Kostas Konstantinidis
Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia
Biography
Kostas Konstantinidis has joined the Faculty at Georgia Tech in November 2007 and he is holding the Carlton S. Wilder Junior Professorship in Environmental Engineering since September 2012. He has earned his BS (1999) in Agriculture Sciences from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and his PhD (2004) from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University, where he was a Bouyoukos Fellow. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His education and research interests are at the interface of environmental microbiology with engineering, genomics and computational biology. The overarching goal of his research is to broaden our understanding of the genetic and metabolic diversity of the smallest organisms on the planet, the bacteria and archaea and the role of this diversity for ecosystem function and resilience to natural as well as anthropogenic perturbations. He is also interested in the biotechnological applications of microbial diversity in the bioremediation of environmental pollutants and the assessment of water quality.
Abstract
Abstract : Do disinfectants promote bacterial antibiotic resistance?