Research Interests
We study the mechanisms of change and innovation in biological systems by integrating computational and experimental approaches. We care about how novel genes emerge, and how cellular networks are rewired during evolution. See www.carvunis.com for more information
Selected Publications
- De novo emergence of adaptive membrane proteins from thymine-rich intergenic regions. Vakirlis et al. Nature Communications, 2020.
- Synteny-based analyses indicate that sequence divergence is not the dominant source of orphan genes. Vakirlis e al. eLife, 2020.
- The meanings of "function" in biology and the problematic case of de novo gene emergence. Keeling et al. eLife. 2019.
- De novo gene birth. Van Oss and Carvunis. PLOS Genetics, 2019.