Thais Dal'Sasso |
Research Interests
I am primarily interested in the evolutionary genetics of plant-microbe interactions and the use of computational biology to propose more sustainable solutions in agriculture. During my PhD, I focused on studying the evolutionary aspects of effector proteins in fungal plant pathogens. As a postdoc at the University of São Paulo, I dedicated my research to using biological networks to understand plant immune responses to biotic stresses. At the Stukenbrock lab, I am employing computational structural genomics and systems biology approaches to 1) unravel evolutionary links of effector-like proteins that cannot be identified exclusively based on sequence data and 2) identify putative signatures of adaptative evolution and host specialization using four fungal species as models: Zymoseptoria tritici, Zymoseptoria passerinii, Cercospora beticola, and Pyrenophora teres teres. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5101-5160 Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9yFq8WgAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR Short CV 2024 - Present – Postdoc at Prof. Eva Stukenbrock’s group, Environmental Genomics, Kiel University (Germany) 2022 - 2023 – Postdoc at Prof. Claudia Monteiro-Vitorello’s group, Department of Genetics, University of São Paulo (Brazil) 2017-2021 – Ph.D. in Genetics and Plant Breeding, in Prof. Luiz Orlando de Oliveira’s group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Viçosa 2015 - 2017 – M.Sc. in Genetics and Plant Breeding, in Prof. Luiz Orlando de Oliveira’s group, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Federal University of Viçosa 2013 – 2014 – B.Sc. in Horticulture, Aeres University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands 2009 – 2015 – B.Sc. in Agronomy, Federal University of Viçosa |