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Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
80
Citations
42465
World Ranking
3982
National Ranking
1963

Overview

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and molecular biology, with significant contributions in fields related to biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, ecology, pollution, infectious diseases, and oceanography.

The scientist's work is centered on topics including microbial community ecology and physiology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, gut microbiota and health, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, geophysics and gravity measurements, ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics, as well as astrophysics and cosmic phenomena.

Konstantinidis has published extensively, with frequent publications in venues such as OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Environmental Microbiology, and Systematic and Applied Microbiology.

Recent papers authored by Konstantinidis include:

  • New insights from the biogas microbiome by comprehensive genome-resolved metagenomics of nearly 1600 species originating from multiple anaerobic digesters, 2020, Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • SeqCode: a nomenclatural code for prokaryotes described from sequence data, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • The Reliability of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) in Representing Natural Populations: Insights from Comparing MAGs against Isolate Genomes Derived from the Same Fecal Sample, 2021, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • The Great Oxidation Event expanded the genetic repertoire of arsenic metabolism and cycling, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Roadmap for naming uncultivated Archaea and Bacteria, 2020, Nature Microbiology

Konstantinidis collaborates frequently with other researchers, with prominent co-authors including Joel E. Kostka, Christopher W. Schadt, Max Kolton, Jeffrey P. Chanton, and William Cooper.

Best Publications

  • DNA–DNA hybridization values and their relationship to whole-genome sequence similarities

    Johan Goris;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;Joel A. Klappenbach;Tom Coenye

  • High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries.

    Chirag Jain;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Adam M. Phillippy;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea

    Robert M. Bowers;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Ramunas Stepanauskas;Miranda Harmon-Smith

  • Genomic insights that advance the species definition for prokaryotes

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

  • Towards a Genome-Based Taxonomy for Prokaryotes

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

  • The enveomics collection: a toolbox for specialized analyses of microbial genomes and metagenomes

    Luis M Rodriguez-R;Konstantinos T Konstantinidis

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy.

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;Ramon Rosselló-Móra;Rudolf I. Amann

  • Bypassing Cultivation To Identify Bacterial Species: Culture-independent genomic approaches identify credibly distinct clusters, avoid cultivation bias, and provide true insights into microbial species

    Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

  • The bacterial species definition in the genomic era

    Konstantinos T Konstantinidis;Alban Ramette;James M Tiedje

  • Unexpected nondenitrifier nitrous oxide reductase gene diversity and abundance in soils

    Robert A. Sanford;Darlene D. Wagner;Qingzhong Wu;Joanne C. Chee-Sanford

  • Microbial species delineation using whole genome sequences

    Neha J. Varghese;Supratim Mukherjee;Natalia Ivanova;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

  • Strengths and limitations of 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing in revealing temporal microbial community dynamics.

    Rachel Poretsky;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Chengwei Luo;Despina Tsementzi

  • Direct Comparisons of Illumina vs. Roche 454 Sequencing Technologies on the Same Microbial Community DNA Sample

    Chengwei Luo;Despina Tsementzi;Nikos C. Kyrpides;Timothy Read

  • Trends between gene content and genome size in prokaryotic species with larger genomes

    Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;James M. Tiedje

  • Genomic analysis of the uncultivated marine crenarchaeote Cenarchaeum symbiosum.

    Steven J. Hallam;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;Nik Putnam;Christa Schleper

  • Dehalococcoides mccartyi gen. nov., sp. nov., obligately organohalide-respiring anaerobic bacteria relevant to halogen cycling and bioremediation, belong to a novel bacterial class, Dehalococcoidia classis nov., order Dehalococcoidales ord. nov. and family Dehalococcoidaceae fam. nov., within the phylum Chloroflexi.

    Frank E. Löffler;Jun Yan;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Kirsti M. Ritalahti;Lorenz Adrian

  • MyTaxa: an advanced taxonomic classifier for genomic and metagenomic sequences

    Chengwei Luo;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis

  • Microbiome of the upper troposphere: Species composition and prevalence, effects of tropical storms, and atmospheric implications

    Natasha DeLeon-Rodriguez;Terry L. Lathem;Luis M. Rodriguez-R;James M. Barazesh

  • Prokaryotic taxonomy and phylogeny in the genomic era: advancements and challenges ahead.

    Konstantinos T Konstantinidis;James M Tiedje

Frequent Co-Authors

James M. Tiedje
James M. Tiedje Michigan State University
Jizhong Zhou
Jizhong Zhou University of Oklahoma
Frank E. Löffler
Frank E. Löffler University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yiqi Luo
Yiqi Luo Cornell University
Ramon Rosselló-Móra
Ramon Rosselló-Móra Spanish National Research Council
Edward A. G. Schuur
Edward A. G. Schuur Northern Arizona University
James R. Cole
James R. Cole Michigan State University
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Liyou Wu
Liyou Wu University of Oklahoma
Zhili He
Zhili He Sun Yat-sen University

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