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Stem cells, hESC, iPSC, Kidney, Central Nervous System, Lentivirus, Organoids, Regenerative Medicine, Viral vectors, miRNA, Non-coding RNA

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Greece, United Kingdom

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Employment (4)

Democritus University of Thrace: Komotini, East Macedonia and Thrace, GR

2025-02-24 to present | Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology (Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics)
Employment
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Ioannis Bantounas

The University of Manchester: Manchester, GB

2010-09-06 to 2025-02-28 | Research Associate (Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health)
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Ioannis Bantounas

National Hellenic Research Foundation: Athens, GR

2009-09 to 2010-07 | Post-doctoral Researcher (Institute of Biological Research and Biotechnology)
Employment
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Ioannis Bantounas

University of Bristol: Bristol, GB

2006-01 to 2009-07 | Post-doctoral Researcher (The Henry-Wellcome Laboratories for Integrated Neuroscience and Endocrinology)
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Ioannis Bantounas

Education and qualifications (2)

University of Bristol: Bristol, GB

2000 to 2004 | PhD
Qualification
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Ioannis Bantounas

University of Essex: Colchester, GB

1996 to 1999 | BSc (1st Class)
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Ioannis Bantounas

Funding (5)

Treating a genetic kidney disease in a human stem cell model

2021-11 to 2022-02 | Grant
Kidneys for Life (Manchester, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas

Unravelling which kidney cell types are affected in Renal Cyst and Diabetes Syndrome caused by HNF1B mutation using Single Cell RNAseq of stem cell kidney organoids

2021-11 to 2022-02 | Grant
Kidneys for Life (Manchester, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas

Studying human kidney malformations in a dish

2018-10 to 2020-06 | Grant
Kidneys for Life (Manchester, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas

Using stem cell technologies to understand human renal tract malformations

2017-05 to 2020-10 | Grant
Kidney Research UK (Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, GB)
GRANT_NUMBER:

JFS/RP/008/20160916
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Ioannis Bantounas

Investigating the potential role of the JIP1 scaffold protein in controlling miRNA transcription

2012 to 2012 | Award
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester (Manchester, GB)
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas

Works (18)

Human pluripotent stem cell-derived kidney organoids reveal tubular epithelial pathobiology of heterozygous HNF1B-associated dysplastic kidney malformations

Stem Cell Reports
2024-06-11 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2024.04.011
SOURCE-WORK-ID:

1040e5aa-6088-46df-a05a-8a8668735846

EID:

2-s2.0-85195081511
Contributors: Ioannis Bantounas; Kirsty Rooney; Filipa Lopes; Kate A Hillman; Adrian S. Woolf; Susan Kimber
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University of Manchester - PURE
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Vimentin intermediate filaments provide structural stability to the mammalian Golgi complex

Journal of Cell Science
2023-10-18 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.260577
SOURCE-WORK-ID:

2a0970c5-c327-42f1-bbf9-4523239c2774

EID:

2-s2.0-85174752139

PMID: 37732478
Contributors: Teresa Vitali; Rosa Sanchez-Alvarez; Tomasz M. Witkos; Ioannis Bantounas; Marie FA Cutiongco; Michal Dudek; Guanhua Yan; Alexander A. Mironov; Joe Swift; Martin Lowe
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University of Manchester - PURE

Human pluripotent stem cell-derived kidney organoids reveal tubular epithelial pathobiology of heterozygousHNF1B-associated dysplastic kidney malformations

2023-03-15 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.14.532598
Contributors: Ioannis Bantounas; Kirsty M. Rooney; Filipa M. Lopes; Faris Tengku; Steven Woods; Leo A. H. Zeef; Shweta Y. Kuba; Nicola Bates; Sandra Hummelgaard; Katherine A Hillman et al.
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In situ Hybridization of miRNAs in Human Embryonic Kidney and Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Kidney Organoids

BIO-PROTOCOL
2021-09-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.21769/bioprotoc.4150
Part of ISSN: 2331-8325
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas

Aberrant Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Precursor Cells inside Mouse Vascularized Bioreactors

Nephron
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1159/000509425
Part of ISSN: 1660-8151
Part of ISSN: 2235-3186
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas

Formation of Mature Nephrons by Implantation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Progenitors into Mice

Methods in Molecular Biology
2020 | Book chapter
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9841-8_19
EID:

2-s2.0-85074703985

Part of ISBN:

19406029 10643745
Contributors: Bantounas, I.; Silajdžić, E.; Woolf, A.S.; Kimber, S.J.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier
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The miR-199a/214 Cluster Controls Nephrogenesis and Vascularization in a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Model.

