Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

16.10.2018

Englisch

9783319934228

Springer International Publishing

Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis

Nein

134

1st edition 2018

Gebundene Ausgabe

Valeria Souza was born in Mexico City and completed her bachelor’s degree in Biology, master’s degree in Genetics and PhD in Ecology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1990 Valeria went to Irvine California (UCI) to work with Rich Lenski and learn experimental evolution. In 1993, she took on a research position at UNAM in Mexico, where she still works today. Her field is Evolutionary Ecology of Microbes and when Valeria completed her PhD, there were no other researchers studying it in Mexico, and very few in the world. As a young researcher, she received a MacArthur fellowship to investigate the role of women in biodiversity and she chose to explore how domestications had changed microbial populations and published a paper on ethnomicrobiology. At the same time she began exploring the role of bacterial sex in the evolution of the pathogenicity in E. coli comparing human related strains with wild animal isolates. In 1999, all of those more predictable trails in academia changed when Valeria and her family were invited by NASA to explore a new world in a journey that led them to the depths of microbial biodiversity in an unlikely oasis in the Chihuahuan desert.

Astrobiology, Microbial diversity, Conservation policy, Stromatolites and Microbial Mats, Desert oasis, climate change

PSG - Mikrobiologie (nicht-medizinisch) RNCB - Biodiversität (Artenvielfalt) RN - Umwelt PSAF - Ökologie, Biosphäre

235 mm

15.5 cm