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Mesto na Zemlji najviše nalik Marsu

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Armando Azua-Bustos |

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• April 2017

Kako možete proučavati Mars bez svemirskog broda? Uputite se ka mestu na Zemlji koje je najviše nalik Marsu - pustinja Atakama u Čileu. Astrobiolog Armando Azua-Bustos je odrastao u ovom odgromnom suvom predelu i sada proučava retke oblike života koji su prilagođeni da prežive tamo, neki u oblastima gde kiša nije zabeležena poslednjih 400 godina. Istražite mogućnost pronalaska života drugde u svemiru bez napuštanja planete, sa ovim kratkim i zabavnim govorom.

Kako možete proučavati Mars bez svemirskog broda? Uputite se ka mestu na Zemlji koje je najviše nalik Marsu - pustinja Atakama u Čileu. Astrobiolog Armando Azua-Bustos je odrastao u ovom odgromnom suvom predelu i sada proučava retke oblike života koji su prilagođeni da prežive tamo, neki u oblastima gde kiša nije zabeležena poslednjih 400 godina. Istražite mogućnost pronalaska života drugde u svemiru bez napuštanja planete, sa ovim kratkim i zabavnim govorom.

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Armando Azua-Bustos

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TED Fellow Armando Azua-Bustos studies how microbial life has adapted to survive in the Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth.

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Armando Azua-Bustos, Carlos González-Silva, and Gino Corsini. 2017. The hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, an extremely dry and carbon deprived habitat of potential interest for the field of carbon science. Frontiers in Microbiology.

- Domagal-Goldman S.D., Wright K.E., fourteen other authors, Azua-Bustos A., et al. 2016. The Astrobiology Primer v2.0. Astrobiology 16:561-653.

- A. Azua-Bustos, L. Caro-Lara, y R. Vicuña. 2015. Discovery and microbial content of the driest site of the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 7(3): 388–394.

- Azua-Bustos A., González-Silva C. 2014. Biotechnological applications derived from microorganisms of the Atacama Desert. BioMed Research International, in its special edition BIODESERT: Exploring and Exploiting the Microbial Resource of Hot and Cold Deserts". Volume 2014, Article ID 909312, 7 pages.

- Azua-Bustos A., Arenas, C., and Vicuña, R. 2014. Gloeocapsopsis AAB1, an extremely desiccation-tolerant cyanobacterium isolated from the Atacama Desert. Extremophiles. 18(1):61-74.

- Azua-Bustos A. and Vega-Martínez, C. 2013. The potential for detecting life as we don’t know it by fractal complexity analysis. International Journal of Astrobiology. 12: 314–320.- Azua Bustos A., González-Silva C., and Arenas-Fajardo, C., Vicuña R. 2012. Extreme environments as potential drivers of convergent evolution by exaptation: the Atacama Desert Coastal Range case. Frontiers in Microbiology 3: 426.

- Azua-Bustos A., Urrejola C., and Vicuña R. 2012. Life at the dry edge: microorganisms of the Atacama Desert. FEBS Letters 586:2939–2945.

- Azua-Bustos A, González-Silva C, Mancilla R.A., Salas, L., Gómez-Silva B, McKay CP and Vicuña R. 2011. Hypolithic cyanobacteria supported mainly by fog in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert. Microbial Ecology. 61:568-581.

- Azua-Bustos, A., González-Silva, C., Salas L, Vicuña, R. 2010. A novel subaerial Dunaliella sp. Growing on cave spider webs in the Atacama Desert. Extremophiles 14(5): 443-452.

- Azua-Bustos A., González-Silva, C., Mancilla R.A., Salas L, Palma R.E., Wynne J.J., McKay, C.P. and Vicuña, R. 2009. Ancient Photosynthetic Eukaryote Biofilms in an Atacama Desert Coastal Cave. Microbial Ecology 58:485–496.

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