Romanos Siaperas
email: rsiaperas@chemeng.ntua.gr
Biography
PhD Candidate
Contact Information
phone:+30 210 7723158
Research Interests
My research centers on the discovery of enzymes of industrial interest through the analysis of genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic data.
Education and Work Experience
PhD Biotechnology, 2020 – present
Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group
School of Chemical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Thesis: Discovery of biocatalysts with industrial interest from marine fungi with the use of -omics technologies
Diploma in Chemical Engineering 2019
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Publications List
Taxeidis G., Nikolaivits E., Siaperas R., Gkountela C., Vouyiouka S., Pantelic B., Nikodinovic-Runic J., Topakas E., Triggering and identifying the polyurethane and polyethylene-degrading machinery of filamentous fungi secretomes, Environmental Pollution, 325, 121460, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.121460
Pantelic B., Skaro Bogojevic S., Milivojevic D., Ilic-Tomic T., Lončarević B., Beskoski V., Maslak, V. Guzik, M., Makryniotis K., Taxeidis G., Siaperas R., Topakas E., Nikodinovic-Runic J., Set of Small Molecule Polyurethane (PU) Model Substrates: Ecotoxicity Evaluation and Identification of PU Degrading Biocatalysts, Catalysts, 13, 278, 2023, doi: 0.3390/catal13020278
Zerva A., Siaperas R., Taxeidis G., Kyriakidi M., Vouyiouka S., Zervakis G., Topakas Ε., Investigation of Abortiporus biennis lignocellulolytic toolbox, and the role of laccases in polystyrene degradation, Chemosphere, 312, 137338; doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137338
Nikolaivits E., Siaperas R., Agrafiotis A., Ouazzani J., Gioti A., Topakas Ε., Functional and transcriptomic investigation of laccase activity in the presence of PCB29 identifies two novel enzymes and the multicopper oxidase repertoire of a marine-derived fungus, Science of the Total Environment, 775, 145818; doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145818
Gioti A, Siaperas R, Nikolaivits E, Le Goff G, Ouazzani J, Kotoulas G, Topakas E., Draft Genome Sequence of a Cladosporium Species Isolated from the Mesophotic Ascidian Didemnum maculosum, Microbiology Resource Announcements, 9, 14-15, 2020, doi: 10.1128/MRA.00311-20
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