Research Goal

Understanding biodiversity in genome dynamics

Genome is information expressed in the chains of the molecule, DNA, and determines morphology and function of life. This is why the genome is called as "blueprint of life".

Surprising features of life might make you speculate highly orderly designed blueprint behind that. You, however, can easily find that the genome was so accidentally constructed if you closely look. Most part of genome is just a disordered array far from systematic design. Important portion of the genome is genes, which occupy only a few percentages of genome. Those genes can help to understand molecular basis of morphology and function of life. But now ask where they come from. If you don't study the evolutionary dynamism of whole genome, you never reach the answer. Study of whole genome dynamism opens the way to understand how these different lives evolved in the earth. Thus, my major research goal is understanding genomic basis of biodiversity.

I am especially interested in the autonomous players in the genome. In contrast to many genes orchestrated to crystalize morphology and function, these players neutrally or even harmfully behave against the orchestration and are often overlooked in biology. These players, however, can make the rule and constraint of genome dynamism and ultimately decide the direction of genome evolution.