Athanasios Kournoutis


Job description

PhD candidate in the Autophagy Research Group with the projects main focus being the study of the nuclear roles of members of the ATG8 family of proteins in the autophagy pathway but also independently.

Visiting Graduate Researcher at Harvard Medical School in the group of Zhixun Dou. 

Received an integrated MSc from the University of Ioannina in Greece with an MSc thesis carried out in the research group of Ioannis Nezis at the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.


  • Yakubu Princely Abudu, Athanasios Kournoutis, Hanne Britt Brenne, Trond Lamark, Terje Johansen :
    MORG1 limits mTORC1 signaling by inhibiting Rag GTPases
    Molecular Cell 2024 DOI
  • Athanasios Kournoutis, Trond Lamark, Terje Johansen, Yakubu Princely Abudu :
    WDR83/MORG1 inhibits RRAG GTPase-MTORC1 signaling to facilitate basal autophagy
    Autophagy 2024 DOI
  • Athanasios Kournoutis, Terje Johansen :
    LC3B is a cofactor for LMX1B-mediated transcription of autophagy genes in dopaminergic neurons
    Journal of Cell Biology 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Nikoline Lander Rasmussen, Athanasios Kournoutis, Trond Lamark, Terje Johansen :
    NBR1: The archetypal selective autophagy receptor
    Journal of Cell Biology 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Athanasios Kournoutis, Raksha Gohel, Stavroula Petridi, Ioannis P. Nezis :
    Molecular mechanisms of selective autophagy in Drosophila
    International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology 2020 DOI
  • Kjersti Sellæg, Susannah Beatrice von Hofsten, Anne Kristin McLaren Berge, Lennart Maximilian van Ligtenberg, Marcus Moe Mauseth, Athanasios Kournoutis et al.:
    Autofagi: cellenes spareblussmodus
    2023

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    Research interests

    Molecular Cell Biology

    Cloning

    Autophagy

    Nuclear Autophagy

    ATG8 family of proteins

    Teaching

    Teaching of colloquials and laboratory assistanship in the BSc courses below:

    Molecular Cell Biology - I

    Molecular Cell Biology - II

     


    Member of research group