Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Constantine Garagounis

Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Constantine Garagounis studied Biochemistry and Biotechnology and has a DPhil in Plant Sciences from the University of Oxford. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher and contract lecturer on plant secondary metabolism and how it affects plant microbe interactions. He has conducted various research projects in plant synthetic biology and engineering plant metabolic pathways and lectured in corresponding courses. He is currently working as a Product Manager for PCR Biosystems.

Publications

Markou, P., Garagounis, C., Fasoula, D. A., Ioannides, I. M., Omirou, M., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2024). Identification, functional characterization and expression profiling of three triterpene synthases from the legume plant Vigna unguiculata. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 738, 150935. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150935

Garagounis, C., Delkis, N., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2021). Unraveling the roles of plant specialized metabolites: Using synthetic biology to design molecular biosensors. New Phytologist, 231(4), 1338–1352. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17470

Solovou, T. G. A., Garagounis, C., Kyriakis, E., Bobas, C., Papadopoulos, G. E., Skamnaki, V. T., Papadopoulou, K. K., & Leonidas, D. D. (2021). Mutagenesis of a Lotus japonicus GSK3β/Shaggy-like kinase reveals functionally conserved regulatory residues. Phytochemistry, 186, 112707. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2021.112707

Garagounis, C., Beritza, K., Georgopoulou, M.-E., Sonawane, P., Haralampidis, K., Goossens, A., Aharoni, A., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2020). A hairy-root transformation protocol for Trigonella foenum-graecum L. as a tool for metabolic engineering and specialised metabolite pathway elucidation. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 154, 451–462. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.06.011

Jozwiak, A., Sonawane, P. D., Panda, S., Garagounis, C., Papadopoulou, K. K., Abebie, B., Massalha, H., Almekias-Siegl, E., Scherf, T., & Aharoni, A. (2020). Plant terpenoid metabolism co-opts a component of the cell wall biosynthesis machinery. Nature Chemical Biology, 16(7), 740–748. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41589-020-0541-x

Garagounis, C., Tsikou, D., Plitsi, P. K., Psarrakou, I. S., Avramidou, M., Stedel, C., Anagnostou, M., Georgopoulou, M. E., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2019). Lotus SHAGGY‐like kinase 1 is required to suppress nodulation in Lotus japonicus. The Plant Journal, 98(2), 228–242. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14207

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