About
Dr Paraskevi (Pari) Kritsiligkou obtained her degree in Biology from the University of Crete, working with Kostas Tokatlidis on the oxidative protein folding machinery in mitochondria. For her masters, she studied Biochemistry at the University of Oxford, working with Stuart Ferguson and Christina Redfield on the disulfide bond formation system in bacteria. She joined the Wellcome Trust-funded PhD program “The Dynamics of Cellular Pathways” at the University of Manchester, where she explored redox signalling cascades using tadpoles, cell lines and yeast as model organisms. During her PhD thesis with Chris Grant, Pari studied the role of redox regulation in organelle homeostasis. Her passion to uncover novel redox regulated cascades led her to the lab of Tobias Dick at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg where she developed tethered biosensor platforms that reveal the extent of intracellular redox heterogeneity. In September 2024 Pari joined the Department of Biochemistry, Cell and Systems Biology at the University of Liverpool as a Tenure Track Fellow. In her lab, Pari continues to explore the impact of intracellular redox microenvironment in pathophysiology, with a strong focus on redox signalling events in the nucleus.