Personal information

E-mail address: med7p1120066 [at] med [dot] uoc [dot] gr

ORCID: 0000-0003-1356-5900

GitHub profile: https://github.com/irtzonevrakis/

Education

2022 – present: Master’s in bioinformatics, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Greece

2018 – 2022: Bachelor’s in biology (Molecular Direction), Department of Biology, University of Crete, Greece

Grade: 9.06/10

Publications

Zelenka, T., Klonizakis, A., Tsoukatou, D., Papamatheakis, D.-A., Franzenburg, S., Tzerpos, P., Tzonevrakis, I.-R., Papadogkonas, G., Kapsetaki, M., Nikolaou, C., Plewczynski, D., Spilianakis, C., 2022. The 3D enhancer network of the developing T cell genome is shaped by SATB1. Nature Communications 13, 6954. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34345-y

Research and Professional experience

2023 – present: Poirazi lab, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

2020 – 2021: iGEM Crete team

Participation in the project selection procedure
Provision of structural modeling support for the proposed edible vaccine construct (https://2021.igem.org/Team:Crete/Model)

2021 – 2023: Computer Architecture and VLSI Systems Laboratory, Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

Project: Stability testing and example workflow development for the OpenBio Workflow Management System (https://github.com/kantale/OpenBio.eu)

2020 – 2022: Spilianakis lab, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas

Projects:

Ensemble-based three-dimensional modeling of the Bcl6 locus in female murine Wild-Type and Satb1-cKO thymocytes based on Hi-C data
Development of source separation techniques of the active and inactive X chromosome contact matrices from mixture Hi-ChIP contact matrices

Awards and scholarships

2022: First award of the “Elisavet Karamintzou” donation, Award in memory of “Ioannis Kostikas”

Posters & Oral presentations

Tzonevrakis, I.-R., Zelenka, T., Spilianakis, C., 2021. Source separation approaches uncover the higher-order structure of the active and inactive X chromosome. Presented at the Higher-Order Chromatin Architecture in Time and Space | 22EK2, Colorado.

Language skills

Greek – Native language
English – C2: Certificate of Proficiency in English – with honors, obtained on 04/05/2014
German – C1: Goethe Zertifikat C1 – 80/100 (gut), obtained on 06/09/2017
Japanese – Upper Beginner/Lower Intermediate: 149/230 in the self-administered Tsukuba Test-Battery of Japanese, as of 02/07/2024

Information Technology skills

Operating systems: Linux (basic administration and end use of Debian-based systems), Microsoft Windows (end use)
Programming languages: Python (full working proficiency), bash shell (scripting/workflow orchestration), R (data loading, statistical analysis execution and plotting), C (limited working proficiency), Java (read-only)
Computer Maintenance: Assembly, troubleshooting and repair of IBM PC-compatible systems

Interests

Music: Classically trained in guitar for 4 years
Language learning: Currently learning Japanese