CAREER: Exploring New Gene Emergence and Functional Innovation through the Genetic Origins, Regulatory Integration, and Evolutionary Trajectories of Fish Antifreeze Proteins

This CAREER project will investigate one of biology’s most fundamental questions: how entirely new genes with novel biological functions arise and help organisms adapt to challenging environments. The project uses fish antifreeze proteins, molecules that allow some fishes to survive in icy seawater, as a window into how evolution repeatedly solves…