Paula Helena Reyes-Herrera

Affiliations

Kilomentro 14 vía Mosquera-Bogotá

Mosquera, Cundinamarca, Colombia

I am a bioinformatician. I have a background in electronic engineering and a profound interest in biology. Since 2015, I have been working in the agriculture and livestock sector.

I have developed computational tools to predict associations in genomic data on algorithms for post-transcriptional gene regulation, genotyping and variant detection, and genotype and phenotype association. In 2015 I joined AGROSAVIA, and I have worked first at the Colombian National Germplasm Bank in the information system and second on a Genotyping platform for the Bank. Currently, I am working on plant genome assembly.

Even though my main interests are in agrigenomics and studying Colombian diversity, I also look forward to integrating information technologies (including AI) into the Colombian agricultural sector.

selected publications

  1. Pleistocene dispersion supports a unique native diversity in the Colombian avocado germplasm
    Berdugo-Cely, J.A., Cortés, A.J., López-Hernández, F., Delgadillo, P., Cerón-Souza, I., Reyes-Herrera, P., Navas, A., and Yockteng, R
    bioRxiv 2023
  2. Prioritizing Colombian plant genetic resources for investment in research using indicators about the geographic origin, vulnerability status, economic benefits, and food security importance
    Cerón-Souza, Ivania, Delgadillo-Duran, Diego A, Polo-Murcia, Sonia M, Sarmiento-Naizaque, Zaida X, and Reyes-Herrera, Paula H
    2022
  3. Genome Sequence Data Reveal at Least Two Distinct Incursions of the Tropical Race 4 Variant of Fusarium Wilt into South America
    Reyes-Herrera, Paula H., Torres-Bedoya, Eliana, Lopez-Alvarez, Diana, Burbano-David, Diana, Carmona, Sandra L., Bebber, Daniel P., Studholme, David J., Betancourt, Monica, and Soto-Suarez, Mauricio
    Phytopathology® 2023
  4. Inheritance of rootstock effects in avocado (Persea americana Mill.) cv. Hass
    Reyes-Herrera, Paula H, Muñoz-Baena, Laura, Velásquez-Zapata, Valeria, Patiño, Laura, Delgado-Paz, Oscar A, Dı́az-Diez, Cipriano A, Navas-Arboleda, Alejandro A, and Cortés, Andrés J
    Frontiers in plant science 2020
  5. Robust and efficient software for reference-free genomic diversity analysis of genotyping-by-sequencing data on diploid and polyploid species
    Parra-Salazar, Andrea, Gomez, Jorge, Lozano-Arce, Daniela, Reyes-Herrera, Paula H, and Duitama, Jorge
    Molecular Ecology Resources 2022
  6. MultiGWAS: An integrative tool for Genome Wide Association Studies in tetraploid organisms
    Garreta, Luis, Cerón-Souza, Ivania, Palacio, Manfred Ricardo, and Reyes-Herrera, Paula H
    Ecology and Evolution 2021
  7. Vis–NIR spectroscopy and machine learning methods to diagnose chemical properties in Colombian sugarcane soils
    Delgadillo-Duran, Diego A., Vargas-García, Cesar A., Varón-Ramírez, Viviana M., Calderón, Francisco, Montenegro, Andrea C., and Reyes-Herrera, Paula H.
    Geoderma Regional 2022