Education

Ph.D. in Plant Genetics, Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland, 2006

Current position

Researcher (Career Track Fellow) at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Bellaterra, Spain (07/2012-present)

Publications

1. Zuluaga, A. P., Solé, M., Lu, H., Góngora-Castillo, E., Vaillancourt, B., Coll, N., Buell, C. R. and Valls, M. (2015). Transcriptome responses to Ralstonia solanacearum infection in the roots of the wild potato Solanum commersonii. BMC Genomics 16(1): 246.
   
2. Stael, S., Kmiecik, P., Willems, P., Van Der Kelen, K., Coll, N. S., Teige, M. and Van Breusegem, F. (2015). Plant innate immunity--sunny side up? Trends Plant Sci 20(1): 3-11.
   
3. Coll, N. S.*, Smidler, A., Puigvert, M., Popa, C., Valls, M. and Dangl, J. L. (2014). The plant metacaspase AtMC1 in pathogen-triggered programmed cell death and aging: functional linkage with autophagy. Cell Death Differ 21(9): 1399-1408.
   
4. Stael, S., Nowack, M. K., Van Breusegem, F., Valls, M. and Coll, N. S.* (2014). The death of plant cells: from proteases to field applications. Cell Death Differ 21(7): 1178-1179.
   
5. Cruz, A. P., Ferreira, V., Pianzzola, M. J., Siri, M. I., Coll, N. S.* and Valls, M. (2014). A novel, sensitive method to evaluate potato germplasm for bacterial wilt resistance using a luminescent Ralstonia solanacearum reporter strain. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 27(3): 277-285.
   
6. Coll, N. S. and Valls, M. (2013). Current knowledge on the Ralstonia solanacearum type III secretion system. Microb Biotechnol 6(6): 614-620.
   
7. Coll, N. S., Epple, P. and Dangl, J. L. (2011). Programmed cell death in the plant immune system. Cell Death Differ 18(8): 1247-1256. (Invited review)
   
8. Coll, N. S., Vercammen, D., Smidler, A., Clover, C., Van Breusegem, F., Dangl, J. L. and Epple, P. (2010). Arabidopsis type I metacaspases control cell death. Science 330(6009): 1393-1397.
   
9. Meskauskiene, R., Wursch, M., Laloi, C., Vidi, P. A., Coll, N. S., Kessler, F., Baruah, A., Kim, C. and Apel, K. (2009). A mutation in the Arabidopsis mTERF-related plastid protein SOLDAT10 activates retrograde signaling and suppresses (1)O(2)-induced cell death. Plant J 60(3): 399-410.
   
10. Coll, N. S., Danon, A., Meurer, J., Cho, W. K. and Apel, K. (2009). Characterization of soldat8, a suppressor of singlet oxygen-induced cell death in Arabidopsis seedlings. Plant Cell Physiol 50(4): 707-718.
    
11. Epple, P., Coll, N. S., Clover, C. and Dangl, J. (2008). Regulation of cell death in plants: A role for plant metacaspases? Biol Plant-micro Inferac 6. (e-format, no page system)
    
12. Danon, A., Coll, N. S. and Apel, K. (2006). Cryptochrome-1-dependent execution of programmed cell death induced by singlet oxygen in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103(45): 17036-17041.