IZFS Announces 2023 Christine Beattie Award Winners: Komali Valishetti and Konstantinos Kalyviotis, PhD

Konstantinos Kalyviotis, PhD, was awarded based on his EZM presentation "Highly specific and non-invasive imaging of Piezo1-dependent activity across scales using GenEPi”
Konstantinos studied Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece and obtained a Master's degree in Translational Research in Biomedicine. Before starting his PhD studies, Konstantinos was a Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Nano Bio Imaging at the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE)/ETH Zurich in Basel. During his PhD at Dr. Periklis (Laki) Pantazis Lab at the Department of Bioengineering/Imperial College London, Konstantinos worked on developing versatile imaging tools for both mechanical and chemical interrogation of biological systems, including new photoconvertible fluorescent proteins for high-fidelity lineage tracing, fluorescent reporters for mechanical stimuli, and biodegradable Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) nanoprobes for cancer precision imaging.