Synteny Research
With two complete plant genome draft, how can we use these data to infer other plant species, in a word, comparative studies. Dr Paterson's lab fosters an approach of comparing arabidopsis to cotton, or the one I am doing right now, comparing rice to grass species (economically important crops) like maize, sorghum, barley, etc.
Evolutionary Study
Following a PNAS paper unravelling rice duplication history, I've recently come in and reanalyze rice's genome. I've been doing the following currently:
o Using several different approach to reveal the components of genome
o Using filters to get an information-parsimonius genome model
Other Stuff
A lot of coursework to do, *grin*. A list of courses is here. (.xls)
