NICOLAS-GEORGE ELIADES


Ph.D. student,
Department of Forest Genetic and Forest Tree Breeding
Büsgen-Institute
Georg-August Univestity Göttingen
Büsgenweg 2
D-37077 Göttingen

E-Mail: neliade@gwdgw.de / niceliades@yahoo.com

PERSONAL INFORMATION

1979 born in Carson City, Nevada, USA

1999-2004 Demokritus University of Thrace, Greece
Faculty of Forestry and Management of Environmental and Natural Resources. (10 semesters)
Senior Thesis:
“Description of genetic variety of natural populations of the Cyprus endemic plant Quercus alnifolia Poech in accordance with the morphological characteristics.”

2004-Todate Ph.D. student at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen,
Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology,
Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding,

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Temporal and Spatial population genetic on organisms
• Dynamics of biodiversity and evolution of populations (Past dynamics of diversity-Response of populations to global change-Future Dynamics of diversity)
• Human impact on genetic structure and diversity of wild populations
• Conservation and management of genetic resources
• Adaptive diversity of interspecific and ecological processes, as a result of climactic changes
• Phylogenetic and Phylogeographic relationships among species


RESEARCH PROJECTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2004- Todate PhD project:
“Fingerprinting of genetic diversity and patterns of spatial genetic variation in the endemic tree Cedrus brevifolia (Hook f.) Henry from Cyprus: implications for its conservation”

1/1/2006-31/12/2007 Bilateral research project, Germany-Greece (IKYDAD)
Title:
“Research of diversity in beech populations (Fagus sylvatica) in Greece using morphological traits and molecular markers”
Member of the German research team of the Institute of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

3-16/06/2007 Research internship at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) at Avignon (France), under the supervision of Associate Researcher Dr. Bruno Fady: part of the EvolTree Network human resources exchange.

TRAINING COURSES

10-12/12/2007 “Second Microarray and qPCR Course”
WUR-AFSG, University of Wageningen, Nederland

27-30/03/2006 “Methods and tools of the sequence-analysis: GCG, EMBOSS, YACOP”
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen, Germany

31/03/2006 “DNA-sequencing with the Staden package”
Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen

18/11/2005 “Intellectual Property Rights and general legal provisions for the protection of intellectual property rights”
Georg-August University Göttingen and European Patent & Trademark Attorney

15-16 /07/2005 “Information Resources and Electronic Publishing”
Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

7-9/07/2005 “Innovation through Heterogeneity- Tools for Integrated
Transdisciplinary Research”
Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany