UCSB Chem Engineering

Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies

Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program (BMSE)

Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, & Computation

Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science (IGPM)

Computational Science and Engineering, IGERT program

Panagiota (Pegy) T. Foteinou

Postdoctoral Fellow
Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies

Contact Info

Education

• Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University - The State University of New Jersey, 09/2005 - 05/2010
  Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Ioannis (Yannis) P. Androulakis
  Dissertation Topic: "A Multiscale Model for the Assessment of Autonomic Dysfunction in Human Endotoxemia"
  
• Dipl. Ing. Degree in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 10/1999 - 11/2004
  Senior Thesis: "Experimental cosmetics synthesis from natural products"
  Faculty Advisor: Prof. Vassilis Papageorgiou
  

Honors

• Outstanding Graduate Student Award from Rutgers School of Engineering

Research Interests

Computational Biology and Medicine (Clinical Systems Biology), Quantitative Cell Biology:
the application of systems engineering principles to the analysis of regulatory mechanisms in biological systems; multilevel modeling, network dynamics, linking biological rhythms and metabolism, modeling the circadian epigenome, inflammation and infectious diseases

Publications

• Foteinou P.T., Calvano S.E., Lowry S.F. and Androulakis I.P., A Physiological Model for Autonomic Heart Rate Regulation in Human Endotoxemia Shock (2010-accepted)
• Foteinou P.T., Calvano S.E., Lowry S.F. and Androulakis I.P., A Multiscale Model for the Assessment of Autonomic Dysfunction in Human Endotoxemia, Phys Genomics 42(1): 5-19 (2010).[DOI:http://physiolgenomics.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/42/1/5]
• Dong X., Foteinou P.T., Calvano S.E., Lowry S.F. and Androulakis I.P., Agent-based Modeling of Endotoxin Induced Acute Inflammatory Response in Macrophages, PLoS ONE, 5(2) (2010).[DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0009249]
• Foteinou P.T., Calvano S.E., Lowry S.F. and Androulakis I.P., In Silico Simulation of Corticosteroids Effect on an NFkB Dependent Physicochemical Model of Systemic Inflammation, PLoS ONE, 4(3): e4706 (2009).[DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0004706]
• Foteinou P.T., Yang E. and Androulakis I.P., Networks, Biology and Systems Engineering: A Case Study in Inflammation, Comp. & Chem. Eng, 33(12): 2028-2041 (2009).[DOI:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2009.06.027]
• Foteinou P.T., Yang E. , Saharidis G.K., Ierapetritou M.G., and Androulakis I.P., A mixed-integer optimization framework for the synthesis and analysis of regulatory networks, Journal of Global Optimization, 43(2): 263-276 (2009).[DOI:10.1007/s10898-007-9266-6]
• Foteinou P.T., Calvano S.E., Lowry S.F. and Androulakis I.P., Modeling Endotoxin-Induced Systemic Inflammation Using an Indirect Response Approach, Math. Biosciences, 217 (1):27-42 (2009).[DOI:10.1016/j.mbs.2008.09.003]
• Foteinou P.T., Calvano S.E., Lowry S.F. and Androulakis I.P., Translational Potential of Systems-based Models of Inflammation, Clinical and Translational Science, 2(1): 85-89 (2009).[DOI:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20443873]
• Yang E., Foteinou P.T., King K.R., Yarmush M.L., Androulakis I.P., A Novel Non-overlapping Bi-clustering Algorithm for Network Generation using Living Cell Array Data. Bioinformatics 23:2306-2313 (2007). [DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm335]