Code
3E002206
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2013
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Computational evolutionary biology, comparative genomics and population genomics
- Evolutionary developmental biology
- Molecular evolution
- Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics
- Plant genetics
- Systems biology not elsewhere classified
Keywords
systems biology
bioinformatics
evo-devo
gene and genome duplications
plants
evolution
Project description
The goal of this project is to study the role of small- and large-scale duplications in the evolution of plant complexity and developmental processes (evo-devo) from a systems biology perspective. We will use advanced computational methods to reconstruct and analyse the gene network underlying developmental processes in plants, and assess the impact of genome duplications on the network structure.