Max Chavarría

Affiliations

Centro Nacional de Innovaciones Biotecnológicas (CENIBiot), CeNAT-CONARE, San José, 1174-1200, Costa Rica. max.chavarria@ucr.ac.cr.
Escuela de Química, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica. max.chavarria@ucr.ac.cr.
Centro de Investigaciones en Productos Naturales (CIPRONA), Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede Central, San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, 11501-2060, Costa Rica. max.chavarria@ucr.ac.cr.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5901-3576

Publications (28)

Microbial Community Structure Along a Horizontal Oxygen Gradient in a Costa Rican Volcanic Influenced Acid Rock Drainage System.

Microbial ecology

Avec: Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez , Fernando Puente-Sánchez , Roberto Avendaño , Eduardo Libby , Raúl Mora-Amador , Keilor Rojas-Jimenez , María Martínez , Dietmar H Pieper , Max Chavarría

The Bacterial Product Violacein Exerts an Immunostimulatory Effect Via TLR8.

Scientific reports

Avec: Francisco A Venegas , Gabriele Köllisch , Kerstin Mark , Wibke E Diederich , Andreas Kaufmann , Stefan Bauer , Max Chavarría , Juan J Araya , Alfonso J García-Piñeres

Special Issue: Diversity of Extremophiles in Time and Space.

Microorganisms

Avec: Fernando Puente-Sánchez , Max Chavarría

Bocaparvovirus, Erythroparvovirus and Tetraparvovirus in New World Primates from Central America.

Transboundary and emerging diseases

Avec: Andrea Chaves , Carlos N Ibarra-Cerdeña , Andrés M López-Pérez , Otto Monge , Roberto Avendaño , Hilary Ureña-Saborio , Max Chavarría , Karla Zaldaña , Lucía Sánchez , Edgar Ortíz-Malavassi , Gerardo Suzan , Janet Foley , Gustavo A Gutiérrez-Espeleta

Reconfiguration of metabolic fluxes in Pseudomonas putida as a response to sub-lethal oxidative stress.

The ISME journal

Avec: Pablo I Nikel , Tobias Fuhrer , Max Chavarría , Alberto Sánchez-Pascuala , Uwe Sauer , Víctor de Lorenzo

Methylotrophs and Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria Are Key Players in the Microbial Community of an Abandoned Century-Old Oil Exploration Well.

Microbial ecology

Avec: Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Paola Fuentes-Schweizer , Keilor Rojas-Jiménez , Danilo Pérez-Pantoja , Roberto Avendaño , Randall Alpízar , Carolina Coronado-Ruíz , Max Chavarría

Streptomyces sp. M54: an actinobacteria associated with a neotropical social wasp with high potential for antibiotic production.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Avec: Bernal Matarrita-Carranza , Catalina Murillo-Cruz , Roberto Avendaño , María Isabel Ríos , Max Chavarría , María Luisa Gómez-Calvo , Giselle Tamayo-Castillo , Juan J Araya , Adrián A Pinto-Tomás

Out of the blue: the independent activity of sulfur-oxidizers and diatoms mediate the sudden color shift of a tropical river.

Environmental microbiome

Avec: Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez , Eduardo Libby , Erick Castellón , Roberto Avendaño , Juan Carlos Cambronero , Maribel Vargas , Dietmar H Pieper , Stefan Bertilsson , Max Chavarría , Fernando Puente-Sánchez

Low CyaA expression and anti-cooperative binding of cAMP to CRP frames the scope of the cognate regulon of Pseudomonas putida.

Environmental microbiology

Avec: Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez , Pablo I Nikel , Belén Calles , Max Chavarría , Raúl Platero , Tino Krell , Victor de Lorenzo

Phenolic variation among Chamaecrista nictitans subspecies and varieties revealed through UPLC-ESI(-)-MS/MS chemical fingerprinting.

Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society

Avec: Luis Quirós-Guerrero , Federico Albertazzi , Emanuel Araya-Valverde , Rosaura M Romero , Heidy Villalobos , Luis Poveda , Max Chavarría , Giselle Tamayo-Castillo

Thermoplasmatales and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria dominate the microbial community at the surface water of a CO

Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions

Avec: Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez , Fernando Puente-Sánchez , Roberto Avendaño , María Martínez-Cruz , J Maarten de Moor , Dietmar H Pieper , Max Chavarría

The potential of Pseudomonas for bioremediation of oxyanions.

Environmental microbiology reports

Avec: Sofía Vieto , Diego Rojas-Gätjens , José I Jiménez , Max Chavarría

Biodeterioration and cellulolytic activity by fungi isolated from a nineteenth-century painting at the National Theatre of Costa Rica.

Fungal biology

Avec: Sofía Vieto , Efraín Escudero-Leyva , Roberto Avendaño , Noelia Rechnitzer , Melissa D Barrantes-Madrigal , Geraldine Conejo-Barboza , Oscar A Herrera-Sancho , Priscila Chaverri , Max Chavarría

A concept for international societally relevant microbiology education and microbiology knowledge promulgation in society.

Microbial biotechnology

Avec: Kenneth Timmis , John E Hallsworth , Terry J McGenity , Rachel Armstrong , María Francisca Colom , Zeynep Ceren Karahan , Max Chavarría , Patricia Bernal , Eric S Boyd , Juan Luis Ramos , Martin Kaltenpoth , Carla Pruzzo , Gerard Clarke , Purificación López-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 K 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 A Gilbert , Thomas K Wood , Branka Vasiljevic , Mario Soberón , 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 Erten , Elaine Cristina Pereira de Martinis , Alexander Rapoport , Maarja Öpik , W Donald R Pokatong , Courtney Stairs , Mohammad Ali Amoozegar , Jéssica Gil Serna

Fungi with history: Unveiling the mycobiota of historic documents of Costa Rica.

PloS one

Avec: Efraín Escudero-Leyva , Sofía Vieto , Roberto Avendaño , Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Paola Agüero , Carlos Pacheco , Mavis L Montero , Priscila Chaverri , Max Chavarría

ArsH protects Pseudomonas putida from oxidative damage caused by exposure to arsenic.

Environmental microbiology

Avec: A David Páez-Espino , Pablo I Nikel , Max Chavarría , Víctor de Lorenzo

Visualizing the invisible: class excursions to ignite children's enthusiasm for microbes.

Microbial biotechnology

Avec: Terry J McGenity , Amare Gessesse , John E Hallsworth , Esther Garcia Cela , Carol Verheecke-Vaessen , Fengping Wang , Max Chavarría , Max M Haggblom , Søren Molin , Antoine Danchin , Eddy J Smid , Cédric Lood , Charles S Cockell , Corinne Whitby , Shuang-Jiang Liu , Nancy P Keller , Lisa Y Stein , Seth R Bordenstein , Rup Lal , Olga C Nunes , Lone Gram , Brajesh K Singh , Nicole S Webster , Cindy Morris , Sharon Sivinski , Saskia Bindschedler , Pilar Junier , André Antunes , Bonnie K Baxter , Paola Scavone , Kenneth Timmis

Transcriptional control of 2,4-dinitrotoluene degradation in Burkholderia sp. R34 bears a regulatory patch that eases pathway evolution.

Environmental microbiology

Avec: Danilo Pérez-Pantoja , Pablo I Nikel , Max Chavarría , Víctor de Lorenzo

Antibiotic-producing Micrococcales govern the microbiome that inhabits the fur of two- and three-toed sloths.

Environmental microbiology

Avec: Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Katherine S Valverde-Madrigal , Keilor Rojas-Jimenez , Reinaldo Pereira , Judy Avey-Arroyo , Max Chavarría

Differences in fungal communities in the fur of two- and three-toed sloths revealed by ITS metabarcoding.

