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Vassilios Roussis is affiliated with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to several subfields including Aquatic Science, Biomaterials, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
  • Marine Sponges and Natural Products
  • Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  • Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides
  • Echinoderm Biology and Ecology
  • Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
  • Synthesis and Biological Activity

Roussis has published a number of recent papers, examples of which are:

  • "Valorization of Marine Waste: Use of Industrial By-Products and Beach Wrack Towards the Production of High Added-Value Products," 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Metabolites with Antioxidant Activity from Marine Macroalgae," 2021, Antioxidants
  • "Marine Biopolymers as Bioactive Functional Ingredients of Electrospun Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications," 2022, Marine Drugs
  • "Hybrid Sponge-Like Scaffolds Based on Ulvan and Gelatin: Design, Characterization and Evaluation of Their Potential Use in Bone Tissue Engineering," 2020, Materials
  • "Expanding the terpene biosynthetic code with non-canonical 16 carbon atom building blocks," 2022, Nature Communications

Frequent coauthors in Roussis's publications include:

  • Efstathia Ioannou (49 publications together)
  • Stefanos Kikionis (22 publications together)
  • Leto-Aikaterini Tziveleka (12 publications together)
  • Aikaterini Koutsaviti (11 publications together)
  • Mohamed A. Tammam (10 publications together)

Roussis publishes often in the following venues:

  • Marine Drugs (15 publications)
  • Phytochemistry Letters (7 publications)
  • Foods (2 publications)
  • Molecules (2 publications)
  • Redox Biology (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Natural products with anti-HIV activity from marine organisms.

    Leto-A. Tziveleka;Constantinos Vagias;Vassilios Roussis

  • New antiinflammatory pseudopterosins from the marine octocoral pseudopterogorgia elisabethae

    Vassilios Roussis;Zhongde Wu;William Fenical;Scott A. Strobel

  • Ulvan, a bioactive marine sulphated polysaccharide as a key constituent of hybrid biomaterials: A review.

    Leto-Aikaterini Tziveleka;Efstathia Ioannou;Vassilios Roussis

  • Volatile halogenated metabolites from marine red algae

    Maria Kladi;Constantinos Vagias;Vassilios Roussis

  • Volatile constituents of needles of five Pinus species grown in Greece

    Vassilios Roussis;Panos V. Petrakis;Antonio Ortiz;Basilis E. Mazomenos

  • Glandulaurencianols A–C, brominated diterpenes from the red alga, Laurencia glandulifera and the sea hare, Aplysia punctata

    Maria Kladi;Dimitrios Ntountaniotis;Maria Zervou;Constantinos Vagias

  • Nanofibers based on polysaccharides from the green seaweed Ulva Rigida

    Georgios Toskas;Rolf-Dieter Hund;Ezzedine Laourine;Chokri Cherif

  • Efficient diterpene production in yeast by engineering Erg20p into a geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase

    Codruta Ignea;Fotini A. Trikka;Alexandros K. Nikolaidis;Panagiota Georgantea

  • The genus Pinus: a comparative study on the needle essential oil composition of 46 pine species

    Efstathia Ioannou;Aikaterini Koutsaviti;Olga Tzakou;Vassilios Roussis

  • Volatile constituents of four Helichrysum species growing in Greece

    Vassilios Roussis;Maria Tsoukatou;Panos V. Petrakis;Ioanna Chinou

  • Cultivated microalgae and the carotenoid fucoxanthin from Odontella aurita as potent anti-proliferative agents in bronchopulmonary and epithelial cell lines

    Dimitri Moreau;Christophe Tomasoni;Catherine Jacquot;Raymond Kaas

  • 5α,8α-Epidioxysterols from the gorgonian Eunicella cavolini and the ascidian Trididemnum inarmatum: Isolation and evaluation of their antiproliferative activity

    Efstathia Ioannou;Ayman F. Abdel-Razik;Maria Zervou;Dimitrios Christofidis

  • Inhibitory effects of Mediterranean sponge extracts and metabolites on larval settlement of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite

    Claire Hellio;Maria Tsoukatou;Jean-Philippe Maréchal;Nick Aldred

  • Carnosic acid biosynthesis elucidated by a synthetic biology platform.

    Codruta Ignea;Anastasia Athanasakoglou;Efstathia Ioannou;Panagiota Georgantea

  • Chemical composition and biological activity of Nepeta parnassica oils and isolated nepetalactones.

    Giorgos Gkinis;Olga Tzakou;Dimitra Iliopoulou;Vassilios Roussis

  • Anti-microfouling Activity of Lipidic Metabolites from the Invasive Brown Alga Sargassum muticum (Yendo) Fensholt

    Erwan Plouguerné;Erwan Plouguerné;Efstathia Ioannou;Panagiota Georgantea;Constantinos Vagias

  • Cytotoxic lupane-type triterpenoids from Acacia mellifera.

    Charles Mutai;Dennis Abatis;Constantinos Vagias;Dimitri Moreau

  • Chemical and Biological Studies on Two Helichrysum Species of Greek Origin

    Ioanna B. Chinou;Vassilios Roussis;Dimitrios Perdetzoglou;Anargiros Loukis

  • New cytotoxic sesquiterpenes from the red algae Laurencia obtusa and Laurencia microcladia

    Maria Kladi;Helen Xenaki;Constantinos Vagias;Panagiota Papazafiri

  • Factors promoting marine invasions: a chemoecological approach.

    Ernesto Mollo;Margherita Gavagnin;Marianna Carbone;Francesco Castelluccio

  • Collagen from the Marine Sponges Axinella cannabina and Suberites carnosus: Isolation and Morphological, Biochemical, and Biophysical Characterization.

    Leto-Aikaterini Tziveleka;Efstathia Ioannou;Dimitris Tsiourvas;Panagiotis Berillis

Frequent Co-Authors

Panagiotis Kefalas
Panagiotis Kefalas Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania
David F. Wiemer
David F. Wiemer University of Iowa
Ioanna Chinou
Ioanna Chinou National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
William Fenical
William Fenical University of California, San Diego
Simon Gibbons
Simon Gibbons University of East Anglia
Robert Kiss
Robert Kiss Université Libre de Bruxelles
Christos Tsatsanis
Christos Tsatsanis University of Crete
Guido Cimino
Guido Cimino National Research Council (CNR)
Paul Cos
Paul Cos University of Antwerp

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