Kostas Konstantinidis

Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
USA

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Kostas Konstantinidis is an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech, and holds the Carlton S. Wilder Junior Professorship in Environmental Engineering since 2012. He develops bioinformatics approaches and algorithms, and applies them to understand important questions in evolution and ecology of microbial systems and/or provide biotechnological solutions. He has published >60 papers in these areas, ten in PNAS alone, and received several international distinctions and awards for his work, including the 2010 International Skerman Award from the World Federation for Culture Collections, the 2012 Sigma Xi Young Faculty Research Award, and a 2014 Kavli Frontier Fellowship.

Papers:
Delineating Virulent and Avirulent Taxa with Genomics and Metagenomics