Microbiology (Reading, England)

Avec: Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Judy Avey-Arroyo , Priscila Chaverri , Keilor Rojas-Jimenez , Max Chavarría

Phylogenetic analyses of antibiotic-producing Streptomyces sp. isolates obtained from the stingless-bee Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae: Meliponini).

Microbiology (Reading, England)

Avec: Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs , Bernal Matarrita-Carranza , Catalina Murillo-Cruz , Emanuel Araya-Valverde , Max Chavarría , Adrián A Pinto-Tomás

The putative phosphate transporter PitB (PP1373) is involved in tellurite uptake in

Microbiology (Reading, England)

Avec: Rafael Montenegro , Sofía Vieto , Daniela Wicki-Emmenegger , Felipe Vásquez-Castro , Carolina Coronado-Ruiz , Paola Fuentes-Schweizer , Paula Calderón , Reinaldo Pereira , Max Chavarría

Concomitant prediction of environmental fate and toxicity of chemical compounds.

Biology methods & protocols

Avec: Juan Antonio Garcia-Martin , Max Chavarría , Victor de Lorenzo , Florencio Pazos

Temperature and elemental sulfur shape microbial communities in two extremely acidic aquatic volcanic environments.

Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions

Avec: Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez , Fernando Puente-Sánchez , Roberto Avendaño , Eduardo Libby , Raúl Mora-Amador , Keilor Rojas-Jimenez , Paola Fuentes-Schweizer , Dietmar H Pieper , Max Chavarría

Production of selenium nanoparticles occurs through an interconnected pathway of sulphur metabolism and oxidative stress response in Pseudomonas putida KT2440.

Microbial biotechnology

Avec: Roberto Avendaño , Said Muñoz-Montero , Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Paola Fuentes-Schweizer , Sofía Vieto , Rafael Montenegro , Manuel Salvador , Rufus Frew , Juhyun Kim , Max Chavarría , Jose I Jiménez

Draft genome sequence of three hydrocarbon-degrading

Microbiology resource announcements

Avec: Jefferson Camacho , Esteve Mesén-Porras , Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Danilo Pérez-Pantoja , Fernando Puente-Sánchez , Max Chavarría

Highly abundant bacteria in the gut of Triatoma dimidiata (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) can inhibit the growth of Trypanosoma cruzi (Kinetoplastea: Trypanosomatidae).

Journal of medical entomology

Avec: Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs , Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Mónica Baizán , Johan Alvarado-Ocampo , Keilor Rojas-Jimenez , Randall Loaiza , Max Chavarría , Ólger Calderón-Arguedas , Adriana Troyo

Venom-microbiomics of eight species of Neotropical spiders from the Theraphosidae family.

Journal of applied microbiology

Avec: Carlos Viquez , Diego Rojas-Gätjens , Esteve Mesén-Porras , Roberto Avendaño , Mahmood Sasa , Bruno Lomonte , Max Chavarría

