publicaciones seleccionadas artículo editorial Prospecting the first Chilean Martian simulants from the Atacama Desert for ISRU and potential applications. Icarus. 2025 Arsenic Nanoparticles Trigger Apoptosis via Anoikis Induction in OECM-1 Cells. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024 The dynamics of two iron-oxidizing Acidithiobacillus strains in industrial copper sulfide heap-leaching. Research in Microbiology. 2024 Hyperarid soil microbial community response to simulated rainfall. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023 Orbit-to-ground framework to decode and predict biosignature patterns in terrestrial analogues. Nature Astronomy. 2023 Corrigendum: Hyperarid soil microbial community response to simulated rainfall (Frontiers in Microbiology, (2023), 14, (1202266), 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1202266). Frontiers in Microbiology. 2023 Looking for the mechanism of arsenate respiration of Fusibacter sp. strain 3D3, independent of ArrAB. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2022 Mineral Paragenesis Precipitating in Salt Flat Pools of Continental Environments Replicated in Microbial Mat Microcosms without Evaporation. Minerals. 2022 Physical, chemical, and microbial feedbacks controlling brine geochemistry and lake morphology in polyextreme salar environments.. The Science of the Total Environment. 2022 Surface Morphologies in a Mars-Analog Ca-Sulfate Salar, High Andes, Northern Chile. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. 2022 Time-Integrative Multibiomarker Detection in Triassic–Jurassic Rocks from the Atacama Desert: Relevance to the Search for Basic Life Beyond Earth. Astrobiology. 2021 Electrical conductivity as a driver of biological and geological spatial heterogeneity in the Puquios, Salar de Llamara, Atacama Desert, Chile.. Scientific Reports. 2021 From Laboratory towards Industrial Operation: Biomarkers for Acidophilic Metabolic Activity in Bioleaching Systems. Genes. 2021 An indigenous bacterium with enhanced performance of microbially-induced Ca-carbonate biomineralization under extreme alkaline conditions for concrete and soil-improvement industries. Acta Biomaterialia. 2021 On the origin of saline compounds in acidic salt flats (Central Andean Altiplano). Chemical Geology. 2021 Corrigendum: Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment.. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2019 Validation of Genetic Markers Associated to Oxygen Availability in Low-Grade Copper Bioleaching Systems: An Industrial Application.. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2019 A test in a high altitude lake of a multi-parametric rapid methodology for assessing life in liquid environments on planetary bodies: A potential new freshwater polychaete tubeworm community. Frontiers in Environmental Science. 2019 Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycle in the Benthic Sediments of a Glacial Oligotrophic Deep Andean Lake as Analog of Ancient Martian Lake-Beds. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2019 Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2019 Decision support system for bioleaching processes. Hydrometallurgy. 2018 Correction to: A thiotrophic microbial community in an acidic brine lake in Northern Chile. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 2018 Identification of trehalose as a compatible solute in different species of acidophilic bacteria.. Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea). 2018 A thiotrophic microbial community in an acidic brine lake in Northern Chile. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 2018 Biomarkers and Metabolic Patterns in the Sediments of Evolving Glacial Lakes as a Proxy for Planetary Lake Exploration. Astrobiology. 2018 Watershed-Induced Limnological and Microbial Status in Two Oligotrophic Andean Lakes Exposed to the Same Climatic Scenario. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2018 Draft genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans CLST isolated from the acidic hypersaline Gorbea salt flat in northern Chile. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2017 First draft genome sequence of a strain from the genus Fusibacter isolated from Salar de Ascotan in Northern Chile. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2017 Is the growth of microorganisms limited by carbon availability during chalcopyrite bioleaching?. Hydrometallurgy. 2017 Microbial Community Structure and the Persistence of Cyanobacterial Populations in Salt Crusts of the Hyperarid Atacama Desert from Genome-Resolved Metagenomics. