Esteban Soto Martinez

Esteban Soto Martinez

Professor and Agronomist

Medicine & Epidemiology

Office
Tupper Hall, Davis, CA 95616

Licenses
Certified Fish Pathologist, American Fisheries Society – Fish Health Section
Licensed Veterinarian in Costa Rica (Colegio de Medicos Veterinarios de Costa Rica)
Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologist, Subspecialty in Bacteriology/Mycology
Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Microbiologist, Subspecialty in Immunology
Certified Aquatic Veterinarian, World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association
Category II veterinary accreditation in the State of California, USDA-APHIS National Veterinary Accreditation
License California Veterinary Medical Board
Education
2010, PhD, Louisiana State University, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana, USA
2007, MS, Mississippi State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Mississippi, USA
2005, DVM, Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Costa Rica
Active Research Grants
Co-Principal Investigator, Mitigating antimicrobial use in aquaculture through vaccination: Development of inactivated and live attenuated vaccines against Edwardsiella piscicida for use in farmed fish, Matt Griffin (Principal Investigator), Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research
Principal Investigator, Statewide Research Contract (2022-2025), (Principal Investigator), California Department of Fish and Wildlife
Principal Investigator, Efficacy of a mucosal live attenuated vaccine against piscine lactococcosis, (Principal Investigator), USDA Center for Food and Animal Health - Animal Health
Principal Investigator, Development of a Widely Virus Permissive Koi Fin Cell Line by Stable Expression of an Inhibitor of the Antiviral Proteins PKR and PKZ, (Principal Investigator), USDA Center for Food and Animal Health - Hatch
Most Recent Five Book Chapters
2023 Parker-Graham C, Stevens B, Ang J, Soto E^: Fish, Montiani-Ferreira F, Ben-Shlomo G, Moore BA, (ed), Wild And Exotic Animal Ophthalmology- Anatomy, Physiology, And Diseases Of The Animal Eye, . .
2020 Griffin MJ, Soto E, Wise DJ: Edwardsiella, Chapter 12, Woo PTK, Leong JA, Buchmann K, (ed), Climate Change and Infectious Fish Diseases, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK. 235.
2018 Soto E^, Boylan SM, Stevens B, Smith SA, Yanong R, Subramaniam K, Waltzek T: Diagnosis of Fish Diseases, Chapter 3, Smith S, (ed), Fish Medicine and Surgery , Boca Raton, FL. 46-85.
2016 Arkush K, Bartholomew J, Soto E: Chapter 20: Piscirickettsia salmonis, Woo PTK, Cipriano RC, (ed), Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. 272-285.
2016 Soto E^, Hawke JP: Chapter 17: Francisella noatunensis, Woo PTK, Cipriano RC, (ed), Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection, Nosworthy Way, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. 233-244.
Research Focus
My main research interests are to understand the pathogenesis of important infectious diseases of wild and aquatic animals, and to develop strategies to protect animals from these diseases.
Specialty Focus
Infectious diseases and ImmunologyFish Medicine
Ten Recent Publications

2024
Quijano Carde EM, Anenson K, Waldbieser G, Brown CT, Griffin MJ, Henderson E, Yun S, Soto E^
Acipenserid Herpesvirus 2 Genome and Partial Validation of a qPCR for Detection in White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)

2024
Heckman TI, Yazdi Z, Older CE, Griffin MJ, Waldbieser GC, AM Chow, Medina Silva I, Anenson KM, García JC, LaFrentz BR, Slavic D, Toohey-Kurth KL, Yant P, Fritz HM, Henderson EE, McDowall R, Cai H, Adkison M, Soto E^
Redefining Piscine Lactococcosis

2024
Johnston AE, Shavalier MA, Scribner KT, Soto E, Yun S, Loch TP
Assessing the efficacy of three hatchery disinfectants for inactivating a lake sturgeon herpesvirus (Family Alloherpesviridae)

2024
Chang RK, Pomaranski EK, Giray C, Keleher W, Griffin MJ, Camus AC, Toohey-Kurth KL, Soto E^
spaB-positive Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, a novel teleost pathogen isolated from cultured barramundi

2024
López-Moreno D, Yazdi Z, Morales-Serna FN, Martínez-Brown JM, Ibarra-Castro L, García-Gasca A, Abad-Rosales SM, Lozano-Olvera R, Fajer-Ávila EJ, Soto E
Respuesta histológica e inmune en el pez Centropomus viridis causadas por el parásito Rhabdosynochus viridisi

2024
Blake L, Phillips-Savage A, Soto E, Oura C, Brown-Jordan A, Raines C, Buck C, Iwanowicz L
Complete Genome Sequence of a Novel Papillomavirus in Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens) from Trinidad and Tobago

2024
Soto E^, LaFrentz BR, Yun S, Megarani D, Henderson E, Piewbang C, Johnston AE, Techangamsuwan S, Fei Fan Ng T, Warg J, Surachetpong W, Subramaniam K
Diagnosis, isolation, and description of a novel amnoonvirus recovered from diseased fancy guppies, Poecilia reticulata

2024
Kim S, Moore BA, Parker C, Siniard WC, Ang J, Teixeira LBC, Thomasy SM, Murphy CJ, Soto E^
Clinical and histopathological features of proliferative corneal lesions in Cyprininae fishes: Implications for treatment and insights into corneal tumors.

2024
Martino L, Serrano B, Alomar J, Pérez L, Aragon V, Cobos A, Abarca ML, Yazdi Z, Soto E, Domingo M
Erysipelas with preferential brain and skin involvement in a Mediterranean bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

2024
Chang RK, Miller MA, Tekedar HC, Rose D, García JC, Lafrentz BR, Older CE, Waldbieser G, Pomaranski E, Shahin K, Camus AC, Batac F, Byrne B, Murray MJ, Griffin MJ, Soto E^
Pathology, microbiology, and genetic diversity associated with Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae and novel Erysipelothrix spp. infections in southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis)