Research Interests

• Developmental reprogramming
  • Comparative transcriptomics in nematodes and chordates
  • Molecular-level analysis of evolutionary novelties

• Systems biology approach to the study cell fate specification
  • C. elegans embryonic development
  • Molecular basis for developmental robustness

• Evolutionary genomics
  • Functional divergence in gene duplicates
  • Genome evolution by non-adaptive processes