Research Focus Teams

TBD

Research Interests

Cell Signalling, Molecular trafficking, Nuclear import, Viruses

Departments

Zoology

Bio

Dr. Wei grew up in Vancouver. His academic journey began as an undergrad at McGill University (BA&Sc) where he studied the evolution and molecular basis of caste determination in ants with Dr. Ehab Abouheif. He then went to the National Taiwan University to study the genetic basis of insipient speciation with Dr. Chau-Ti Ting. Here, he became enamored with Drosophila and the extraordinary diversity of species in the genus. He then moved to Cornell University for graduate school, and working with Dr. Daniel Barbash and Andy Clark, he developed cutting edge genomic techniques to investigate the causes and consequences of rapid turnover in repetitive sequences - often characterized as the dark matter of the genome. After completion of his PhD, he joined Dr. Doris Bachtrog group at the University of California - Berkeley to study how selfish genetic elements contribute to sex chromosome evolution, embryonic development, and meiotic processes like spermatogenesis and recombination. Completing a full circle, he returned to Vancouver to start his lab at the LSI in UBC as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Zoology.

Recent Publications

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A selfish supergene causes meiotic drive through both sexes in Drosophila

Polymorphic transposable elements contribute to variation in recombination landscapes

Diversification and recurrent adaptation of the synaptonemal complex in Drosophila

Single-fly genome assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life

Single-cell RNA-seq of Drosophila miranda testis reveals the evolution and trajectory of germline sex chromosome regulation

Causes and Consequences of Varying Transposable Element Activity: An Evolutionary Perspective

Maternal dominance contributes to subgenome differentiation in allopolyploid fishes

Testing a candidate meiotic drive locus identified by pool sequencing