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Sandra
Professor, AssociatePontificia Universidad Javeriana
I have been conducting research on microbial diversity in extreme environments of Boyacá, Colombia and more recently in the saline spring Salado de Consotá located in Risaralda, Colombia since 2002. Many of these studies have been done in collaboration with Dr. Bernard Ollivier, head of the research group 101 Microbiologie des environnements extrêmes at the Institut de recherche pour le développement –IRD (France), and have involved several undergraduate, MSc and PhD students from the Faculty of Sciences of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
These studies in Colombia have revealed an extraordinary microbial diversity in extreme environments that are little studied but have a huge biotechnological potential. These studies have led to the identification and description of phylogenetic relationships of newly discovered thermophilic bacterial species, isolation of several fermentative and sulfate-reducing thermophiles, and isolation of new species of halophilic-mesophilic microorganisms from saline environments.
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