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EMBL 50th anniversary in the library: Fotis C. Kafatos – Szilárd Library

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EMBL 50th anniversary in the library: Fotis C. Kafatos

Our special collection is dedicated to Fotis C. Kafatos, who served as EMBL’s third Director General between 1993 and 2005. Kafatos has made significant contributions to molecular biology and genetics, particularly in the study of insects and their immune systems. His research on the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, which transmits malaria, is of particular importance. The collection includes a wide range of books, series, journals and conferences proceedings related to this field, as well as doctoral dissertations that Kafatos supervised as a Biology Professor at the University of Athens and during his time at EMBL.

The collection also contains many publications from the Pontifical Academy of Sciences of the Vatican that Kafatos was a member of.

Fotis C. Kafatos was very supportive to the library and according to Mary Holmes, first EMBL librarian, it was during his directorate when our library got its first electronic library system.

Acquisition information

The Fotis C. Kafatos personal book collection was part of material donated to the EMBL Archives and later from the Archive to the Szilard Library.

In our Special collection Fotis C. Kafatos can be found:

Insect infection and immunity : evolution, ecology, and mechanisms (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Edited by Jens Rolff and Stuart E. Reynolds.

This book is published on the occasion of the Royal Entomological Society’s Symposium on Insect infection and immunity in Sheffield, July 15-17 2009.

Fotis Kafatos was a symposium speakers and contributor to this volume with the chapter “Comparative genomics of insect immunity” by Fotis Kafatos, Robert WaterhouseEvgeny ZdobnovGeorge Christophides.

 

Molecular model systems in the Lepidoptera (Cambridge University Press,1995)

Edited by Marian R. Goldsmith and Adam S. Wilkins.

This book presents a diverse collection of chapters on basic research at the molecular level using Lepidoptera as model systems. Chapter “Chorion Genes: An Overview of Their Structure, Function, and Transcriptional Regulation,” was contributed by Fotis C. Kafatos, George Tzertzinis, Nikolaus A. Spoerel, and Hanh T. Nguyen.

 

 

Gene structure and regulation in development

Edited by Stephen Subtelny and Fotis C. Kafatos

Fotis C. Kafatos, coeditor and symposium organizer of the 41st Symposium of the Society for Developmental Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 17-19, 1982.

 

Asteroskopeio skinaka : me thea to sympan (Skinakas Observatory & University Publications of Crete, 2010)

By Makis Palaiologou and Giannis Papamastorakis

The author Giannis Papamastorakis included a handwritten dedication in the book to Fotis Kafatos, expressing gratitude for his contribution to the creation of the Skinakas Observatory, as well as his invaluable contribution to world science.”Στον Φώτη Καφάτο, φίλο αγαπημένο, με ανεκτίμητη προσφορά στην παγκόσμια επιστήμη που συνέβαλε στη δημιουργία του Αστεροσκοπείο Σκίνακα”.

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