He held a principal scientist position at The Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and a post-doctoral position at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute where he investigated the comparative evolutionary genomics of eukaryotic regulatory pathways. (jcvi.org)
«Human and chimpanzee genes differ very little, so one hypothesis in evolutionary genomics holds that humans and chimpanzees are so phenotypically different because of differences in the way they regulate gene expression. (sciencedaily.com)
Michael Stanhope, professor of evolutionary genomics at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, and scientists at the Save Our Seas Shark Research Center at Nova Southeastern University published the study in the November issue of BMC Genomics. (sciencedaily.com)