People

(updated December 2024)

Kostas Konstantinidis

Principal Investigator More information about Kostas: http://www.ce.gatech.edu/people/faculty/711/overview
Janet Hatt Senior Research Scientist/
Lab Manager
I am interested in bacterial genetics and physiology.
Despina Tsementzi Postdoctoral Research Associate (jointly with Dr. Brunner’s Lab at Emory) I am interested in employing multi-omics techniques to address questions related to human health and the human microbiome.
Borja Aldeguer-Riquelme Postdoctoral Research Associate I am interested in employing multi-omics techniques to address questions relate to microbial responses to the climate change and the importance of diversity in the responses.
Ana Duran Viseras Postdoctoral Research Associate I am interested in employing multi-omics techniques to address questions related to human health and the human microbiome.
Catherine Brink PhD Candidate Biomedical Engineering & Bioengineering
Dorian Feistel PhD Candidate Bioinformatics
Seongwook Woo PhD Candidate Environmental Engineering
Group photo in the ES&T Building (February 2018)

Lab Alumni

Gyuhyon Cha PhD student (2018-2024) Post-doc, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.
Blake Lindner PhD student (2019-2024) Post-doc, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Jianshu Zhao PhD student (2020-2024) Post-doc, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Kenji Gerhardt PhD student (2019-2024) Post-doc.
Roth Conrad PhD student (2017-2024) Research Scientist, the USDA, Athens, GA, USA.
Hunter Seabolt PhD student (2017-2023) Group/Lab leader, the CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Lizbeth Davila-Santiago PhD student (2017-2023) Assistant Professor, the university system of Puerto Rico.
Katherine (Katy) Graham Postdoctoral Research Associate (2021-2022) Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA USA.
Carlos Ruiz PhD student (2015-2021) Bioinformatics Scientist, PetDx, San Diego, GA
Alexandra Meziti Postdoctoral Research Associate & Research Scientist (2015-2020) Assistant Professor, University of Aegean, Mitilini, Greece.
Siyu Zhang Postdoctoral Research Associate (2016-2020) Assistant Professor, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
Nastassia Patin Postdoctoral Research Associate (2019-2020) Research Scientist, University of Miami/NOAA
Brittany Suttner PhD student (2015-2020)
(NSF GRFP Fellow)
Senior Research Scientist, GenoTwin Inc., New York, NY
Smruthi Karthikeyan PhD student (2015-2020) Assistant Professor, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Minjae Kim PhD student (2013-2019) Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Juliana Soto-Giron PhD student (2013-2018)
(Colciencias Fellow; sponsored by the Colombian Government)
Bioinformatics Scientist, Solarea Bio
Angela Pena-Gonzalez PhD student (2013-2018)
(Colciencias Fellow; sponsored by the Colombian Government)
Post-doc, Max Planck Tandem Group in Computational Biology, Universidad de los Andes  Bogotá, Colombia.
Eric Jonhston PhD student (2012-2018) Post-doc, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Luis (Coto) Orellana PhD student (2011-2017)
(Fulbright Fellow)
Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany
Samantha Waters Postdoctoral Research Associate (2014-2016) Research Scientist, NASA
Mike Weigand Postdoctoral Research Associate (2010-2013) Research Scientist, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Rachel Poretsky Postdoctoral Research Associate (2010-2012) Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Luis-Miguel Rodriguez-R PhD student (2011-2016) Astistant Professor, University of University of Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
Despina Tsementzi PhD student (2009-2016) Post-doc, Konstantinidis Lab, Georgia Tech. 01-2017-present
Natasha DeLeon PhD student (2009-2014) Assistant Professor, the university system of Puerto Rico.
Alejandro Caro-Quintero PhD student (2008-2013) Assistant Professor, National University, Bogotá, Colombia.
Chengwei (Alex) Luo PhD student (2008-2012)
Postdoctoral Research Associate (2015)
Research Fellow, Broad Institute/Harvard University. And, Founder & CEO, Sequana Health
Seungdae Oh PhD student (2008-2013) Assistant Professor, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Visiting Scholars

Isabelle Camara2023Graduate student, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Ramon Rossello-Mora2019Group Leader/Professor, Grup de Microbiologia Marina IMEDEA, Illes Balears, Spain
Norihisa Matsuura2018 & 2024Assistant Professor, Kanazawa Universaity, Japan
Tomeu Viver2015 & 2017Graduate student, Grup de Microbiologia Marina IMEDEA, Illes Balears, Spain
Kostas Kormas2015 & 2024Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece
Clara López Hermoso2015Graduate student, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Emine Ertekin2014Graduate student, Bogazici University, Turkeyi
Ximei Zhang2013-2014Post-doc, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Gilmarie Santos2014Graduate student, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Master’s

Madison Lucas2023-2024MS Bioinformatics
Charlotte Royer2022-2023MS Bioinformatics
Rodney Ridley2021-2023MS Bioengineering
Kumru Kocaman2021-2023MS Environmental Engineering
Osman Kayali2022-2023MS Biology
Nate Lee2021-2022MS Bioinformatics
Kenji Nishiura2021-2022MS Bioinformatics
Doyoung Cha2018-2020MS Environmental Engineering
Christina Defrancesco2019-2020MS Environmental Engineering
William Harvey2017-2018MS Bioinformatics
Genevieve Brandt2017-2018MS Bioinformatics
Juan Castro2015-2017MS Bioinformatics
Heidi Kizer2013-2014MS Environmental Engineering
Yuanqi Wang2014-2016MS Environmental Engineering

Undergraduates

Sara Kapasi2022-2024Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Jenna Sitta2023-2024Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Caitlyn Gibson2022-2023Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Elif Kilic2021-2023Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
John (Jack) Spencer2020-2022Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Camryn Flores2020-2022Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Jamie Fischer2020-2021Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Lilia Bingham2020-2021Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Hannah Lachmayr2019-2020Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Johanna Hall2019-2020Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Mary-Frances Johnson2019-2020Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Isabelle D’amico2019-2020Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Laura Yang2018-2019Graduate School
Casey Erb2018-2019Consulting, Environmental Engineering
Jacob Jackson2018-2019Undergraduate, Georgia Tech
Patrick Heritier-Robbins2017-2019Consulting, Environmental Engineering
Blake Lindner2017-2019Graduate School, Georgia Tech
Gina Maresca2012-2014Consulting, Environmental Engineering
Raj Krishnan2012-2014Consulting, Environmental Engineering
Tomas Leon2010-2012Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
James Barazesh2010-2012Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
Awa Diagne2011-2012Graduate School, MIT