Laboratory of Food Chemistry

Academic Staff

Markaki Panagiota (Assoc. Professor)

Miniadou-Meimaroglou Sofia (Assoc., Director of the Laboratory)

Zabetakis Ioannis (Assist. Professor)

Retired Academic Staff

Galanos Demetrius (Professor Emeritus)

Melissari-Panagiotou E. (Assist. Professor)

Petropoulou-Papahatzaki E. (Assistant)

Lipid chemistry and biochemistry. Isolation, identification and determination of lipid molecules in foods of plant and animal origin. Animal, plant and unicellular organism lipid biochemistry.
Food allergy.
Structure and function of biological membranes.
Platelet - Activating Factor (1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, PAF): Isolation and determination from natural sources, metabolism, mode of action, implication in diseases and its pathophysiological role, inhibitors, compounds with PAF- like activity.
Calcium mobilization after stimulation with lipids.
Molds which affect food. Isolation and identification of their toxic metabolites (aflatoxins) in foods.

RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES