Outline of Research and Education
Advances in genomics technologies have transformed research and development strategies in biology and biomedicine, allowing us to access genetic information encoded in our DNA (Fig 1). Our laboratory is interested in understanding how individual genes form large regulatory networks to control biological processes. In particular, we study how regulatory non-coding RNAs including microRNAs (miRNAs) contribute to gene regulation and how their misregulation leads to human health problems.
Research in our laboratory relies on a combination of traditional and modern techniques including biochemistry, genetics and computational biology. Students are expected to learn how to carefully interpret analysis results and develop strategies to answer biological questions by exploiting existing technologies or devising new techniques.