Mission Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo mission

17 October 2023

21-29 october 2023 - Brazil

Yann Guiguen and Jean-Jacques Lareyre will be in Brazil from 21 to 29 October to give scientific seminars and strengthen existing collaborations with their Brazilian partners from the University of Sao Paulo: Rafael Henrique Nóbrega, Diogo T. Hashimoto and Ricardo Utsunomia.

The programme for this mission:

  • Visit to facilities in Botucatu and to Center of Aquaculture of UNESP
  • Discussion with students but also with Fausto Foresti, Claudio de Oliveira, Ricardo Utsomia and Diogo Hashimoto 
  • Yann’s lectures
    • Genomic approaches for studying the evolution of sex determination systems, sex chromosomes, and mastersex determining genes in fish
    • Turnover of sex determination in fishes: Evolution from classical sex chromosomes to supernumerary B-sex chromosomes
  • Jean-Jacques’s lectures
    • Molecular and functional characterization of germlineprecursors in zebrafish
    • Identification of testicular factors released in rainbow trout plasma towards the identification of non-invasive sex or puberty markers in salmonids

Contact: yann.guiguen@inrae.fr

Modification date : 17 October 2023 | Publication date : 17 October 2023