Dr. Matthaios M. Mathioudakis is a researcher at the Plant Pathology Laboratory, Institute of Olive Tree, Subtropical Crops and
Viticulture, ELGO-DIMITRA, Chania, Greece. He holds a Master’s degree in Plant Pathology with a specialization in Virology and a PhD in Plant Molecular Virology. Dr. Matthaios M. Mathioudakis has experience in sampling, isolating,
and characterizing pathogenic viruses (olive, citrus, and subtropical species). His research interests include molecular diagnosis of viral/fungal diseases, optimization of molecular diagnostic methods, sanitary control of propagative material from olive, citrus, and other cultivated trees, study of virus epidemiology, study of molecular interactions between host-pathogen factors, characterization/role of host genes in the pathogenesis of pathogen inoculations, study of RNA silencing suppression as a mechanism against plant defense, and pathogenicity tests of olive varieties to Xylella fastidiosa.
Prof. Beata Hasiów-Jaroszewska is a Professor (2021) and Chief of the Department of Virology and Bacteriology at the Institute of Plant Protection-National Research Institute, Poznań, Poland. She obtained a PhD and Habilitation in agronomy from the Institute of Plant Protection in 2009 and 2013, respectively. Her research topics mainly include plant viruses, genetic diversity, phylogenetic analysis, diagnostic methods, and subviral RNA particles.
