معرفی
Chuanzhu Fan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Wayne State University's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. His research spans molecular evolution, genomics, and epigenomics with a focus on plant biology.
- Education: Ph.D. from North Carolina State University (2003), Postdoctoral Research at University of Chicago (2006)
Research interests include investigating the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms behind genomic novelty origination and functionalization in plants. He combines studies in Arabidopsis and Oryza species to explore how genomic divergences drive phenotypic differentiation through computational analysis and high-throughput experiments.
Recent publications highlight his work in plant gene duplication, DNA methylation patterns in human sperm, rice genomics, and evolutionary dynamics of transposable elements. His lab also develops bioinformatic tools like the gKaKs pipeline for genome-level Ka/Ks calculations.
Teaching includes graduate courses in Molecular Evolution (BIO6060) and Genomics (BIO5150/BIO7150), and undergraduate Genetics (BIO3070).
Laboratory (Biological Science Building 5107) integrates comparative transcriptomics, DNA methylation manipulation, and phenotyping technologies to study evolutionary novelties in plant genomes.
