Happy New Year from the SAP Group!

We are excited to welcome the New Year and wish everyone good health, happiness and success!

The past year has been full of hard work by everybody in the group, and the results have been great! Together we published some important peer reviewed journal articles, and several of our MSc and PhD students graduated, and now they are on to bigger and greater things! I wish them all the best! On a personal note, it was really fulfilling to be working with a group of bright, dynamic and hard-working students. Our plans for 2024 are even greater, more students in the labs, more scientific projects, more collaborations with great scientists and people, more publications, conference presentations and of course students graduating!

A brief summary of some of the things the group achieved last year!

Publications in 2023

“Modernizing Titrations in the Undergraduate Laboratory: No more burets and endpoint confusion, just a top-loading balance and a smartphone”, E. Larkin, D. Ahn, N. Ahn, F. Alzarooni, Y. Busaibe, S. Cho, S. Lee, B. Madani, J. Mun, K. Q. Canales, N. Rabeh, Z. Raef, Y. Shen, M. Shupac, A. Villanueva, S. A. Pergantis*, J. Chem. Ed. (American Chemical Society), DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.3c00799.

“Selenium, Selenoproteins and 10-year Cardiovascular Risk: Results from the ATTICA Study”, P. Detopoulou, S. Letsiou, T. Nomikos, A. Karagiannis, S.A. Pergantis, C. Pitsavos, D.B. Panagiotakos, S. Antonopoulou*, Current Vascular Pharmacology, 2023, 21, 5, 346-355.

“Chlorfenapyr metabolism by mosquito P450s associated with pyrethroid resistance identifies potential activation markers” C. Yunta, J. M. F. Ooi, F. Oladepo, S. Grafanaki, S.A. Pergantis, D. Tsakireli, H.M. Ismail*, M.J.I. Paine. Scientific Reports (Nature Portofolio), 2023, 13:14124.

“Increased metabolism in combination with the novel cytochrome b target-site mutation L258F confers cross-resistance between the Qo inhibitors acequinocyl and bifenazate in Tetranychus urticae”, X. Lu, M. Vandenhole, D. Tsakireli, S.A. Pergantis, J. Vontas, W. Jonckheere, T. Van Leeuwen*, Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, 2023, 192, 105411.

“Investigating the behavior of ultratrace levels of nanoparticulate and ionic silver in a seawater mesocosm using single particle inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry” M.I. Chronakis, E. Mavrakis, R. A.-F. García, M. Montes-Bayon, J. Bettmer, P. Pitta, M. Tsapakis, I. Kalantzi, A. Tsiola, S.A. Pergantis*, Chemosphere, 2023, 336, 139109.

Student Theses in 2023

Emmanouil Mavrakis, PhD Thesis “Development of novel atomic mass spectrometric techniques for the analysis of single particles and single cells”, 2023.

Konstantinos Kostidis, MSc Thesis, “Study of Sodium Trifluoroacetate Cluster Formation and the Effect of Acid and Base Vapors on Proteins During Electrospray Ionization Combined with High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry”, 2023.

Maria Eleni Kolimenou, MSc Thesis, "Development of methods for the determination of trace elements in seawater samples by solid phase extraction combined with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS)", 2023.

Anastasia Pergamali, MSc Thesis, “Arsenic Speciation Analysis Using HPLC-ICP-MS in Benthic and Pelagic Fish Collected from the Artemision Straits”, 2023.

Evangelos Stergiou, MSc Thesis, “Development of mass spectrometric and nuclear magnetic resonance techniques for investigating the effect of Ni(II), As(V), and Se(VI) on lipid saturation in Chlamydomonas reinhartii and Chlorella sorokiniana”, 2023.

Kleio Papadaki, Diploma Project Thesis “Determination of Aminoacids’ Basicity using Electrospray Tandem Mass Spectrometry and Orbitrap Mass Spectrometry”, 2023ou don't have to code to create your own site. Select one of available themes in the Mobirise sitebuilder.

Conference Presentations in 2023

“Impact of Ni(II) on growth, metal uptake, and lipid unsaturation of two microalgae species” Panagou G., Stergiou E., Lydakis-Simantiris N. and Pergantis S. A., 12th Aegean Analytical Chemistry Days, 19-22 Oct., Instanbul, Turkey.

“Fish tissue multielement metallobiomolecule profiling method and its application to four commercially important fish species” G. Panagou, I. Kalantzi, M. Tsapakis and S. A. Pergantis, 13th International Conference on Instrumental Methods of Analysis 17 Sept. 2023, Chania-Crete, Greece.

“HPLC-ESI-MS/MS for the determination of Arsenolipids in fish: A new form of arsenic for improved risk assessment” C. M. Drakonaki, M. Kapsi, I. Kalantzi, M. Tsapakis and S. A. Pergantis, 13th International Conference on Instrumental Methods of Analysis 17 Sept. 2023, Chania-Crete, Greece.

"Metallobiomolecule profiling in gilthead seabream and European seabass blood serum by online SEC – ICP – MS", G. Panagou, I. Kalantzi, I. Fakriadis, M. Tsapakis, S. A. Pergantis, European Winter Conference on Plasma Spectrochemistry Ljubljana, Slovenia, Jan. 29th – Feb. 3rd, 2023.