
Gonzalez, Valentina, Josefina Abarca-Hurtado, Alejandra Arancibia, Fernanda Claverías, Miguel R. Guevara, and Roberto Orellana. Novel Insights on Extracellular Electron Transfer Networks in the Desulfovibrionaceae Family: Unveiling the Potential Significance of Horizontal Gene Transfer. Microorganisms (2024). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12091796.
Quinteros-Urquieta, Carolina, Jean-Pierre Francois, Polette Aguilar-Muñoz, Roberto Orellana, Rodrigo Villaseñor, Andres Moreira-Muñoz, and Verónica Molina. Microbial Diversity of Soil in a Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot: Parque Nacional La Campana, Chile. Microorganisms (2024). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12081569.


Francisco Pozo-Solar, Marcela Cornejo-D´Ottone, Roberto Orellana, Carla Acuña, Cecilia Rivera, Polette Aguilar-Muñoz, Céline Lavergne, Verónica Molina. Microbial and biogeochemical shifts in a highly anthropogenically impacted estuary (“El Sauce” Valparaíso). Water (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/w15061251.
Roberto Orellana, Andres Cumsille, Paula Piña-Gangas, Claudia Rojas, Alejandra Arancibia, Salvador Donghi, Cristian Stuardo, Patricio Cabrera, Gabriela Arancibia, Franco Cárdenas, Felipe Salazar, Myriam González, Patricio Santis, Josefina Abarca-Hurtado, María Mejías, Michael Seeger. Economic Evaluation of Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon-contaminated Urban Soils in Chile. Sustainability (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/su141911854.


Francisco Pozo-Solar, Marcela Cornejo-D´Ottone, Roberto Orellana, Daniela Yepsen, Nicolás Bassi, Julio Salcedo-Castro, Polette Aguilar-Muñoz, Verónica Molina. Dissolved greenhouse gases and benthic microbial communities in coastal wetlands of the Chilean coast semiarid region. Plos One (2022). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271208.
Roberto Orellana, Alejandra Arancibia, Leonardo Badilla, Jonathan Acosta, Gabriela Arancibia, Rodrigo Escar, Gustavo Ferrada, Michael Seeger. Ecophysiological Features Shape the Distribution of Prophages and CRISPR in Sulfate Reducing Prokaryotes. Microorganisms (2021). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9050931.


Gina Chaput, Andrew F. Billings, Lani DeDiego, Roberto Orellana, Joshua N Adkins, Rosalie Chu, Blake Simmons, Kristen M. DeAngelis. Lignin Induced Iron Reduction by Novel sp., Tolumonas lignolytic BRL6-1. Plos One (2020). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233823.
Roberto Orellana, Constanza Macaya, Guillermo Bravo, Flavia Dorochesi, Andrés Cumsille, Ricardo Valencia, Claudia Rojas and Michael Seeger. Living at the frontiers of life: extremophiles in Chile and their potential for bioremediation. Frontiers in Microbiology (2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02309


Dawn E Holmes, Roberto Orellana, Ludovic Giloteaux, Li-Ying Wang, Pravin Shrestha, Kenneth Williams, Derek R Lovley, Amelia-Elena Rotaru. Potential for Methanosarcina to Contribute to Uranium Reduction during Acetate-Promoted Groundwater Bioremediation. Microbial Ecology. (2018). doi: 10.1007/s00248-018-1165-5.
Topcuoglu BD, Meydan C, Orellana R, Holden JF. Formate hydrogenlyase and formate secretion ameliorate H2 inhibition in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus paralvinellae. Environmental Microbiology. (2018). doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.14022.


Roberto Orellana, Gina Chaput, Lye Meng Markillie, Hugh Mitchell, Matt Gaffrey, Galya Orr, Kristen M. DeAngelis. Multi-time series RNA-Seq analysis of Enterobacter lignolyticus SCF1 during growth in lignin-amended medium. Plos One (2017). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186440.
Roberto Orellana, Kim K. Hixson, Mary S. Lipton, Manju L. Sharma, Tünde Mester, Sean Murphy and Derek R. Lovley. Proteome of Geobacter sulfurreducens in the presence of U(VI). Microbiology. (2014). doi: 10.1099/mic.0.081398-0


Dawn E Holmes, Ludovic Giloteaux, Roberto Orellana, Kenneth H. Williams, Mark J. Robbins, and Derek R. Lovley. Methane Production from Protozoan Endosymbionts Following Stimulation of Microbial Metabolism within Subsurface Sediments. Frontiers in Microbiology. (2014) 5:366. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00366.
Roberto Orellana, Janet Leavitt, Luis R. Comolli, Roseann Csencsits, Noemie Janot, Kelly Flanagan, Arianna S. Gray, Ching Leang and Derek R. Lovley. U(VI) Reduction by a Diversity of Outer Surface c-Type Cytochromes of Geobacter sulfurreducens. Applied and Environmental Microbiology (2013) 79: 6369-6374. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02551-13.


L. Giloteaux, D.E. Holmes, K.H. Williams, K.C. Wrighton, M.J. Wilkins, A.P. Montgomery, J.A. Smith, R. Orellana, C.A. Thompson, T.J. Roper, and D.R. Lovley. Characterization and transcription of arsenic respiration and resistance genes during in situ uranium bioremediation. The ISME Journal (2013) 7: 370–383; doi:10.1038/ismej.2012.109.
Derek R. Lovley, Toshiyuki Ueki, Tian Zhang, Nikhil S. Malvankar, Pravin M. Shrestha, Kelly Flanagan, Muktak Aklujkar, Jessica E. Butler, Ludovic Giloteaux, Amelia E. Rotaru, Dawn E. Holmes, Ashley E. Franks, Roberto Orellana, Carla Risso and Kelly P. Nevin. Geobacter: The Microbe Electric’s Physiology, Ecology, and Practical Applications. Advances in Microbial Physiology. (2011). Vol.59, 1-100. ISBN: 978-0-12-387661-4.


Varnero, M.T., C. Rojas and R. Orellana. 2007. Índices de fitotoxicidad en residuos orgánicos durante el compostaje. Rev. Cienc. Suelo Nutr. Veg. 7(1). ISSN 0717-635x.
Varnero, M.T, R. Orellana, C. Rojas, and C. Santibáñez. 2006. Evaluación de especies sensibles a metabolitos fitotóxicos mediante bioensayos de germinación. El Medioambiente en Iberoamérica: Visión desde la Física y la Química en los albores del Siglo XXI. Editor Juan F. Gallardo Lancho. Sociedad Iberoamericana de Física y Química Ambiental. Badajoz, Spain. Volume III, 363 -369.


Rojas, C., R. Orellana, E. Sotomayor y M. Varnero. 2005. Fitotoxicidad de extractos de residuos orgánicos y su efecto sobre el índice de germinación de rabanito y pepino. Rev. Cienc. Suelo Nutr. Veg. 5(2). ISSN 0718-2791.