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Biology and Biochemistry
Greece
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
79
Citations
19348
World Ranking
4384
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Seraphim Papanikolaou is affiliated with the Agricultural University of Athens in Greece. Their research spans several major fields, primarily centered in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Engineering. The scientist's subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Pharmacology, Food Science, and Plant Science.

The primary topics covered in their work focus on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization, Biofuel Production and Bioconversion, Fungal Biology and Applications, Fungal and Yeast Genetics Research, Fermentation and Sensory Analysis, and Algal Biology and Biofuel Production.

Seraphim Papanikolaou has published extensively in several notable academic venues, with the most frequent publications appearing in the journals Fermentation, Microorganisms, Carbon Resources Conversion, Applied Sciences, and Processes.

Frequent collaborators include Panagiota Diamantopoulou, George Aggelis, Dimitris Sarris, Dimitris Karayannis, and Erminta Tsouko.

Their recent scholarly articles include:

  • "Adaptive laboratory evolution principles and applications in industrial biotechnology" (2021) published in Biotechnology Advances
  • "Recent advances in the production of single cell protein from renewable resources and applications" (2023) published in Carbon Resources Conversion
  • "Lipids by Yarrowia lipolytica Strains Cultivated on Glucose in Batch Cultures" (2020) published in Microorganisms
  • "Biotechnological valorization of biodiesel-derived glycerol: Trials with the non-conventional yeasts Yarrowia lipolytica and Rhodosporidium sp" (2021) published in Carbon Resources Conversion
  • "Production of added-value microbial metabolites during growth of yeast strains on media composed of biodiesel-derived crude glycerol and glycerol/xylose blends" (2020) published in FEMS Microbiology Letters

Best Publications

  • Lipids of oleaginous yeasts. Part I: Biochemistry of single cell oil production.

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;George Aggelis

  • Lipid production by Yarrowia lipolytica growing on industrial glycerol in a single-stage continuous culture.

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;George Aggelis

  • Valorization of industrial waste and by-product streams via fermentation for the production of chemicals and biopolymers

    Apostolis A. Koutinas;Anestis Vlysidis;Daniel Pleissner;Nikolaos Kopsahelis

  • Control of Lipid Accumulation in the Yeast Yarrowia lipolytica

    Athanasios Beopoulos;Zuzana Mrozova;Zuzana Mrozova;Marie Thérèse Le Dall

  • Lipids of oleaginous yeasts. Part II: Technology and potential applications

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;George Aggelis

  • Yarrowia lipolytica as a potential producer of citric acid from raw glycerol

    S. Papanikolaou;L. Muniglia;I. Chevalot;G. Aggelis

  • Single cell oil (SCO) production by Mortierella isabellina grown on high-sugar content media.

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;Michael Komaitis;George Aggelis

  • Design and techno-economic evaluation of microbial oil production as a renewable resource for biodiesel and oleochemical production

    Apostolis A. Koutinas;Afroditi Chatzifragkou;Nikolaos Kopsahelis;Seraphim Papanikolaou

  • Biotechnological valorisation of raw glycerol discharged after bio-diesel (fatty acid methyl esters) manufacturing process: Production of 1,3-propanediol, citric acid and single cell oil

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;Seraphim Papanikolaou;Stylianos Fakas;Stylianos Fakas;Michel Fick;Isabelle Chevalot

  • Evaluating renewable carbon sources as substrates for single cell oil production by Cunninghamella echinulata and Mortierella isabellina.

    Stylianos Fakas;Seraphim Papanikolaou;Athanasios Batsos;Maria Galiotou-Panayotou

  • Bacterial Cellulose Production from Industrial Waste and by-Product Streams

    Erminda Tsouko;Constantina Kourmentza;Dimitrios Ladakis;Nikolaos Kopsahelis

  • Single cell oil production by Yarrowia lipolytica growing on an industrial derivative of animal fat in batch cultures.

    S Papanikolaou;I Chevalot;M Komaitis;I Marc

  • Biotechnological conversions of biodiesel derived waste glycerol by yeast and fungal species

    Afroditi Chatzifragkou;Anna Makri;Aikaterini Belka;Stamatina Bellou

  • Phenolic removal in a model olive oil mill wastewater using Pleurotus ostreatus in bioreactor cultures and biological evaluation of the process

    G. Aggelis;D. Iconomou;M. Christou;D. Bokas

  • High production of 1,3-propanediol from industrial glycerol by a newly isolated Clostridium butyricum strain

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;Patricia Ruiz-Sanchez;Bernard Pariset;Fabrice Blanchard

  • Kinetic profile of the cellular lipid composition in an oleaginous Yarrowia lipolytica capable of producing a cocoa-butter substitute from industrial fats

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;Isabelle Chevalot;Michael Komaitis;George Aggelis

  • Biotechnological valorization of biodiesel derived glycerol waste through production of single cell oil and citric acid by Yarrowia lipolytica

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;George Aggelis

  • Citric acid production by Yarrowia lipolytica cultivated on olive-mill wastewater-based media

    Seraphim Papanikolaou;Maria Galiotou-Panayotou;Stylianos Fakas;Michael Komaitis

  • Repression of reserve lipid turnover in Cunninghamella echinulata and Mortierella isabellina cultivated in multiple-limited media

    S. Papanikolaou;S. Sarantou;M. Komaitis;G. Aggelis

  • Biotechnological conversions of bio-diesel derived waste glycerol into added-value compounds by higher fungi: production of biomass, single cell oil and oxalic acid.

    Axel André;Panagiota Diamantopoulou;Antonios Philippoussis;Dimitris Sarris

Frequent Co-Authors

George Aggelis
George Aggelis University of Patras
Apostolis A. Koutinas
Apostolis A. Koutinas Agricultural University of Athens
Michael Komaitis
Michael Komaitis Agricultural University of Athens
Denise M. G. Freire
Denise M. G. Freire Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
An-Ping Zeng
An-Ping Zeng Hamburg University of Technology
George-John E. Nychas
George-John E. Nychas Agricultural University of Athens
M.P. Dorado
M.P. Dorado University of Córdoba
Jean-Marc Nicaud
Jean-Marc Nicaud Agro ParisTech
Willy Verstraete
Willy Verstraete Ghent University
Panagiotis N. Skandamis
Panagiotis N. Skandamis Agricultural University of Athens

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