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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 his 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”.

Between August 13th and 16th, 2025, at Belém (Pará), The Brazilian Society for Gentics hosted the Brazilian Congress of Genetics – Genética 2025, one of the country’s most important scientific meetings in the field.

ISMB/ECCB 2025 One of our students, Isabella Gallego Rendón, participated in the joint meeting: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) / European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), that took place in Liverpool, United Kingdom, between July 20th and 24th.

XMeeting 2025 Three of our students are participating in the XMeeting, 2025 that takes place in João Pessoa, PB, this week (2nd to 6th of June). Gustavo C. do Nascimento, presented his results A Pan-genome of the Saccharum complex, part of his research as Master student in PPG/Ciências at CENA/USP.

Angie Valeria Quinones Olaya’s Research Internship Strengthened International Collaboration We are delighted to share the successful completion of a research internship by Angie Valeria Quinones Olaya, a postgraduate student from Universidade del Valle (Cali, Colombia), who joined our research group at the University of São Paulo, Piracicaba (USP).