Alberto Robador

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E-mail: robadora@usc.edu

Address: University of Southern California, Department of Earth Sciences

825 Bloom Walk, ACB 303

Los Angeles, California 90089-0740

Alberto Robador

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EMPLOYMENT

Postdoctoral Research Associate , University of Southern California and Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (since 2012)

My current effort focuses towards the use of calorimetry in combination with continuous culture methods (i.e. chemostats) to accurately measure the heat generated from microbial metabolic activity. My specific aim is to use nanocalorimetry for the characterization of microbial energy metabolism in low-‐ energy environments.

My main responsibility is the development of culture-‐based approaches for the
discovery and monitoring of microbial reactions.

Postdoctoral Research Associate , NASA Astrobiology Institute and University of Hawaii (2009-2012)

I studied temperature and pressure as important environmental physical factors regulating the diversity and specific energy metabolism of microbial populations involved in the biogeochemical processes in deep subseafloor environmens. The main focus of my research was on he ecophysiological constrains resulting from temperatures at the upper and lower limits for growth.

My specific responsibilities were the fabrication of a pressure/temperature gradient system and the implementation of sensitive laboratory tracer and molecular techniques.

EDUCATION

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Ph.D. in Geomicrobiology, 2009

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, M.Sc. in Geomicrobiology, 2005

Universidad de Navarra, B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2002

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Robador A, Müller AL, Sawicka JE, Berry D, Hubert C, Loy A, Jørgensen BB, Brüchert V. Activity and community structures of sulfate-reducing microorganisms in polar, temperate and tropical marine sediments. ISME Journal. (LINK)
Robador A, Jungbluth SP, LaRowe DE, Bowers RM, Rappé MS, Amend JP, Cowen JP.(2014) Activity and phylogenetic diversity of sulfate-reducing microorganisms in low-temperature subsurface fluids within the upper oceanic crust. Frontiers in Microbiology 5:748. (LINK)
Fisher AT, Tsuji T, Petronotis K, Wheat CG, Becker K, Clark JF, Cowen JP, Edwards KJ, Jannasch HW, Gautier JM, Haddad AG, Kane J, Keske S, Harris M, Hulme SM, Ji F, Masui R, Miyamoto H, Morvan S, Mrozewski SA, Orcutt BN, Peart LW, Richardson B, Rutter J, Thiberge B, Winslow DM, Cooper SA, Glazer BT, Robador A, Brennon R, Gross A, Hamner K, Hseih CC,Jungbluth SP, Lin H, Ramirez G, Ringlein J, Slovacek A, StrongL.(2012)IODP expedition 327 and Atlantis expedition AT 18-‐07: Observatories and experiments on the eastern Flank of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Scientific Drilling. 13: 4-11. (LINK)
Robador A, Brüchert V, Steen A, and Arnosti C.(2010) Temperature sensitivity of extracellular enzymatic activity in Arctic and temperate sediments: Evidence for decoupling in carbon cycling pathways. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,74: 2316-2326. (LINK)
Sawicka JE, Robador A, Hubert C, Jørgensen BB, and Brüchert V. Effects of freeze–thaw cycles on anaerobic microbial processes in an Arctic intertidal mud flat ISME Journal 4: 585-594. (LINK)
Robador A, Brüchert V, and Jørgensen BB.(2009) The impact of temperature change on the activity and community composition of sulphate-reducing bacteria in arctic versus temperate marine sediments. Environmental Microbiology. 11: 1692-1703. (LINK)
Lösekann T, Robador A, Niemann H, Knittel K, Boetius A, Dubilier N.(2008)Endosymbioses between bacteria and deep-sea siboglinid tubeworms from an Arctic Cold Seep (Haakon Mosby Mud Volcano, Barents Sea). Environmental Microbiology 10:3237-3254. (LINK)

2010 - present