Prof. Vasileios Roussis

B5: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
​Faculty of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy and Chemistry of Natural Products

Position
Professor

Background
Prof. Roussis has a B.Sc. in Chemistry which he received at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His received his Ph.D.  in Organic Chemistry from the  University of Iowa, U.S.A. His main research interests cover the topics: Isolation and structural identification of secondary metabolites with pharmacological activity from marine organisms, Isolation of marine microorganisms and chemical investigation of their secondary metabolites, Isolation of marine metabolites exhibiting settlement inhibition activity for the development of ecologically compatible systems and Chemical ecology studies aiming at the elucidation of the role of secondary metabolites.

Role in EuroNeurotrophin
Main Supervisor ESR 7

Key Publications

• Mollo E., Gavagnin M., Carbone M., Castellucio F., Pozone F., Roussis V., Templado J., Ghiselin M., Cimino G. Factors promoting marine invasions: A chemoecological approach. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., 2008, 105, 4582-4586.
  
• Lhullier C., Falkenberg M., Ioannou E., Quesada A., Papazafiri P., Antunes Horta P.,Schenkel E., Vagias C., Roussis V. Cytotoxic Halogenated Metabolites from the Brazilian Red Alga Laurencia catarinensis. J. Nat. Prod. 2010, 73, 27–32
  
• Ioannou E., Quesada A., Rahman M.M., Gibbons S., Vagias C., Roussis V. Dolabellanes with antibacterial activity from the brown alga Dilophus spiralis. J. Nat. Prod., 2011, 74, 213-222.
  
• Ioannou E., Vagias C., Roussis V. Dilospiranes A and B: Diterpenes featuring novel carbocyclic units from the brown alga Dilophus spiralis. Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52, 3054-3056.
  
•  Piazza V., Roussis V., Garaventa F., Greco G., Smyrniotopoulos V., Vagias C., Faimali M. Terpenes from the Red Alga Sphaerococcus coronopifolius Inhibit the Settlement of Barnacles. Mar. Biotechnol., 2011, doi 10.1007/s10126-010-9337-4.