Dr Christos Palaiokostas

Dr Christos Palaiokostas is an Associate Senior Lecturer in the department of Animal breeding and Genetics in the Swedish University of Agricultural studies.

Dr Palaiokostas research is focused on aquaculture breeding programs, with particular emphasis on the application of high-throughput sequencing technologies for studying complex traits. He completed his PhD (2013) in the Institute of Aquaculture (Stirling University, UK) on analysing sex determination for breeding purposes in farmed fish exhibiting sexual dimorphism.

Additionally, Dr Palaiokostas have worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Stirling University and in Roslin Insitute (University of Edinburgh) under the FISHBOOST project (www.fishboost.eu), aiming at improving genetic resistance of farmed fish against commonly encountered diseases.