Yves Yan de Peer教授是近几年分子进化领域的新星，文章巨多，十年间发表过近200篇文章，特别是在植物基因组复制（多倍化）方面研究颇深。但是在植物基因组进化过程中还有很多问题没有研究清楚，在以后几年中随着更多基因组被测序，相应的问题就能掀起盖头来。基因组复制对基因组进化和物种的复杂性有着重要的影响，这种影响在进化过程中起着怎么样的作用是首先要探讨的问题；其次基因组是导致基因复制重要的一个方面，基因组复制对基因复制后功能演化有着怎样的影响也是一个重要的问题，也就是从基因组复制层面考察基因复制后功能的演化是极其重要和必须的。

另外我们国家拥有全世界最大的测序中心（华大，测序能力已经超过JGI，世界第一），在以后几年中估计将有大量的动物和植物的基因组被测序，这也是华大的目标。如果没有相应基因组进化研究将是很可惜的，所有基因组进化的研究是十分必须的。

Nature published a short career article about what makes or breaks a Phd student. We think the profile below matches our Phd students quite well. Does it match you?

 

• Choose a supervisor whose work you admire and who is well supported by grants and departmental infrastructure.
• Take responsibility for your project.
• Work hard : long days all week and part of most weekends. If research is your passion this should be easy, and if it isn't, you are probably in the wrong field. Note who goes home with a full briefcase to work on at the end of the day. This is a cause of success, not a consequence.
• Take some weekends off, and decent holidays, so you don't burn out.
• Read the literature in your immediate area, both current and past, and around it. You can't possibly make an original contribution to the literature unless you know what is already there.
• Plan your days and weeks carefully to dovetail experiments so that you have a minimum amount of downtime.
• Be creative : Think about what you are doing and why, and look for better ways to go. Don't see your PhD as just a road map laid out by your supervisor.
• Develop good writing skills : they will make your scientific career immeasurably easier.
• To be successful you must be at least four of the following: smart, motivated, creative, hard-working, skillful and lucky. You can't depend on luck, so you should better focus on the others!

We'd like to add one more thing to the list:

• It's better to burn out than to fade away. Neil Young

 

If the above sounds good to you & you'd like to join our group, contact Yves Yan de Peer.

Below are some pictures of our offices inside the FVMS building to give you an idea of what kind of environment to expect..

 

http://bioinformatics.psb.ugent.be/jobs追踪各个实验室的研究，也是博士生期间所必须的，我觉的。

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