Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Elena Dadami

Postdoctoral Researcher

Elena Dadami holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the University of Crete. She completed her M.Sc. in November 2007 and earned her Ph.D. in 2012 at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB), Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH), under the supervision of Dr. Kriton Kalantidis.

Her Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Investigation of the Biological Cycle of Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid in Nicotiana benthamiana Plants Suppressed for Dicer-like Proteins,” focused on the role of the RNA silencing machinery during the biological cycle of Potato Spindle Tuber Viroid (PSTVd) in Nicotiana benthamiana plants.

From 2011 to 2014, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Epigenetics Laboratory at AlPlanta – Institute for Plant Research, Germany. From 2018 to 2020, she was a member of the research group led by Professor Kalliope Papadopoulou at the University of Thessaly. She is currently a high school biology teacher in Larissa, Greece

Publications

Tsiouri, O., Argyri, A., Skiada, V., Avramidou, M., Dadami, E., Vasileiadis, S., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2026). Comparative analysis towards the identification of genome wide characteristics of a beneficial fungal endophyte. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-47792-0

Dalakouras, A., Katsaouni, A., Avramidou, M., Dadami, E., Tsiouri, O., Vasileiadis, S., Makris, A., Georgopoulou, M. E., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2023). A beneficial fungal root endophyte triggers systemic RNA silencing and DNA methylation of a host reporter gene. RNA Biology, 20(1), 20–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/15476286.2022.2159158

Dalakouras, A., Katsaouni, A., Avramidou, M., Dadami, E., Tsiouri, O., Vasileiadis, S., Makris, A., Georgopoulou, M. E., & Papadopoulou, K. K. (2022). Systemic silencing and DNA methylation of a host reporter gene induced by a beneficial fungal root endophyte. Plant Biology. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.06.19.496700

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