Dr. Anastasia-Olga Gkountidi
Dr. Anastasia-Olga Gkountidi
Staff of Professorship for Pharmaceutical Immunology
Research interest
Tumor immunology
Education and positions held
2021 - present
Postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Dr. Cornelia Halin, Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmaceutical Immunology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland
2016 - 2020
PhD thesis with Prof. Stéphanie Hugues, Department of Pathology and Immunology, University Medical Center of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
2014 - 2015
Research assistant, Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens (BRFAA), Department of Basic research, Cellular biology lab
2013 - 2014
Research analyst, Division of Medical Genetics, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2011 - 2013
MSc in Neuroscience and Cognition, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005 - 2011
BSc in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Publications
Haghayegh Jahromi N, Gkountidi AO, Collado-Diaz V, Blatter K, Bauer A, Zambounis L, Medina-Sanchez JD, Russo E, Runge P, Restivo G, Gousopoulos E, Lindenblatt N, Levesque MP, Halin C. CD112 Supports Lymphatic Migration of Human Dermal Dendritic Cells. Cells. 2024 Feb 28;13(5):424. doi: 10.3390/cells13050424.
Friess MC, Kritikos I, Schineis P, Medina-Sanchez JD, Gkountidi AO, Vallone A, Sigmund EC, Schwitter C, Vranova M, Matti C, Arasa J, Saygili Demir C, Bovay E, Proulx ST, Tomura M, Rot A, Legler DF, Petrova TV, Halin C. (2022) Mechanosensitive ACKR4 scavenges CCR7 chemokines to facilitate T cell de-adhesion and passive transport by flow in inflamed afferent lymphatics. Cell Rep. 38(5): 110334. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110334
Collado-Diaz V, Medina-Sanchez JD, Gkountidi AO, Halin C. (2022) Imaging leukocyte migration through afferent lymphatics. Immunol Rev. 306(1): 43-57. doi: 10.1111/imr.13030.
Garnier L, Gkountidi AO, Hugues S. Tumor-Associated Lymphatic Vessel Features and Immunomodulatory Functions. Front Immunol. 2019 Apr 9;10:720. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.00720.
Kasteleijn-Nolst Trenité DG, Volkers L, Strengman E, Schippers HM, Perquin W, de Haan GJ, Gkountidi AO, van't Slot R, van de Graaf SF, Jocic-Jakubi B, Capovilla G, Covanis A, Parisi P, Veggiotti P, Brinciotti M, Incorpora G, Piccioli M, Cantonetti L, Berkovic SF, Scheffer IE, Brilstra EH, Sonsma AC, Bader AJ, de Kovel CG, Koeleman BP. Clinical and genetic analysis of a family with two rare reflex epilepsies. Seizure. 2015 Jul;29:90-6. doi: 10.1016/j.seizure.2015.03.020. Epub 2015 Apr 6. Erratum in: Seizure. 2015 Dec;33:104. de Graaf, Stan F [corrected to van de Graaf, Stan F].