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Goodbye Almir

We would like to say goodbye to Almir José Ferreira, a visiting student from the Laboratório de Biologia Molecular e Ecologia Microbiana in Universidade de São Paolo in Brazil. He spent six months in our group learning about comparative genomics.

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Prof. Thon visits the University of Helsinki

Prof. Michael Thon recently visited the university of Helsinki to give a seminar and examine Ph.D. candidate Honxin Chen. Congratulations Hongxin for an excellent thesis and thesis defense!

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A fungal effector with host nuclear localization and DNA-binding properties is required for maize anthracnose development

Vargas WA, Sanz-Martin JM, Rech GE, Armijos-Jaramillo VD, Rivera LP, Echeverria MM, Díaz-Mínguez JM, Thon M, Sukno S: A fungal effector with host nuclear localization and DNA-binding properties is required for maize anthracnose development. MPMI 2015. Abstract: Plant pathogens have … Continue reading

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Welcome Mariote and Almir

We are very happy to welcome two new visiting students to our group. Mariote Mariote is from the Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil and Almir or from the Universidade de São Paolo.

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Goodbye Vania

We would like to say goodbye to visiting scientist Dr. Vania Liuzzi. Dr. Liuzzi works at ISPA (Institute of Sciences of Food Production) in Bari, Italy  and spent some time with Dr Thon learning about RNAseq analysis.

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Enhorabuena Victor

Victor Bello Rico, reciente graduado de biotecnología y Becario de Colaboración del grupo de genética del CIALE obtuvo la matricula de honor por su trabajo fin de grado: Análisis comparativo de los genomas de C. graminicola y C. sublineola, patógenos … Continue reading

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Identification of horizontally transferred genes in the genus Colletotrichum reveals a steady tempo of bacterial to fungal gene transfer

Abstract (provisional) Background Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is the stable transmission of genetic material between organisms by means other than vertical inheritance. HGT has an important role in the evolution of prokaryotes but is relatively rare in eukaryotes. HGT has … Continue reading

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Congratulations to Gabriel for the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado!

Congratulations go out to Gabriel Rech, our former Ph.D. student who recently received the Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado for his Ph.D. research.  Great job Gaby!

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Welcome to our new postdoc, Ramón Pacheco

Ramón Pacheco was recently awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from CONACYT, Mexico to work on Colletotrichum comparative genomics in our group.

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Congratulations Víctor Bello!

Undergraduate student Víctor Bello was recently awarded an undergraduate research fellowship (a beca de colaboración) for work in our group. Congratulations Víctor!

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