Marine Science

Marine Science publishes articles, short communications, and critical reviews that contribute to our scientific understanding of marine systems and the impact of human activities. The Journal serves as a foundation for scientific advice across the broad spectrum of management and conservation issues related to the marine environment. Oceanography, marine habitats, living resources, ecology and related management topics constitute the key elements of papers eligible for publication. Integrated studies that bridge gaps between traditional disciplines are particularly welcome. The scope of the journal also includes economic, social, and public administration studies to the extent that they are directly related to management of the seas and are of general interest to marine scientists. Papers of both fundamental and applied approaches are accepted.

Konstantinos Kormas

Editor-in-Chief of Marine Science

Associate Professor, University of Thessaly, Greece

Research Areas

Aquatic Microbial Ecology

Education

1998Ph.DMarine Biology, University of Athens, Greece
1994B.ScBiology, University of Athens, Greece

Experience

2010-presentAssociate Professor, Department of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, Greece
2005-2010Assistant Professor, Department of Ichthyology & Aquatic Environment, University of Thessaly, Greece
2002-2005Research Associate, Department of Zoology - Marine Biology, University of Athens, Greece
2000-2002Post doctoral investigator of the NATO Science Programme and the NASA Astrobiology Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.A.
2000-2001Post doctoral fellow of the National Foundation of State Scholarships, Greece
1992-1998Assistant Researcher, Department of Zoology - Marine Biology, University of Athens, Greece

