Kimon-Andreas Karatzas
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Associate Professor
- Co-Director of Postgraduate Research Studies.
Office
3-38Building location
Harry NurstenAreas of interest
- Molecular mechanisms of acid resistance of bacterial foodborne pathogens and gut microorganisms.
- Glutamate and aminoacid decarboxylase systems.
- Anaerobic microbiology of bacterial foodborne pathogens, gut microorganisms and anaerobic reactors.
- Molecular mechanisms of stress resistance against old and novel food processing techniques (high hydrostatic pressure).
- Biocide tolerance of bacterial foodborne pathogens.
- Study of the effect of stress mechanisms on the general phenotype (virulence, nutrition, etc,) of bacterial foodborne pathogens.
- General stress mechanisms of L. monocytogenes, S. enterica, S. aureus.
Academic qualifications
- PhD in Nutrition, Food Technology and Biotechnology, Wageningen Agricultural University, The Netherlands, 2002
- Bsc Food Science and Technology, Department of Agriculture, School of Geotechnical Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.