Christina Arvanitidou

ORCID: 0000-0003-4092-0365

Group: Systems biology and biotechnology in microalgae

Position: Predoctoral Researcher

Contact:

Laboratory: LS104

Phone: 446053

Email:

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Master’s degree in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology, University of Seville.

Projects participated in:

Evolution of Diurnal and Seasonal Networks in Chlorophytes, Charophytes, and Bryophytes (ELECTRA). Spanish National Plan 2021–2023
Multi-omics Integration in Ostreococcus tauri (MINOTAUR). Spanish National Plan 2018–2021

Research Interests

My research focuses on the application of mathematical and computational methods, within the framework of systems biology, to analyze and understand the transcriptional mechanisms underlying the acclimation of chlorophyte microalgae to seasonal fluctuations in temperature and photoperiod. In particular, I study the role of the circadian clock and the epigenetic landscape in coordinating these responses, with the aim of understanding how phytoplankton acclimate to changing environmental conditions and, from an evolutionary perspective, how these mechanisms compare to those observed in land plants. In parallel, I contribute to the development of web applications that facilitate access to and visualization of the results obtained in this work.

Publications

Romero-Losada, A. B., Arvanitidou, C., García-Gómez, M. E., Morales-Pineda, M., Castro-Pérez, M. J., Chew, Y. P., van Ooijen, G., García-González, M., & Romero-Campero, F. J. (2025). Multiomics integration unveils photoperiodic plasticity in the molecular rhythms of marine phytoplankton. The Plant cell, 37(2), koaf033. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf033

Arvanitidou, C., Ramos-González, M., Romero-Losada, A. B., García-Gómez, M. E., García-González, M., & Romero-Campero, F. J. (2024). Transcriptomic characterization of the response to a microalgae extract in Arabidopsis thaliana and Solanum lycopersicum. Journal of the science of food and agriculture, 104(10), 5789–5798. https://doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.13422

Romero-Losada, A. B., Arvanitidou, C., de Los Reyes, P., García-González, M., & Romero-Campero, F. J. (2022). ALGAEFUN with MARACAS, microALGAE FUNctional enrichment tool for MicroAlgae RnA-seq and Chip-seq AnalysiS. BMC bioinformatics, 23(1), 113. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-022-04639-5