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2017 Biomarkers and Metabolic Patterns in the Sediments of Evolving Glacial Lakes as a Proxy for Planetary Lake Exploration. 2016 Draft genome sequence of chloride-tolerant Leptospirillum ferriphilum Sp-Cl from industrial bioleaching operations in northern Chile. Standards in Genomic Sciences. 2016 One-Dimensional TiO2-B Crystals Synthesised by Hydrothermal Process and Their Antibacterial Behaviour on Escherichia coli. Journal of Nanomaterials. 2016 Rates and geochemical processes of soil and salt crust formation in Salars of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Geoderma. 2016 The Ecological Coherence of Temperature and Salinity Tolerance Interaction and Pigmentation in a Non-marine Vibrio Isolated from Salar de Atacama. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2016 Copper resistance, motility and the mineral dissolution behavior were assessed as novel factors involved in bacterial adhesion in bioleaching. Hydrometallurgy. 2015 Bioleaching of copper secondary sulfide ore in the presence of chloride by means of inoculation with chloride-tolerant microbial culture. Hydrometallurgy. 2014 Draft genome sequence of Nitrincola sp. strain A-D6, an arsenic-resistant gammaproteobacterium isolated from a salt flat. Genome announcements. 2014 Variation in microbial community from predominantly mesophilic to thermotolerant and moderately thermophilic species in an industrial copper heap bioleaching operation. Hydrometallurgy. 2014 A Descriptive Model for Microbial Population Dynamics in a Copper Sulphide Bioleaching Heap with Spatial and Physicochemical Considerations. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Analysis of Gene Expression as Marker of Relevant Metabolisms, in Three Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Strains, in Different Growth Conditions. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Analysis of Gene Expression in Response to Copper Stress in Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Strain D2, Isolated from a Copper Bioleaching Operation. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Bioleaching of Covellite from Low Grade Copper Sulphide Ore and Tails. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Biologically Assisted Copper Secondary Sulfide Ore Leaching in the Presence of Chloride. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Effect of Increased Acid Concentration on the Microbial Population Inhabiting an Industrial Heap Bioleaching Plant. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Estimation of Ionic Load Effect on the Oxidizing Activity of the Microbial Population in the Heap Bioleaching Process at Escondida Mine. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Geochemistry and Microbiology in an Acidic, High Altitude (4,000 m) Salt Flat — High Andes, Northern Chile. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 Proteo and Actinobacteria Diversity at a Sulfide, Salt and Acid-Rich Lake in the North of Chile. Advanced Materials Research. 2013 AHL signaling molecules with a large acyl chain enhance biofilm formation on sulfur and metal sulfides by the bioleaching bacterium Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 2013 Distribution of Microbial Arsenic Reduction, Oxidation and Extrusion Genes along a Wide Range of Environmental Arsenic Concentrations. PLoS ONE. 2013 Molecular preservation in halite- and perchlorate-rich hypersaline subsurface deposits in the Salar Grande basin (Atacama Desert, Chile): Implications for the search for molecular biomarkers on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2013 Parameters influencing the microbial oxidation activity in the industrial bioleaching heap at Escondida mine, Chile. Hydrometallurgy. 2013 Enrichment of arsenic transforming and resistant heterotrophic bacteria from sediments of two salt lakes in Northern Chile. Extremophiles. 2012 Effect of organic extractant LIX 84IC, pH and temperature changes on bioleaching microorganisms during SX treatment. Hydrometallurgy. 2012 A Microbial Oasis in the Hypersaline Atacama Subsurface Discovered by a Life Detector Chip: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars. Astrobiology. 2011 Archaeal diversity along a subterranean salt core from the Salar Grande (Chile). Environmental Microbiology. 2011 Correction to “The High-Lakes Project”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2010 Dynamics of declining lake habitat in changing climate. Lakes on Mars. 2010 Prokaryotic diversity pattern in high-altitude ecosystems of the Chilean Altiplano. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2010 Assessment of Microbial Adhesion in Mixed Cultures to Sulfide Minerals Using CARD-FISH Techniques. Advanced Materials Research. 