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  1. BIOIMAGING AND COMPARATIVE GENOMICS UNCOVER PERSISTENCE-ASSOCIATED BACTERIA IN A BLOOD BANK ENVIRONMENT

    Article • July 2026, openRxiv

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  2. Unveiling Urban Air Quality Seasonal Dynamics in San Miguel De Tucumán, Argentina, by Scanning Electron Microscopy

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, July 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  3. FIXATION MATTERS: MULTIDIMENSIONAL EFFECTS OF CHEMICAL PREPARATION ON MORPHOLOGY AND SURFACE TEXTURE OF EXTREMOPHILIC BACTERIA

    Article • June 2026, openRxiv

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  4. Rare Worlds, Rare Microbes—From Salt Flats and Tropical Glaciers to Volcanoes and Andean Deserts as Natural Laboratories for Microbial Biotechnology in Latin America

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, May 2026, Wiley

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  5. Differences in Brain Microtubule Electrical Activity of the Hippocampus and Neocortex from the Adult Rat

    Article • November 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  6. Arche: An Advanced Flexible Tool for High-Throughput Annotation of Functions on Microbial Contigs

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, July 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  7. UNVEILING URBAN AIR QUALITY SEASONAL DYNAMICS IN SAN MIGUEL DE TUCUMÁN, ARGENTINA, BY SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  8. Echoes of 1816: Microbial Footprints in Heritage Artifacts From Argentina’s Museum of Independence

    Article • March 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  9. From genes to nanotubes: exploring the UV-resistome in the Andean extremophile Exiguobacterium sp. S17

    Article • Extremophiles, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  10. From Genes to Nanotubes: Exploring the UV-Resistome in the Andean ExtremophileExiguobacteriumSp. S17

    Article • June 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  11. Wastewater monitoring of SARS‐CoV‐2 gene for COVID‐19 epidemiological surveillance in Tucumán, Argentina

    Article • Journal of Basic Microbiology, May 2024, Wiley

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  12. The bacterial tubulin homolog FtsZ generates electrical oscillations

    Article • Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, December 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  13. Wastewater monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 gene for COVID-19 epidemiological surveillance in Tucumán Argentina

    Article • November 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  14. Role of the microtubules in the electrical activity of the primary cilium of renal epithelial cells

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, November 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  15. Archaeal LOV domains from Lake Diamante: first functional characterization of an halo-adapted photoreceptor

    Article • June 2023, Research Square

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  16. Functional characterization of xanthorhodopsin in Salinivibrio socompensis, a novel halophile isolated from modern stromatolites

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  17. Effect of high‐pressure homogenisation on metabolic potential of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei 90: in vitro and in situ studies in fermented milk and semihard cheese

    Article • International Journal of Dairy Technology, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  18. 1Arche: An Advanced Flexible Tool for High-throuput Annotation of Functions on Microbial Contigs

    Article • November 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  19. Dissecting Light Sensing and Metabolic Pathways on the Millimeter Scale in High-Altitude Modern Stromatolites

    Article • Microbial Ecology, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  20. Proteomic Signatures of Microbial Adaptation to the Highest Ultraviolet-Irradiation on Earth: Lessons From a Soil Actinobacterium

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, March 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  21. Dissecting Light Sensing and Metabolic Pathways on the Millimeter Scale in High-Altitude Modern Stromatolites

    Article • February 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  22. Honeybee Brain Oscillations Are Generated by Microtubules. The Concept of a Brain Central Oscillator

    Article • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, September 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  23. Genomic insights into an andean multiresistant soil actinobacterium of biotechnological interest

    Article • World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  24. Proteomic Signatures of Microbial Adaptation to the Highest UV-Irradiation on Earth: Lessons from a Soil Actinobacterium

    Article • July 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  25. Lithifying and Non-Lithifying Microbial Ecosystems in the Wetlands and Salt Flats of the Central Andes

    Article • Microbial Ecology, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  26. Genomic Insights of an Andean Multi-resistant Soil Actinobacterium of Biotechnological Interest

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  27. Uncovering Photolyase/Cryptochrome Genes Diversity in Aquatic Microbiomes Exposed to Diverse UV-B Regimes

    Article • July 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  28. Polyextremophilic Bacteria from High Altitude Andean Lakes: Arsenic Resistance Profiles and Biofilm Production

    Article • BioMed Research International, February 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  29. Photolyases and Cryptochromes in UV-resistant Bacteria from High-altitude Andean Lakes

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  30. UV‐Resistant Actinobacteria from High‐Altitude Andean Lakes: Isolation, Characterization and Antagonistic Activities

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, May 2017, Wiley

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  31. Arsenic metabolism in high altitude modern stromatolites revealed by metagenomic analysis

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2017, Nature

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  32. Stratified Bacterial Diversity along Physico-chemical Gradients in High-Altitude Modern Stromatolites

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2017, Frontiers

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  33. Functional Green-Tuned Proteorhodopsin from Modern Stromatolites

    Article • PLOS One, May 2016, PLOS

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  34. Surviving the sun: lessons from the microscopic world

    Article • Photochemistry and Photobiology, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor Virginia Helena Albarracin, Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  35. High-Up: A Remote Reservoir of Microbial Extremophiles in Central Andean Wetlands

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  36. Genomic and proteomic evidences unravel the UV-resistome of the poly-extremophile Acinetobacter sp. Ver3

    Article • Frontiers in Microbiology, April 2015, Frontiers

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  37. First characterisation of a CPD-class I photolyase from a UV-resistant extremophile isolated from High-Altitude Andean Lakes

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  38. The Discovery of Stromatolites Developing at 3570 m above Sea Level in a High-Altitude Volcanic Lake Socompa, Argentinean Andes

    Article • PLOS One, January 2013, PLOS

    Nicolas Rascovan, Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  39. Lipid storage in high-altitude Andean Lakes extremophiles and its mobilization under stress conditions in Rhodococcus sp. A5, a UV-resistant actinobacterium

    Article • Extremophiles, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  40. Extremophilic Acinetobacter Strains from High-Altitude Lakes in Argentinean Puna: Remarkable UV-B Resistance and Efficient DNA Damage Repair

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  41. Responses of environmental Amycolatopsis strains to copper stress

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  42. Cupric Reductase Activity in Copper-Resistant Amycolatopsis tucumanensis

    Article • Water Air & Soil Pollution, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  43. Bioaugmentation of copper polluted soil microcosms with Amycolatopsis tucumanensis to diminish phytoavailable copper for Zea mays plants

    Article • Chemosphere, March 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  44. Amycolatopsis tucumanensis sp. nov., a copper-resistant actinobacterium isolated from polluted sediments

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, August 2009, Society for General Microbiology

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  45. Copper removal ability byStreptomycesstrains with dissimilar growth patterns and endowed with cupric reductase activity

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, November 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  46. Copper bioaccumulation by the actinobacteriumAmycolatopsissp. AB0

    Article • Journal of Basic Microbiology, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  47. Isolation and characterization of indigenous copper-resistant actinomycete strains

    Article • Geochemistry, September 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín

  48. Heavy-Metal Resistant Actinomycetes

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Virginia H Albarracín