Juliana Pipoli da Fonseca

Initiation codon context governs translation-coupled mRNA decay and coordinated expression in the human parasite Leishmania

This study shows that the Kozak sequence context influences mRNA stability and protein expression in Leishmania by modulating translation-coupled decay and polysome recruitment.

KozakExplorer: an interactive framework for genome-wide Kozak sequence analysis

KozakExplorer quantitatively analyzes translation initiation signals across genomes, revealing evolutionary patterns in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

Genetic introgression and transcriptomic plasticity are associated with enhanced Leishmania infantum pathogenicity causing human cutaneous leishmaniasis in Tunisia

The paper identifies hybridization between Leishmania species as a driver of pathogenicity shift in Leishmania infantum causing cutaneous leishmaniasis.

LORA: a polymorphic multi-sample LOng Read Assembly pipeline.

LORA is a long-read genome assembly pipeline that integrates multiple assemblers and provides quality assessment tools, demonstrating its use on bacterial and eukaryotic genomes.