2009 Characterization of Oxidizing Activity of a Microbial Community in an Industrial Bioleaching Heap. Advanced Materials Research. 2009 Comparison between the Bacterial Populations from Solutions and Minerals in 1 m Test Columns and the Industrial Low Grade Copper Sulphide Bioleaching Process in the Escondida Mine, Chile. Advanced Materials Research. 2009 Differential Gene Expression of Industrial Bioleaching Transcriptomes by Leptospirillum Ferrooxidans DNA Microarray. Advanced Materials Research. 2009 Normalization of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Data of Identified Genes from an Industrial Bioleaching Operation. Advanced Materials Research. 2009 Diversity of Bacteroidetes in high-altitude saline evaporitic basins in northern Chile. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2009 Dynamic of active microorganisms inhabiting a bioleaching industrial heap of low-grade copper sulfide ore monitored by real-time PCR and oligonucleotide prokaryotic acidophile microarray. Microbial Biotechnology. 2009 The High-Lakes Project. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2009 Identification of differentially expressed genes in an industrial bioleaching heap processing low-grade copper sulphide ore elucidated by RNA arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction. Hydrometallurgy. 2008 Novelty and spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the bacterial diversity of hypersaline Lake Tebenquiche (Salar de Atacama). Extremophiles. 2008 Life in the Atacama: Searching for life with rovers (science overview). Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2007 Bacterial Activity at Low Temperature in Cultures Derived from a Low-Grade Copper Sulphide Bioleaching Heap at the Escondida Mine, Chile. Advanced Materials Research. 2007 Differential Genetic Expression in Heap Bioleaching of Low-Grade Copper Sulphide Ore at Escondida Mine, Chile. Advanced Materials Research. 2007 Monitoring of Microbial Community Inhabiting a Low-Grade Copper Sulphide Ore by Quantitative Real-Time PCR Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes. Advanced Materials Research. 2007 Microbial precipitation of arsenic sulfides in Andean salt flats. Geomicrobiology Journal. 2007 Molecular characterization of microbial populations in a low-grade copper ore bioleaching test heap. Hydrometallurgy. 2005 Distribution of prokaryotic genetic diversity in athalassohaline lakes of the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2004 Microbial mats from the Llamara salt flat, northern Chile. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural. 2003 Assessment of bioavailable arsenic and copper in soils and sediments from the Antofagasta region of northern Chile. Science of the Total Environment. 2002 The borate deposits in Chile.. Revista Geologica de Chile. 2000 capítulo The Effect of Ammonium Supplementation on Bioleaching. 63rd Conference of Metallurgists, COM 2024. 2025 Signatures of Habitats and Life in Earths High-Altitude Lakes: Clues to Noachian Aqueous Environments on Mars. The Geology of Mars. 2007 documento The road from the salar through the lab table to reach the patient´s bed 2025 The case of arsenic. Symposium Microbial Frontiers: Ecology in extreme environments. 2024 Procedure and kit to determine in situ consumption of sulfuric acid from copper ore. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2024 Optimized biocementing composition useful for the repair of cracks in concrete 2023 Bio-electrodialysis cell system for the reduction of anions in a solution, comprising a treatment cell and at least one amplification cell; and method. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2022 Method and field kit to determine the concentration of acid-soluble copper in a mineral. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2022 A Multidisciplinary Evaluation of Spatial Heterogeneity in the Puquios of the Salar de Llamara, Atacama Desert, Northern Chile. Research Square. 2021 Addressing Strategic Knowledge Gaps in the Search for Biosignatures on Mars. NASA. 2021 Method for producing arsenic sulphide nanostructures from a microorganism and produced nanostructures. US Patent Services. 2019 DNA microarray for quantitative analysis of the expression of genes of microorganisms present in liquid and solid industrial bioleaching samples; method for the analysis of gene expression using the DNA microarray. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2019 Industrial Information Technology, based on knowledge management, to support decision making in the operation of industrial bioleaching processes. