Program Areas — Dr. Ning Jiang , Associate Professor

Plant Breeding and Genetics

My primary research objective is to explore the function of transposable elements (TEs) in order to understand the forces underlying eukaryotic genome diversification. It now seems clear that each genome possesses a unique spectrum of transposable elements and a varying proportion of these are active. An open question is how this diversity of TEs influences the evolutionary trajectory of the genomes in which they reside. I use both computational and molecular biology-based approaches to address this question and to analyze the ever-increasing database of genomic sequence from multiple plant species.

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