Anete Pereira de Souza

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Cargo: Professor Titular

PhD, Univ Paris XI, Orsay-France

Dep. BIOLOGIA VEGETAL, IB, Unicamp, Campinas, SP

anete@unicamp.br

Area

  • Biodiversity
  • Biotechnology

Research lines

  • Plant Genetics and Breeding
  • Bioinformatics
  • Genetics of Microorganisms

Personal presentation

Anete Pereira de Souza completed a course in Agronomic Engineering at ESALQ / USP in 1984 and a doctorate in Cellular and Molecular Biology - Universite de Paris XI (Paris-Sud) in 1992. She is currently Full Professor at the Department of Plant Biology at the State University of Campinas, in the area of Plant Genetics. For the past 28 years, she has been teaching, researching and training undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Campinas. She also supervised several undergraduates, postgraduates and young researchers (postdoctoral) and coordinated different scientific projects. Her main area of research is genetic variation in plants and fungi: molecular breeding, plant biotechnology, plant breeding, genetics and genomics of plants and fungi, bioinformatics and enzyme biotechnology.

Research activities

My main research area is the study of genetic diversity in different biological systems, its use and applications in plant breeding, conservation of wild species and new biotechnological targets in fungi for biomass degradation. These studies have been carried out mainly through molecular biology approaches, genetic and genomic analyses, biotechnology, computational biology, bioinformatics and statistical genetic tools.

Teaching activities

Disciplines: BV880 - Principles of Genetic Breeding; BV782 - Plant Genetics and Genomics; BD520 Ethical Foundations for the Exercise of the Biologist Profession.

Selected Publications

Garcia, Antonio A. F.; Mollinari, Marcelo; Marconi, Thiago G.; Serang, Oliver R.; Silva, Renato R.; Vieira, Maria L. C.; Vicentini, Renato; Costa, Estela A.; Mancini, Melina C.; Garcia, Melissa O. S.; Pastina, Maria M.; Gazaffi, Rodrigo; Martins, Eliana R. F.; Dahmer, Nair; Sforça, Danilo A.; Silva, Claudio B. C.; Bundock, Peter; Henry, Robert J.; souza, Glaucia M.; souza, A. P.; SNP genotyping allows an in-depth characterisation of the genome of sugarcane and other complex autopolyploids. Scientific Reports, v.3, p. 3399-, 2013 [ doi:10.1038/srep03399 ]

Horta, Maria Augusta Crivelente; Filho, Jaire Alves Ferreira; Murad, Natália Faraj; De Oliveira Santos, Eidy; Dos Santos, Clelton Aparecido; Mendes, Juliano Sales; Brandão, Marcelo Mendes; Azzoni, Sindelia Freitas; De souza, Anete Pereira; Network of proteins, enzymes and genes linked to biomass degradation shared by Trichoderma species. Scientific Reports, v.8, p. 1-8, 2018 [ doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19671-w ]

Pimenta, Ricardo José Gonzaga; Aono, Alexandre Hild; Burbano, Roberto Carlos Villavicencio; Coutinho, Alisson Esdras; Da Silva, Carla Cristina; Dos Anjos, Ivan Antônio; Perecin, Dilermando; Landell, Marcos Guimarães De Andrade; Gonçalves, Marcos Cesar; Pinto, Luciana Rossini; De souza, Anete Pereira; Genome-wide approaches for the identification of markers and genes associated with sugarcane yellow leaf virus resistance. Scientific Reports, v.11, p. 15730-, 2021 [ doi:10.1038/s41598-021-95116-1 ]

Cardoso-silva, Cláudio Benício; Aono, Alexandre Hild; Mancini, Melina Cristina; Sforça, Danilo Augusto; Da Silva, Carla Cristina; Pinto, Luciana Rossini; Adams, Keith L.; De souza, Anete Pereira; Taxonomically Restricted Genes Are Associated With Responses to Biotic and Abiotic Stresses in Sugarcane (Saccharum spp.). Frontiers in Plant Science, v.13, p. 923069-, 2022 [ doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.923069 ]

Aono, Alexandre Hild; Ferreira, Rebecca Caroline Ulbricht; Moraes, Aline Da Costa Lima; Lara, Letícia Aparecida De Castro; Pimenta, Ricardo José Gonzaga; Costa, Estela Araujo; Pinto, Luciana Rossini; Landell, Marcos Guimarães De Andrade; Santos, Mateus Figueiredo; Jank, Liana; Barrios, Sanzio Carvalho Lima; Do Valle, Cacilda Borges; Chiari, Lucimara; Garcia, Antonio Augusto Franco; Kuroshu, Reginaldo Massanobu; Lorena, Ana Carolina; Gorjanc, Gregor; De souza, Anete Pereira; A joint learning approach for genomic prediction in polyploid grasses. Scientific Reports, v.12, p. 12499-, 2022 [ doi:10.1038/s41598-022-16417-7 ]