Kimon-Andreas Karatzas

Associate Professor of Food Microbiology, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading

Areas of interest

- Molecular mechanisms of acid resistance of bacterial foodborne pathogens and gut microorganisms.

- Glutamate and amino acid 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.

Experience

–present

Associate Professor of Food Microbiology, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading