Biology, University of Athens, Spring 2002


Operating Systems


  • Linux
  • Mac OS X
  • SunOS / Solaris
  • BeOS
  • Windows 95/98/NT/W2k/XP
  • Windows 3.1 / 3.11 / 3.11 fW
  • DOS
  • AmigaDOS, Workbench

Programming Languages


  • C/C++ (GCC, ANSI C/C++)
  • Java
  • PHP
  • XML/DTD
  • SQL (mySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • Unix Shell Script (BASH)
  • PERL
  • Prolog
  • BASIC (ZX-BASIC, AmigaBasic, AMOS, QBASIC)
  • Microsoft Visual Basic
  • Pascal (Turbo Pascal, Delphi)
  • Assembly (Z80A, MC68000)

3D Graphics Environments Skills


OpenGL Have taught a series of practical sessions as support class to course “Graphics I”, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens

OpenDX Have taught a series of practical sessions as support class to course “ Graphics, Visualization, Fractals ”, Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Athens
Have developed an application for 3D visualization of MEG activation records within a semi-transparent Talairach model brain, University of Houston.