Amaryllis Vidalis

Education:

2011 Entitled: Dr. rer. nat.

2006 - 2010 Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany
Dissertation: "Patterns of nucleotide variation and gene-associated SNP analysis in a mixed Quercus spp. forest at isocitrate dehydrogenase genes"

1999-2004 Democritus University of Thrace, Faculty of Forestry, Environmental Management and Natural Resources, Greece
Diploma Thesis: "Genetic variation of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Greek Rodopi Mt. applying molecular markers" (in Greek)

1988-1999 School education, Ionios School of Athens, Greece
 

Professional experience /Research projects: 

01.06.2015 - todate: Research Associate, Section of Population Genetics, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, TUM
Project: Genomics of wild tomato species, genome evolution of maize

01.08.2014 - 31.01.2015 Research engineer, chief, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, UPSC, Sweden
Project: Linkage mapping in Picea abies.

2012-2014 Postdoctoral researcher in Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden Project: Exome capture-based marker development for linkage and association mapping studies in Picea abies. (Norway spruce genome project)

2011 - 2012 Coordinator and co-developer of the B.Sc. Programme: "Molecular Ecosystem Sciences" of the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany

2011 - 2012 Research Associate at the Georg-August University Göttingen, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Büsgen Institute, Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding, Germany
Project: "Translocation experiments and SNP analysis of adaptation in European oaks" (EVOLTREE project, in collaboration with INRA, Bordeaux, France)

2006 - 2010 Ph.D. candidate at the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Büsgen Institute, Department of Forest Genetics and Forest Tree Breeding
Project: "Patterns of nucleotide variation and gene-associated SNP analysis in a mixed Quercus spp. forest at isocitrate dehydrogenase genes"

2006 - 2007 Bilateral research project, Germany - Greece (IKYDA) Project: "Research of diversity in beech populations (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Greece using morphological traits and molecular markers"

2005 - 2006 Forester at the Head Office of the Forest Department of the District of Corinth, Ministry of Agricultural Development, Greece Project: Digital mapping of the forest areas of the District of Corinth
 

Teaching experience:

WS 2012-2013 Plant Breeding (in English) - M.Sc. in Plant Biotechnology and Molecular Breeding, Umeå Plant Science Centre,
Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University and Department of Forest Genetics and Plant Physiology, SLU Umeå, Sweden

WS 2011-2012 Ecological Genetics (in English) - B.Sc. in Molecular Ecosystem Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Göttingen, Germany

Publications:

Curtu, L. A., Craciunesc, I., Enescu C. M., Vidalis, A. and Sofletea N.: Fine scale spatial genetic structure in a multi-species oak forest.
2014, iForest (doi: 10.3832/ifor1150-007)

Papageorgiou C. A., Tsiripidis I., Mouratidis T., Hatziskakis S., Gailing O., Eliades N.-G. H., Vidalis A., Drouzas A. D., Finkeldey R. Complex fine-scale phylogeographic patterns in a putative refugial region of Fagus sylvatica L. (Fagaceae).
2014, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Vidalis, A., Curtu, A. L., Finkeldey, R.: Novel SNP development and analysis at a NADP+ specific IDH enzyme gene in a four-species mixed oak forest.
2013, Plant Biology

2011 PhD Thesis: "Patterns of nucleotide variation and gene-associated SNP analysis in a Quercus spp. forest at isocitrate dehydrogenase genes"
Online electronic publication of the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
(http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/2011/vidalis/ ) 

Papageorgiou, A.C., Vidalis, A., Gailing, O., Tsiripidis, I., Hatziskakis, S., Boutsios, S., Galatsidas, S., Finkeldey, R.: Genetic variation of beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) in Rodopi (N.E. Greece).
2008, European Journal of Forest Research 127: 81-88
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10342-007-0185-3)