Vanessa Suaza-Gaviria

Vanessa Suaza-Gaviria

Biologist

Biography:

Vanessa Suaza-Gaviria is a biologist with a master's degree, and now a doctoral candidate in Biotechnology from the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín - Colombia. She has worked in developmental biology with hemiparasitic plants (DOI: 10.1086/687280; DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1600253), and also tested antimicrobial and radicals-scavenging activities of these plant extracts (DOI: 10.37360/blacpma.23.22.2.13; DOI: 10.1002/cbdv.202200830). She continues studying functional metabolites in plants, this time in exotic tropical fruits such as purple passion fruit.