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Lymperopoulou DS, Kormas KA, Karagouni AD (2012) Variability of prokaryotic community structure in a drinking water reservoir (Marathonas, Greece). Microbes Environ. 27:1-8.
[2]  Oikonomou A, Κatsiapi M, Karayanni H, Moustaka-Gouni M, Kormas KA (2012) Plankton microorganisms coinciding with two consecutive mass fish kills in a newly reconstructed lake. TheScientificWorldJournal, Article ID 504135, DOI:10.1100/2012/504135
[3]  Spatharis S, Skliris N, Meziti A, Kormas KA (2012) First record of a Trichodesmium erythraeum bloom in the Mediterranean Sea: a result of climate change. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 69:1444-1455
[4]  Mente E, Stratakos A, Boziaris IS, Kormas KA, Karapanagiotidis I, Catsiki VA, Leondiadis L, Karalazos V (2012) Sustainable aquaculture development: a case of environmentally friendly sea bream production in Greece. Sci. Mar. 76:549-560 Akoumianaki I, Nomaki H, Pachiadaki M, Kormas KA, Kitazato H, Tokuyama H (2012) Low bacterial diversity and high labile organic matter concentrations in the sediments of the Medee deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin. Microbes Environ. 27:504-508
[5]  Meziti A, Mente E, Kormas KA (2012) Gut bacteria in reared Nephrops norvegicus. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 35:473-482
[6]  Moustaka-Gouni M, Michaloudi E, Kormas KA, Katsiapi M, Vardaka E, Genitsris S (2012) Plankton changes as critical processes for restoration plans of lakes Kastoria and Koronia. Eur. Wat. 40:43-51
[7]  Kagalou I, Kormas KA, Papadimitriou T, Katsiapi M, Genitsaris S, Moustaka-Gouni M (2012) Greece: occurrence, monitoring and risk management of cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins. In: Chorus I (ed) Current approaches to cyanotoxin risk assessment, risk management and regulations in different countries. Umweltbundesamt, Dessau-Rosslau, p 71-78
[8]  Pachiadaki MG, Kormas KA (accepted) Interconnectivity vs. isolation of prokaryotic communities in Europena deep-sea mud volcanoes. Biogeosci. Disc. 9:17377-17400
[9]  Akoumianaki I, Papaspyrou S, Kormas KA, Nicolaidou A (2013) Environmental variation and macrofauna response in a coastal area influenced by land runoff. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2012.04.009
[10]  Lamprinou V, Hernández-Mariné M, Pachiadaki MG, Kormas K, Economou-Amilli A, Pantazidou A (2013) New findings on the true-branched monotypic genus Iphinoe (Cyanobacteria) from geographically isolated caves (Greece). Fottea 13:15-23 Parlapani F, Meziti A, Kormas KA, Boziaris I (2013) Indigenous and spoilage microbiota of sea bream stored in ice identified by phenotypic and 16S rRNA gene analysis. Food Microbiol. 33:85-89
[11]  Smeti E, Kormas KA, Spatharis S (2013) A non-phylogenetic α-diversity approach on prokaryotic community structure in aquatic systems. Ecol. Indic. 29:361-366 Katsiapi M, Moustaka-Gouni M, Vardaka E, Kormas KA (2013) Different phytoplankton descriptors show asynchronous changes in a shallow urban lake (L. Kastoria, Greece) after sewage diversion. Fund. Appl. Limnol. IN PRESS Papadimitriou Th, Katsiapi M, Kormas KAr, Moustaka-Gouni M, Kagalou I (2013) Artificially-born "killer" lake: phytoplankton based water quality and microcystin affected fish in a reconstructed lake. Sci. Tot. Environ. 452-453:116-124
[12]  Vlahos N, Kormas KA, Pachiadaki MG, Meziti A, Hotos GN, Mente E (2013) Water column bacteria in two ornamental fish aquaria. SpringerPlus 2:66
[13]  Lymperopoulou DS, Kormas KA, Karagouni AD (2009) Estimation of the diversity of bacterial, archael and cyanobcterial phylotypes in a large drinking reservoir. 15th Int. Symposium of the Health‐Related Water Microbiology Group, Naxos, Greece, 31/05-06/06/2009.
[14]  Genitsaris, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kormas KA, Kalogerakis N (2009) Airborne microeukaryotes in an urban environments: diversity, succession and their role in ephemeral food webs. Proc. 2nd Cong. MikroBioKosmos, p, 17, 11‐13 Dec. 2009, Athens, Greece.
[15]  Katsiapi M, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kormas KA, Michaloudi E, Demetriou E (2010) Ecological quality in Greek freshwaters using phytoplankton‐based indices. 14th International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms, Crete, 01‐05/11/2010.
[16]  Oikonomou A, Katsiapi M, Berillis P, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kormas KA (2010) Microbial gangs are taking over the water column of a reconstructed lake. 14th International Conference on Harmful Algal Blooms, Crete, 01‐05/11/2010.
[17]  Tsangaris C, Hatzianestis I, Catsiki VA, Kormas K, Strogyloudi E, Neofitou C, Andral B, Galgani F (2010) Active biomonitoring in Greek coastal waters: Application of the integrated biomarker response index in relation to contaminant levels in caged mussels. 2nd International Symposium On Green Chemistry For Environment And Health, Mykonos, Greece, 27‐29/09/2010.
[18]  Meziti A, Mente E, Kormas KA (2010) Effect of diet quality on the gut bacterial communities of the Norway lobster. XXXIII International Congress on Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, Greece, 06‐10/09/2010.
