Professor Kostas Tokatlidis
- Cathcart Chair, Director of Research (Molecular Biosciences)
telephone:
01413306775
email:
Kostas.Tokatlidis@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
He/him/his
University of Glasgow, Institute of Molecular Cell & Systems Biology, 217 Davidson Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Personal assistant: Miss Libby Hendrie
telephone: 1942
email: Libby.Hendrie@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
'Mitochondria biogenesis (protein targeting/folding/assembly) in health and disease'
Research groups
Grants
Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.
- Mitotrapin
Medical Research Council
2024 - 2025
- Strengthening international partnerships
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2024 - 2024
- Mitotargin stability ADME
Medical Research Council
2023 - 2023
- Establishing global partnerships and KE activities for the Mitochondria Research Centre
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2022 - 2023
- Defining the market for a novel mitochondria diagnostics platform
Scottish Enterprise
2022 - 2022
- Mitochondrial proteostasis and reductive metabolic stress in ageing
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2021 - 2024
- A first-in-class peptide-based platform delivery technology to modulate mitochondria function in disease
Medical Research Council
2021 - 2022
- A first-in-class peptie-based platform delivery technology to modulate mitochondria function in disease
Medical Research Council
2021 - 2022
- A first-in-class peptide-based platform delivery technology to modulate mitochondria function in disease
Medical Research Council
2021 - 2022
- Host mitochrondria dysfunction by viral hijacking as a key pathogenicity mechanism in COVID-19
Wellcome Trust
2020 - 2021
- How does a novel targeting peptide direct proteins to mitochondria in response to oxidative stress?
University of Edinburgh
2020 - 2021
- Mitochondrial ROS mapping and control with sub-organellar resolution
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2020 - 2023
- Market research for commercial development of a novel peptide tool
Medical Research Council
2019 - 2020
- Mitochondria salvage via a novel antioxidant protein import pathway
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
2018 - 2021
- Analysis of a novel protein translocation pathway of the mitchondrial intermembrane space
Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine
2018 - 2018
- Thiol Modification and Redox Signalling
Medical Research Council
2016 - 2018
- Oxidative Folding and Redox Signalling in the Mitochondria Intermembrane Space.
The Royal Society
2013 - 2018
Supervision
- Sabha, Bassam Hassan A
Using a molecular biology approach to understand the role of heat shock protein co-chaperones in normal physiology and disease. - Van Der Schans, Fara
Targeting therapy-resistant cancer cells via mitochondrial biogenesis - Wang, Lei
Dissecting how and why damage mitochondria accumulate during ageing - Wang, Zejia
Unconventional protein import into the mitochondrial intermembrane space as a backup mechanism to sustain Erv1/ALR function under stress conditions
Teaching
Coordinator - Level 4 (Final year) Biochemistry degree
Coordinator - Level 4 Advanced Studies in Biochemistry option course
Coordinator - Level 4 Mitochondrial Biology option course
Lectures in
Level 4 Central Approaches in Biochemistry
Level 4 Cell compartmentalisation
Level 4 Mitochondrial Biology
Tutorials in Level 3 Biochemistry
Additional information
Editorial Board
- 2013 - present: Biochemical Journal - Editor
- 2012 - present: FEBS Journal - Editor
- 2011 - present: ISRN Structural Biology - Editor
- 2010 - present: Life Sciences Encyclopedia (Wiley) - Editor, Structural Biology Section
Grant Advisory Board
- 2013: EU Expert for Marie Curie proposals
- 2010 - 2011: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - International Expert in review panel for Centres of Excellence and Graduate Schools
- 2004 - 2006: EU expert for ITN and RTN grant applications
Invited International Presentations
- 2013: USA - FASEB Meeting om Mitochondria Assembly
- 2012: Manchester, England, UK - Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester
- 2012: Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK - Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Medical School, Newcastle University
- 2012: USA - GRC Gordon Research Conference Meeting on Thiol-Based Redox Regulation and Signalling
- 2012: Warwick, England, UK - School of Biological Sciences, Warwick University
- 2011: Florence, Italy - CERM, University of Florence
- 2011: Sardinia, Italy - EMBO-FEBS Conference 'Protein Transport Systems'
- 2010: Brussels, Belgium - Universite Catholique de Louvain, de Duve Institute
- 2010: Berlin, Germany - 1st World Congress on Targeting Mitochondria: Strategies, Innovations & Clinical Applications, International Society of Antioxidants in Nutrition and Health
- 2010: Dortmund, Germany - Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS)
