Castro Lab — Comau Fjord transect with sequencing readsSURFACE · 0 m42° 22′ S · COMAU FJORDS01S02S03S04S05S06S07S08CASTRO LAB · TRANSECT → READSN = 8 · 16S rRNA · q ≥ 30ALIGNMENT · contig_001COVERAGE 220×

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Liceth Martínez

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Esperanza Rojas

Undergraduate Student

Lucas Casanova

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Daniela Soto

Postdoctoral Researcher

Eduardo Castro-Nallar

Full Professor · Principal Investigator

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(2026). Distinct taxonomic signatures in the rhizobiome of two native plants from the polyextreme Salar de Huasco ecosystem. In: Environmental Microbiome, (21), pp. 42.

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(2026). Functional Shifts in the Gut DNA Virome in a Long-Distance Migratory Shorebird During the Pre-Migratory Fattening. In: Molecular Ecology, (35), 6, pp. e70315.

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(2026). Gypsum as a repository of extinct and extant biosignatures at Salar de Pajonales, northern Chile. In: Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, p. 1693302, 2026.

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(2026). The endomicrobiome and weed invasiveness in Mediterranean ecosystems worldwide. In: Nature Communications, 2026.

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Protocols

Extracción de ADN desde Muestras de Biofilm Subgingival/Submucoso (Periodontitis y Periimplantitis)

Protocolo para la toma de muestra y extracción de ADN desde biofilm subgingival y submucoso en pacientes con periodontitis o periimplantitis, con purificación mediante kit comercial Zymo Research para análisis de microbioma por secuenciación de ARNr 16S.

Getting Started on McCartney — HPC User Guide

Everything you need to connect, transfer data, load software, and submit jobs on the McCartney high-performance computing cluster. Version 0.2.

McCartney SLURM Script Generator

Interactive web app to generate ready-to-submit SLURM job scripts for the McCartney HPC cluster — supports single-core, multi-core, job arrays, and scratch filesystem.

Participamos en «Pewén dirá la tierra», un documental sobre la Araucaria araucana producido por Duoc UC. / We took part in “Pewén dirá la tierra”, a documentary about the monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) produced by Duoc UC.

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Programa completo del curso de posgrado Genes, Genomas y Proteomas (Doctorado en Ciencias, Universidad de Talca): descripción, temario, evaluación, calendario y las 27 lecturas del seminario con sus PDF descargables.

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An interactive dashboard to explore the publication record of the Centro de Ecología Integrativa alongside other academic units at Universidad de Talca — search, filter by year, unit, citations, and journal impact, and sort the full paper table on the fly.

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A 1,500 km latitudinal transect from Patagonia to the Antarctic Peninsula, sampled across a documented atmospheric-river event (Feb 7–8, 2022). Air, soil, and rhizosphere 16S/ITS combined with ERA5, HYSPLIT, CHIMERE, and FEAST source-apportionment evidence show a phylogenetically broad, terrestrially-sourced Patagonian bioaerosol plume reaching Risopatrón Base — and a baseline of 56% Patagonia attribution in Antarctic-Peninsula air.

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Beneath the spectacular waters of Patagonia’s Comau Fjord lives a hidden universe of microbes that regulate our climate, cycle nutrients, and bear the fingerprints of human activity. Here is what we found — and why it matters.

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