[19]  Kormas KΑ, Thessalou‐Legaki M, Nicolaidou A (1997) Is water column productivity in an Aegean embayment reflected to its benthic assemblages? In: Hawkins LE, Hutchinson S, Jensen AC, Sheader M Williams JA (eds) The responses of marine organisms to their environments. University of Southampton, Southampton, p.143‐151.
[20]  Kormas KA, Kapiris K, Thessalou‐Legaki M, Nicolaidou A (1998) Quantitative relationships between phytoplankton, bacteria and protists in an Aegean semi‐enclosed embayment (Maliakos Gulf, Greece). Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 15: 255‐264.
[21]  Reizopoulou S, Kormas KA, Nicolaidou A (1998) Benthic biodiversity in five coastal brackish water lagoons of Amvrakikos Gulf, Hellas. Rapp. Comm. Int. Mer. Medit. 35:580‐581.
[22]  Kormas KA (1999) Nutrients, chlorophyll α and suspended matter of the River Spercheios, Hellas. Fresen. Environ. Bull. 8:18‐23.
[23]  Kormas KA, Papaspyrou S (2001) Benthic carbon demand and water column carbon supply in an Aegean embayment (Maliakos Gulf, Hellas). Fresen. Environ. Bull. 10:193‐196.
[24]  Kormas KA, Nicolaidou A, Reizopoulou S (2001) Temporal variations of nutrients, chlorophyll a and particulate matter in three Amvrakikos Gulf lagoons (Ionian Sea, Greece). P.S.Z.N.I. Mar. Ecol. 22:201‐213.
[25]  Christaki U, Courties C, Karayanni H, Giannakourou A, Maravelias C, Kormas KA, Lebaron P (2002) Dynamic characteristics of Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus consumption by bacterivorous nanoflagellates. Microb. Ecol. 43:341‐352.
[26]  Kormas KA, Garametsi V, Nicolaidou A (2002) Size fractionated phytoplankton chlorophyll in an Eastern Mediterranean coastal system (Maliakos Gulf, Greece). Helgol. Mar. Res. 56:125‐133.
[27]  Kormas KA, Edgcomb V, Smith DC, Teske A (2003) Molecular analysis of the deep subsurface microbial communities in Nankai Trough (ODP Leg 190, Site 1176). F.E.M.S. Microbiol. Ecol. 45:115‐125.
[28]  Kormas KA, Nicolaidou A, Thessalou‐Legaki M (2003) Variability of environmental factors of an Eastern Mediterranean river influenced coastal system. Medit. Mar. Sci. 4:67‐77.
[29]  Kormas KA, Papaspyrou S (2004) Growth of marine bacterioplankton on river and sea water dissolved organic carbon in a Mediterranean coastal system. Cah. Biol. Mar. 45:55‐64.
[30]  Kormas KA (2005) Bacterial growth on extracellular organic carbon from marine microalgal cultures. Cah. Biol. Mar. 46:241‐251.
[31]  Giannakourou A, Kormas K, Pitta P, Christaki U (2005) Microbial ecology. In: Papathanassiou E, Zenetos A (eds) State of the Hellenic marine environment. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavissos, p. 182‐186.
[32]  Moustaka-Gouni M, Vardaka E, Michaloudi E, Kormas KA, Tryfon E, Mihalatou H, Gkelis S, Lanaras T (2006) Plankton food web structure in a eutrophic polymictic lake with a history in toxic cyanobacterial blooms. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51:715‐727.
[33]  Nicolaidou A, Petrou K, Kormas KA, Reizopoulou S (2006) Inter‐annual variability of soft bottom macrofaunal communities in two Ionian Sea lagoons. Hydrobiologia 555:89‐98.
[34]  Kormas KA, Tivey MK, von Damm K, Teske A (2006) Bacterial and archaeal phylotypes associated with distinct mineralogical layers of a white smoker spire from a deep‐sea hydrothermal vent site (9°N, East Pacific Rise). Environ. Microbiol. 8:909‐920.
[35]  Meintanis C, Chalkou K, Kormas KA, Karagouni A (2006) Biodegradation of crude oil by thermophilic bacteria isolated from a volcano island. Biodegradation 17:105‐112.
[36]  Meziti A, Kormas KA, Pancucci‐Papadopoulou MA, Thessalou‐Legaki M (2007) Bacterial phylotypes associated with the intestinal tract of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus and the ascidian Microcosmus sp. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 33:84‐91.
[37]  Dalby AP, Kormas KA, Christaki U, Karayanni H (2008) Cosmopolitan heterotrophic microeukaryotes are active bacterial grazers in experimental oil‐polluted system. Environ. Microbiol. 10:47‐56.
[38]  Meintanis C, Chalkou K, Kormas KA, Lymperopoulou DS, Katsifas EA, Hatzinikolaou D, Karagouni AD (2008) Application of rpoB sequence similarity analysis, REP‐PCR and BOX‐PCR for the differentiation of species within the genus Geobacillus. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 46:395‐401.
[39]  Kormas KA, Meziti A, Dählmann A, de Lange GJ, Lykousis V (2008) Characterization of methanogenic and prokaryotic assemblages based on mcrA and 16S rRNA gene diversity in sediments of the Kazan Mud Volcano (Mediterranean Sea). Geobiology 6:450‐460.
[40]  Vanreusel A, Andersen AC, Boetius A, Connelly D, Decker C, Heeschen K, Hilario A, Kormas KA, Maignien L, Olu K, Pachiadaki M, Ritt B, Rodrigues C, Sarrazin J, Tyler P, van Gaever S, Vanneste H (2009) Biodiversity of cold seep ecosystems along European margins. Oceanography 22:110‐127.
[41]  Genitsaris S, Kormas KA, Moustaka‐Gouni M (2009) Microscopic eukaryotes living in a dying lake (Lake Koronia, Greece). FEMS Microbiol Ecol 69:75‐83.
[42]  Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kormas KA, Vardaka E, Katsiapi M, Gkelis S (2009) Raphidiopsis mediterranea SKUJA represents non‐heterocytous life‐cycle stages of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (WOLOSZYNSKA) SEENAYYA et SUBBA RAJU in Lake Kastoria (Greece), its type locality: evidence by morphological and phylogenetic analysis. Harmful Algae 8:864‐872.
