Section I: Geology, Hydrology, and Paleontology 1. The geological framework of the Río Tinto: The largest accumulation of sulfides in the Earth crust 2. Sedimentology and geobiology of Río Tinto 3. Hydrogeological and hydrogeochemical characteristics of the source of the Río Tinto 4. Paleontology of Río Tinto Section II. Microbial and Eukaryotic Diversity 5. Prokaryotic diversity along the Río Tinto 6. Microbial biodiversity in the anoxic sediments of Río Tinto 7.

Acidophilic cyanobacteria in the Tinto basin 8. Cyanobacteria in the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt 9. Eukaryotic diversity along the Tinto basin 10. Fungal diversity in the Tinto basin 11. Vegetation associated to an extreme acidic river with high metal content, Río Tinto 12. Río Tinto virology Section III. Río Tinto as a Mars Terrestrial Analogue 13. Mineralogical and geochemical characterization of Río Tinto using combined spectroscopic methods: implications for exploration of Mars 14.

Methanogenesis in a Mars terrestrial analogue 15. From Río Tinto to Mars: Investigating potential microbial metabolisms and their signatures 16. Technology developments for the characterization of the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt and Mars Section IV. Geomicrobiology: Fundamentals and Applications 17. Origin of Río Tinto, anaerobic oxidation of iron in the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt 18. Biogeochemical cycles operating in the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt 19. Retrotranscriptomic analysis of the Tinto basin to understand polyextremicity 20. Biotechnological applications of the biodiversity existing in the Tinto basin 21.

Vitamin B12 in the deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt.