Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

2021, Daniel Roush, Ana Giraldo-Silva and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Cydrasil 3, a curated 16S rRNA gene reference package and web app for cyanobacterial phylogenetic placement. Scientific Data. doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01015-5.

2021 Vanessa M. C. Fernandes, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Daniel Roush and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Coleofasciculaceae, a monophyletic home for the “Microcoleus steenstrupii” complex and other desiccation-tolerant filamentous cyanobacteria. Journal of Phycology. doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13199.

2020 Corey Nelson, Ana Giraldo-Silva and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. A symbiotic nutrient exchange within the cyanosphere microbiome of the biocrust cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus. ISMEJ. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-020-00781-1.

2020 Eva Stricker, Grace Crain, Jennifer A. Rudgers, Robert Sinsabaugh, Vanessa M. C. Fernandes, Corey Nelson, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Jayne Belnap and Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi. What could explain δ¹³C signatures in biocrust cyanobacteria of Drylands? Microbial Ecology.doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01536-3.

2020 Ana Giraldo-Silva, Vanessa M. C. Fernandes, Julie Bethany and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Niche partitioning with temperature among heterocystous cyanobacteria (Scytonema spp., Nostoc spp., and Tolypothrix spp.) from biological soil crusts. Microorganisms. doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms8030396.

2020 Corey Nelson, Ana Giraldo-Silva and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. A fog-irrigated soil substrate system unifies and optimizes cyanobacterial biocrust inoculum production. Appl Environ Microbiolgy. doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00624-20.

2020 Christophe Thomazo, Estelle Couradeau, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Arnaud Brayard, Martin Homann, Pierre Sansjofre, Stefan V. Lalonde and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Biological soil crusts as modern analogs for the Archean continental biosphere: Insights from carbon and nitrogen isotopes. Astrobiology. doi.org/10.1089/ast.2019.2144.

2020 Sergio Velasco Ayuso, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Nichole N. Barger and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Microbial inoculum production for biocrust restoration: testing the effects of a common versus native soils on yield and community composition. Restoration Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/rec.13127.

2019 Ana Giraldo-Silva, Corey Nelson, Cory Penfold, Nichole N. Barger and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Effect of preconditioning to the soil environment on the performance of 20 cyanobacterial cultured strains used as inoculum for biocrust restoration. Restoration Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/rec.13048.

2019 Estelle Couradeau†, Ana Giraldo-Silva†, Francesca De Martini and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Spatial segregation of the biological soil crust microbiome around its foundational cyanobacterium, Microcoleus vaginatus, and the formation of a nitrogen-fixing cyanosphere. Microbiome. doi.org/10.1186/s40168-019-0661-2.

2019 Ana Giraldo-Silva, Corey Nelson, Nichole N. Barger and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Nursing biological soil crusts: isolation, biomass production, and fitness test of indigenous cyanobacteria. Restoration Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/rec.12920.

2019 Julie Bethany, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Corey Nelson, Nichole N. Barger and Ferran Garcia-Pichel Optimizing production of nursery-based biological soil crusts for restoration of arid lands soils. Appl Environ Microbiol. doi.org/10.1128/AEM.00735-19.

2019 Anita A. Antoninka, Mathew A. Bowker, Nichole N. Barger, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Sasha Reed, Ferran Garcia-Pichel and Mike Duniway. Addressing barriers to improve biocrust colonization and establishment in restoration. Restoration Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/rec.13052.

2019 Eneko Ganuza, Shanshan Yang, Magdalena Amezquita, Ana Giraldo-Silva and Robert Andersen. Genomics, biology and phylogeny Aurantiochytrium acetophilum sp. nov. (Thraustrochytriaceae), including first evidence of sexual reproduction. Protist (170) 2. 209-232. doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2019.02.004.

2019 Akasha M. Faist, Anita J. Antoninka, Jayne Belnap, Matthew A. Bowker, Michael C. Duniway, Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Corey Nelson, Sasha C. Reed, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Sergio Velasco-Ayuso, Nichole N. Barger. Inoculum and habitat amelioration efforts in biological soil crust recovery vary by desert and soil texture. Restoration Ecology. doi.org/10.1111/rec.13087

2017 Sergio Velasco Ayuso, Ana Giraldo Silva, Corey Nelson, Nichole N. Barger and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Microbial nursery production of high-quality biological soil crust biomass for restoration of degraded drylands soils. Appl Environ Microbiol. doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02179-16.

2016 Xiaobing Zhou, Hilda Smith, Ana Giraldo Silva, Jayne Belnap and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Differential responses of dinitrogen fixation, diazotrophic cyanobacteria and ammonia oxidation reveal a potential warming-induced imbalance of the N-cycle in biological soil crusts. PloS ONE.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164932.

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Other Research Publications

2020 Akasha Faist, Colin Tucker, Sasha C. Reed, Anita Antoninka, Matt Bowker, Nichole N. Barger, Kara Dohrenwend, Natalie Day, Sue Bellagamba, Jaybe Belnap, Mike Duniway, Steve Fick, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Corey Nelson, Julie Bethany, Sergio Velasco Ayuso and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Operational manual for biocrust restoration in drylands. https://canyonlandsresearchcenter.org/files/Biocrust_Manual_Final.pdf.

2019 Daniel Roush, Ana Giraldo-Silva, Vanessa M. C. Fernandes, Nathali Maria Machado de Lima, Corey Nelson, Sam McClintock, Sergio Velasco Ayuso, Kevin Klicki, Blake Dirks, Watson Arantes, Kira Sorochkina and Ferran Garcia-Pichel. Cydrasil 1.5: A comprehensive phylogenic tree of cyanobacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences doi10.5281/zenodo.1409274. https://github.com/FGPLab/cydrasil.

2016-19 Mobile microbial nursery: design of facility infrastructure and adequate protocols for its functioning: https://biodesign.asu.edu/news/first-its-kind-microbial-nursery-grand-opening

2011 Guillermo Garcia-Blairsy, Paulo Salomon, Ana Giraldo Silva and Eva Cancelo. Method for the selection and isolation of hyper-lipidic strains of the microalgae Tetraselmis suecica using flow cytometry and the fluorochrome nile red. Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks, OEPM.

2007 Ana Giraldo Silva, Daniel Salazar, Diana Rodríguez, Elvira Alvarado, Juan Sánchez. Estado actual de las poblaciones de Acropora cervoconis, Acropora palmata, Diploria labyrinthiformis y Siderastrea siderea en el área marina protegida Corales del Rosario y San Bernardo. Uso como indicadores biofísicos de efectividad de manejo. Informe del Estado de los Ambientes Marinos y Costeros en Colombia. Serie de Publicaciones Periódicas, Invemar ISBN: 1692-5025. https://www.academia.edu/27313151/Estado_del_conocimiento_de_la_diversidad_de_especies_Inventarios_regonales_de_fauna_y_flora_marina_del_Pac%C3%ADfico.