Rate My Professor Nikolas Nikolaidis

Professor Nikolaidis instructs courses in Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Bioinformatics. Key publications include Das S, M Hirano, R Tako, C McCallister, N Nikolaidis. "Evolutionary Genomics of Immunoglobulin-Encoding Loci in Vertebrates." Current Genomics 13: 95-102 (2012); Das S, M Hirano, C McCallister, R Tako, N Nikolaidis. "Comparative genomics and evolution of the immunoglobulin-encoding loci in tetrapods." Advances in Immunology 111:143-178 (2011); Georgelis N, A Tabuchi, N Nikolaidis, DJ Cosgrove. "Structure-function analysis of the bacterial expansin EXLX1." Journal of Biological Chemistry 286:16814-16823 (2011); Das S, N Nikolaidis, H Goto, C McCallister, J Li, M Hirano, MD Cooper. "Comparative genomics and evolution of the alpha-defensin multigene family in primates." Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:2333-2343 (2010); and Das S, U Mohamedy, M Hirano, M Nei, N Nikolaidis. "Analysis of immunoglobulin light chain genes in Zebra finch: Genomic and evolutionary implications." Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:113-120 (2010). He received the Outstanding Untenured Faculty Member Award from the Department of Biological Science in academic year 2012-2013. As Director of Project EAGER, an NIH-funded genomics training program, and a faculty mentor in the U-RISE program, he guides undergraduate research. He presented the public lecture “The Lessons 500,000 Human Genome Sequences Taught Us” at the Pollak Library in September 2019 and chairs the Institutional Biosafety Committee.