Evolutionary genomics.

Joshua Rest’s lab @ Ecology and Evolution @ Stony Brook University. We use computation and experimentation to study pattern and process in evolutionary genomics.

News

New Preprint: Persistent mirusvirus infection in Aurantiochytrium
Welcome Postdoc Ben Leyland
New Paper: Biological Network Evolution
Alejandro Gil Gomez awarded Fellowship
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Projects

Evolutionary genomics of adaptation to climate change
Niamh O'Hara, Joshua Rest
Experimental and empirical research in regulatory evolution
Nina Gu, jordan-chee, Joshua Rest, Kash Bandaralage
Evolutionary genomics of thraustochytrids.
Ben Leyland, Alex Gil Gomez, Mariana Rius, Joshua Rest, Michael Horowitz, Anbarasu Karthikaichamy
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Metabolic and network evolution
Alex Gil Gomez, Joshua Rest, Dana Opulente
Phylogenomics
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Meet the Team

Principal Investigator

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Joshua Rest

Associate Professor, Department Chair

Grad Students

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Alex Gil Gomez

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Allyson C. Sheneman

Postdocs

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Ben Leyland

Undergraduate Researchers

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Demi Uwechue

Collaborating Alumni

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Kash Bandaralage

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Mariana Rius

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Priya Aggarwal

Alumni

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Anbarasu Karthikaichamy

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Dana Opulente

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Keffy Kehrli

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Michael Horowitz

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Niamh O'Hara

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Nina Gu

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Whitney Wong

Publications

Wiring between close nodes in molecular networks evolves more quickly than between distant nodes

As species diverge, a wide range of evolutionary processes lead to changes in protein-protein interaction networks and metabolic …
Alejandro Gil-Gomez, Joshua S Rest
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Horizontal gene transfer and fusion spread carotenogenesis among diverse heterotrophic protists

Thraustochytrids (phylum: Labyrinthulomycota) are non-photosynthetic marine protists. Some thraustochytrids have crtIBY, a …
Mariana Rius, Joshua S Rest, Gina V Filloramo, Anna M G Novák Vanclová, John M Archibald, Jackie L Collier
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The protist Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for mirusviruses

Summary Viruses are the most abundant biological entities in the world’s oceans, where they play important ecological and …
Jackie L. Collier, Joshua S. Rest, Lucie Gallot-Lavallée, Erik Lavington, Alan Kuo, Jerry Jenkins, Chris Plott, Jasmyn Pangilinan, Chris Daum, Igor V. Grigoriev, Gina V. Filloramo, Anna M. G. Novák Vanclová, John M. Archibald
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Evolution of pathogen response genes associated with increased disease susceptibility during adaptation to an extreme drought in a Brassica rapa plant population

Niamh B O’Hara, Steven J Franks, Nolan C Kane, Silas Tittes, Joshua S Rest
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Nicotine Stimulates Peristalsis in N. Vectensis: From Behavior to Nicotinic Receptor Genes

Joanne Figueiredo, Joshua Rest, Sarah Adamo, Rebecca Grella, James Dilger
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