- 2010: Berlin, Germany - Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Free University Berlin
- 2009: Thessaloniki, Greece - Symposium on New Frontiers in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, CERTH
- 2009: Thessaloniki, Greece - 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Symposium, Centre for Research and Technology
- 2009: Aussois, France - FEBS Advanced Lecture Course Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease
- 2009: Prague, Czech Republic - 2nd EU-NMR Meeting (Satellite Meeting to 34th FEBS Congress)
- 2009: Lisbon, Portugal - 2nd ESF/UB European Summer School in Nanomedicine
- 2009: Munich, Germany - Institute of Physiological Chemistry, LMU-Munich
- 2009: Freiburg, Germany - Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Freiburg
- 2008: Munich, Germany - SFB Meeting on ‘Endosymbiosis: From Prokaryotes to Eukaryotic Organelles’, LMU-Munich
- 2008: Athens, Greece - 33rd FEBS & 11th IUBMB Congress
- 2008: Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy - GRC Gordon Research Conference 'Thiol redox processes'
- 2007: Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy - Gordon Research Conference 'Protein Transport Across Cell Membranes'
- 2006: Gdansk, Poland - EMBO-FEBS Conference, 'Protein Targeting and Translocation'
- 2006: Mumbai, India - International Symposium on Emerging Trends in Genomic and Proteomic Sciences, Indian Council of Medical Research
- 2005: Munich, Germany - Institute of Physiological Chemistry, LMU-Munich
- 2003: Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
- 2003: Spa, Belgium - ESF European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting'
- 2003: Cambridge, England, UK - Lister Institute Fellows meeting, Cambridge University, King’s College
- 2003: Crete, Greece - The 2003 ONASSIS Lectures in Biology, FORTH-Crete
- 2002: Cambridge, England, UK - MRC-Dunn Human Nutrition Unit
- 2002: Manchester, England, UK - NESBIC UK-Japan Structural Biology Meeting
- 2002: Bordeaux, France - Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaire, CNRS-Bordeaux
- 2002: Crete, Greece - IESL and IMBB, FORTH
- 2002: Crete, Greece - Department of Chemistry, University of Crete
- 2001: Leeds, England, UK - Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds
- 2001: Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy - ESF European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting'
- 2001: Leeds, England, UK - NESBIC, Structural Biology Meeting
- 2000: Leeds, England, UK - Biochemical Society Meeting, 'Moving signals and molecules through membranes'
- 1999: Obernai, France - ESF European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting'
- 1998: Cambridge, England, UK - MRC-LMB
- 1998: Crete, Greece - Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, and IMBB-FORTH
- 1998: Manchester, England, UK - School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
- 1998: Charmey, Switzerland - Workshop on Mitochondrial RNA Import
- 1998: Glasgow, Scotland, UK - Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow
- 1997: Grenoble, France - EMBL-Outstation
- 1997: Albufeira, Portugal - 1st European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting: Protein Translocation Across Cellular Membranes'
- 1997: Marseille, France - LIDSM-CNRS
- 1997: Grenoble, France - Centre d'Etudes Atomiques
- 1997: Crete, Greece - Department of Biology, University of Crete, and IMBB-FORTH
- 1997: Albufeira, Portugal - 4th European Research Conference 'Molecular Basis of Biological Membrane Protein Structure and Function'
- 1997: Heidelberg, Germany - Heidelberg Cell Biology Symposium
- 1997: Paris, France - Institut Pasteur
- 1997: Freiburg, Germany - Institüt für Biochemie & Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg
- 1996: Munich, Germany - Institut für Physiologische Chemie, LMU-München
- 1996: Berlin, Germany - Max Delbrück Center Symposium on Protein Transport and Stability
- 1992: San Francisco, California, USA - ACS National Meeting and Symposium on Protein Folding and Recovery
- 1990: Boston, Massachusetts, USA - American Chemical Society National Meeting and Symposium on Protein Refolding
Prizes, Awards and Distinctions
- 2013: Elected Member, EMBO
- 2013: Wolfson-Royal Society Research Merit Award
- 2012: Research Excellence Award, Greek Ministry of Education
- 2011: Visiting Professor, University of Florence, Italy
- 2001: MRC Career Establishment Award
- 2001: Lister Institute Research Fellow
Professional Learned Society
- 2012 - 2015: EU-ROS - Management Committee Member, EU COST Action on Reactive Oxygen Species
- 2005 - present: Lister Institute - Member
- 1998 - present: Biochemical Society - Member
- 1998 - present: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Member
Research Fellowship
- 2001 - 2006: Lister Fellow
- 1995 - 1996: Roche Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1993 - 1995: EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1993 - 1995: HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow
- 1992 - 1993: EU Research Fellow
- 1988 - 1989: Fulbright Fellow