Curriculum Vitae

Mauricio Soto-Suárez (twitter: m_soto_suarez)

                  Ph.D. Biology-2009

                  Université de Perpignan (France)

                

RESEARCH PROFILE

March 2002 to present

From 2002 to 2006 I was Research Assistant in the Biotechnology Research Unit at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). I worked in the Molecular Plant Pathology Group, which developed high-throughput methods for assessment plant defense responses. I performed global transcriptome analysis using DNA Microarray technology to study two different types of patho-systems: rice- Xanthomonas Oryzae pv. oryzae and cassava- Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis. This includes the application of several molecular techniques, such as subtractive library construction, DNA sequencing, cloning, DNA Microarray construction and analysis and Real-Time PCR analysis. Furthermore, I was part of the Bioinformatics group at CIAT, working in the local platform installation to perform sequence and gene expression analysis.

In 2006, I started my PhD thesis in the University of Perpignan working in the gene expression analysis in an African strain of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae during the interaction with rice at IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement) in Montpellier, France. In November 2009, I obtained the Ph.D in Biology. Then, I had a first post-doc position from 2010 to 2012 in the department of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology of plants at EEZ (Estación Experimental del Zaidín, CSIC) in Granada, Spain. In February 2012, I joined the Department of Molecular genetics at CRAG (http://www.cragenomica.es/, conducting postdoctoral research activities in the framework of the project “Regulatory roles of microRNAs in plant innate immunity”. Since march 2015, I am PhD Associate at AGROSAVIA (https://www.agrosavia.co/), Colombia.