Faculty Staff/Section of Animal Biology
Assistant Professor in Biodiversity of Mammals
Office Location: 3rd Floor
Email: mitsain@upatras.gr
Telephone: +30 2610 969271

Curriculum vitae

Education

  • 1996: Degree of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Patras
  • 1999: MSc, Department of Biology, University of Patras
  • 2006: PhD, Department of Biology, University of Patras

Educational activities

Undergraduate courses:

Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Patras

  • Animal Biology II: Deuterostomes
  • Fauna of Greece
  • Biodiversity and Conservation Biology

Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Patras

  • Elements of Botany and Zoology

Postgraduate courses at the Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Patras:

  • Biodiversity Assessment and Bio-monitoring of Species & Habitats
  • Environmental Planning and Management of Natural Areas

 Supervisions

Supervision of 9 MSc and 32 undergraduate dissertations (ongoing and completed).

Research and other activities

Recording and monitoring of the biodiversity of vertebrates, focusing on mammals. Protection and conservation of endemic, rare and threatened mammals of the Greek fauna. Faunistic studies, based on diet analysis (owl pellets, fecal matter etc.). Study of phylogenetic relationships, with the use of chromosomal and other approaches. Protection and sustainable management of Protected areas of Greece.

Representative publications

  • MITSAINAS, G.P., GIAGIA-ΑTHANASOPOULOU, Ε.Β. 2005. Studies on the Robertsonian chromosomal variation of Mus musculus domesticus (Rodentia, Muridae) in Greece. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 84 (3): 503-513.
  • REBUZZINI, P., CASTIGLIA, R., NERGADZE, S.G., MITSAINAS, G.P., MUNCLINGER, P., ZUCCOTTI, M., CAPANNA, E., REDI, C.A., GARAGNA, S. 2009. Quantitative variation of LINE-1 sequences in five species and three subspecies of the subgenus Mus and in five Robertsonian races of Mus musculus domesticus. Chromosome Research 17:65-76.
  • CHMÁTAL L, GABRIEL S.I., MITSAINAS G.P., MARTÍNEZ-VARGAS J., VENTURA J., SEARLE J.B., SCHULTZ R.M., LAMPSON M.A. 2014. Centromere strength provides the cell biological basis for meiotic drive and karyotype evolution in mice. Current Biology 24: 2295-2300.
  • DIDION J.P., MORGAN A.P., YADGARY L., BELL T.A., MCMULLAN R.C., ORTIZ DE SOLORZANO L., BRITTON-DAVIDIAN J., BULT C.J., CAMPBELL K.J., CASTIGLIA R., CHING Y.-H., CHUNCO A.J., CROWLEY J.J., CHESLER E.J., FÖRSTER D.W., FRENCH J.E., GABRIEL S.I., GATTI D.M., GARLAND T., GIAGIA-ATHANASOPOULOU E.B., GIMÉNEZ M.D., GRIZE S.A., GÜNDÜZ İ., HOLMES A., HAUFFE H.C., HERMAN J.S., HOLT J.M., HUA K., JOLLEY W.J., LINDHOLM A.K., LÓPEZ-FUSTER M.J., MITSAINAS G.P. et al. R2d2 Drives Selfish Sweeps in the House Mouse. Molecular Biology and Evolution 33: 1381-1395. DOI:10.1093/molbev/msw036.
  • GARCÍA-RODRÍGUEZ O., ANDREOU D., HERMAN J.S., MITSAINAS G.P., SEARLE J.B., BONHOMME F., HADJISTERKOTIS E., SCHUTKOWSKI H., STAFFORD R., STEWARD J.R., HARDOUIN E.A. 2018. Cyprus as an ancient hub for house mice and humans. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2619-2630. DOI:10.1111/jbi.13458.
  • RENAUD S., HARDOUIN E.A., CHEVRET P., PAPAYIANNIS K., LYMBERAKIS P., MATUR F., GARCIA-RODRIGUEZ O., ANDREOU D., ÇETINTAŞ O., SÖZEN M., HADJISTERKOTIS E., MITSAINAS G.P. Morphometrics and genetics highlight the complex history of Eastern Mediterranean spiny mice. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 130: 599-614.