2026
Sergio Rubin Conor Heins, Lancelot Da Costa, and Karl Friston.
An elementary form of agency at planetary scale.
Submitted
Sergio Rubin, Pasquale Stano, Andrea Roli, and Luisa Damiano
Genealogies of organizational closure: From logical paradox to Life in Mind
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (In Press)
2025
Sergio Rubin, Pasquale Stano, Andrea Roli, and Luisa Damiano
Steps to Chemically Embodied Cognition.
In: Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. Carletti, T., Njougouo, TS., Tuci, E. (eds) WIVACE 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2532.
Springer Nature https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93631-9_7
2024
Sergio Rubin, Pasquale Stano, Andrea Roli, and Luisa Damiano
Sense-Making in Embodied AI–Towards Autopoietic Chemical AI.
In Proceedings of the 28th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: WMSCI 2024 (pp. 85-91)
2023
Sergio Rubin
Cartography of the multiple formal systems of molecular autopoiesis:
from the biology of cognition and enaction to anticipation and active inference.
Biosystems 230: 104955 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104955
Daniele Da Re, Enrico Tordoni, Jonathan Lenoir, Sergio Rubin, Sophie Vanwambeke,
Towards causal relationships for modelling species distribution
Journal of Biogeography. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14775
2022
Sergio Rubin. (2022). Is Natural Drift a Mechanism?.
Constructivist Foundations, 18(1), 112-114. https://constructivist.info/18/1/112
Sergio Rubin and Michel Crucifix.
Taking the Gaia hypothesis at face value
Ecological Complexity, 49, 100981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecocom.2022.100981
2021
Sergio Rubin and Michel Crucifix.
Earth’s Complexity Is Non-Computable: The Limits of Scaling Laws, Nonlinearity and Chaos.
Entropy 23 (7), 915. https://doi.org/10.3390/e23070915
Sergio Rubin, Tomas Veloz, Pedro Maldonado.
Beyond planetary-scale feedback self-regulation: Gaia as an autopoietic system.
Biosystems 199: 104314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104314
Martínez, José M., Cristina Escudero, Nuria Rodríguez, Sergio Rubin, and Ricardo Amils Subsurface and surface halophile communities of the chaotropic Salar de Uyuni. Environmental Microbiology 23(7):3987-4001 https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15411
Alam Sultan, Muhammad Sufaid Khan, Ali Umar, Rozina Khattak, Ivar Zekker, Juris Burlakovs, Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar, Sergio Rubin, et al.
Preparation of Pd–Ni Nanoparticles Supported on Activated Carbon for Efficient Removal of Basic Blue 3 from Water.
Water 13, no. 9: 1211. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13091211
Umar, Ali, Muhammad Sufaid Khan, Sultan Alam, Ivar Zekker, Juris Burlakovs, Sergio Rubin, Gourav Dhar Bhowmick, Anna Kallistova, Nikolai Pimenov, and Muhammad Zahoor.
Synthesis and Characterization of Pd-Ni Bimetallic Nanoparticles as Efficient Adsorbent for the Removal of Acid Orange 8 Present in Wastewater.
Water 13, no. 8: 1095. https://doi.org/10.3390/w13081095
Salma Jabeen, Muhamed Sufaid Khan, Rozina Khattak, Ivar Zekker, Juris Burlakovs, Sergio Rubin, Makarand Madhao Ghangrekar, Anna Kallistova, Nikolai Pimenov, Muhammad Zahoor. Palladium-supported Zirconia-based catalytic degradation of Rhodamine-B dye from wastewater
Water https://doi.org/10.3390/w13111522
2020
Sergio Rubin, Thomas Parr, Lancelot Da Costa, and Karl Friston.
Future climates: Markov blankets and active inference in the biosphere.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, no. 172: 20200503. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0503
C-Z-Quehenberger, Renate, Sergio Rubin, Leyla Kern, and Daniel Tirelli.
Gaia 5.0 – A five-dimensional geometry for the 3D visualization of Earth' climate complexity.
Geoscience Communication Discussions 1-22. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-2020-27
2019
Sergio Rubin, and Crucifix, M. (2019). More than planetary-scale feedback self-regulation: A Biological-centred approach to the Gaia Hypothesis.
EarthArXiv. August 15. Doi:10.31223/osf.io/hs6t9
Ivar Zekker, Aimar Kivirüüt, Ergo Rikmann, Anni Mandel, Madis Jaagura, Toomas Tenno, Oleg Artemchuk, Sergio Rubin, and Taavo Tenno
Enhanced efficiency of nitritating-anammox sequencing batch reactor achieved at low decrease rates of oxidation–reduction potential.
