Kostas Petritis

Current

Laboratory Head at TGen

Past

Senior Research Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Scientist at Vioryl S.A.

Education

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Université d'Orléans
Université d'Orléans

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Kostas Petritis’s Summary

As of April 15 2009 I work at TGen as Head of the (new) Center for Proteomics. I am currently having fun setting up the lab, recruiting and getting ready at an aggressive pace. We have several ambitious projects in-house and with several national and international collaborators.

As a translational institute we are going to focus more in biomarker validation (around 25:75 discovery:validation). In the next months we are going to be building our proteomic pipeline and trying some new ideas along the way.

Kostas Petritis’s Specialties:

Biomarker discovery and validation
Proteomics
LC-MS/MS
>30 peer-reviewed publications, 4 patents, 60 conference communications.

Kostas Petritis’s Experience

Laboratory Head

TGen

(Non-Profit; Biotechnology industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

What I am currently working at:
Quantitative mass spectrometry
Biomarker discovery and validation
Phosphoproteomics
Sample preparation automation
Building high-throughput proteomic pipeline

I am also interested at:
De-novo sequencing
Glycomics
Novel ways to perform proteomic measurements
Proteome simplification
LC retention time prediction
Auxiliary methods to increase confidence of proteomic measurements
Senior Research Scientist

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

(Government Agency; Research industry)

April 2004 — April 2009 (5 years 1 month)

I spent 7 years in Dick Smith's group where I had the chance to work on a little bit of everything.

Sample preparation:
Chemical and enzymatic reaction acceleration by using ultrasounds, pressure, enzyme immobilization etc.

Analysis:
Proteome simplification and analysis by using electrophoretic and chromatographic techniques coupled with different types of mass spectrometers. Development of novel integrated top-down/bottom-up proteomic approaches.

Informatics:
Peptide retention time prediction in reversed phase and strong cation exchange liquid chromatography by using artificial neural networks and application of the information for increase of peptide identification confidence.
Scientist

Vioryl S.A.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Chemicals industry)

January 1996 — September 1996 (9 months)

Kostas Petritis’s Education

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Post-Doc , Proteomics , 2002 — 2004
Université d'Orléans

PhD , Analytical Chemistry , 1998 — 2001
Université d'Orléans

MSc , Analytical Chemistry , 1997 — 1998

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Kostas Petritis’s Interests:

Tennis (3.5-4.0 NTPR), ski, investing, snorkling, wine expert (have a masters degree in oenology and beverage technology but consider it a hobby)

Kostas Petritis’s Groups:

American Society of Mass Spectrometry (since 2001)

Founder and manager of the Linked groups "Chromatography Forum" and "Systems Biology"

Co-administrator of the Chromatography forum webiste