Amaryllis Vidalis
Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
Büsgen-Institute
Georg-August-University Göttingen
Büsgenweg 2
D-37077 Göttingen
E-mail: avidali@gwdg.de
Personal data - Education path
1981 born in Athens, Greece
1999-2004 Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Faculty of Forestry, Environmental Management and Natural Resources
Diploma Thesis: “Genetic variation of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in greek Rodopi Mt. applying molecular markers”
2003 Practical work at the National Agricultural Research Foundation, Institute of Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems & Forest Products Technology, Department of Forest Genetics, Greece
2004 Scholarship holder (IKY- Erasmus), SS 2004 Institute of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Georg-August-University, Göttingen: Experimental work for the Diploma Thesis
2006 - 2010 Scholarship holder: “Sophia Chlorou” endowment of National Technical University of A., Ph.D. candidate at the Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Büsgen Institute, Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
Working experience
2005 - 2006 Employed at the Head Office of forest department of district of Corinth, Ministry of Agricultural Development, Greece
2010 - 2011 Postdoc at the Büsgen Institute, Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
2011 Co-ordinator of the International BSc. Programme Molecular Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg-August Universität Göttingen
Research interests
• Speciation through adaptation
• Adaptive evolution of Ecosystems as consequence of global climatic change
• Biodiversity in Mediterranean Forest Ecosystems
• Genetics in Silviculture
• Conservation and Management of Forest genetic and natural resources
Research Projects
2010 - to date EVOLTREE: "Translocation experiment and SNP genotyping of candidate genes in adapted and not adapted oak individuals in different environments of Europe"
2006 – 2010 Ph.D. project: “DNA sequence variation at putatively adaptive IDH enzyme gene locus in Quercus sp.”
1.1.2006 - 31.12.2007 Bilateral research project, Germany-Greece (IKYDA)
Title: “Research of diversity in beech populations (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Greece using morphological traits and molecular markers”
Member of the German research team of the Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany