• C1 compounds shape the microbial community of an abandoned century-old oil exploration well 

      Rojas Gätjens, Diego; Fuentes Schweizer, Paola; Rojas Jiménez, Keilor Osvaldo; Pérez Pantoja, Danilo; Avendaño Vega, Roberto; Alpízar Mena, Randall; Coronado Ruiz, Carolina; Chavarría Vargas, Max (2020)
      The search for microorganisms that degrade hydrocarbons is highly relevant because it enables the bioremediation of these substances cheaply and without dangerous by-products. In this work, we studied the microbial communities ...
    • Two new cellulolytic fungal species isolated from a 19th-century art collection 

      Coronado Ruiz, Carolina; Avendaño Vega, Roberto; Escudero Leyva, Efraín; Conejo Barboza, Geraldine; Chaverri Echandi, Priscila; Chavarría Vargas, Max (2018)
      The archive of the Universidad de Costa Rica maintains a nineteenth-century French collection of drawings and lithographs in which the biodeterioration by fungi is rampant. Because of nutritional conditions in which these ...