Dr. Wen Wang is currently the professor and leader of the Max Planck Junior Research Group on Evolutionary Genomics at Kunming Institute of Zoology. He studied molecular evolution at Kunming Institute of Zoology and received Ph.D degree in 1996, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago in 1997 through 2002. After that, he was appointed as the professor and leader of Max Planck Junior Research Group on Evolutionary Genomics (2002) and deputy director (2005) of Kunming Institute of Zoology. His research focus on origin of genetic novelties in genomes. His awards include Distinguished Young Investigator Award (2004) from the Natural Science Foundation of China. Dr. Wang has published many papers in top journals, including Science and Nature.

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Origin and evolution of genetic novelties