Antonios Samiotakis

Nationality	Greek
Telephone	+1 713-743-3725
E-Mail	asamiotakis2_at_uh.edu

Education

2006-present: University of Houston (UH), Department of Physics Houston, TX
Ph.D Program, Physics
Adviser: Professor Margaret S. Cheung

2006-2008: University of Houston (UH), Department of Physics Houston, TX
M.Sc. Physics

1999-2005: University of Athens (UoA), Department of Physics Athens, Greece
Diploma in Physics

Professional Experience

2007 – present: University of Houston, Houston, TX

Research Assistant, Physics Department

2006-2007: University of Houston, Houston, TX

Teaching Assistant, Physics Department

Summers 1999-2003:Hellenic Labware S.A., Athens, Greece
Technical Assistant, Scientific Instruments Department

Research

2007-present: University of Houston, Houston, TX
Molecular simulations and multi-scale modeling of macromolecules in living systems.

PUBLICATIONS

1. D. Homouz, M. Perham, A. Samiotakis, M.S. Cheung and P. Wittung-Stafshede, "Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.,105, 11754-11759 (2008). This paper was highlighted in the following Journals: Chemical and Engineering News, Aug 18^th 08, press, “Crowded Shapes”, Research Highlights in Nature (vol 454, p21, 2008), “Mob Rule” and Research Highlights of 2008 in Nature (vol. 456 p840, 2008).

2. A. Samiotakis, P. Wittung-Stafshede and M.S. Cheung, “Folding, stability and shape of proteins in crowded environments: Experimental and computational approaches”, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 10, 572-588 (2009).

PRESENTATIONS

1. Poster presentation: Macromolecular crowding effect on the dynamics of protein GB1 domain, Gordon Research Conference, Protein folding dynamics, Ventura, CA January 2008

2. Oral presentation: Macromolecular crowding effect on the dynamics of protein GB1 domain, American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA March 2008

3. Poster presentation: Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein, 13^th Annual Structural Biology Symposium, Galveston TX May 2008

4. Oral presentation: Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein, 35^th Semiannual Student Symposium, Texas Center for Superconductivity UH Houston TX May 2008.

5. Poster presentation: Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein, 18th Keck Center Annual Research Conference, Houston TX, October 2008

6. Poster presentation: Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein, The GCC Membrane Biology Symposium, Houston TX, January 2009

7. Poster presentation: Crowded, cell-like environment induces shape changes in aspherical protein, The GCC Magnetic Resonance Conference, Houston TX, February 2009

8. Poster presentation: SCAAL: An All-atomistic protein reconstruction method for multiscale simulations, The Biophysical Society 53^d Annual meeting, Boston MA, March 2009

9. Poster presentation: SCAAL: An All-atomistic protein reconstruction method for multiscale simulations, The 14^th Annual Structural Biology Symposium, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics, Galveston TX, March 2009

10. Oral presentation : Introductory molecular simulations and physics models, High performance computing for molecular biology workshop, Texas Learning and Computation Center, Houston TX, April 2009

AWARDS

1. 1^st prize in the 35^th Semiannual Student Symposium of Texas Center for Superconductivity, UH Houston TX, May 2008

2. “Honorable mention in the science division” for “Multiscale Simulation of protein GB1” in the VisVid video and visualization festival, Texas Learning and Computation Center, UH Houston TX, May 2009

Computer Skills

Programming: C, FORTRAN, Perl, Linux Schell, Assembly of early CISC processors.

Other: Linux/Unix, MS-Windows (MS-Office applications), Origin, AMBER, NAMD.

Languages

Fluent in English, French, and modern Greek (native).