Paola Di Donato, Elena Chianese, Mattia Esposito, Luca Tonietti, Alessandra Rotundi
Research topics:
- Test of selected biological models' response to stressing conditions mimicking space environment
- Mars environment simulation by means of a 57L stainless steel chamber that equipped with a sample holder, a vacuum pump (HiScroll 12, Pfeiffer), to reach a total pressure in the range 4-6m Bar; two deuterium lamps with a spectral distribution from 160 nm to 400 nm (L11799 and L16551, Hamamtsu); a gas inlet, to create a 95% CO2 atmosphere inside the chamber; a temperature sensor, to simulate the diurnal T variation, from 253,15 K to 313,15 K.
- Air and soil chemical analyses
- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry of the National Research Council of Italy
- University of Naples "Federico II"
- Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste
- Aerospace Microbiology Research Group of The DLR, Cologne, Germany
- University of Venezia Cà Foscari, PhD in Polar Sciences
Semprucci, F.; Appolloni, L.; Grassi, E.; Donnarumma, L.; Cesaroni, L.; Tirimberio, G.; Chianese, E.; Di Donato, P.; Russo, G.F.; Balsamo, M.; et al. Antarctic Special Protected Area 161 as a Reference to Assess the Effects of Anthropogenic and Natural Impacts on Meiobenthic Assemblages. Diversity 2021, 13, 626. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13120626
Mastascusa, V., Romano, I., Di Donato, P. et al. Extremophiles Survival to Simulated Space Conditions: An Astrobiology Model Study. Orig Life Evol Biosph 44, 231–237 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-014-9397-y
Romano, I., De Angelis, A., Poli, A. et al. Resistance and Raman spectroscopy analysis of Parageobacillus thermantarcticus spores after γ-ray exposure. Extremophiles 22, 931–941 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-018-1049-0
Di Donato, P., Romano, I., Mastascusa, V. et al. Survival and Adaptation of the Thermophilic Species Geobacillus thermantarcticus in Simulated Spatial Conditions. Orig Life Evol Biosph 48, 141–158 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11084-017-9540-7
Romano, I.; Camerlingo, C.; Vaccari, L.; Birarda, G.; Poli, A.; Fujimori, A.; Lepore, M.; Moeller, R.; Di Donato, P. Effects of Ionizing Radiation and Long-Term Storage on Hydrated vs. Dried Cell Samples of Extremophilic Microorganisms. Microorganisms 2022, 10, 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10010190