Dr. Vasiliki (Vassia) Koutsouveli
Postdoctoral researcher
Vassia is the postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-funded project "IMMUBASE" under the supervision of Prof. Thorsten Reusch, Prof. Ruth Schmitz-Streit, and myself.
She is interested in the interaction of early-diverging metazoans with their microbial symbionts.
Her project focus on understanding the evolution of the immune system and the positive selection of immune-related genes under specific environments through comparative genomic analyses and transcriptomic data.
vkoutsouveli@geomar.de