Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Tri-I Community)
Friday, December 16, 2022
Li Zhao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Head of the Laboratory Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics,
The Rockefeller University
The Birth and Evolution of New Genes
Recommended Readings:
Empirical Articles
Witt E, Langer CB, Svetec N, Zhao L. (2021) Transcriptional and mutational signatures of the aging germline. bioRxiv
Venkataraman K, Shai N, Lakhiani P, Zylka S, Zhao J, Herre M, Zeng J, Neal LA, Molina H,
Zhao L, Vosshall LV. (2022). Rapidly evolving genes underlie Aedes aegypti mosquito reproductive resilience during drought. bioRxiv
Zheng, E. B., & Zhao, L. (2022). Protein evidence of unannotated ORFs in Drosophila reveals diversity in the evolution and properties of young proteins. eLife, 11, e78772.
Peng, J., Svetec, N., & Zhao, L. (2022). Intermolecular Interactions Drive Protein Adaptive and Coadaptive Evolution at Both Species and Population Levels. Molecular biology and evolution, 39(1), msab350.
Cridland, J. M., Majane, A. C., Zhao, L., & Begun, D. J. (2022). Population biology of accessory gland-expressed de novo genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet
