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Krajmalnik-Brown

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown

  • Assistant Professor
  • School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
  • Civil Engineering
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Dr. Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown is currently an assistant professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is part of the Center for Environmental Biotechnology in the Biodesign Institute. Dr Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown received her bachelor’s degree in Industrial Biochemical Engineering from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico City in 1996. She worked for a year at IBTech, an Environmental Engineering consulting firm and in 1997 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship which she used to get her master’s degree at Georgia Tech. She completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech in August of 2005. She is author of a patent, several peer-reviewed publications and has presented numerous talks and posters at national and international conferences.

Biotransformation and fate of environmental contaminants with an emphasis on environmental applications of molecular microbial ecology. Other areas of interest include bioremediation of soil, sediments, and groundwater and the use of microbial systems for bioenergy production.

Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology 2005
M.S. in Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology 2000
B.S. in Industrial Biochemical Engineering
UAM-I Mexico City 1996

ASM/NCID Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 2005 (Declined by candidate)

AEES Outstanding 2003 Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Engineering

COE (College of Engineering) Travel Award 2003, 2002

SGA (Student Government Association) Travel Award 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001

Fulbright Scholar 1997-2000

Best GPA of 1996 class “Medalla al Merito Universitario” UAM-I Mexico

Parameswaran P., Torres C.I., Lee H. S, Krajmalnik-Brown R and B. E. Rittmann. 2009 “Syntrophic interactions among anode respiring bacteria (ARB) and non-ARB in a biofilm anode: electron balances.” Biotechnology and Bioengineering, In Press

Zhang  H., J. K. DiBaise, A. Zuccolo, D. Kudrna, M. Braidotti, Y. Yu, P. Parameswaran, M.D. Crowell, R. Wing, Rittmann B.E., and R. Krajmalnik-Brown. 2009 “Human Gut Microbiota in Obesity and after Gastric Bypass” PNAS, 106 (7) pp. 2365-2370

Rittmann B.E., Krajmalnik-Brown R and R. U. Halden. 2008 “Pregenomic, genomic and post-genomic study of microbial communities involved in bioenergy”, Nature Microbial Reviews, 6(8): 604-612   

John K. DiBaise, Husen Zhang, Michael D. Crowell, Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown, G. Anton Decker,  Bruce E. Rittmann. 2008 “The gut microbiota and its relationship to obesity. A systematic review”, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, 83(4):460-469

  1. Chung J., R. Krajmalnik-Brown and B. E. Rittmann. 2008 “Bio-reduction of trichloroethylene using a hydrogen-based membrane biofilm reactor”   Environmental Science and Technology, 42:477-483.
  2. Krajmalnik-Brown R., F. M. Saunders, K. M. Ritalahti, and F. E. Löffler. 2007 “Environmental distribution of the trichloroethene reductive dehalogenase gene (tceA) suggests lateral gene transfer among Dehalococcoides”. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 59(1): 206-214