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Cyanobacteria attack rocks control and
preventive strategies to avoid damage caused by
cyanobacteria and associated microorganisms in
Roman hypogean monuments

• OBJECTIVES
• to characterise the geological, geo and
  hydrochemical, and physical environment of rocks
  unaffected or colonised by cyanobacterial
  communities inside Roman hypogea, and to evaluate
  possible preferences of cyanobacteria and
  associated microorganisms for specific
  lithologies
• to describe the architecture and functioning of
  biofilms built by cyanobacteria and associated
  microorganisms on different types of lithic
  surfaces
• to ascertain the most critical physical, chemical
  and biological factors that control colonisation
  of rock surfaces
• to assess and quantify the damage caused by
  cyanobacterial biofilms to different types of
  surface
• to develop new physical methods to control and
  prevent biofilm growth using wavelengths in the
  visible part of the light spectrum that are, at
  best, poorly used by photosynthesis
• to identify siderophores and cell-to-cell
  signalling biomolecules and experimentally to
  test their potential to interfere with biofilm
  development
• to develop an innovative monitoring method using
  a multiparametric microsensor device for the
  measurement of biogeochemical parameters on
  endangered rock surfaces
• to test the response and expectation of citizens
  to the innovative strategies proposed.

SAMPLING SITES CATACOMBS OF St. CALLISTUS
(Rome, Italy) CATACOMBS OF DOMITILLA (Rome,
Italy) CAVES OF BATS (Zuheros, Spain)
MICROORGANISMS ANAEROBS / S-, N-AUTOTROPHS
HETEROTROPHS ACTINOMYCETES/CORYNEFORMS
FUNGI CYANOBACTERIA / ALGAE AIRBORNE
MICROORGANISMS

• PARTICIPANTS
• UNIVERSITY OF ROME Tor Vergata (I), Department
  of Biology
• UNIVERSITY OF ROME Tor Vergata (I), Department
  of Chemical Sciences and Technologies
• COUNCIL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (ES), Institute
  of Natural Resources and Agrobiology
• UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA (ES), Department of
  Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy
• UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA (I), Department of
  Microbiological, Genetic and Molecular Sciences
• HANS-KNÖLL-INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL PRODUCT RESEARCH
  (DE), Department of Molecular Natural Product
  Research
• VTT BIOTECHNOLOGY (FI), Microbiology
• UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA (UK), School of Biological
  Sciences
• IDRONAUT S.r.l. (I)
• PONTIFICIA COMMISSIONE DI ARCHEOLOGIA SACRA (CdV)

CONTACTS P. Albertano, tel. [phone],
fax [phone], e-mail albertano_at_uniroma2.it