Anastasia Tomatsidou

Anastasia Tomatsidou graduated from the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology in 2010. After graduating, she moved to the Netherlands where she completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Pharmacy of the University of Utrecht. She then returned to Greece, to the Department of Biology of the University of Crete where she completed her doctoral dissertation, studying the role of polysaccharide deacetylases in the physiology of the bacterium B. anthracis. For the past 3 years she has worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Chicago (USA), where she focuses her research on the synthesis of polysaccharides of the B. anthracis cell wall. With the onset of the pandemic, she participated in studies of development of potential SARS-CoV-2 drugs in mice. Most recently, she was transferred as a postdoctoral researcher to the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of South Florida where she studies enzymes involved in the synthesis of the peptidoglycan of the bacterium C. difficile.