Bryan Kolaczkowski
University of Florida, USA
Biography
The Kolaczkowski Lab uses a combination of computational biology, statistics, structural modeling and biochemistry to examine how molecular systems evolve. We are particularly interested in the evolution of innate immunity in animals and plants. Dr. Kolaczkowski’s research program focuses on developing cutting-edge tools for the characterization of molecular-evolutionary processes and applying these approaches to learn how long-term protein evolution works. Dr. Kolaczkowski’s recent work has advanced the fields of ancestral sequence resurrection (ASR) and protein function prediction while shedding new light on the evolution of innate antiviral immunity and RNA interference.