Structural and Functional Studies on the LINE-1: Retrotransposon Endonuclease

Konstantinos Repanas was born in KOZANH, Greece, on the 30th of January 1977. He finished the Lyceum in KOZANH and since he was not good enough for the Greek Universities he went to England to study Dentistry at the University of Manchester. He changed his mind and instead he studied Biological Sciences at the Manchester Metropolitan University, graduating in 2000. He then went to York University for one year to do a Master of Research (MRes) in Biomolecular Science and started a PhD in the lab of Dr. Anastassis Perrakis in 2001 at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Since July 2007 he is working in Madrid, Spain as a Scientific Editor for European Research Projects at Inspiralia – Pera UK.