Dr Myriam Solis
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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 cinerea in 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 and Eucalyptus, 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
Teaching assistant
- Forest Pathology for Forest Engineering - Universidad de Concepción. From 2014 to 2016
- Plant Health for Plant Biotechnology - Universidad de Concepción. From 2014 to 2016
- Molecular techniques in Plant Pathology, Elective course - Universidad de Concepción 2015.
- Molecular Biology for Anthropology, Medicine, Biology and Environmental Engineering - Universidad de Concepción. From 2017 to 2019
- Coordinator of Python Course for Public Schools in Chile. 1024 programadores Initiative. from 2017 to 2019 https://www.1024programadores.cl/colaboradores/
Conferences
Poster competition finalist SASPP 2022
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. 32nd 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 "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 33rd 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 Towards marker assisted breeding: the role of phenotyping Teratosphaeria destructans infection. Oral presentation.
Solís M. 2022. 52nd Congress 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. 52nd 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, 52nd 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.
Workshops
"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.
My Galeries
News
Myriam Solís, a PhD candidate in the Eucalyptus and Pine Pathogens Interactions (EPPI) research group in FABI, participated in the conference of the American Phytopathological Society (APS).
My Books
My Journal Articles
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| Solís M, Hammerbacher A, Wingfield M.J, Naidoo S. (2025) Enhancing plantation forest sustainability: A review of Eucalyptus defence mechanisms to foliar fungal pathogens. Current Forestry Reports
10.1007/s40725-024-00243-3 |
| Solís M, Naidoo S, Wingfield MJ, Joubert J, Hammerbacher A. (2024) First line of defence: Eucalyptus leaf waxes influence infection by an aggressive fungal leaf pathogen. Plant Biology
10.1111/plb.13707 |
Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Marincowitz S, Solís M, Phungula S, Pham NQ. (2024) Eucalyptus scab and shoot malformation: a new disease in South Africa caused by a novel species, Elsinoe masingae. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research
10.1093/forestry/cpad031  |
| Wingfield MJ, Marincowitz S, Barnes I, Tarigan M, Solís M, Duran A, Pham NQ. (2023) First report of phyllode rust on Acacia crassicarpa outside its native range. Forest Pathology
10.1111/efp.12839 |
| Solís M, Hammerbacher A, Wingfield MJ, Naidoo S. (2023) A robust disease scoring method to screen Eucalyptus for resistance against the aggressive leaf blight pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans. Plant Disease:1418 - 1424.
10.1094/PDIS-06-22-1347-RE |
| Solís M, Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Naidoo S. (2022) Comparison of the infection biology of Teratosphaeria destructans and Teratosphaeria epicoccoides on Eucalyptus. Plant Disease
10.1094/PDIS-09-21-1877-RE |
| Solís M, Wingfield MJ, Greyling I, Pham NQ. (2022) A serious shoot and leaf disease caused by Colletotrichum theobromicola discovered on eucalypts in South Africa. Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 84(1):01–13.
10.2989/20702620.2021.2005454 |
| Apablaza H, Solís M, Conejera D, Fonseca A, Tarifeño-Saldivia E, Valenzuela S, Emhart V, Fernández M. (2021) bHLH Transcription Factors Undergo Alternative Splicing During Cold Acclimation in a Eucalyptus hybrid. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter
10.1007/s11105-021-01313-7 |
| Pham NQ, Marincowitz S, Solís M, Duong TA, Wingfield BD, Barnes I, Slippers B, Muro Abad JI, Durán A, Wingfield MJ. (2021) Eucalyptus scab and shoot malformation: A new and serious foliar disease of Eucalyptus caused by Elsinoe necatrix sp. nov.. Plant Pathology 70:1230-1242.
10.1111/ppa.13348 |
| Solís M, Salas A, Lagos C, Valenzuela S, Emhart V, Fernández M. (2019) De Novo Transcriptome Assembly of Eucalyptus nitens and the Expression of R2R3-MYB Genes in Response to Cold Acclimation in Eucalyptus Spp.. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 37(4):376–388.
10.1007/s11105-019-01160-7 |