Gang Fang is an Assistant Professor of Biology at NYU Shanghai and a Global Network Assistant Professor in the Biology department at NYU. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was an associate research scientist at Yale University. He holds a PhD from Institute Pasteur, France, and BS and MS degrees from Peking University, China.
Fang’s research interests are genomics, molecular evolution, and computational biology. He has developed the concept of gene evolutionary persistence and employed this concept in the studies of genome organization, proteome evolution, and transcriptome and biology networks. His papers have been published in Molecular Biology and Evolution, Genome Research, Genome Biology, PLoS Computational Biology, PNAS, BMC genomics, Nature, Nature Genetics Reviews, and Trends in Genetics, among others. Fang’s current work focuses on evolutionary and comparative analysis of large-scale functional genomics data and system and synthetic biology.
Education
- PhD, Bioinformatics
Institute Pasteur - MS, Biophysics
Peking University
- Biology Undergraduate Research Thesis
- Foundations of Biology I
- Genomics and Bioinformatics