{"id":2313,"date":"2025-04-21T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anc.cr\/?page_id=2313"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T16:21:05","slug":"maria-laura-arias-echandi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.anc.cr\/en\/maria-laura-arias-echandi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Laura Arias Echandi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-ca2b64f2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mar\u00eda Laura Arias Echandi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presidente- Academia Nacional de Ciencias<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Exvicerrectora de Investigaci\u00f3n de la Universidad de Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Investigadora, Escuela de Microbiolog\u00eda, Universidad de Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\"><figure style=\"width:500px;height:500px\" class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"296\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anc.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-62.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"height:500px;object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anc.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-62.png 296w, https:\/\/www.anc.cr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/image-62-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mar\u00eda Laura obtuvo su Licenciatura en Microbiolog\u00eda y Qu\u00edmica Cl\u00ednica en la UCR y luego se gradu\u00f3 de una Maestr\u00eda en Ciencias Biom\u00e9dicas en el Instituto Karolinska en Estocolmo, Suecia.&nbsp; Su experiencia acad\u00e9mica de 30 a\u00f1os dentro de la UCR la llev\u00f3 a ser catedr\u00e1tica y ocupar&nbsp; el puesto de directora del Laboratorio de Microbiolog\u00eda de Alimentos y el Laboratorio de Microbiolog\u00eda de Aguas, en la Escuela de Microbiolog\u00eda de ese mismo centro de estudios. Junto a su formaci\u00f3n docente, tambi\u00e9n ha supervisado y entrenado a estudiantes de pregrado, grado y posgrado.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">El quehacer y la obra cient\u00edfica de Mar\u00eda Laura Arias se ha centrado en el comportamiento de bacterias en los alimentos y en la inocuidad alimentaria. Tiene una amplia trayectoria como microbi\u00f3loga que respalda con m\u00e1s de 100 publicaciones cient\u00edficas en revistas nacionales e internacionales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Su proyecto m\u00e1s importante es la creaci\u00f3n del Laboratorio de Microbiolog\u00eda de Aguas y Alimentos de la Facultad de Microbiolog\u00eda y su acreditaci\u00f3n ante el Ente Costarricense de Acreditaci\u00f3n (ECA). Este laboratorio ofrece servicios de an\u00e1lisis microbiol\u00f3gico para todo tipo de alimento y agua con el fin de determinar la o las causas de deterioro de diversos productos, as\u00ed como la posible soluci\u00f3n a \u00e9ste. El laboratorio le ha permitido proyectarse hacia la comunidad, aportando no solo en la soluci\u00f3n de problemas asociados a brotes alimentarios sino tambi\u00e9n a control de su deterioro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actualmente su l\u00ednea de investigaci\u00f3n se ha enfocado principalmente en dos bacterias pat\u00f3genas asociadas a alimentos: Arcobacter y Campylobacter. Su grupo de investigaci\u00f3n ha sido pionero en la determinaci\u00f3n de la presencia de Arcobacter en diversos alimentos de consumo nacional, as\u00ed como su comportamiento ante diversos ambientes, en colaboraci\u00f3n con el Dr. Heriberto Fern\u00e1ndez Jaramillo, de la Universidad Austral de Chile y experto en el tema.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar\u00eda Laura Arias Echandi Presidente- Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exvicerrectora de Investigaci\u00f3n de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Investigadora, Escuela de Microbiolog\u00eda, Universidad de Costa Rica. Mar\u00eda Laura obtuvo su Licenciatura en Microbiolog\u00eda y Qu\u00edmica Cl\u00ednica en la UCR y luego se gradu\u00f3 de una Maestr\u00eda en Ciencias Biom\u00e9dicas en el Instituto Karolinska en Estocolmo, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2313","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mar\u00eda Laura Arias Echandi - ANC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anc.cr\/en\/maria-laura-arias-echandi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mar\u00eda Laura Arias Echandi - ANC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mar\u00eda Laura Arias Echandi Presidente- Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exvicerrectora de Investigaci\u00f3n de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 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