Réseau de co-auteurs

Roberto Avendaño 11 collaborations

Diego Rojas-Gätjens 10 collaborations

Fernando Puente-Sánchez 6 collaborations

Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez 5 collaborations

Keilor Rojas-Jimenez 5 collaborations

Sofía Vieto 5 collaborations

Dietmar H Pieper 4 collaborations

Pablo I Nikel 4 collaborations

Paola Fuentes-Schweizer 4 collaborations

Eduardo Libby 3 collaborations

Víctor de Lorenzo 3 collaborations

Danilo Pérez-Pantoja 3 collaborations

Priscila Chaverri 3 collaborations

Raúl Mora-Amador 2 collaborations

Juan J Araya 2 collaborations

Bernal Matarrita-Carranza 2 collaborations

Catalina Murillo-Cruz 2 collaborations

Giselle Tamayo-Castillo 2 collaborations

Adrián A Pinto-Tomás 2 collaborations

Victor de Lorenzo 2 collaborations

Emanuel Araya-Valverde 2 collaborations

Efraín Escudero-Leyva 2 collaborations

Kenneth Timmis 2 collaborations

John E Hallsworth 2 collaborations

Terry J McGenity 2 collaborations

Olga C Nunes 2 collaborations

Paola Scavone 2 collaborations

Rup Lal 2 collaborations

Fengping Wang 2 collaborations

Søren Molin 2 collaborations

Pilar Junier 2 collaborations

Reinaldo Pereira 2 collaborations

Judy Avey-Arroyo 2 collaborations

Juan Carlos Cambronero-Heinrichs 2 collaborations

Rafael Montenegro 2 collaborations

Esteve Mesén-Porras 2 collaborations

María Martínez 1 collaboration

Francisco A Venegas 1 collaboration

Gabriele Köllisch 1 collaboration

Kerstin Mark 1 collaboration

Wibke E Diederich 1 collaboration

Andreas Kaufmann 1 collaboration

Stefan Bauer 1 collaboration

Alfonso J García-Piñeres 1 collaboration

Andrea Chaves 1 collaboration

Carlos N Ibarra-Cerdeña 1 collaboration

Andrés M López-Pérez 1 collaboration

Otto Monge 1 collaboration

Hilary Ureña-Saborio 1 collaboration

Karla Zaldaña 1 collaboration

Lucía Sánchez 1 collaboration

Edgar Ortíz-Malavassi 1 collaboration

Gerardo Suzan 1 collaboration

Janet Foley 1 collaboration

Gustavo A Gutiérrez-Espeleta 1 collaboration

Tobias Fuhrer 1 collaboration

Alberto Sánchez-Pascuala 1 collaboration

Uwe Sauer 1 collaboration

Keilor Rojas-Jiménez 1 collaboration

Randall Alpízar 1 collaboration

Carolina Coronado-Ruíz 1 collaboration

María Isabel Ríos 1 collaboration

María Luisa Gómez-Calvo 1 collaboration

Erick Castellón 1 collaboration

Juan Carlos Cambronero 1 collaboration

Maribel Vargas 1 collaboration

Stefan Bertilsson 1 collaboration

Belén Calles 1 collaboration

Raúl Platero 1 collaboration

Tino Krell 1 collaboration

Luis Quirós-Guerrero 1 collaboration

Federico Albertazzi 1 collaboration

Rosaura M Romero 1 collaboration

Heidy Villalobos 1 collaboration

Luis Poveda 1 collaboration

María Martínez-Cruz 1 collaboration

J Maarten de Moor 1 collaboration

José I Jiménez 1 collaboration

Noelia Rechnitzer 1 collaboration

Melissa D Barrantes-Madrigal 1 collaboration

Geraldine Conejo-Barboza 1 collaboration

Oscar A Herrera-Sancho 1 collaboration

Rachel Armstrong 1 collaboration

María Francisca Colom 1 collaboration

Zeynep Ceren Karahan 1 collaboration

Patricia Bernal 1 collaboration

Eric S Boyd 1 collaboration

Juan Luis Ramos 1 collaboration

Martin Kaltenpoth 1 collaboration

Carla Pruzzo 1 collaboration

Gerard Clarke 1 collaboration

Purificación López-Garcia 1 collaboration

Michail M Yakimov 1 collaboration

Jessamyn Perlmutter 1 collaboration

Chris Greening 1 collaboration

