Postdoctoral Fellow
I was part of the Forest Pathology lab at University of Concepción in Chile since 2012, during my studies in Plant Biotechnology (2010-2015, cum laude). My thesis was on fungicide resistance of Botrytis cinereain Eucalyptus nurseries and its relation with the pathogen aggressiveness and genetic diversity in each population included in the study. On 2014 I had the opportunity to work in the control of the grey mold disease in grapes and blueberries nurseries with Syngenta, Chile. During the same period I designed the management program for B. cinerea on eucalypts nurseries for the forestry company Mininco S.A, CMPC, Chile. Later on 2015 I worked as a research assistant at University of Concepción, involved in a project about diseases on Eucalyptus,including the study of endophytes as an alternative for disease management.
On 2017 I did my MSc in biochemistry and bioinformatics at University of Concepción (cum laude), the project was about strategies of transcriptome assembly of Eucalyptus spp. under cold stress and studied proteins involved in the process. I learned programing languages, R and Python, and the most special part was to participate in a social program that taught Python in chilean public schools.
My PhD at FABI, was about the interaction between Teratosphaeria destructans andEucalyptus, at anatomical, histochemical and molecular level. The first objective was to develop an artificial inoculation protocol, then establish a screening method to select for resistant material to be able to compare their morphological and molecular responses during the infection. The main objective was to contribute to the development of effective disease management strategies.
Personally, I really like getting to know places and cultures (languages, arts and music).
Teaching assistant
for Forest Engineering - Universidad de Concepción. From 2014 to 2016for Plant Biotechnology - Universidad de Concepción. From 2014 to 2016, Elective course - Universidad de Concepción 2015. for Anthropology, Medicine, Biology and Environmental Engineering - Universidad de Concepción. From 2017 to 2019 for Public Schools in Chile. 1024 programadores Initiative. from 2017 to 2019
Solís M, Esterio M, Sanfuentes E. 2014.XXIII Congress of the Chilean Society of Phytopathology, Talca, Chile."Sensitivity of Botrytis cinerea collected in nurseries of Eucalyptus spp.,to cyprodinil + fludioxonil and their relationship with the pathogen agressiveness".Poster presentation.
Solís M, Esterio M, Sanfuentes E. 2015.XXIV Congress of the Chilean Society of Phytopathology, Viña del mar,Chile."Resistance of Botrytis cinerea to the fungicides Switch and Tebuconazole, and its relation with the pathogen phenotype and genotype". Oral presentation.
Solís M, Fernandez M, Salas A.2018. Congress "Resilience in plants". University of Talca, Talca, Chile.“ MYB transcription factors expression in the Eucalyptus nitens cold response".Poster presentation.
Solís M, Fernandez M, Salas A.2018.Society for Computational Biology, SOIBIO and EMBnet Joint Bioinformatics Conference 2018 (ISCB-LA SOIBIO EMBnet). Viña del mar, Chile." MYB transcription factors in response to low temperature on Eucalyptus".Poster presentation.
Solís M. 2021.32ndAnnual meeting of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) and the DSI NRF Centre of Excellence in Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa"Linking genes to phenotypes in the Tetarosphaeria destructans – Eucalyptus interaction".Oral presentation.
Solís M, Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S.2021.American Phytopathological Society ( APS ), Plant Health 2021 "Seismic Shifts in Disease Risk ” .“Infection biology of the Eucalyptus leaf blight pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans".Oral presentation.
Solís M. 2022 33 rd Annual meeting of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) and the DSI NRF Centre of Excellence in Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South AfricaTowards marker assisted breeding: the role of phenotyping Teratosphaeria destructans infection. Oral presentation.
Solís M.2022. 52 ndCongress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP), Future Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa." Two Eucalyptus pathogens, with different levels of aggressiveness, have similar infection biology". Oral Presentation
Solís M, Wingfield MJ, Izzete Greyling, Nam Pham.2022.52 nd Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP), Future Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa."Colletotrichum theobromicola causes a shoot and leaf disease on Eucalyptus in South Africa". Poster presentation.
Solís M, Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S.2022,52 nd Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP), Future Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. "Development of a protocol to screen Eucalyptus genotypes for resistance to the aggressive foliar pathogen Teratosphaeria destructans".Poster presentation.
Solís M,Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S. 2022.An artificial inoculation system for disease screening against the Eucalyptus leaf blight pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans. IUFRO Conference Division 7 – Forest Health Pathology and Entomology, Lisbon, Portugal. Oral presentation.
Solís M,Havenga, M., Wingfield, B.D., Naidoo, S., Hammerbacher, A., Wingfield, M.J., Aylward, J.2022 Infection and expression of secondary metabolite gene clusters in the Eucalyptus shoot and leaf pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans . IUFRO Conference Division 7 – Forest Health Pathology and Entomology, Lisbon, Portugal . Poster presentation.
Solís M. 2023. 34th Annual meeting of the Tree Protection Co-operative Programme (TPCP) and the DSI NRF Centre of Excellence in Plant Health Biotechnology (CPHB), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. Understanding the defence mechanisms of Eucalyptus against Teratosphaeria destructans infection.Oral presentation.
Solís M, Naidoo S, Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A. 2023. Teratosphaeria destructans -resistant Eucalyptus genotype produce a wax compound that inhibits pathogen germination in-vitro and in-vivo . 12th International congress of plant pathology ICPP. Lyon, France.Poster Presentation.
Barnes I, Aylward J,Solís M, Pham NQ, Wingfield MJ.2023. Important Eucalyptus diseases on forest plantations in South Africa. IUFRO WP 7.02.13 and 7.02.03 meeting, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Oral presentation.
Solís M,Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S.2024. Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP), Golden Gate, Clarens, South Africa. "Contrasting effect of Eucalyptus leaf wax compounds on the germination of Teratosphaeria destructans". Poster presentation.
Solís M,Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S.2024. Congress of the Southern African Society for Plant Pathology (SASPP), Golden Gate, Clarens, South Africa. "Factors affecting the infection biology and host susceptibility in the aggressive Eucalyptus leaf pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans". Poster presentation.
Solís M. 2024. Towards forest resilience . Forest molecular genomic symposium. Oral presentation.
Poster competition finalist SASPP 2022
"Genetic analysis of phytopathogen populations" (5 days).
By Dr. Eduardo Mizubuti,
Department of Phytopathology, Federal University of Vicosa, Brazil.
"Evaluation of products based on Trichoderma spp." (5 days).
By Dr. Wagner Bettiol,
EMBRAPA Forests. Brazil.
"Python programming" (7 days)
by Dr. Alexis Salas. University of Concepcion. Chile.
Solís M, Esterio M, Sanfuentes E. (2019)
Sensibilidad de Botrytis cinera a Switch en viveros forestales.
Myriam Solís. (2019)
Sensibilidad de Botrytis cinera a Switch en viveros forestales.