Education
Ph.D.
in Plant Biology, University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France. (2009)
B.Sc. in Biology, Universidad Nacional de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia. (2003)
Professional
Experience
2015-
Present
PhD
Researcher. AGROSAVIA (https://www.agrosavia.co/).
Colombia. Plant Pathology Department.
2012-
2014
Post-doctoral
Researcher. Molecular genetics department. Centre for Research on Agricultural
Genomics Consortium CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB. Edifici CRAG - Campus
de la UAB.08193. Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès). Barcelona
- Spain.
2010-
2012
Post-doctoral
Researcher. Towards the functional characterization of differentially expressed
genes/proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants lacking chloroplastic and
cytosolic fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase genes. Department of Biochemistry,
Cellular and Molecular Biology of Plants. Estación Experimental del Zaidín
(EEZ-CSIC). Granada, Spain.
2006-2009
Ph.D.
in Biology. Genomic Comparison of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Strains
Combining Suppression Subtractive Hybridization and Transcriptomic Analyses.
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD)-Université de Perpignan,
France.
2003-2006
Research
Assistant. Biotechnology Research Unit. International Center for Tropical
Agriculture (http://www.ciat.cgiar.org). Cali, Colombia.
1998-2003
B.S.
in Biology. Gene expression analysis during cassava defence responses to
bacterial blight disease. National University of Colombia. Bogotá, Colombia
[1] Reyes-Herrera, P. H., Torres-Bedoya, E., Lopez-Alvarez, D., Burbano-David, D., Carmona, S. L., Bebber, D. P., ... & Soto-Suarez, M. (2022). Genome sequence data reveal at least two distinct incursions of the tropical race 4 (TR4) variant of Fusarium wilt into South America. Phytopathology®. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-01-22-0034-R
[2] Gómez-Caro, S., Mendoza-Vargas, L. A., Ramírez-Gil, J. G., Burbano-David, D., Soto-Suárez, M., & Melgarejo, L. M. (2022). Close-Range Thermography and Reflectance Spectroscopy Support In Vitro and In Vivo Characterization of Colletotrichum spp. Isolates from Mango Fruits. Plant Disease, PDIS-08.
[3] Yu,
P. L., Fulton, J. C., Carmona, S. L., Burbano-David, D., Barrero, L. S.,
Huguet-Tapia, J. C., ... &
Soto-Suarez, M. (2022). Draft Genome Sequence and De Novo Assembly
of a Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici Isolate Collected from the Andean
Region in Colombia. Microbiology
Resource Announcements, 11(1), e00980-21.
[4] Olave,
A., Cardenas, D., Restrepo, S., Lucca, F., Fry, W., Myers, K. L., ... & Soto-Suarez, M. (2022). Phenotypic and genotypic
characterization of Phytophthora infestans isolates associated to tomato and
potato crops in Colombia. Phytopathology, https://doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-04-21-0158-R.
[5] Padilla-Hurtado,
B., Morillo-Coronado, Y., Tarapues, S., Burbano, S., Soto-Suárez,
M., Urrea,
R., & Ceballos-Aguirre, N. (2022). Evaluation of root-knot nematodes
(Meloidogyne spp.) population density for disease resistance screening of
tomato germplasm carrying the gene Mi-1. CHILEAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 82, 1.
[6] Izquierdo-García, L. F., Carmona, S. L., Zuluaga, P., Rodríguez, G., Dita, M., Betancourt, M., & Soto-Suárez, M. (2021). Efficacy of Disinfectants against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 Isolated from La Guajira, Colombia. Journal of Fungi, 7(4), 297.
[7] Campo, S., Sánchez‐Sanuy, F., Camargo‐Ramírez, R., Gómez‐Ariza, J., Baldrich, P., Campos‐Soriano, L., Mauricio Soto-Suárez & San Segundo, B. (2021). A novel Transposable element‐derived microRNA participates in plant immunity to rice blast disease. Plant Biotechnology Journal.https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13592
[8] Garzón-Martínez, G. A., García-Arias, F. L., Enciso-Rodríguez, F. E., Soto-Suárez, M., González, C., Bombarely, A., ... & Guarín, J. A. O. (2021). Combining transcriptome analysis and GWAS for identification and validation of marker genes in the Physalis peruviana-Fusarium oxysporum pathosystem. PeerJ, 9, e11135.
[9] Carmona, S. L., Villarreal-Navarrete, A., Burbano-David, D., Gómez-Marroquín, M., Torres-Rojas, E., & Soto-Suárez, M. (2021). Protection of tomato plants against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici induced by chitosan. Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Hortícolas, 15(3), e12822-e12822.
[10] Carmona, S. L., del Pilar Villarreal-Navarrete, A., Burbano-David, D., Gomez-Marroquin, M., Torres-Rojas, E., & Soto-Suarez, M. (2020). Physiological and genetic changes associated to vascular wilt of tomato caused by Fusarium: an updated review. Temas Agrarios, 25(2), 166-189.
[11] Delgadillo-Durán, P., Soto-Suárez, M., Rodriguez-Polanco, L., Carrero-Gutierrez, M., Torres-Rojas, E., & Yockteng, R. (2020). A new method for the inoculation of Phytophthora palmivora (Butler) into cacao seedlings under greenhouse conditions. Plant methods, 16(1), 1-7.
[12] Carmona, S.L.; Burbano-David, D.; Gómez, M.R.; Lopez, W.; Ceballos, N.; Castaño-Zapata, J.; Simbaqueba, J.; Soto-Suárez, M. Characterization of Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Fusarium oxysporum Isolates Associated with Commercial Tomato Crops in the Andean Region of Colombia. Pathogens 2020, 9, 70.
[13] Duarte-Carvajalino, J., Alzate, D., Ramirez, A., Santa-Sepulveda, J., Fajardo-Rojas, A., & Soto-Suárez, M. (2018). Evaluating Late Blight Severity in Potato Crops Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Machine Learning Algorithms. Remote Sensing, 10(10), 1513.
[14] Santa JD, Berdugo-Cely J, Cely-Pardo L, Soto-Suárez M, Mosquera T, Galeano M CH. QTL analysis reveals quantitative resistant loci for Phytophthora infestans and Tecia solanivora in tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). PLoS One. 2018 Jul 6;13(7):e0199716. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0199716. eCollection 2018.
[15] Mauricio Soto-Suárez, Patricia Baldrich, Detlef Weigel, Ignacio Rubio-Somoza & Blanca San Segundo. The Arabidopsis miR396 mediates pathogen-associated molecular pattern-triggered immune responses against fungal pathogens. 2017. Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 44898. doi:10.1038/srep44898.
[16] Soto-Suárez M., Serrato AJ., Rojas-González JA., Bautista R., Sahrawy M. Transcriptomic and proteomic approach to identify differentially expressed genes and proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana mutants lacking chloroplastic 1 and cytosolic FBPases reveals several levels of metabolic regulation. BMC Plant Biol. 2016 Dec 1;16(1):258.
[17] José A. Rojas-González, Mauricio Soto-Súarez, Ángel García-Díaz, María C. Romero-Puertas, Luisa M. Sandalio, Ángel Mérida, Ina Thormählen, Peter Geigenberger, Antonio J. Serrato and Mariam Sahrawy. Disruption of both chloroplastic and cytosolic FBPase genes results in a dwarf phenotype and important starch and metabolite changes in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Exp Bot. 2015 May;66(9):2673-89. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erv062. Epub 2015 Mar 5.
[18] Mauricio Soto-Suárez, Diana Bernal, Carolina González Almario, Boris Szurek, Romain Guyot, Joe Tohme and Valérie Verdier. In planta gene expression analysis of Xanthomonas oryzae pathovar oryzae, African strain. BMC Microbiology. 2010. Jun 11;10(1):170.
[19] Soto-Suarez, Mauricio; González Almario, Carolina; Piégu, Benoît; Tohme, Joe; Verdier, V. Genomic comparison between Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola, using suppression subtractive hybridization. FEMS Microbio. Letters. 2010. 308(1), pp 16-23.
[20] David P. Horvath, James V. Anderson, Mauricio Soto-Suárez, and Wun S. Chao. 2006. Transcriptome analysis of leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula) crown buds during shifts in well-defined phases of dormancy. Weed Science. Volume 54, Issue 5 pp. 821–827.
[21] López C., Soto-Suárez M., Restrepo S., Piegu B., Cooke R., Delseny M., Tohme J. and Verdier V. 2005. Global transcriptome analysis of cassava responses to Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis infection using a cassava cDNA microarray. Plant Molecular Biology. 57, pp. 393–410.
[22] Horvath, D.P., Soto-Suárez, M., Chao, W.S., Jia, Y., Anderson, J.V. 2005. Transcriptome Analysis of Paradormancy Release in Root Buds of Leafy Spurge (Euphorbia Esula). Weed Science. 53(6), pp. 795-801.
[23] López C., Jorge V., Piegu B., Mba C., Cortés D., Restrepo S., Soto-Suárez M., Cooke R., Delseny M., Tohme J. and Verdier, V. 2004. A catalogue of 5700 expressed genes in cassava: identification of genes implicated in cassava bacterial blight resistance and starch biosynthesis. Plant Molecular Biology. 56, 4, pp. 541-554.
[24] Anderson J., Delseny M., Fregene M., Jorge V., Mba C., López C., Restrepo S., Soto-Suárez M., Piegu B., Verdier V., Cooke R., Tohme J. and Horvath D. 2004. An EST Resource for Cassava and other Species of Euphorbiaceae. Plant Molecular Biology. 56, pp. 527-539.
[25]
Soto-Suárez M., Restrepo S., Mosquera G., Tohme J., Verdier V. Gene
expression analysis during cassava defense responses to bacterial blight
disease. 2006.
Journal Revista Colombiana de Biotecnología. 8(2). pp 18-26.
