Laura Selbmann

Research interests

Publications

• Fungi are key players in extreme ecosystems

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2022 · 10.1016/j.tree.2022.02.002

• Limits of Life and the Habitability of Mars: The ESA Space Experiment BIOMEX on the ISS

  Astrobiology · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1897

• Notes for genera: Ascomycota

  Fungal Diversity · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-017-0386-0

• Melanin is effective in protecting fast and slow growing fungi from various types of ionizing radiation

  Environmental Microbiology · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13681

• Extremotolerant rock inhabiting black fungi from Italian monumental sites

  Fungal Diversity · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-015-0342-9

• Survival of Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Fungi in Simulated Martian Conditions On Board the International Space Station

  Astrobiology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2015.1324

• Rock black fungi: excellence in the extremes, from the Antarctic to space

  Current Genetics · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00294-014-0457-7

• Phylogeny and taxonomy of meristematic rock-inhabiting black fungi in the Dothideomycetes based on multi-locus phylogenies

  Fungal Diversity · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-013-0277-y

• Isolation and Screening of Black Fungi as Degraders of Volatile Aromatic Hydrocarbons

  Mycopathologia · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-013-9635-2

• Survival of Rock-Colonizing Organisms After 1.5 Years in Outer Space

  Astrobiology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2011.0736

• Biodiversity, evolution and adaptation of fungi in extreme environments

  Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1080/11263504.2012.753134

• Phylogeny of rock-inhabiting fungi related to Dothideomycetes

  Studies in Mycology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.3114/sim.2009.64.06

• A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes

  Studies in Mycology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.3114/sim.2009.64.01

• Drought meets acid: three new genera in a dothidealean clade of extremotolerant fungi

  Studies in Mycology · 2008 · 10.3114/sim.2008.61.01

• Resistance of Antarctic black fungi and cryptoendolithic communities to simulated space and Martian conditions

  Studies in Mycology · 2008 · https://doi.org/10.3114/sim.2008.61.10

• Evolution and adaptation of fungi at boundaries of life

  Advances in Space Research · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2007.06.004

• Fungi in Antarctica

  Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s11157-006-9107-y

• Antarctic microfungi as models for exobiology

  Planetary and Space Science · 2003 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2003.08.019

• Production and structural characterization of the exopolysaccharide of the Antarctic fungus Phoma herbarum CCFEE 5080

  Research in Microbiology · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1016/s0923-2508(02)01372-4

Current projects

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