Research in the lab employs molecular and bioinformatic tools to study evolutionary processes at the level of populations, both experimental and natural, and genomes. Our research interests encompass a wide range of topics, including the evolution of organellar and nuclear genomes, gene duplication and the origin of novel function, and the evolution of reproductive incompatibility.
THE LATEST..............
November 16, 2009:
A warm welcome to Lucille Packard who just joined the lab as an undergraduate research assistant.
August 21, 2009:
Undergraduate students Devaraj Aran and Hallie Rane are poised to commence with their individual Senior Honors Thesis in Fall 2009.
July 20, 2009:
A warm welcome to several new entrants to our lab: undergraduate research assistant Devaraj Aran who joined us in Summer 2009 and Ph.D. student Lijing Bu who will join us in Fall 2009.
July 13, 2009:
In a new paper in Genome Biology, we demonstrate differences in the structural and genomic attributes of gene duplicates in the yeast genome relative to that of worm, arguing that both differential mechanisms of gene duplication and selective regimes are responsible for this interspecific variation. (Abstract)
