Kostas Tokatlidis#
| Membership Number: | 6248 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/biology/staff/kostastokatlidis/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6295-8183 |
| Twitter: | @kostastokatlid |
| Linkedin: | https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kostas-tokatlidis-frse-frsc-frsb-79183376?trk=people-guest_people_search-card |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 Professor, Cathcart Chair of Biochemistry, Head of Mitochondria Biology Lab, University of Glasgow, Scotland UK
- 2011 - 2013 Professor in Molecular Machines, Department of Materials Science & Technology, Univ. of Crete
- 2002 - 2013 Head of Mitochondria Biology Lab, IMBB-FORTH, Heraklion, Greece
- 2010 - 2011 Visiting research Professor, Centre for Magnetic Resonance (CERM), University of Florence, Italy
- 2006 - 2011 Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete,
- 2002 - 2006 Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete
- 1998 - 2005 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Lister fellow Univ of Manchester, UK (relinquished 2002 to move to IMBB-FORTH Crete)
- 1994 - 1998 Post-doctoral fellow (EU, EMBO, HFSP, Roche, SNF) Department of Biochemistry, Biozentrum, Switzerland
- 1993 - 1994 Post-doctoral fellow (EU) Unité de Biochimie Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, France
- 1988 - 1993 PhD in Biochemical Engineering Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Delaware, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Stress responses and metabolism
- Protein targeting and intracellular sorting
- Redox signalling
- Membrane proteins
- Protein folding and assembly
- Molecular chaperones
- Mitochondria biogenesis
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
- 2020 Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
- 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) (The National Academy of Scotland)
- 2013 EMBO Member
- 2013 UK Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Fellow
- 2012 Excellence Grant Award by the Ministry of Education of Greece
- 2011 Visiting Research Professor CERM, University of Florence, Italy
- 2001 Lister Institute Research Fellow UK
- 1995 Roche Research Foundation post-doctoral fellow
- 1993 Human Frontier Science Program (HFSPO) long term post-doctoral fellow
- 1993 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) long term post-doctoral fellow
- 1992 EU Fellow, Human Capital and Mobility Program
- 1992 Invited Lecturer Fellow, University of Paris VII
- 1998 Graduate Fellow, University of Delaware, 1988-1991
- 1998 Fulbright Fellow, USA Government, 1988-1989
- 1993 State Scholarship for Excellence, Greek Fellowship Foundation
