Participamos en «Pewén dirá la tierra», un documental sobre la Araucaria araucana producido por Duoc UC. / We took part in “Pewén dirá la tierra”, a documentary about the monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) produced by Duoc UC.
Microorganisms are the most abundant life forms on the planet. They are able to colonize and thrive in most environments ranging from the human body to under water thermal vents. In the Castro Lab, we are interested in understanding how microbial communities respond to disturbances, how they maintain diversity, and their role in ecosystem processes. To approach this, we apply molecular microbiology, high-throughput sequencing, computational biology, and field work on microbial communities in situ or in the lab.

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Protocolo para la toma de muestra y extracción de ADN desde biofilm subgingival y submucoso en pacientes con periodontitis o periimplantitis, con purificación mediante kit comercial Zymo Research para análisis de microbioma por secuenciación de ARNr 16S.
Everything you need to connect, transfer data, load software, and submit jobs on the McCartney high-performance computing cluster. Version 0.2.
Interactive web app to generate ready-to-submit SLURM job scripts for the McCartney HPC cluster — supports single-core, multi-core, job arrays, and scratch filesystem.

Participamos en «Pewén dirá la tierra», un documental sobre la Araucaria araucana producido por Duoc UC. / We took part in “Pewén dirá la tierra”, a documentary about the monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) produced by Duoc UC.

Programa completo del curso de posgrado Genes, Genomas y Proteomas (Doctorado en Ciencias, Universidad de Talca): descripción, temario, evaluación, calendario y las 27 lecturas del seminario con sus PDF descargables.

An interactive dashboard to explore the publication record of the Centro de Ecología Integrativa alongside other academic units at Universidad de Talca — search, filter by year, unit, citations, and journal impact, and sort the full paper table on the fly.

A 1,500 km latitudinal transect from Patagonia to the Antarctic Peninsula, sampled across a documented atmospheric-river event (Feb 7–8, 2022). Air, soil, and rhizosphere 16S/ITS combined with ERA5, HYSPLIT, CHIMERE, and FEAST source-apportionment evidence show a phylogenetically broad, terrestrially-sourced Patagonian bioaerosol plume reaching Risopatrón Base — and a baseline of 56% Patagonia attribution in Antarctic-Peninsula air.

Beneath the spectacular waters of Patagonia’s Comau Fjord lives a hidden universe of microbes that regulate our climate, cycle nutrients, and bear the fingerprints of human activity. Here is what we found — and why it matters.