Plant & Environmental
Biotechnology Laboratory

Marco Antonio Campos

Associate Professor

Dr. Marco Antonio Campos Burgos is a Chilean Ph.D. in Natural Resources Sciences from Universidad de La Frontera. His research focuses on microbial ecology, environmental microbiology, biogeochemistry, eutrophication, antimicrobial resistance, and One Health approaches linking environmental and human health. He is currently an Associate Professor and Researcher at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile, where he leads research activities in environmental and health-related microbiology. His work integrates high-throughput sequencing, metagenomics, bioinformatics, and environmental monitoring to study microbial communities in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Dr. Campos was a member and ongoing collaborator of the Plant, Microbial & Environmental Biotechnology for a Sustainable Future group at the University of Thessaly, Greece. Through this collaboration, he has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications with researchers from this group, covering advances in environmental biotechnology, pesticide biodegradation, and microbial ecology. He has authored more than 35 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has an H-index of 14.

Publications

Michelioudakis, V., Zafranas, A., Myrisiotis, C., Makri, S., Katsoula, A., Campos, M., Vasileiadis, S., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2026). Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals Why Paenarthrobacter Strains Are Specialists in the Degradation of the Fungicide Iprodione. Microbial Biotechnology, 19(2), e70319. https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70319

Elgueta S., Perruchon C., Rutz T., Rillig JI., Diez M.C., Karpouzas D.G., Campos MA., (2024) Bioaugmentation of a biobed packing material with an iprodione-degrading bacterial consortium enhances the dissipation of iprodione and mitigates adverse effect on the microbiota. Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition https://doi.org/10.1007/s42729-024-01840-8

Campos M., Perruchon C., Karas P.A.., Karavasilis D., Diez M.C., Karpouzas D.G., (2017) Biodegradation and rhizosphere-assisted bioaugmentation as strategies for optimization of the dissipation capacity of biobeds. Journal of Environmental Management 187(1): 103-110 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.11.031

Campos, M., Karas, P. S., Perruchon, C., Papadopoulou, E. S., Christou, V., Menkissoglou-Spiroudi, U., Diez, M. C., & Karpouzas, D. G. (2017). Novel insights into the metabolic pathway of iprodione by soil bacteria. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24(1), 152–163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-016-7682-1

Campos M, Perruchon C, Vasileiadis S, Menkissoglu-Spiroudi U, Karpouzas DG, Diez MC (2015) Isolation and characterization of bacteria from acidic pristine soil environment able to transform iprodione and 3,5-dichloroaniline. International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation 104: 201-211 DOI: 10.1016/j.ibiod.2015.06.009

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