Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Stathis Lagos

Postdoctoral researcher

Eustathios (Stathis) Lagos holds a BSc degree from the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece. He completed his MSc in Applications of Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics, and Diagnostic Markers at the same department. During his bachelor’s and master’s theses, his research focused on the biodegradation of organophosphorus pesticides in soil. From July 2019 to July 2023, he conducted his PhD research entitled “The Role of Soil Microorganisms in Preventing and Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Use and Dispersal of Anthelmintic Veterinary Drugs” at the Plant & Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Thessaly, under the supervision of Dr. Dimitrios Karpouzas. He is currently participating in the MINAGRIS project, a Horizon 2020 research project investigating the environmental fate and interactions of micro- and nanoplastics with soil microbial communities in agricultural soils. He has co-authored 10 publications in peer-reviewed journals (Scopus: h-index 5, 75 citations), serving as first corresponding author in seven of them, as well as six conference papers presented at national and international conferences and published in their proceedings.

Publications

Gorgia, P., Lagos, S., Nikolaou, C. N., Basdeki, N., Papadopoulos, C., Karpouzas, D. G., & Tsikou, D. (2026). Benzimidazole Anthelmintic Compounds Albendazole and Fenbendazole Show Distinct Toxicity on the Nitrogen Fixing Bacterium Mesorhizobium loti and Its Symbiosis With Lotus japonicus. Environmental Toxicology, tox.70101. https://doi.org/10.1002/tox.70101

Lagos S., Lamprou E., Hongfei L., Thiour-Mauprivez C., MacLean J., Cooper M., Spor A., Martin-Laurent F., Rillig M., Karpouzas D.G., (2025) Interactions of microplastics with pesticides and anthelminthics mediate undesirable effects on microbial N cycling in agricultural soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 101(11): fiaf104, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiaf104

Lamprou E., Liu H., Lagos S., Cooper M., McLean J., Thiour-Mauprivez C., Spor A., Martin-Laurent F., Rillig M., Karpouzas D.G., (2025) Pesticide, veterinary medicines and microplastics: tripartite interactions drive the transformation of albendazole and pyraclostrobin in agricultural soils. Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.5c09441

Gkimprixi, E., Lagos, S., Nikolaou, C. N., Karpouzas, D. G., & Tsikou, D. (2023). Veterinary drug albendazole inhibits root colonization and symbiotic function of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 99(6), fiad048. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad048

Lagos, S., Tsetsekos, G., Mastrogianopoulos, S., Tyligada, M., Diamanti, L., Vasileiadis, S., Sotiraki, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2023). Interactions of anthelmintic veterinary drugs with the soil microbiota: Toxicity or enhanced biodegradation? Environmental Pollution, 334, 122135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122135

Lagos, S., Koutroutsiou, K., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2023). Isolation of soil bacteria able to degrade the anthelminthic compound albendazole. PeerJ, 11, e16127. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16127

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