Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Chiara Perruchon

Senior Researcher

Dr. Chiara Perruchon has a first degree in Biotechnology and a Master-equivalent degree in Industrial Biotechnology, both obtained at the University of Pavia, Italy. She was awarded of her PhD in 2014 by the University of Thessaly (UTH), Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Greece, after working in the Laboratory of Plant and Environmental Biotechnology under the supervision of Prof. D. Karpouzas (IKY scholarship). The title of her PhD was: “Isolation and study of bacteria able to degrade pesticides contained in the wastewaters produced by the fruit-packaging industry”. Since then she has worked on national (BIOREMEDIATOMICS, ARISTEIA II, OMIC-ENGINE, HFRI) and EU-funded (MSCA-IAPP-FP7) projects, with scientific visits to France and Germany. In 2022/2025 she was the PI of the HFRI project FRIDA, exploring the interplay between nitrification inhibitors and the soil microbiome. Her research interests are centered on the environmental impact of various xenobiotics (pesticides, antibiotics, nitrification inhibitors), with major focus on their potential biodegradation and the further isolation, purification, and characterization of degrading microorganisms. She has co-authored 27 articles in peer-reviewed journals (h-index: 15, Citations: 668).

Publications

Katsivelou, E., Perruchon, C., Karas, P. A., Sarantidou, A., Pappa, E., Katsoula, A., Ligda, P., Sotiraki, S., Martin-Laurent, F., Vasileiadis, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2023). Accelerated dissipation, soil microbial toxicity and dispersal of antimicrobial resistance in soils repeatedly exposed to tiamulin, tilmicosin and sulfamethoxazole. Science of The Total Environment, 893, 164817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164817

Amanatidou P., Perruchon C., Mavrou E., Karpouzas D.G., Papadopoulou E.S., (2025) Prior soil exposure leads to distinct inhibitory activity, dissipation patterns and off-target effects by DCD and DMPP Biology and Fertility of Soils 61, 1253–1269 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-https://doi.org/10.1007/s00374-025-01936-y025-01936-y

Perruchon, C., Tagkalidou, N., Kalogiouri, N., Katsivelou, E., Karas, P. A., Menkissoglu-Spiroudi, U., Vasileiadis, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2025). Isolation of a Sphingomonas strain able to degrade the pleuromutilin antibiotic tiamulin: In vitro characterization of the antibiotic transformation capacity and pathway elucidation via comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 32(40), 23081–23096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-025-36996-y

Katsivelou E., Perruchon C., Lithtourgidis A., Kotsopoulos T., Vasileiadis S., Karpouzas D.G., (2024) Bioaugmentation of manures by a tiamulin-degrading Sphingomonas as a mean to alleviate environmental dispersal of antibiotic residues. Bioremediation Journal https://doi.org/10.1080/10889868.2024.2343863 

Elgueta S., Perruchon C., Rutz T., Rillig JI., Diez M.C., Karpouzas D.G., Campos MA., (2024) Bioaugmentation of a biobed packing material with an iprodione-degrading bacterial consortium enhances the dissipation of iprodione and mitigates adverse effect on the microbiota. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-024-01840-8

Katsivelou, E., Perruchon, C., Karas, P. A., Sarantidou, A., Pappa, E., Katsoula, A., Ligda, P., Sotiraki, S., Martin-Laurent, F., Vasileiadis, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2023). Accelerated dissipation, soil microbial toxicity and dispersal of antimicrobial resistance in soils repeatedly exposed to tiamulin, tilmicosin and sulfamethoxazole. Science of The Total Environment, 893, 164817. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164817

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