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2018 Life Beyond the Solar System: Remotely Detectable Biosignatures. NASA. 2018 Expert system for industrial bioleaching processes. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2016 A method of treating a sulphide mineral. US Patent Services. 2014 Biotechnological process for the treatment of hydroxide sludge containing As from water purification processes, which use FeCl3 as a coagulant, through the action of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2011 Method to extract DNA obtained from industrial copper production processes that use bioleaching and contain low cellular concentration for subsequent use in molecular biology applications. Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual. 2011 Biotreatment of As-containing hydroxide sludge. US Patent Services. 2008 documento de conferencia Effect of different carbon sources on the composition and activity of a sulfate-reducing microbial consortium and the purity of a sulfide solution obtained from the produced biogenic H2S. XLV Congreso Chileno de Microbiología. Pucón, Chile. 4 a 7 de Diciembre de 2023.. 2024 Mineralogy and salt contents in soils of the Atacama Desert and their impact on physical-chemical characteristics. Goldschmidt 2024, Chicago, August 18-23th. 2024 Effect of different carbon sources on the composition and activity of a sulfate-reducing microbial consortium and the purity of a NaHS solution obtained from the produced biogenic H2S. XLV Congreso Chileno de Microbiología. Pucón, Chile. 4 a 7 de Diciembre de 2023.. 2023 Microbial arsenic reduction that generates cell growth through the third type of energy conservation. Discovery from the North of Chile. XLV Congreso Chileno de Microbiología. 2023 Geosciences and territory: Atacama Desert Natural Laboratory. Conferencia Internacional Ciudades Resilientes 2023. 2023 Microbiology and territory. Atacama Desert Natural Laboratory. 3° Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Microbiana. 2023 Rhodobacteraceae from Salar de Llamara, Chile: Assembly and characterization of MAGs. 3° Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Microbiana. 2023 Environmental controls on sedimentary deposits in saline lake environments. European Geosciences Union (EGU) 2023. 2023 Copper bioleaching process scenarios for the Chilean copper industry. International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium. 2022 Field and laboratory experiments to constrain biologically impacted precipitation of minerals in evaporiticenvironments, Salar de Llamará. Goldschmidt 2022. 2022 Has Rnf Complex A Pivotal Role In Anaerobic Growth Of Other Microorganisms?. World Microbe Forum. 2021 Biological production of copper sulfide concentrate from flotation tailings and low grade ore. Solid State Phenomena. 2017 Transcription dynamics of CBB-pathway genes in acidithiobacillus thiooxidans growing under different CO2 levels. Solid State Phenomena. 2017 Global genomic expression of active bacteria populations that transform arsenic in sediments of Salar de Ascotán, Chile. One Century of the Discovery of Arsenicosis in Latin America (1914-2014): As 2014 - Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment. 2014 Microbial succession during a heap bioleaching cycle of low grade copper sulfides: Does this knowledge mean a real input for industrial process design and control?. Hydrometallurgy. 2010 Microbial succession during a heap bioleaching cycle of low grade copper sulphides. Does this knowledge mean a real input for industrial process design and control?. International Biohydrometallurgy Symposium. 2009 Investigating microbial diversity and UV radiation impact at the high-altitude Lake Aguas Calientes, Chile. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 2007 libro Foreword 2019 From knowledge to best practices in bioleaching 2017 Microbial survey on industrial bioleaching heap by high-throughput 16s sequencing and metagenomics analysis 2017 Integration of Scientific and Industrial Knowledge on Biohydrometallurgy 2013 Effect of contact with organic extractant LIX 84IC during solvent extraction process on the re-establishment of growth of bioleaching microorganisms 2013 From mesophilic to moderate thermophilic populations in an industrial heap bioleaching process 2013 Temporal dynamics of genes involved in metabolic pathways of C and N of L. ferriphilum, in the industrial bioleaching process of escondida mine, Chile 2013 Variance calculations for quantitative real-time PCR experiments with multiple levels of replication 2013 Monitoring the microbial community inhabiting a low-grade copper sulphide ore by Quantitative Real-Time PCR analysis of 16S rRNA genes 2007