Manyuan Long, University of Chicago

Manyuan Long is currently Professor of Genetics and Evolution at the University of Chicago . He received his Ph.D. from Department of Genetics at University of California at Davis and did postdoctoral research in Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and at Harvard University . He joined the University of Chicago faculty in November,1997. His research interest is in origination of new genes and related problems of gene evolution. He asks what the rates and patterns of new gene origination are, using computational and experimental genomic tools. He has also tried to detect functions and phenotypes of genes that recently originated. Recently his laboratory found that new genes are often related to biology of sex including sex determination and courtship behaviors, a profound process that is so poorly known and so fascinating.

Tentative Title: Origins of New Gens: Biological Concepts and Mechanisms in Computation