Research

I am broadly interested in the genomic evolution of fungi. I seek to understand the genetic make-up of fungal symbionts and how they have adapted to their host environments over evolutionary timescales. The research program in my laboratory primarily uses fungi and insects to study adaptation, evolution, host-microbe interactions, and host specificity by integrating modern genomic approaches with traditional phylogenetic methods. Current research projects include: 

1. Assembling high-quality fungal genomes using long-read sequencing data
2. Developing phylogenomic markers for molecular systematics of early-diverging fungi
3. Investigating population genomic structure of insect-associated fungi
4. Examining experimental evolution and gene expression preference of insect gut-dwelling fungi