Name: Dr. Pawel Michalak

Position: Professor for Cell Biology and Physiology

Research Description:

Research program in the Michalak laboratory focuses on comparative genomics and evolution. We employ an integrative approach with a variety of molecular and computational techniques to rigorous understanding of how genes produce biological diversity. Recent advances in genomic technologies and bioinformatics, including ‘next-gen’ sequencing of entire genomes and transcriptomes, provide a unique opportunity to investigate how morphological complexity elaborates from genomes through gene regulatory networks. I am  particularly interested in genome responses to such dramatic extrinsic and intrinsic challenges as interspecies hybridization and speciation, genome duplications (poliploidization), genomic conflicts, and cancer.

Lab Memberships

Michalak Laboratory (Principal Investigator/Director)

Contact Information

Address:
VCOM - Virginia
2265 Kraft Drive
Blacksburg, VA
24061, USA

Web Page: https://www.vcom.edu/staff/pawel-michalak
Phone:  817-272-2871
Personal Fax:  (540) 231-2606