Publications

Viquez C, Rojas-Gätjens D, Mesén-Porras E, Avendaño R, Sasa M, Lomonte B, Chavarría M. Venom-microbiomics of eight species of Neotropical spiders from the Theraphosidae family. J Appl Microbiol. 2024;135(5):lxae113

Camacho J, Mesén-Porras E, Rojas-Gätjens D, Pérez-Pantoja D, Puente-Sánchez F, Chavarría M. Draft genome sequence of three hydrocarbon-degrading Pseudomonadota strains isolated from an abandoned century-old oil exploration well. Microbiol Resour Announc (2024) 13:e01076-23. https://doi.org/10.1128/mra.01076-23

Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs, Diego Rojas-Gätjens, Mónica Baizán, Johan Alvarado-Ocampo, Keilor Rojas-Jimenez, Randall Loaiza, Max Chavarría, Ólger Calderón-Arguedas, Adriana Troyo, Highly abundant bacteria in the gut of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) can inhibit the growth of Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae), Journal of Medical Entomology, 2024; tjae012, https://doi.org/10.1093/jme/tjae012

Kenneth Timmis, John E. Hallsworth, Terry J. McGenity, Rachel Armstrong, María Francisca Colom Valiente, Zeynep Ceren Karahan, Max Chavarría, Patricia Bernal, Eric S. Boyd, Juan Luis Ramos, Martin Kaltenpoth, Carla Pruzzo, Gerard Clarke, Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, Michail M. Yakimov, Jessamyn Perlmutter, Chris Greening, Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh, Willy Verstraete, Olga C. Nunes, Oleg Kotsyurbenko, Pablo Iván Nikel, Paola Scavone, Max M. Häggblom, Rob Lavigne, Frédérique Le Roux, James Timmis, Victor Parro, Carmen Michán, José Luis García, Arturo Casadevall, Shelley M. Payne, Joachim Frey, Omry Koren, James I. Prosser, Leo Lahti, Rup Lal, Shailly Anand, Utkarsh Sood, Pierre Offre, Casey C. Bryce, Allen Y. Mswaka, Jörg Jores, Betül Kaçar, Lars Mathias Blank, Nicole Maaßen, Phillip B. Pope, Horia L. Banciu, Judith Armitage, Sang Yup Lee, Fengping Wang, Thulani P. Makhalanyane, Jack Gilbert, Thomas K. Wood, Branka Vasiljevic, Mario Soberon, Zulema Udaondo, Fernando Rojo, Jyoti Prakash Tamang, Tatiana Giraud, Jeanne Ropars, Thaddeus Ezeji, Volker Müller, Hirofume Danbara, Beate Averhoff, Angela Sessitsch, Laila Pamela Partida-Martínez, Wei Huang, Søren Molin, Pilar Junier, Ricardo Amils, Xiao-Lei Wu, Eliora Ron, Huseyin Herten, Elaine Cristina Pereira de Martinis, Alexander Rapoport, Maarja Opik, W. Donald R. Pokatong, Courtney Stairs, Mohammad Ali Amoozegar, Jéssica Gil Serna. A concept for international societally-relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society. Microbial Biotechnology 2024;17(5):e14456. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.14456

Efraín Escudero-Leyva, Sofía Vieto, Roberto Avendaño, Diego Rojas-Gätjens, Paola Agüero, Carlos Pacheco, Mavis L Montero, Priscila Chaverri, Max Chavarría. Fungi with history: Unveiling the mycobiota of historic documents of Costa Rica. PLoS ONE (2023) 18(1): e0279914. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279914.

Roberto Avendaño, Said Muñoz-Montero, Diego Rojas-Gätjens, Paola Fuentes-Schweizer, Sofía Vieto, Rafael Montenegro, Manuel Salvador, Rufus Frew, Juhyun Kim, Max Chavarría and Jose I. Jiménez. Production of selenium nanoparticles occurs through an interconnected pathway of sulfur metabolism and oxidative stress response in Pseudomonas putida KT2440. MicrobialBiotechnology (2023) https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14215.

Diego Rojas-Gätjens, Judy Avey-Arroyo, Priscila Chaverri, Keilor Rojas-Jimenez, Max Chavarría. Differences in fungal communities in the fur of two-and three-toed sloths revealed by ITS metabarcoding. Microbiology (2023) 169 (2): 001309. https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001309

Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez, Eduardo Libby, Erick Castellón, Roberto Avendaño, Juan Carlos Cambronero, Maribel Vargas, Dietmar H Pieper, Stefan Bertilsson, Max Chavarría, Fernando Puente-Sánchez. Out of the blue: the independent activity of sulfur-oxidizers and diatoms mediate the sudden color shift of a tropical river. Environmental Microbiome  (2023) 18, 6. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-023-00464-2

Sofía Vieto, Efraín Escudero-Leyva, Roberto Avendaño, Noelia Rechnitzer, M.D. Barrantes-Madrigal, Geraldine Conejo-Barboza, O.A. Herrera-Sancho, Priscila Chaverri & Max Chavarría. Myxospora theatro: a new cellulolytic species isolated from a nineteenth-century painting from National Theatre of Costa Rica. Fungal Biology (2022) 126 (2): 101-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2021.11.001.

Mónica Rojas-Gómez, Jose Pablo Jiménez-Madrigal, Maripaz Montero-Vargas, Randall Loaiza-Montoya, Max Chavarría, Esteban Meneses, Eric J Fuchs. A Draft Genome Assembly of “Cas” (Psidium Friedrichsthalianum (O. Berg) Nied): An Indigenous Crop of Costa Rica Untapped. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2022) 69, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-021-01291-5

Diego Rojas-Gätjens, Katherine J. Valverde-Madrigal, Keilor Rojas-Jimenez, Reinaldo Pereira & Max Chavarría. Antibiotic-producing Micrococcales govern the microbiome that inhabits the fur of two- and three-toed sloths. Environmental Microbiology (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16082.

Godofredo Solano, Diego Rojas-Gätjens, Keilor Rojas-Jimenez, Max Chavarría, Rosaura M Romero. Biodegradation of Plastics at Home Composting Conditions. Environmental Challenges (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100500.