GALAPAGOS

This project is coordinated by the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology I2SysBio) and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. The project explores the presence of microorganisms with electricity generating potential of microbial communities present in the sediments of salt lagoons and salt flats of San Cristóbal Island in the Galapagos archipelago. Galapagos explores the production of electricity from environmental samples, characterizes the metagenomic content of microbial communities and the correlation of the presence of power species with environmental parameters such as pH, salinity, temperature and dissolved oxygen.

Description

Research Group: Theory, Bioinformatics and Computation

This project is coordinated by the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology I2SysBio) and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito. The project explores the presence of microorganisms with electricity generating potential of microbial communities present in the sediments of salt lagoons and salt flats of San Cristóbal Island in the Galapagos archipelago. Galapagos explores the production of electricity from environmental samples, characterizes the metagenomic content of microbial communities and the correlation of the presence of power species with environmental parameters such as pH, salinity, temperature and dissolved oxygen.

Non-UV principal researchers

Carlos Peña Garay, Sonia Zapata Mena

Non-UV participating researchers

Vicente Arnau, Wladimiro Diaz, José Manuel Martí, Lotfi Boubekeur, Pablo Egas

Start date

2018 January

End date

2020 December

Funding agencies:

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts and Science (GAIAS)

Partners:

Sistemas Genómicos