[43]  Kormas KA, Tamaki H, Hanada S, Kamagata Y (2009) Apparent richness and community composition of Bacteria and Archaea in geothermal springs. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 57:113‐122.
[44]  Demiri A, Meziti A, Papaspyrou S, Thesslou‐Legaki M, Kormas KA (2009) Abdominal setae and midgut Bacteria of the mudshrimp Pestarella tyrrhena. Cent. Eur. J. Biol. 4:558‐566.
[45]  Meintanis C, Chalkou KI, Kormas KA, Lymperopoulou DS, Katsifas SA, Karagouni AD (2009) The use of trpB gene in resolving phylogenetic diversity within the group of Streptomyces. Curr Trends Microbiol. 5:37‐46.
[46]  Karayanni H, Kormas KA, Cragg S, Nicolaidou A (2010) Establishment and succession of an epibiotic community on chromated copper arsenate (CCA) treated wood in Mediterranean waters. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 58:71‐78.
[47]  Kormas KA, Neofitou C, Pachiadaki M, Koufostathi E (2010) Changes of the bacterial assemblages throughout an urban drinking water distribution system. Environ. Monit. Asssess. 165:27‐38.
[48]  Tsangaris C, Kormas K, Stroggyloudi E, Hatzianestis I, Neofitou C, Andral B, Galgani F (2010) Multiple biomarkers of pollution effects in caged mussels on the Greek coastline, Comp. Biochem. Physiol. C. 151:369‐378.
[49]  Kormas KA, Vardaka E, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kontoyanni V, Petridou E, Gkelis S, Neofitou C (2010) Molecular detection of potentially toxic Cyanobacteria and their associated Bacteria in lake water column and sediment. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 26:1473‐1482.
[50]  Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kormas KA, Polykarpou P, Gkelis S, Bobori DC, Vardaka E (2010) Polyphasic evaluation of Aphanizomenon issatschenkoi and Raphidiopsis mediterranea in a Mediterranean lake. J. Plankton Res. 32:927‐936.
[51]  Pachiadaki M, Lykousis V, Stephanou EG, Kormas KA (2010) Prokaryotic community structure and diversity in the sediments of an active submarine mud volcano (Kazan MV, East Mediterranean Sea). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 72:429‐444.
[52]  Mente E, Martin JC, Pierce GJ, Tuck I, Kormas KA, Santos MB, Bailey N (2010) Mesoscale effects of aquaculture installations on benthic communities in four Scottish sea lochs. Aquat. Liv. Res. 23:267‐276.
[53]  Meziti A, Ramette A, Mente E, Kormas KA (2010) Temporal changes of the gut bacterial communities of the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 74:472‐484.
[54]  Savvides AL, Andriopoulos CP, Kormas K,Hatzinikolaou DG, Katsifas EA, Karagouni AD (2011) Selective isolation of indigenous Pseudomonas syringae strains with ice nucleation activity properties from a ski resort. J. Biol. Res. 15:67‐73.
[55]  Genitsaris S, Kormas KA, Moustaka‐Gouni M (2011) Airborne algae and cyanobacteria: occurrence and related health effects. Front. Biosci. E3:772‐787.
[56]  Lymperopoulou DS, Kormas KA, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Karagouni AD (2011) Diversity of cyanobacterial phylotypes in a Mediterranean drinking water reservoir (Marathonas, Greece). Environ. Monit. Assess. 173:155‐165.
[57]  Genitraris S, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Kormas KA (2011) Airborne microeukaryote colonists in experimental water containers: diversity, succession, life histories and established food webs. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 62:139‐152.
[58]  Kormas KA (2011) Interpreting diversity of Proteobacteria based on 16S rRNA gene copy number. In: Sezenna ML (ed) Proteobacteria: Phylogeny, metabolic diversity and ecological effects. Nova Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, p. 73‐89. ISBN: 978‐1‐61761‐810‐9.
[59]  Kormas KA, Gkelis S, Vardaka E, Moustaka‐Gouni M (in press) Morphologic and molecular analysis of bloom‐forming Cyanobacteria in two eutrophic, shallow Mediterranean lakes. Limnologica 41:167‐173.
[60]  Katsiapi M, Moustaka‐Gouni M, Michaloudi E, Kormas KA (in press) Effects of flushing on phytoplankton and water quality in a Mediterranean drinking‐water reservoir (Marathonas Reservoir, Greece). Environ. Monit. Assess. DOI: 10.1007/s10661‐010‐1851‐3.
[61]  Lamprinou V, Hernández‐Mariné M, Canals T, Kormas K, Economou‐Amilli A, Pantazidou A (in press) Two new stigonematalean cyanobacteria: Ifinoe spelaeobios gen. nov., sp. nov. and Loriellopsis cavernicola gen. nov., sp. nov. from Greek and Spanish caves. Morphology and molecular Evaluation. Int. J. Syst. Evolut. Microbiol. DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.029223‐0.
[62]  Pachiadaki MG, Kallionaki A, Dählmann A, de Lange GJ, Kormas KA (2011) Diversity and spatial distribution of prokaryotic communities along a sediment vertical profile of a deep‐sea mud volcano. Microb. Ecol. DOI:10.1007/s00248‐011‐9855‐2.
[63]  Lymperopoulou DS, Kormas KA, Karagouni AD (accepted) Variability of prokaryotic community structure in a drinking water reservoir (Marathonas, Greece). Microbes Environ.
[64]  Akoumianaki I, Papaspyrou S, Kormas KA, Nicolaidou A (accepted) Environmental variation and macrofauna response in a coastal area influenced by land runoff. Est. Coast. Shelf Sci.