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, School of Molecular Biosciences, Room 217 Davidson Building, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
Personal assistant: Ms Bohan Yang
email: Bohan.Yang@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.
- MAINSTREAM: EPSRC Research and Partnership Hub for Health Technologies in Manufacturing Stem Cells
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
2025 - 2031
- 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
- Lacko, Erik
Temperature regulation of mitochondria function, architecture and biogenesis - Sabha, Bassam Hassan A
Using a molecular biology approach to understand the role of heat shock protein co-chaperones in normal physiology and disease. - Siciarz, Daniel
MITOCHONDRIA REDOX BIOGENESIS AND METABOLIC RAMAN IMAGING IN INSULIN SIGNALLING - 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 - Zhang, Naichuan
Regulation of mitochondrial dynamics, mitophagy and biogenesis by the redox balance of the intermembrane space
Teaching
Coordinator - Level 4 Mitochondrial Biology option course
Coordinator and Lecturer - Redox Biology module of MSc in Chemical Biology
Lectures in
Level 4 Central Approaches in Biochemistry
Level 4 Cell compartmentalisation
Level 4 Mitochondrial Biology
Tutorials in Level 3 Biochemistry
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2022: Elected Member, Academia Europaea
- 2021: Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC))
- 2020: Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB)
- 2016: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- 2013: Wolfson-Royal Society Research Merit Award
- 2013: Elected Member, EMBO
- 2012: Research Excellence Award, Greek Ministry of Education
- 2011: Visiting Professor, University of Florence, Italy
- 2005: Member, Lister Institute UK
- 2001: MRC Career Establishment Award
- 2001: Lister Institute Research Fellow
- 1988: Fulbright Fellow, USA Government
Research fellowships
- 2013 - 2018: Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Fellow
- 2012: Excellence Grant Award by the Ministry of Education of Greece
- 2001 - 2006: Lister Institute Research Fellow UK
- 1995 - 1996: Roche Research Foundation post-doctoral fellowship
- 1993 - 1995: Human Frontier Science Program (HFSPO) post-doctoral fellowship
- 1993 - 1995: European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) post-doctoral fellowship
- 1992 - 1993: EU Fellowship, Biotechnology Program "Bridge" and Human Capital and Mobility Program
- 1992: Invited Lecturer Fellowship, University of Paris VII
- 1988 - 1991: Graduate Fellowship, University of Delaware
- 1988 - 1989: Fulbright Fellow, USA Government
- 1983 - 1988: State Scholarship for Excellence (5 years, undergraduate studies) Greek Fellowship Foundation
- 1986: Student Fellowship, International Association for Exchange Students (I.A.E.S.T.E)
Grant committees & research advisory boards
- 2013 - 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
Editorial boards
- 2014: Nature Publishing, Frontiers in Biosciences. Editor
- 2013: Biochemical Journal. Editor
- 2012 - 2024: FEBS Journal. Editor
- 2011: ISRN Structural Biology. Editor
- 2010: Life Sciences Encyclopedia (Wiley). Editor, Structural Biology Section
Professional & learned societies
- 2013: Member, British Society for Cell Biology
- 2012 - 2015: Management Committee Member, EU COST Action on Reactive Oxygen Species, EU-ROS
- 2005: Member, Lister Institute
- 1998: Member, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- 1998: Member, Biochemical Society
Selected international presentations
- 2024: Institute of Biochemistry , University of Tubingen (Germany)
- 2023: DFG sponsored RELOC (Dynamic Protein Loacalisation driving proteome plasticity) Cologne (Germany)
- 2023: Bochum University (Germany)
- 2022: INSTRUCT – ERIC Webinar series ()
- 2022: Gordon Research Conference on Protein Translocation across membranes (Oxnard California, USA)
- 2021: Society for Redox Biology and Medicine (SfRBM) Annual meeting (Savanna Georgia, USA)
- 2021: 20th International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics IUPAB Congress, 45th Annual SBBf Meeting, and 50th Annual SBBq Meeting (Brazil)
- 2021: Biochemical Society Webinar Focus series – Mitochondria Collective ()
- 2020: Royal Society of Edinburgh – Mitochondria and Us ()
- 2019: University of Helsinki (Finland)
- 2019: University of Tampere (Finland)
- 2019: CECAD and Max Planck Institute for ageing (Cologne, Germany)
- 2018: Mitochondria Biogenesis conference DFG (Baiersbronn/Schwarzwald, Germany)
- 2017: Chinese National Academy of Sciences-RSE joint Synthetic Biology Forum (Nanjing, China)
- 2017: National Institute for Biological Sciences (Academy of Sciences) (Beijing, China)
- 2017: 42nd FEBS Congress: From molecules to cells and back (Jerusalem, Israel)
- 2017: EMBO Workshop – Thiol oxidation in toxicity and signalling (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain)
- 2017: EMBO-FEBS Lecture course, Mitochondria in Life Death and Disease (Brindisi, Italy)
- 2016: EU COST Fe/S Biogenesis Network, Inaugural Meeting (Patras, Greece)
- 2016: EU COST ROS Network, Final Meeting (Eilat, Israel)
- 2015: FEBS-EMBO Joint Lecture Course on Mitochondria in Health, Death and Disease (Crete, Greece)
- 2015: ESF-EMBO Meeting on Thiol switches (San Feliu, Spain)
