PUBLICATIONS

Papers and Abstracts

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 2025

  • Franchi, F., Cassaro, A., Cavalazzi, B., Lebogang, L., Tarozzi, A., & Pacelli, C. (2025). Microbial abundance across a salinity and mineralogical transect in the Ntwetwe Pan of Botswana: A terrestrial analogue for playa deposits on Mars. Planetary and Space Science255, 106028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2024.106028
  • Cassaro, A., Pacelli, C., Cemmi, A., Di Sarcina, I., Zucconi, L., Cavalazzi, B., Leo, P., Catanzaro, I., & Onofri, S. (2025). The effect of ionizing radiation on hydrated fungal cells: Implications for planetary protection and mars habitability. Icarus425, 116339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116339

 2024

  • Dorneles, V. A. C., Hickman-Lewis, K., Roberto, B., Caminiti A. M., & Cavalazzi, B. (2024). Microbe-mineral interactions in the microstromatolitic crusts of the lacustrine chimneys and volcanic bedrock of Lake Abhe, Republic of Djibouti. BOLLETTINO DELLA SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA, 63, 229-244. https://doi.org/10.4435/BSPI.2024.17
  • Cassaro, A., D'Alò, F., Pacelli, C., Cavalazzi, B., Zucconi, L., & Onofri, S. (2024). A preliminary survey of the cellular responses of the black fungus Cryomyces antarcticus to long and short‐term dehydration. Environmental Microbiology Reports, 16(4), e13309. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.13309
  • Hickman-Lewis, K., Cavalazzi, B., & Montgomery, W. (2024). Correlative microspectroscopy of biogenic fabrics in Proterozoic silicified stromatolites. GEOCHEMICAL PERSPECTIVES LETTERS, 30, 34-39. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2419
  • Balcha, E. S., Olsson-Francis, K., Stephens, B., Cavalazzi, B., Woldesemayat, A. A., Gemeda, M. T., & Macey, M. C. (2024). Draft genome sequence of Bacillus sp. strain X and Salarachaeum sp. strain III isolated from Lake Karum, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 13(3), e01260-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01260-23
  • Filippidou, S., Price, A., Spencer-Jones, C., Scale, A., Macey, M., Franchi, F.,  Lebogang, L., Cavalazzi, B., Schwenzer, S., & Olsson-Francis, K. (2024). Diversity of microbial mats in the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, Botswana. MICROORGANISMS, 12(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12010147

 

ABSTRACT

2024

  • Oromeng, K., Hadush Kashay, T., Franchi, F., & Cavalazzi, B. (2024) Characterizing clay minerals in the Makgadikgadi Pans (Botswana): terrestrial analogue for Mars playa deposits. In EPSC Europlanet Science Congress 2024 .
  • Máté, T., Piccialli, A., Adeli, S., Opitz, A., Cavalazzi, B., Lesedi, L., ... & Franchi, F. (2024). Advancing Diversity within the Europlanet Society. In EPSC Europlanet Science Congress 2024.
  • Hickman-Lewis, K., Dorneles, V., Millan, M., & Cavalazzi, B. (2024). Palaeolacustrine environments as windows on microbial biosignature preservation on the Precambrian Earth and Noachian–Hesperian Mars. In Goldschmidt Conference 2024.
  • Dorneles, V. A. C., Hickman-Lewis, K., Barbieri, R., Broderick, C., Caminiti, A. M., Najorka, J., ... & Cavalazzi, B. (2024). Biosignatures from Modern Extreme Terrestrial Lacustrine Deposits–Implications for Astrobiology. In Abstract EANA2024-65.
  • Dorneles, V. A. C., Hickman-Lewis, K., Millan, M., Haileselasie, T. H., Hagos, M., & Cavalazzi, B. (2024). Carbonate–silica interplay: unraveling microbial synergy and fossil preservation in alkaline lacustrine stromatolites. In Paleodays XXIV edition–Pisa,(4) 5-7 June 2024–Abstract Book (pp. 133-133).
  • Westall, F., Bréhéret, J. G., Hickman-Lewis, K., Foucher, F., Campbell, K., Guido, D. M., ... & Cavalazzi, B. (2024). Home sweet home: microbial-scale habitability through the lifetime of a sedimentary basin on the Palaeoarchaean Earth. In 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference, AGU.
  •  Lewis, K. H., Cavalazzi, B., Foucher, F., Whitehouse, M. J., Jeon, H., Montgomery, W., ... & Westall, F. (2024). Exceptional preservation of organic nanodomains containing primary biological materials in Palaeoarchaean microbial mats: new perspectives from correlative micro-and nano-analysis. In 2024 Astrobiology Science Conference. AGU.

  

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