The broad interest of his lab lies in exploring and understanding microbial diversity and genome evolution. With the development of outstanding sequencing technologies, an enormous amount of genome/ transcriptome/ metagenome data can be used to infer interesting evolutionary theories, physiological behaviour, and putative lifestyles of diverse organisms. His lab attempts to utilize this open-source genome/ transcriptome/ metagenome data and generated high throughput data from diverse sequencing platforms to bridge the gap between computational data, biological function, and organism evolution.His research interests include microbial genomics, metagenomics, and plant-microbe interactions using computational biology.