Archontia's Bio

Hey everyone! I'm Archontia and i am from Greece. Biology and chemistry were always my favorite classes in high school so for that reason I choose to do my 4-year bachelor in Biochemistry & Biotechnology, back in Greece. During my bachelor I had to do two internships, a short-duration one and a long-duration one. My short one was at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, where I became familiar with the field of Neuroscience. During that time I've worked on laboratory mice in perspective of a study in neurodegenerative diseases. I was so fascinated by their work there so it was then when i realized that i wanted to work as a researcher in this field. My longer internship (one year!) was focused in a more molecural subject and the title of my research project was "Detection Study polymorphisms in mitochondrial tRNA genes in the modern human greek population". It was a very interesting subject as well, but Neurosciences had already won me over. But the possitive outcomes of my reaserch project was a) my participation in a biology conference, where I had to present my project (very enlightening experience!) And b) one publication in the Mitochondrion Magazine in May, 2008. Now, i am in the Neuroscience track and i am very pleased with it :-)! I am not exactly sure what my internships are going to be about quite yet, but i am guessing something that has to do with neurogenerative diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. My future goal is after my graduation, to continue on a PhD and eventually work as a researcher in a big and ambitious (:-P) Research Institute for Brain and Cognitive Sciences somewhere in Europe.