Actinomycete Chemical Ecology Group


Based in Costa Rica, our group integrates microbiology, genomics, metabolomics and natural products chemistry for the study of actinomycetes and their specialised metabolism.

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Last updated on Aug 20, 2025 1 min read
Metabolomics in Food Science
Metabolomics in Food Science

Douglas participated in the theoretical-practical course ‘Metabolomics in Food Science: From Food Resources to Industrial Processing and Food Intake’, coordinated by Dr Mónica Cala from Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, in collaboration with The Metabolomics Innovation Center (TMIC) in Canada.

Last updated on Aug 21, 2025 1 min read
Prize!
Prize!

Parra was awarded the best flash talk prize at ISBA2025

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Last updated on Aug 21, 2025 1 min read
ISBA 2025
ISBA 2025

Parra participated in the 20th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes that took place in Egmond aan Zee, the Netherlands.

Last updated on May 14, 2025 1 min read
1st Costa Rican Symposium on Metabolomics
1st Costa Rican Symposium on Metabolomics

Our group organised the first Costa Rican symposium on metabolomics. The event seeks to bring together people from academia and government working on topics related to metabolomics. The event was a success and aims to be the first step toward consolidating the Costa Rican metabolomics network.

Apr 7, 2025 1 min read
Welcome Néstor
Welcome Néstor

We received a visit from Dr. Néstor Serna from CB-DAL / Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María as part of a collaboration with Professor Beatriz Cámara.

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Latest Publications

Mitja M. Zdouc, Jonathan Parra Villalobos, ..., Roger G. Linington, Tilmann Weber, Marnix H. Medema (2024). MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration. Zdouc, M. M., Blin, K., Louwen, N. L., Navarro, J., Loureiro, C., Bader, C. D., … & Kang, S. (2025). MIBiG 4.0: advancing biosynthetic gene cluster curation through global collaboration. Nucleic Acids Research, 53(D1), D678-D690..

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Ella F. Poynton, Jeffrey A. Van Santen, Matthew Pin, Marla Macias Contreras, Emily McMann, Jonathan Parra Villalobos, Brandon Showalter, Liana Zaroubi, Katherine R. Duncan, Roger G. Linington (2024). The Natural Products Atlas 3.0: extending the database of microbially derived natural products. Poynton, E. F., van Santen, J. A., Pin, M., Contreras, M. M., McMann, E., Parra, J., … & Linington, R. G. (2025). The Natural Products Atlas 3.0: extending the database of microbially derived natural products. Nucleic Acids Research, 53(D1), D691-D699..

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Bonnie Whatmough, Neil A. Holmes, Barrie Wilkinson, Matthew I. Hutchings​, Jonathan Parra Villalobos, Katherine R. Duncan (2024). Microbe Profile: Pseudonocardia: antibiotics for every niche. Whatmough, B., Holmes, N. A., Wilkinson, B., Hutchings, M. I., Parra, J., & Duncan, K. R. (2024). Microbe Profile: Pseudonocardia: antibiotics for every niche. Microbiology, 170(9), 001501..

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Jonathan Parra Villalobos, Scott A. Jarmusch, Katherine R. Duncan (2024). Multi-omics analysis of antagonistic interactions among free-living Pseudonocardia from diverse ecosystems. Parra, J., Jarmusch, S. A., & Duncan, K. R. (2024). Multi‐omics analysis of antagonistic interactions among free‐living Pseudonocardia from diverse ecosystems. Environmental Microbiology, 26(6), e16635..

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Jonathan Parra Villalobos, Ainsley Beaton, Ryan F. Seipke, Barrie Wilkinson, Matthew I. Hutchings, Katherine R. Duncan (2023). Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces. Parra, J., Beaton, A., Seipke, R. F., Wilkinson, B., Hutchings, M. I., & Duncan, K. R. (2023). Antibiotics from rare actinomycetes, beyond the genus Streptomyces. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 76, 102385..

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