Dr. Ioannis Ganopoulos was born in 1982 in Drama, Greece. Dr. Ganopoulos received his BSc degree in Agriculture from the University of Thessaly (2000-2005) his MS in plant breeding and plant physiology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2005-2007) and his PhD in Plant Breeding from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2008–2013).

Dr. Ioannis Ganopoulos is a researcher of the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources-ELGO Demeter and has a scientific background on plants biotechnology on genetics and genomics, developing molecular markers (RAPD, SSR, ISSR, SNP) to identify population structure and phylogenetic relationships. His main research interests focus on plant molecular breeding, plant population genetics and genomics, genetic diversity, DNA barcoding and molecular markers. His recent scientific interests focus on epigenetics, DNA methylation and trascriptomic analysis for molecular breeding purposes. He has participated in six research projects, one of them competitive European project. He has published seventy-four (74) reviewed articles in SCI journals. He was a co-worker in national/international projects and he is Editor in Frontiers in Plant Science journal.

• Plant Omics technologies (genomics, transcriptomics, etc.)
• Plant Epigenetics (Methylation diversity)
• Genetic diversity studies
• Molecular markers (SSRs, SNPs, ISSRs, AFLPs)
• Plant Phenotyping

• Ganopoulos, I., Farsakoglou, A.M., Aravanopoulos, F., Molassiotis, A., Michailidis, M., Malliarou, E., Avramidou, E., Tsaftaris, A., Osanthanunkul, M., Madesis, P. and Kazantzis, K. 2018. Towards sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) breeding: phenotyping evaluation of newly developed hybrids. Euphytica, 214(6), p.99.
• Kapazoglou, A., Ganopoulos, I., Tani, E. and Tsaftaris, A. 2018. Epigenetics, Epigenomics and Crop Improvement. In Advances in Botanical Research(Vol. 86, pp. 287-324). Academic Press.
• Ganopoulos, I., Mylona, P., Mellidou, I., Kalivas, A., Bosmali, I., Kontzidou, S., Osathanunkul, M. and Madesis, P. 2018. Microsatellite genotyping and molecular screening of pea (Pisum sativum L.) germplasm with high-resolution melting analysis for resistance to powdery mildew. Plant Gene, 15, pp.1-5.
• Ganopoulos, I., Tourvas, N., Xanthopoulou, A., Aravanopoulos, F.A., Avramidou, E., Zambounis, A., Tsaftaris, A., Madesis, P., Sotiropoulos, T. and Koutinas, N. 2018. Phenotypic and molecular characterization of apple (Malus× domestica Borkh) genetic resources in Greece.  Agric, 75(6), pp.509-518.
• Xanthopoulou, A., Ganopoulos, I., Psomopoulos, F., Manioudaki, M., Moysiadis, T., Kapazoglou, A., Osathanunkul, M., Michailidou, S., Kalivas, A., Tsaftaris, A. and Nianiou-Obeidat, I. 2017. De novo comparative transcriptome analysis of genes involved in fruit morphology of pumpkin cultivars with extreme size difference and development of EST-SSR markers. Gene, 622, pp.50-66.
• Tanou, G., Minas, I.S., Scossa, F., Belghazi, M., Xanthopoulou, A., Ganopoulos, I., Madesis, P., Fernie, A. and Molassiotis, A. 2017. Exploring priming responses involved in peach fruit acclimation to cold stress. Scientific reports, 7(1), p.11358.