Prof. Wen Wang has been studying the origin and evolution of genetic novelties using the evolutionary genomics approach. He got a bachelor's degree from Wuhan University in 1989, received a Ph.D from the Chinese Academy of Science in 1997, and then did postdoctoral research at the Department of Ecology and Evolution of the University of Chicago, first with Prof. Chung-I Wu and then with Prof. Manyuan Long. He became a professor at Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2002 and leader of a CAS-Max Planck Society joint junior scientist group. He is now a full professor at the School of Ecology and Environment, Northwestern Polytechnical University and a New Cornerstone Investigator at New Cornerstone Science Laboratory. Recently he and colleagues have made important discoveries in the genetic bases of special trait evolution in different kinds of organisms.