- 2015: French ANR-Excellence Cluster-Strasbourg: Mitochondria at crossroads (Strasbourg, France)
- 2015: World Congress on Molecular and Cell Biology (Nanjing, China)
- 2015: EU COST Action on ROS Meeting (Munich, Germany)
- 2015: University of Delaware, Department of Chemical Engineering Centenary Symposium (Newark, Delaware, USA)
- 2014: EMBO 50th Anniversary Meeting and New Members Meeting (Heidelberg, Germany)
- 2014: Society for Free Radicals Meeting on Biochemical Basis of Ageing (Spetses, Greece)
- 2014: Biochemical Society Meeting: Redox Regulation in Health and Disease (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
- 2014: Gordon Research Conference on Oxygen Radicals (Ventura CA, USA)
- 2013: International Meeting of the Greek Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (Athens, Greece)
- 2013: International Parnas Conference: Proteins: Form birth to death (Jerusalem, Israel)
- 2013: FASEB Meeting on Mitochondria Assembly (USA)
- 2012: GRC Gordon Research Conference Meeting on Thiol-Based Redox regulation and signalling (USA)
- 2011: EMBO-FEBS Conference "Protein Transport Systems" (Sardinia, Italy)
- 2010: 1rst World Congress on Targeting Mitochondria: Strategies, Innovations & Clinical Applications; International Society of antioxidants in nutrition and health (Berlin, Germany)
- 2009: Symposium on New Frontiers in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, CERTH (Thessaloniki, Greece)
- 2009: 3rd Innovation and Entrepreneurship Symposium, Centre for Research and Technology (Thessaloniki, Greece)
- 2009: FEBS Advanced Lecture Course Mitochondria in Life, Death and Disease (Aussois, France)
- 2009: 2nd EU-NMR Meeting (Satellite Meeting to 34th FEBS Congress) (Prague, Czech Republic)
- 2009: Institute of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
- 2009: 2nd ESF/UB European Summer School in Nanomedicine (Lisbon, Portugal)
- 2009: Institute of Physiological Chemistry, LMU-Munich (Munich, Germany)
- 2008: SFB Meeting on ‘Endosymbiosis: From Prokaryotes to Eukaryotic Organelles’, LMU-Munich (Munich, Germany)
- 2008: 33rd FEBS & 11th IUBMB Congress (Athens, Greece)
- 2008: GRC Gordon Research Conference 'Thiol redox processes' (Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy)
- 2007: Gordon Research Conference 'Protein Transport Across Cell Membranes' (Il Ciocco, Lucca, Italy)
- 2006: EMBO-FEBS Conference, 'Protein Targeting and Translocation' (Gdansk, Poland)
- 2006: International Symposium on Emerging Trends in Genomic and Proteomic Sciences, Indian Council of Medical Research (Mumbai, India)
- 2005: Institute of Physiological Chemistry, LMU-Munich (Munich, Germany)
- 2003: Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
- 2003: Lister Institute Fellows meeting, Cambridge University, King’s College (Cambridge, England, UK)
- 2003: ESF European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting' (Spa, Belgium)
- 2003: The 2003 ONASSIS Lectures in Biology, FORTH-Crete (Crete, Greece)
- 2002: NESBIC UK-Japan Structural Biology Meeting (Manchester, England, UK)
- 2002: MRC-Dunn Human Nutrition Unit (Cambridge, England, UK)
- 2002: Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaire, CNRS-Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France)
- 2002: IESL and IMBB, FORTH (Crete, Greece)
- 2002: Department of Chemistry, University of Crete (Crete, Greece)
- 2001: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds (Leeds, England, UK)
- 2001: ESF European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting' (Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy)
- 2001: NESBIC, Structural Biology Meeting (Leeds, England, UK)
- 2000: Biochemical Society Meeting, 'Moving signals and molecules through membranes' (Leeds, England, UK)
- 1999: ESF European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting' (Obernai, France)
- 1998: Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow (Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
- 1998: MRC-LMB (Cambridge, England, UK)
- 1998: Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, and IMBB-FORTH (Crete, Greece)
- 1998: School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester (Manchester, England, UK)
- 1998: Workshop on Mitochondrial RNA Import (Charmey, Switzerland)
- 1997: EMBL-Outstation (Grenoble, France)
- 1997: 1st European Research Conference 'Protein Targeting: Protein Translocation Across Cellular Membranes' (Albufeira, Portugal)
- 1997: LIDSM-CNRS (Marseille, France)
- 1997: Centre d'Etudes Atomiques (Grenoble, France)
- 1997: Department of Biology, University of Crete, and IMBB-FORTH (Crete, Greece)
- 1997: Heidelberg Cell Biology Symposium (Heidelberg, Germany)
- 1997: Institüt für Biochemie & Molekularbiologie, Universität Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany)
- 1997: 4th European Research Conference 'Molecular Basis of Biological Membrane Protein Structure and Function' (Albufeira, Portugal)
- 1997: Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)
- 1996: Institut für Physiologische Chemie, LMU-München (Munich, Germany)
- 1996: Max Delbrück Center Symposium on Protein Transport and Stability (Berlin, Germany)
- 1992: ACS National Meeting and Symposium on Protein Folding and Recovery (San Francisco, California, USA)
- 1990: American Chemical Society National Meeting and Symposium on Protein Refolding (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)