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Field of study
Evolutionary genetics
Research interests
I am interested in mechanisms underlying evolutionary processes, especially how the changes at the molecular level result in the shifts of phenotypes. I use Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism, addressing questions on the molecular mechanisms that lead to adaptive traits. I am currently working on mutational landscape, biological basis of statistical epistasis, functional divergence of duplicate genes, etc.
Advisor
Jianzhi (George) Zhang
Zhang Lab
Recent Publications
Wenfeng Qian and Jianzhi Zhang. 2008. Gene dosage and gene duplicability. Genetics 179: 2319-2324.
Wenfeng Qian and Jianzhi Zhang. 2008. Evolutionary dynamics of nematode operons: Easy come, slow go. Genome Research 18:412-421.
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