5/24/2023 0 Comments Favorable winds goldfish standard![]() For many consecutive years, YVdP has been a Highly Cited Researcher. YVdP has an H-index > 100 and his work has been cited more than 60,000 times. YVdP published more than 450 papers, many of which in high-profile journals such as Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Reviews Genetics, Science, PNAS, Genome Research, and The Plant Cell. YVdP is particularly interested in the study of gene and genome duplications as well as in the evolution of novel gene functions after duplication. ![]() Because of their unique expertise and experience in gene prediction, genome annotation, and genome analysis, his research group has been, and still is, involved in many international genome projects. YVdP’s research group is considered a genome analysis powerhouse specialized in the study of the structure and evolution of (plant) genomes. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Axel Meyer at the University of Konstanz, Germany, he was hired at Ghent University (BE) as Group Leader of VIB (Department of Plant Systems Biology) in 2000 and as an Associate Professor at Ghent University in 2001, and promoted to Full Professor in 2008. Yves Van de Peer (YVdP) obtained his PhD in 1996 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. For a more comprehensive overview of our research interests, please see our research section. We believe that whole genome duplications are often an evolutionary dead end, except under certain circumstances, for instance under times of environmental upheaval or changing environmental conditions. Although the number of sequence data that can provide us with answers to the significance of gene and genome duplication, mapping and interpreting (large-scale) gene duplication events remains difficult. However, controversy still exists about how and how fast duplicated genes evolve new functions and on the importance of whole genome duplications. Gene and genome duplication events have been considered important mechanisms for increasing biological complexity or evolving novelty in biology. Regarding genome structure and evolution (which forms a major part of our research), I'm particularly interested in the study of gene and genome duplications as well as in the evolution of novel gene functions after duplication. As an evolutionary biologist and a bioinformatician, I'm interested in using bioinformatics approaches to study the evolution of genes, genomes, and organisms.
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