Environmental Engineering Science, 36(3), 350-360. (IF 1.575) https://doi.org/10.1089/ees.2018.0225
María Ramos-Barbero, José M. Martínez, Cristina Almansa, Nuria Rodríguez, Judith Villamor, María Gomariz, Cristina Escudero, Sergio Rubin, Josefa Antón, Manuel Martínez-García, Ricardo Amils
Prokaryotic and viral community structure in the singular chaotropic salt lake Salar de Uyuni.
Environmental Microbiology 21(6): 2029–2042 (IF 6.24) https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14549
2017
Sergio Rubin. From the cellular viewpoint: is DNA Sequence Genetic ‘Information’?
Biosemiotics, Volume 10, Issue 2, pp 247–264 (IF 0.96) https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-017-9303-x
Sergio Rubin, Irma Marin, Patxi San Martin-Uriz, Manuel J. Gomez, Ricardo Amils.
Prokaryotic diversity and community composition in the Salar de Uyuni, a large scale, chaotropic salt flat.
Environmental Microbiology 19(9):3745-3754. (IF 6.24) https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13876
2016
Sergio Rubin. Normal and Pathological Brain Phenotypes from Homeorhetic Epigenetic Landscapes in Natural drift.
Front. Aging Neurosci. 30 Jun 2016 (IF 4.50) doi: 10.3389/conf.fnagi.2016.03.00048
2015
Sergio Rubin Any organic neural network must have noncomputable models
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics 17 Nov 2015 (IF 1.31) doi: 10.3389/conf.fninf.2015.19.00033
Eduardo A. Morales, Sinziana F. Rivera, Sergio Rubin, Morgan L. Vis, and Václav Houk (2015) Aulacoseira kruegeri (Bacillariophyta, Coscinodiscophyceae): a new centric diatom from high-elevation Andean streams of Bolivia Diatom Research Volume 30, Issue 3, July 2015, pages 269-277 (IF 2.02) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0269249X.2015.1076523
Zekker, I.; Rikmann, E.; Tenno, T.; Loorits, L.; Kroon, K.; Vabamäe, P.; Mandel, A.; Raudkivi, M.; Daija, L.; Sergio Rubin.; Tenno, T. (2015). Nitric oxide for anammox recovery in nitrite-inhibited deammonification system. Environmental Technology, Mar 31:1-35. (IF 1.606) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09593330.2015.1034791
2014
Sergio Rubin, Pradeep Alava, Ivar Zekker, Gijs Du Laing and Tom Van de Wiele (2014) Sulphate Reducing Bacteria and the role Arsenic Thiolation in Human Gastrointestinal Tract. Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 122, issue 8, August 2014 doi:10.1289/ehp.1307759 (IF 7.26) http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1307759/
Sergio Rubin Surface Topology Evolution of Trypanosoma Trans-Sialidase.
Subcellular Biochemistry 74:203-16 Chapter 9
In Proteins and Proteomics of Leishmania and Trypanosoma A.L.S Santos et al. (eds) doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-7305-9_9 (IF 1.29)
Ergo Rikmann, Toomas Tenno, Ivar Zekker, Kristel Kroon, Priit Vabamäe, Erik Salo, Liis Loorits, Sergio Rubin, and Taavo Tenno (2014)
Comparison of sulfate-reducing and conventional Anammox upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors.
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering Oct;118(4):426-33. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiosc.2014.03.012 (IF 1.99)
2013
Ivar Zekker, Ergo Rikmann, Toomas Tenno, Kristel Kroon, Priit Vabamäe, Erik Salo, Liis Loorits, Sergio Rubin, Siegfried E. Vlaeminck and Taavo Tenno (2013)
Deammonification process start-up after enrichment of anammox microorganisms from reject water in a moving-bed biofilm reactor
Environmental Technology Nov-Dec;34(21-24):3095-101 (IF 1.606)
2012
Sergio Rubin and Sergio Schenkman (2012).
Trypanosoma cruzi trans-sialidase as a multifuntional enzyme in Chagas’ disease
Cellular Microbiology Volume 14, Issue 10, page 1522-1530 doi: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2012.01831.x (IF 5.56)
2006
Sergio Rubin, Haruki Uemura, Nobuko Yoshida, and Sergio Schenkman
Expression of trypomastigote trans-sialidase in metacyclic forms of Trypanosoma cruzi increases parasite exit the parasitophorous vacuole
Cellular Microbiology Volume 8, Issue 12, Page 1888-1898, doi: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00755.x (IF 5.56)