Dr. Luiz-Eduardo Del-Bem
Professor of Plant Evolutionary Genomics
Department of Botany
ICB (Institute of Biological Sciences)
UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais)
Belo Horizonte-MG
Brazil
orcid.org/0000-0001-8472-4476
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Master’s Students
Wenderson Rodrigues
Project: The origins of land plants genetic toolkit. The project aims to establish the origin of land plant’s conserved genes, focusing on genetic mechanisms that emerged before the origin of land plants and might be associated with colonization of land by early streptophytes.
Program: MSc in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Ingridy Moura
Project: Unraveling the evolutionary history and phylogenetic relationships in the fern genera Amauropelta (Thelypteridaceae)
Program: MSc in Plant Biology (UFMG)
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PhD Students
Breno Lisboa
Project: Metagenomics of terrestrial communities of microalgae. The project aims to understand the species composition and gene repertoire of terrestrial communities of microalgae and the interacting taxon. The main idea is to use those communities as models to understand the early colonization of land environments by photosynthetic microorganisms in the context of Del-Bem’s Theory of the Microforest.
Program: PhD in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Beatriz Moura
Project: The cryptic diversity of streptophytic green algae. The project aims to reveal the diversity of the microalgae that are evolutionary related to land plants focusing on terrestrial/subaerial communities using a combination of metagenomics and molecular phylogenetics.
Program: PhD in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Fenícia Brito
Project: Evolution of tRNA in cellular life. The project focuses on the evolution of tRNA loci and its role in the evolution of complexity.
Program: PhD in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Rosiane Santos
Project: Evolution of glycosyltransferases in green plants (Viridiplantae). The project aims to shed light into the origin and diversification of glycosyltransferase gene families and how they shaped the plant cell wall in the context of the major transitions in plant evolution.
Program: PhD in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Thiago Mendonça
Project: The role of viruses in the evolution of Eukaryotes. The project aims at the evolution of eukaryotic genetic circuits that evolved using viral genes horizontally transferred. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the study of the evolution of the interaction between SARS-CoV-2 S protein and human receptor ACE2 was added to the project.
Program: PhD in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Matheus Bonaccorsi
Project: The evolution of tRNA processing into small RNAs. The projects intends to understand how the biogenesis mechanism of tRNA-derived small RNAs evolved in eukaryotes.
Program: PhD in Bioinformatics (UFMG)
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Co-supervised students
Alison Menezes
Project: Unraveling protein domains associated with the emergence of the vascular system in plants. The project investigates protein domains over-represented in copy number in genomes of tracheophytes that might be associated with the evolution of vascular system in land plants. Mutagenesis in the non-vascular liverwort Marchantia polymorpha will be used to uncover new functions in plant biology that might be associated with the origin of the vascular system.
Advisor: Francisco Lobo (ICB-UFMG)
Co-advisor: Luiz-Eduardo Del-Bem
Program: PhD in Genetics (UFMG)
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