Pawel Michalak, PhD

Pawel Michalak, PhD is Professor and Associate Dean for Biomedical Affairs & Research at VCOM-LA. His focus is on comparative genomics, bioinformatics, and One Health. His team has employed an integrative approach with a variety of molecular, computational and modeling techniques, including NextGen sequencing of entire genomes, epigenomes, and transcriptomes to rigorous understanding how complexity elaborates from genomes through gene regulatory networks, and how biodiversity evolves over generations in response to environmental stress and intragenomic challenges. He worked in nine universities in four countries across three continents. His research resulted in a book (another is in preparation), multiple book chapters, and more than 80 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, including “Science”, “Nature”, and “Cell”, already cited about 3,300 times and popularized by various public media.  He earned his “Magisterium” (= MSc) in biology in 1993 from the University of Lodz in Poland and his PhD in 1997 in Evolutionary Biology from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.