BBMB Research Seminars

November 8, 2007
Jianzhi George Zhang
University of Michigan

"Evolution of new functions for proteins"

1414 Molecular Biology Buidling
4:10 p.m.

Abstract:

In this talk, I will first use pancreatic ribonuclease as an example to show how functional changes occur after gene duplication and how evolution by gene duplication helps organisms adapt to new environments.  I then use a genomic analysis of yeast protein-protein interaction data to show genome-wide patterns of functional changes in duplicate gene evolution.