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September 2026 - Master Thesis Defense - Mrs Andreza Mattoso da Cunha Mrs. Andreza successfully defended her master thesis, entitled “In silico comparative expression analyses of transposable elements in the PACMAD clade of grasses with a special focus in sugarcane”, on September 16th, 2026.

August 2026 - Master Thesis Defense - Mrs Gabriely Santos de Oliveira Mrs. Gabriely successfully defended her master thesis, entitled “Montagem em escala cromossômica e anotação do genoma poliplóide da cana-de-açúcar SP80-3280”, on August 5th, 2026.

May 2026 - Master Thesis Defense - Mrs Maria Camila Diaz Rodriguez Mrs. Maria Camila successfully defended her master thesis, entitled “Análise de elementos transponíveis em cana-de-açúcar, explorando genomas em escala cromossômica”, on May 29th, 2026.

A new study published in Genome Biology and Evolution presents the first chromosome-scale genome assembly for Epidendrum fulgens and, more broadly, for the megadiverse orchid genus Epidendrum. Using PacBio HiFi and Omni-C sequencing, we reconstructed the approximately 1.

In this study, conducted as a collaboration between my research group and the group of Prof. Marli Fátima Fiore at CENA/USP, we describe Oxynema mangrovii sp. nov., a new filamentous cyanobacterial species isolated from mangrove soil in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

January 2026 - Defense of TCC - Mrs Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam Mrs. Beatriz successfully defended her end of course work (TCC), entitled “Construcão de panoramas de splicing em gramíneas”, on January 19th, 2026.

Desvendando os Mistérios dos Nematoides Através da Bioinformática Texto original em inglés e fotografias por Carmen Denman Hume, Assessora de Comunicação do Wellcome Sanger Institute. Traduzido e adaptado por Beatriz Rodrigues Estevam.

Gene Co-Expression Networks Highlight Key Nodes Associated With Ammonium Nitrate in Sugarcane A new study from our research group at CENA/USP, led by PhD student Jorge Mario Muñoz-Pérez (now a postdoctoral researcher at ESALQ/USP), brings important advances to the understanding of how sugarcane manages nitrogen at the molecular level.

XVI Simpósio dos Pós-Graduandos no CENA/USP The “XVI Simpósio dos Pós-Graduandos no CENA/USP” took place between October 9th to 10th in our campus. Two members of the lab received prizes for their poster presentations:

SIICUSP 33rd Every year we have the International Symposion of Scientific Iniciation at USP, where undergrads involved in research project can show their results. In this year edition we had one member of the group presenting his research: Gustavo Lelli Guirao, presenting his advances in the project “Identificação de TEs Expressos Especificamente em Estresse Hídrico em Gramíneas C4”.