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We received a visit from Dr Fernanda Claverias from CB-DAL / Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María as part of a collaboration with Professor Beatriz Cámara. Fernanda received a travel grant from UNU-BIOLAC to complete an internship in our laboratory.

Mariana represented our group at the 4th Latin American Congress on Microbial Ecology, ISMELAT2025, held in Mexico. She presented the progress of her thesis project on actinomycetes isolated from beach sand and their putative role in controlling fungi that affect turtle eggs.

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.

Melissa represented our group at FEMS MICRO Milan 2025. She presented the progress of her thesis project on endophytic actinomycetes for the control of fungal diseases in rice crops.

Parra was awarded the best flash talk prize at ISBA2025

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

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.

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.

Douglas completed an internship at the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA), where he worked on high-resolution mass spectrometry techniques applied to environmental chemistry.

Douglas represented our group at V LAMPS Montevideo 2024. Douglas introduced IQ, a molecular network-based chemical novelty index for prioritizing samples using untargeted metabolomics