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Food Quality and Safety, Genetic Traceability of food products for food safety and quality, Mytilus, Genetics, Biostatistics, Food and Nutrition, and Food Science and Technology

Biography

I work as Associate Professor in the Departamento de Ciencia de los Alimentos y Tecnología Química, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas, Universidad de Chile. I graduated as a food engineer and received my M.Sc. degree in Food Science from the Universidad de Chile and lately a Ph.D. in Food Science and Technology from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
Starting my research in 1990 in Food Quality and Safety, I have focused on genetic traceability and authentication of seafood. I head the Food Quality Research Center (FQRC). The FQRL seeks toward Food Quality looking for Reliable, authentic food, produced in a Sustainable and Social Responsible way, through the development of traceability tools. Derived problems and challenges are faced from an interdisciplinary perspective, gathering specialized researchers in Food Quality and Animal Production, the latter with the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences.

Activities

Works (5)

Range Extension of the Popeye Catalufa (Pristigenys serrula, Gilbert 1891) to Central Chile During the “El Niño” Southern Oscillation (ENSO) 2023–2024

Ecology and Evolution
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Cynthia M. Asorey; Jeremías Cuevas; María Angélica Larraín; Cristian Araneda
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SNP genotyping revealed a hybrid zone between Mytilus chilensis and M. platensis in southern South America (the Strait of Magellan, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands)

Molecular Ecology
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Felipe Jilberto; Malgorzata Zbawicka; Roman Wenne; María Angélica Larraín; Cristián Araneda
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Species identification in Haliotis genus from the northeastern Pacific Ocean using genome-wide RAD-SNPs

Food Control
2022-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Carmen E. Vargas-Peralta; Cristián Araneda; Clara E. Galindo-Sánchez; M. Angélica Larraín; Miguel A. Del Río-Portilla; Fabiola Lafarga-De la Cruz
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Carminic Acid Linked to Silica Nanoparticles as Pigment/Antioxidant Bifunctional Excipient for Pharmaceutical Emulsions

Pharmaceutics
2020-04-19 | Journal article
Contributors: Francisco Arriagada; Catalina Ugarte; Germán Günther; María Angélica Larraín; Víctor Guarnizo-Herrero; Santi Nonell; Javier Morales
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Comparison between single and multi-locus approaches for specimen identification in Mytilus mussels

Scientific Reports
2019-12-23 | Journal article
Contributors: María Angélica Larraín; Pía González; Claudio Pérez; Cristián Araneda
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Peer review (4 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Food control. (4)