Desirrê Petters-Vandresen

Desirrê Petters-Vandresen

Postdoc in Genetics

UFPR

About me

I am a postdoc at the Genetics Department at Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR, Curitiba, Brazil), and member of the Bioprospecting and Microrganism Molecular Genetics Lab (BioGeMM), under supervision of Prof. Dr. Chirlei Glienke. Apart from the BioGeMM lab, I also did part of my PhD research as a guest student at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen, at the Environmental Genomics group under Prof. Dr. Eva Stukenbrock supervision (July 2019 - June 2020).

My main research interests include fungal genomics and evolution, plant-pathogen interaction and fungal phylogeny and taxonomy.

Interests

  • Fungal genomics and evolution
  • Fungal phylogeny and taxonomy
  • Plant-pathogen interaction

Education

  • PhD in Genetics, 2022

    Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

  • MSc. in Genetics, 2018

    Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

  • BSc in Biological Sciences, 2015

    Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)

Recent Posts

ECFG15 poster: Transposable elements (TEs) in Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species

My second poster for ECFG15 in Rome, Italy.
Last updated on Mar 10, 2021 2 min read Posters, Conferences, Fungal genomics and evolution

ECFG15 poster: Genomic perspectives on the evolution of the mating-type locus in Phyllosticta, with emphasis on Citrus-associated species

My first poster for ECFG15 in Rome, Italy.
Last updated on Feb 17, 2021 2 min read Posters, Conferences, Fungal genomics and evolution

MPI Fungal Symposium 2019 poster: Genomic perspectives on the evolution of mating-type locus in Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species

My poster for MPI Fungal Symposium 2019 in Plön, Germany.
Last updated on Feb 17, 2021 1 min read Posters, Conferences, Fungal genomics and evolution
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Projects

Comparative genomics of Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species

Performing comparative genomic analyses for the citrus-associated Phyllosticta species, focusing on the evolution of pathogenicity-related mechanisms mainly for P. citricarpa.

Functional analyses of Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species

Development of new strategies for controlling P. citricarpa through functional approaches

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Genomic and evolutive perspectives in phytopathology

How to understand phytopathogenicity through genomics and evolution?
Feb 22, 2021 1:00 PM — 3:00 PM

Basic notions on phylogenetic trees

Basic notions on phylogenetic concepts and tools for phytopathology students
Nov 26, 2020 1:00 PM — 5:00 PM

Publications

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Transposable elements expression in Rhinella marina (cane toad) specimens submitted to immune and stress challenge

TEs are expressed in Rhinella marina specimens submitted to immune and stress challenge, and could help to generate a rapid response to the environment. This TEs colud also be activated in the germinative cells as well producing variability to be selected and shaped by the evolutionary processes behind the success of this invasive species. Thus, the TEs are important targets for investigation in the context of R. marina adaptation.
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Mating-type locus rearrangements and shifts in thallism states in Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species

Mating-type genes in the Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species are highly variable in their sequence content, but the genomic locations and organization of the mating-type loci are conserved. Ancestral state reconstruction suggests that homothallism is the ancestral thallism state in Phyllosticta, with a shift to heterothallism in Phyllosticta species that are pathogenic to Citrus.
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Mating-type locus rearrangements and shifts in thallism states in Citrus-associated Phyllosticta species

Fusarium awaxy Petters-Vandresen, Galli-Terasawa, Terasawa & Glienke, sp. nov.

Here we described Fusarium awaxy, which was identified as a new member from the American clade of the Fusarium fujikuroi species complex in a phylogenetic analysis using tef1, tub, ITS, cal and rpb2 sequences.
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Popular Topics

Colletotrichum Colletotrichum acutatum species complex Colletotrichum nymphaeae Comparative genomics ECFG Evolution Fungal genomics and evolution Fungal phylogeny and taxonomy Fusarium Fusarium awaxy Fusarium fujikuroi species complex mating-type MPI Fungal Symposium Phyllosticta Phyllosticta citricarpa Plant-pathogen interaction Rhinella marina RNA-Seq SMBE Transposable elements

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