Research Group Overview

Research program in the Michalak laboratory focuses on comparative genomics and evolution. It employs an integrative approach with a variety of molecular and computational techniques to rigorous understanding of how genes produce biological diversity. Recent advances in genomic technologies and bioinformatics, including ‘next-gen’ sequencing of entire genomes and transcriptomes, provide a unique opportunity to investigate how morphological complexity elaborates from genomes through gene regulatory networks. Michalak is particularly interested in genome responses to such dramatic extrinsic and intrinsic challenges as interspecies hybridization and speciation, genome duplications (poliploidization), genomic conflicts, and cancer.

Leader: Pawel Michalak