2020
Microbial community structure along a horizontal oxygen gradient in a Costa Rican volcanic influenced acid rock drainage system
Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez, Fernando Puente-Sánchez, Roberto Avendaño, Eduardo Libby, Raúl Mora-Amador, Keilor Rojas Jimenez, María Martínez, Dietmar H. Pieper & Max Chavarría. Microbial community structure along a horizontal oxygen gradient in a Costa Rican volcanic influenced acid rock drainage system. Microbial Ecology. (2020) 80, 793–808. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-020-01530-9
2019
The Bacterial Product Violacein Exerts an Immunostimulatory Effect Via TLR8
Francisco Venegas, Gabriele Köllisch, Kerstin Mark, Wibke Diederich, Andreas Kaufmann, Stefan Bauer, Max Chavarría, Juan Araya, and Alfonso Garcia-Piñeres. The Bacterial Product Violacein Exerts an Immunostimulatory Effect Via TLR8. Scientific Reports (2019) 9:13661.
2019
Phylogenetic analyses of antibiotic-producing Streptomyces sp. isolates obtained from the stingless-bee Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae, Meliponini).
Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs, Bernal Matarrita-Carranza, Catalina Murillo-Cruz, Emanuel Araya-Valverde, Max Chavarría & Adrian Pinto-Tomás. Phylogenetic analyses of antibiotic-producing Streptomyces sp. isolates obtained from the stingless-bee Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae, Meliponini). Microbiology (2019) 165 (3): 292-301.
2019
Thermoplasmatales and sulfur‑oxidizing bacteria dominate the microbial community at the surface water of a CO 2 ‑rich hydrothermal spring located in Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica
Alejandro Arce‑Rodríguez, Fernando Puente‑Sánchez, Roberto Avendaño, María Martínez‑Cruz, J. Maarten de Moor, Dietmar H. Pieper & Max Chavarría. Thermoplasmatales and sulfur‑oxidizing bacteria dominate the microbial community at the surface water of a CO 2 ‑rich hydrothermal spring located in Tenorio Volcano National Park, Costa Rica. Extremophiles (2019) 23 (2): 177-187.
2019
The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society
Kenneth Timmis, Ricardo Cavicchioli, José Luis Garcia, Balbina Nogales, Max Chavarría, Lisa Stein, Terry J. McGenity, Nicole Webster, Brajesh Singh, Jo Handelsman, Victor de Lorenzo, Carla Pruzzo, James Timmis, Juan Luis Ramos Martín, Willy Verstraete, Mike Jetten, Antoine Danchin, Wei Huang, Jack Gilbert, Rup Lal, Helena Santos, Sang Yup Lee, Angela Sessitsch, Paola Bonfante, Lone Gram, Raymond T. P. Lin, Eliora Ron, Ceren Karahan, Jan Roelof van der Meer, Seza Artunkal, Dieter Jahn & Lucy Harper. The urgent need for microbiology literacy in society. Environ. Microbiol. (2019) 21 (5): 1513-1528.
2019
Phenolic variation among Chamaecrista nictitans subspecies and varieties revealed through UPLC-ESI(-)-MS/MS chemical fingerprinting
Luis Quirós-Guerrero, Federico Albertazzi, Emanuel Araya Valverde, Rosaura M. Romero, Heidy Villalobos, Luis Poveda, Max Chavarría, & Giselle Tamayo-Castillo. Phenolic variation among Chamaecrista nictitans subspecies and varieties revealed through UPLC-ESI(-)-MS/MS chemical fingerprinting. Metabolomics (2019) 15:14.
2019
Field performance of hermaphrodite papaya plants molecularly-sexed and micropropagated
Emanuel Araya-Valverde, Antonio Bogantes, Andrea Holst, Cristian Vargas-Mora, Luis Gómez-Alpízar, Arturo Brenes, Elodia Sánchez-Barrantes, Max Chavarría, Luis Barboza- Barquero. Field performance of hermaphrodite papaya plants molecularly-sexed and micropropagated. Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology. (2019) 19(4):420-427.
2018
Two new cellulolytic fungal species isolated from a 19th-century art collection
Carolina Coronado-Ruíz, Roberto Avendaño, Efraín Escudero Leyva, Geraldine Conejo-Barboza, Priscila Chaverri & Max Chavarría. Two new cellulolytic fungal species isolated from a 19th-century art collection. Scientific Reports. (2018) 8: 7492.
2018
The imbroglio of the physiological Cra effector clarified at last
Max Chavarría & Víctor de Lorenzo. The imbroglio of the physiological Cra effector clarified at last. Molecular Microbiology. (2018) 109 (3): 273-277.
2017
Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes
Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez, Fernando Puente-Sánchez, Roberto Avendaño, Eduardo Libby, Leonardo Rojas, Juan Carlos Cambronero, Dietmar H Pieper, Kenneth N Timmis, Max Chavarría. Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes. Extremophiles. (2017) 21:235-243.
2016
Canine Distemper Virus in Wild Felids of Costa Rica
Roberto Avendaño, Flor Barrueta, Sofía Soto-Fournier, Max Chavarría, Otto Monge, Gustavo A Gutiérrez-Espeleta & Andrea Chaves. Canine Distemper Virus in Wild Felids of Costa Rica. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. (2016) 52 (2):373-377.
2016
Antibacterial biocomposite materials based on essential oils embedded in sol–gel hybrid silica matrices
Osvaldo Vega, Juan J Araya, Max Chavarría & Erick Castellón. Antibacterial biocomposite materials based on essential oils embedded in sol–gel hybrid silica matrices. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. (2016) 79 (3): 584-595.