BSc, MSc, PhD
Professor Zissis Mamuris holds a BSc in Biology from AUTH (1984),
Graduate Diploma in Population Genetics (DEA) (1985) and PhD in population genetics and cytogenetics (1989) from the University of Paris VII.
From 1994 he serves as a faculty member at the University of Thessaly (UoT), where he was elected Professor in 2007 Genetics in the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology.
From 2014 to 2018 he served as Vice Rector of Research and chairman of the Research Committee of the UoT. He is currently the Rector of the University of Thessaly.
His research interests focuses on :
(a) study of genomics and post-genomics and the genetic basis of multi-factors diseases in the Greek population through examination of mitochondrial and nuclear genes
(b) in the comparative study of the polymorphism of the major histocompatibility complex in terrestrial, aquatic, wild and farmed animals to identify evolutionary mechanisms of these complex sites and their association with life story patterns and susceptibility to diseases;
(c) analysis of population genetic patterns of terrestrial and aquatic animal organisms and the development of molecular markers to investigate phylogeny, microevolution and hygienic mechanisms and biodiversity conservation.
He has filed more than 400 sequences in international databases, is a member of the editors Committees of The Open Marine Biology Journal and the «Open Journal of Animal Sciences» and regular reviewer in 45 international journals.
He has participated in 34 national and international research programs and coordinated eight of them. He has supervised four doctoral dissertations and is supervisor in the other five.
He is a member of the Laboratory of Genetics, Comparative and Evolutionary Biology (BIOZ), in which the main objective of the research group is the study of phylogeny, microevolution, specificity and conservation of biodiversity, the analysis of genetic polymorphisms in humans, in terrestrial and aquatic animal populations, using functional genomics in combination with neutral molecular markers. He has contributed to more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, with h-index 26 and over 1600 references.