Evangelia Petsalaki PhD

Evangelia Petsalaki did her PhD with Rob Russell at the EMBL Heidelberg on structural bioinformatics. She graduated in 2009 with summa cum laude and got the Wilma Moser Prize for youngest and best PhD from the University of Heidelberg in that year. She then moved to the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada, where she initially joined Tony Pawson's group to study Rho signalling and other cell signalling processes using proteomics, phosphoproteomics and network analyses. She then joined the yeast genetics group of Fritz Roth, where she switched to bench work and together with Nozomu Yachie developed a technology that combined Cre-recombination, DNA barcoding and next-generation sequencing to perform pooled yeast-two hybrid screens, opening the door to the study of conditional protein interactomes. She has been at EMBL-EBI since 2017 and her group focuses on the study of the principles underpinning context-specific cell signalling processes.