Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis, Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

• Environmental microbiology and genomics
• Computational approaches for studying the ecology and evolution of microorganisms
• Development of genomic and proteomic techniques to investigate and quantify in-situ important microbial-mediated processes
• Population and single-cell genomics
• Assessing the extent and value of biodiversity within natural assemblages of Bacteria and Archaea
• Biotechnological applications of microbial functional diversity
• Environmental relevance of microbial diseases

"Using multi-omics to understand and model the activities of microbial communities: the case of oil spills in beachsands"

In preparation for the seminar, the students are asked to review the following papers:

Luo et al. 2013
Rodriguez et al. 2015
Rodriguez et al. supplementary 2015