The work of the laboratory focuses on the origin of new genes, new functions, and their role in genome evolution,
adaptation, and species differences. How new genes originate is a fundamental evolutionary problem. Several questions
are essential in this field. How do new genes originate? How beneficial are these acquisitions for the organisms? Are
there any patterns of new gene origination? What are the rates of gene gain and gene loss? What is the role of these
acquisitions and losses in genome evolution, adaptation, and species differences?
Luckily, nowadays, these questions can be addressed. We are using available new powerful technologies: complete genome
sequences, comparative genomics procedures, sequence analyses, molecular evolutionary studies, expression profile studies,
array technology, promoter analyses and gene targeting techniques.