Stem cell reports
2020-12-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.11.007
PMID: 33306987
Source: Self-asserted source
Ioannis Bantounas
grade
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Generation of Functioning Nephrons by Implanting Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Kidney Progenitors

Stem Cell Reports
2018 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.01.008
EID:

2-s2.0-85041650909

Part of ISBN:

22136711
Contributors: Bantounas, I.; Ranjzad, P.; Tengku, F.; Silajdžić, E.; Forster, D.; Asselin, M.-C.; Lewis, P.; Lennon, R.; Plagge, A.; Wang, Q. et al.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier
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Comparability: Manufacturing, characterization and controls, report of a UK Regenerative Medicine Platform Pluripotent Stem Cell Platform Workshop, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 14-15 September 2015

Regenerative Medicine
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2217/rme-2016-0053
EID:

2-s2.0-84979021495

Part of ISBN:

1746076X 17460751
Contributors: Williams, D.J.; Archer, R.; Archibald, P.; Bantounas, I.; Baptista, R.; Barker, R.; Barry, J.; Bietrix, F.; Blair, N.; Braybrook, J. et al.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

MiR-132 Is Upregulated by Ischemic Preconditioning of Cultured Hippocampal Neurons and Protects them from Subsequent OGD Toxicity

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
2016 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-016-0740-9
EID:

2-s2.0-84963636540

Part of ISBN:

15591166 08958696
Contributors: Keasey, M.P.; Scott, H.L.; Bantounas, I.; Uney, J.B.; Kelly, S.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

Epigenetic regulation of miR-21 in colorectal cancer: ITGB4 as a novel miR-21 target and a three-gene network (miR-21-ITGB44-PCDC4) as predictor of metastatic tumor potential

Epigenetics
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.4161/epi.26842
EID:

2-s2.0-84891915416

Part of ISBN:

15592308 15592294
Contributors: Ferraro, A.; Kontos, C.K.; Boni, T.; Bantounas, I.; Siakouli, D.; Kosmidou, V.; Vlassi, M.; Spyridakis, Y.; Tsipras, I.; Zografos, G. et al.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

Regulation of axon growth by the JIP1-AKT axis

Journal of Cell Science
2014 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.137208
EID:

2-s2.0-84891475429

Part of ISBN:

00219533 14779137
Contributors: Dajas-Bailador, F.; Bantounas, I.; Jones, E.V.; Whitmarsh, A.J.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

A molecular signature for oncogenic BRAF in human colon cancer cells is revealed by microarray analysis

Current Cancer Drug Targets
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.2174/156800912802429364
EID:

2-s2.0-84866406301

Part of ISBN:

15680096 18735576
Contributors: Joyce, T.; Oikonomou, E.; Kosmidou, V.; Makrodouli, E.; Bantounas, I.; Avlonitis, S.; Zografos, G.; Pintzas, A.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

MiR-3120 is a mirror microRNA that targets heat shock cognate protein 70 and auxilin messenger RNAs and regulates clathrin vesicle uncoating

Journal of Biological Chemistry
2012 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.326041
EID:

2-s2.0-84860354253

Part of ISBN:

00219258 1083351X
Contributors: Scott, H.; Howarth, J.; Lee, Y.B.; Wong, L.-F.; Bantounas, I.; Phylactou, L.; Verkade, P.; Uney, J.B.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

Twist-1 regulates the miR-199a/214 cluster during development

Nucleic Acids Research
2009 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn920
EID:

2-s2.0-58549092395

Part of ISBN:

03051048 13624962
Contributors: Lee, Y.-B.; Bantounas, I.; Lee, D.-Y.; Phylactou, L.; Caldwell, M.A.; Uney, J.B.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

Twist induces reversal of myotube formation

Differentiation
2008 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.2007.00195.x
EID:

2-s2.0-38849084613

Part of ISBN:

14320436 03014681
Contributors: Hjiantoniou, E.; Anayasa, M.; Nicolaou, P.; Bantounas, I.; Saito, M.; Iseki, S.; Uney, J.B.; Phylactou, L.A.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

Assessing adenoviral hammerhead ribozyme and small hairpin RNA cassettes in neurons: Inhibition of endogenous caspase-3 activity and protection from apoptotic cell death

Journal of Neuroscience Research
2005 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20389
EID:

2-s2.0-16444376307

Part of ISBN:

03604012
Contributors: Bantounas, I.; Glover, C.P.J.; Kelly, S.; Iseki, S.; Phylactou, L.A.; Uney, J.B.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

RNA interference and the use of small interfering RNA to study gene function in mammalian systems

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology
2004 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1677/jme.1.01582
EID:

2-s2.0-11244328982

Part of ISBN:

09525041
Contributors: Bantounas, I.; Phylactou, L.A.; Uney, J.B.
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Ioannis Bantounas via Scopus - Elsevier

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