Zhao, Shaying
Shaying Zhao
Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics
Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; genomic instability.
Cancer genomics; human junk DNA; genomic instability.
Immunological carbohydrate-protein interactions studied by computational simulation and experimental methods.
Growth-defense tradeoff, phenylpropanoid metabolism and carbon allocation,
gene family evolution and functional diversification, alternative splicing and gene duplication.
Mechanisms of immunity and disease in Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Chagas Disease); Basic and applied biology of T. cruzi.
Use bioinformatics and comparative genomics to study
relationships between the genomic DNA sequence and the
organism’s physiological characteristics,and regulatory
processes that govern the flow of genetic information.
Parasite genomics and the biology of genome evolution.
Evolutionary systems biology; protein kinase signaling in plants, pathogens and microbes. Evolution and classification of glycoenzymes.
Crop genetics, comparative genomics and genome evolution.
Plant centromere and kinetochore structure and function.
Plant genomics and genome evolution, transposable elements,
and regulatory gene evolution.