Dr. Sebastian Fuentes Alburquenque

Microbiología ambiental, ecología microbiana, metabolismo microbiano, degradación microbiológica de contaminantes.

• 2019 – 2022: Disentangling the sources and ecological processes of the inhalable aerobiome at regional scale. FONDECYT iniciación 11190256, Chile. Investigador principal.
• 2020 – 2022: NI: BioSkyNet: the first global network of bioaerosols researchers. NERC Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund, Reino Unido. Investigador.
• 2020 – 2021: Relación entre las condiciones atmosféricas y la presencia de SARS-CoV-2 en aerosol urbano de diferentes ciudades de Chile y su incidencia en mortalidad y letalidad de la enfermedad COVID-19. Concurso para la asignación rápida de recursos para proyectos de investigación sobre el coronavirus (COVID-19). Propuesta #383280. Investigador.
• 2018 – 2020: The rare biosphere’s ecosystem services in the ever-changing Antarctic environments. Proyecto regular Instituto Antártico Chileno (INACH) RG_09-17, Chile. Investigador principal.
• 2016 – 2018: Anthropogenic pressure over the Antarctic microbial world: stability of soil communities facing hydrocarbon pollution disturbance. FONDECYT postdoctoral 3160424, Chile. Investigador principal.

• Alcamán-Arias ME, Fuentes-Alburquenque S, Vergara-Barros P, Cifuentes-Anticevic J, Verdugo J, Polz M, Farías L, Pedrós-Alío C, Díez B (2021). Coastal bacterial community response to glacier melting in the Western Antarctic Peninsula, Microorganisms 99(1), 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010088.
• Ramírez P, Fuentes-Alburquenque S, Díez B, Vargas IT, Bonilla C (2020). Soil microbial community responses to labile organic carbon fractions in relation to soil type and land use along a climate gradient. Soil Biol Biochem 141: 107692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107692.
• Alviz-Gazitua P, Fuentes-Alburquenque S, Rojas L; Turner RJ, Giuliani N, Seeger M (2019). The response of Cupriavidus metallidurans CH34 to cadmium involves inhibition of the initiation of biofilm formation, decrease in intracellular c-di-GMP levels, and a novel metal regulated phosphodiesterase. Front Microbiol 10:1499. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01499.
• Fuentes S, Arroyo JI, Rodríguez-Marconi S, Masotti I, Alarcón-Schumacher T, Polz MF, Trefault N, De la Iglesia R, Díez B (2019). Summer phyto- and bacterioplankton communities during low and high productivity scenarios in the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Polar Biol 42(1):159-69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2411-5.
• Valenzuela M, Besoain X, Durand K, Cesbron S, Fuentes S, Claverías F, Jacques MA, Seeger M (2018). Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis isolates from Central Chile exhibit low genetic diversity and sequence types match strains in other parts of the world. Plant Pathol 67(9):1944-54. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12911.
• Urtuvia V, Villegas P, Fuentes S, González M, Seeger M (2018). Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 possess a functional polyhydroxyalkanoate anabolic pathway encoded by the pha genes and synthesizes poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) under nitrogen-limiting conditions. Int Microbiol 21(1-2):47-57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10123-018-0004-3.
• Méndez V, Fuentes S, Morgante V, Hernández M, González M, Moore E, Seeger M (2017). Novel hydrocarbonoclastic metal-tolerant Acinetobacter and Pseudomonas strains from Aconcagua river oil-polluted soil. J Soil Sci Plant Nutrition 17(4):1074-87. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-95162017000400017.
• Fuentes S, Barra B, Caporaso JG, Seeger M (2016). From rare to dominant: A fine-tunned soil bacterial bloom during petroleum hydrocarbon bioremediation. Appl Environ Microbiol 82(3):888-96. https://doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02625-15.
• Fuentes S, Ding G, Cárdenas F, Smalla K, Seeger M (2015). Assessing environmental drivers of microbial communities in estuarine soils of the Aconcagua River in Central Chile. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 91(10):fiv110. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiv110.
• Fuentes S, Méndez V, Aguila P, Seeger M (2014). Bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons: Catabolic genes, microbial communities and applications. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 81(11):4781-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-014-5684-9.

• Buxton U, Fuentes S (2021). Sistema para lavado de bomba de hormigón con recuperación de agua. INAPI # 3509-2021