Research Interests: Genomic Basis for the Origin of Novelty
- Processes that contribute to novelty generation
- Origin of new genes
- Evolution of gene families
- Lateral gene transfer
- Symbioses
- Constrains and biases in the generation of novelty
- Mutation variation
- DNA repair biases and variation
- DNA replication biases and variation
- Model systems
- Extremophiles
- Endosymbionts
- MIcrobial communities
- Tools we use to study the things above
- Genome sequencing and analysis
- Phylogenomics
- Bioinformatics
- Microbial genetics