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Konstantinos Ar.
Kormas
Associate Professor of Aquatic
microbial ecology
Department of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment
University of
Thessaly
384 46 Nea Ionia
Tel.: +30-242-109-3082 (office/voice mail)
Fax: +30-242-109-3157
E-mail: kkormas@uth.gr
Education
1998 Ph.D. Marine Biology, University
of Athens, Greece (Abstract)
1994 B.Sc. Biology, University of Athens, Greece
Research interests
The research interests of the Kormas Lab (KLab)
are … small. We investigate patterns and processes that underpin the
distribution and abundance of microorganisms in different habitats of the
aquatic environment. Some of our quests deal with the following:
* How do aquatic microbial communities assemble?
* Which members of the microbial trophic web are the key players in
defining and maintaining community structure?
* How do these trophic links change over time?
* What is the role of spatial structure in regulating the
community’s stability?
* How do abiotic parameters regulate ecosystem functioning of microbial
processes?
* What types of association exist between prokaryotes and aquatic
invertebrates?
Professional
experience & Scientific visits
2010
– present Associate
Professor, Dept. of Ichthyology &
Aquatic Environment, Univ. of Thessaly,
2005
– 2010 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment, Univ. of Thessaly,
2002
– 2005 Research Associate, Department of Zoology - Marine
Biology, University of Athens,
2000
– 2002 Post doctoral investigator
(NATO), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
1999
– 2000 Post doctoral fellow
of the National Foundation of State Scholarships,
1992
– 1998 Assistant Researcher,
Department of
Zoology - Marine Biology, University of Athens,
2007 Visiting scientist at the Institute
of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
2005 Visiting scientist at the Institute for Biological
Resources and Functions, AIST,
2000 Visiting scientist at the Trondhjem Research
Infrastructure,
1997 Postgraduate ERASMUS (EU) scholar at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory,
Recent
publications
For a complete list of papers click
here
Lamprinou V, Hernández-Mariné
M, Pachiadaki MG, Kormas K, Economou-Amilli A, Pantazidou A (accepted) New
findings on the true-branched monotypic genus Iphinoe
(Cyanobacteria) from geographically isolated caves (
Akoumianaki I, Papaspyrou S,
Kormas KA, Nicolaidou A (2012) Environmental
variation and macrofauna response in a coastal area
influenced by land runoff.
Links
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14: Mediterranean Deep Brines
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Franco-Hellenic MSc.University of the Aegean &
University of Montpellier
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