Department: Genetics
Description: Research of the genetics department in School of Life Sciences focuses on domestication genetics, evolutionary mechanisms, and functional genomics via bioinformatics, molecular biology, cellular biology, genetics and biological chemistry approaches using model organisms including silkworm, fruit fly, bacteria, yeast, etc. The related results have been published on top-ranking journals including Science, Mol. Biol. Evol., Brief. Bioinform., Mol. Ecol., Genetics, BMC Genomics, BMC Evol. Biol., etc. The genetics department currently hosts multiple projects including 863 program, national natural science foundation and natural science foundation of Chongqing.
Members: Prof. Ze Zhang, Assoc. Prof. Quanyou Yu, Assoc. Res. Wei Sun, Assoc. Prof. Zhenglin Zhu