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The Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology lab focuses on neurological conditions and how they relate to sub-cellular measurements of bioenergy while the main goal is to collect new diagnostic protocols for different types of dementia through tracing, mapping, analyzing, modeling and simulating all factors linked to mitochondrial malfunctions. The project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with 2,5 million euros.
The Region of Ionian Islands in cooperation with the Ionian University brought together an informative daily seminar in Corfu on Tuesday 10th February 2015 themed «Presenting -as a good practice- the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology lab of the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University, in the framework of the 5th sub-program “Dissemination of results of good practices in the Regional Operational Programme of Western Greece – Peloponnese – Ionian Islands 2007-2013 framework”
The Head of the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University, associate professor Panagiotis Vlamos, presented the main objectives and prospects of the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology lab emphasizing on collaborations with other institutions. Representatives attended the seminar to talk about their institutions and the established collaborations.
Collaborating institutions are:
> The General University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, where a unit of day care will be established, for novel applications in the research, diagnosis and treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases. The Hospital was represented by the Hospital Director Dimitris Lazopoulos.
> The Affidea diagnostic centers’ network for medical examinations. Affidea was represented by Aspasia Papadaki.
> The UK-based company Neurodiagnosis Innovatus for the establishment of the Early Diagnostic Centre for in London. Neurodiagnosis Innovatus was represented by Nikolaos Gamvrias.
> The Computer Algebra Research Group of Ontario (CARGO) for the establishment of the Innovative Research Center on Human Ageing at the Wilfrid Laurier University’s Waterloo campus. CARGO was represented by Ioannis Charanas who joined the seminar through Skype from Canada.
After the end of the informative seminar, Mr. Vlamos gave visitors a tour of the innovative Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology lab.
The seminar was hailed by Minister of Health Panagiotis Kouroumplis who stated the Ministry’s full support to the lab’s activities and congratulated the Region of Ionian Islands for the successful cooperation with the Ionian University. The seminar was also hailed by official advisor for Public Health in the Region of Ionian Islands Spiros Drazinos, the representative of the President of the Republic of Cyprus Paraskevas Kikis and the Deputy Dean of the Ionian University professor Stavros Katsios.
Director of the Region of Ionian Islands Theodoros Galliatsatos noted that “it is an important time of collaboration between the Ionian University and the local government that highlights the substantial contribution of the University in the field of research and education and simultaneously indicates good practices for the utilization of available resources for the benefit of civil society.”
About BiHELab
The Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Lab (BiHELab) focus on recent advances in geriatrics and neurodegeneration, ranging from basic science to clinical and pharmaceutical developments.
BiHELab’s goal is to help bridge the translational gap from data to models and from models to drug discovery and personalized therapy by fostering collaborations and developing original quantitative approaches to biological and clinical problems.
BiHELab interests lie within educational, research and development activities in the areas of:
> Neurogenerative diseases and their relations with mitochondrial abnormalities and skin cancers
> Mathematical modeling and data analysis in proteomics, genomics and chemistry
> Systems biology approaches such as pathway, network and interaction analyses
> Large scale statistical and machine learning studies
> Protein structure, function and stability prediction, sequence and domain analyses
> Design and implementation of relational databases and software programs
> Online Health Record System for Diabetics
> Medical Information System for Epilepsy patients
> Pattern recognition techniques on mitochondrial imaging from neural and Schwann cells
> Knowledge Management System for the discrete mathematical representations of RNA secondary structures
> Artificial Neural Network for waveforms recognition on the anesthesiology patient’s monitor
> Wireless MEMS devices for skin and dermis bio-measurements
> Applying Hierarchical Linear Models on studying RPG and Social Networks among students
> Producing Webinars for Bioinformatics e-Classes
> Nanoethics and Bioethics
> BioArt
The electrophysiological laboratory houses instruments for intra and extracellular recordings in vivo and in vitro, and equipment for behavioral studies and equipment for both tethered and telemetric field potential recording.
More info one the lab: http://bihelab.di.ionio.gr/
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