Access to scientific literature and resources
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:
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.
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.
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Dissertation submitted under the supervision of Fotis Kafatos in 2006.
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.
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”.
By Manolis Dermitzakis
A Greek language book that depicts life in early 20th century in Heraklion, Crete, the birthplace of Fotis Kafatos, with an autographed dedication by the author.