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh 1 collaboration

Willy Verstraete 1 collaboration

Oleg Kotsyurbenko 1 collaboration

Pablo Iván Nikel 1 collaboration

Max M Häggblom 1 collaboration

Rob Lavigne 1 collaboration

Frédérique Le Roux 1 collaboration

James K Timmis 1 collaboration

Victor Parro 1 collaboration

Carmen Michán 1 collaboration

José Luis García 1 collaboration

Arturo Casadevall 1 collaboration

Shelley M Payne 1 collaboration

Joachim Frey 1 collaboration

Omry Koren 1 collaboration

James I Prosser 1 collaboration

Leo Lahti 1 collaboration

Shailly Anand 1 collaboration

Utkarsh Sood 1 collaboration

Pierre Offre 1 collaboration

Casey C Bryce 1 collaboration

Allen Y Mswaka 1 collaboration

Jörg Jores 1 collaboration

Betül Kaçar 1 collaboration

Lars Mathias Blank 1 collaboration

Nicole Maaßen 1 collaboration

Phillip B Pope 1 collaboration

Horia L Banciu 1 collaboration

Judith Armitage 1 collaboration

Sang Yup Lee 1 collaboration

Thulani P Makhalanyane 1 collaboration

Jack A Gilbert 1 collaboration

Thomas K Wood 1 collaboration

Branka Vasiljevic 1 collaboration

Mario Soberón 1 collaboration

Zulema Udaondo 1 collaboration

Fernando Rojo 1 collaboration

Jyoti Prakash Tamang 1 collaboration

Tatiana Giraud 1 collaboration

Jeanne Ropars 1 collaboration

Thaddeus Ezeji 1 collaboration

Volker Müller 1 collaboration

Hirofume Danbara 1 collaboration

Beate Averhoff 1 collaboration

Angela Sessitsch 1 collaboration

Laila Pamela Partida-Martínez 1 collaboration

Wei Huang 1 collaboration

Ricardo Amils 1 collaboration

Xiao-Lei Wu 1 collaboration

Eliora Ron 1 collaboration

Huseyin Erten 1 collaboration

Elaine Cristina Pereira de Martinis 1 collaboration

Alexander Rapoport 1 collaboration

Maarja Öpik 1 collaboration

W Donald R Pokatong 1 collaboration

Courtney Stairs 1 collaboration

Mohammad Ali Amoozegar 1 collaboration

Jéssica Gil Serna 1 collaboration

Paola Agüero 1 collaboration

Carlos Pacheco 1 collaboration

Mavis L Montero 1 collaboration

A David Páez-Espino 1 collaboration

Amare Gessesse 1 collaboration

Esther Garcia Cela 1 collaboration

Carol Verheecke-Vaessen 1 collaboration

Max M Haggblom 1 collaboration

Antoine Danchin 1 collaboration

Eddy J Smid 1 collaboration

Cédric Lood 1 collaboration

Charles S Cockell 1 collaboration

Corinne Whitby 1 collaboration

Shuang-Jiang Liu 1 collaboration

Nancy P Keller 1 collaboration

Lisa Y Stein 1 collaboration

Seth R Bordenstein 1 collaboration

Lone Gram 1 collaboration

Brajesh K Singh 1 collaboration

Nicole S Webster 1 collaboration

Cindy Morris 1 collaboration

Sharon Sivinski 1 collaboration

Saskia Bindschedler 1 collaboration

André Antunes 1 collaboration

Bonnie K Baxter 1 collaboration

Katherine S Valverde-Madrigal 1 collaboration

Daniela Wicki-Emmenegger 1 collaboration

Felipe Vásquez-Castro 1 collaboration

Carolina Coronado-Ruiz 1 collaboration

Paula Calderón 1 collaboration

Juan Antonio Garcia-Martin 1 collaboration

Florencio Pazos 1 collaboration

Said Muñoz-Montero 1 collaboration

Manuel Salvador 1 collaboration

Rufus Frew 1 collaboration

Juhyun Kim 1 collaboration

Jose I Jiménez 1 collaboration

Jefferson Camacho 1 collaboration

Mónica Baizán 1 collaboration

Johan Alvarado-Ocampo 1 collaboration

Randall Loaiza 1 collaboration

Ólger Calderón-Arguedas 1 collaboration

Adriana Troyo 1 collaboration

Carlos Viquez 1 collaboration

Mahmood Sasa 1 collaboration

Bruno Lomonte 1 collaboration