I am a Brazilian biologist with a Master's and PhD in Evolutionary Genetics and Molecular Biology. Currently, I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Life Sciences of Southwest University (Chongqing, China), working in the Xu Lab for Comparative Genomics, led by Prof. Luohao Xu. My research focuses on the genetic mechanisms underlying the evolution of biodiversity, particularly the roles of chromosomes and sex in this process. I've been studying the karyotypes and genomes of several species, primarily documenting the simple and multiple sex chromosomes of wild populations in the Neotropical and Oriental biogeographic zones, and exploring the content of sex chromosomes through cytogenomics. I'm also working on the chromosome-level assembly of reptile and fish genomes, with a particular focus on repetitive content, as part of the Australian Amphibian and Reptile Genomics Initiative (AusARG), in association with University of Canberra, in collaboration with the Distinguished Prof. Dr. Arthur Georges and Prof. Dr. Tariq Ezaz.

Contact: francisco.sassi@hotmail.com | francisco.sassi@canberra.edu.au