Special Lecture Series
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
4:00 p.m., Carson Family Auditorium (CRC)
Li Zhao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher,
Department of Evolution and Ecology,
University of California Davis
Evolution of Genetic Novelties in Drosophila
Recommended Reading
Li, X., Fan, D., Zhang, W., Liu, G., Zhang, L., Zhao, L., … & Ding, Y. (2015). Outbred genome sequencing and CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing in butterflies. Nature Communications, 6(8212). doi:10.1038/ncomms9212
Zhao, L., Saelao, P., Jones, C. D., & Begun, D. J. (2014). Origin and spread of de novo genes in Drosophila melanogaster populations. Science, 343(6172), 769-772. doi: 10.1126/science.1248286.
Zhao, L., Wit, J., Svetec, N., & Begun, D. J. (2015). Parallel gene expression differences between low and high latitude populations of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. PLOS Genetics, 11(5), e1005184. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005184.
