[Japanese/English]

Masatoshi Matsunami
Ph.D. candidate in Department of Genetics, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

Research interest:

The contribution of the two-round whole genome duplication to the vertebrate evolution
The evolution of Hox cluster
The evolution of non-coding regions

Publications:

1. Matsunami M., Sumiyama K., Saitou N. (2010)
“Evolution of conserved non-coding sequences within the vertbrate hox clusters through the two-round whole duplications revealed by phylogenetic footprinting analysis”
J. Mol. Evol. 71:427-436
Pubmed

Presentations:

1. Matsunami M., Tatami F., Kubo M., Aizawa T., Kawano K., Demura M.
“The comprehensive analysis of the color tuning residues of pharaonis holorhodopsin by site-saturation mutagenesis.”
5th East Asian Biophysics Symposium & 44th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan, 2P312, Okinawa (Japan), November 2006

2. Matsunami M., Tatami F., Kubo M., Aizawa T., Kawano K., Demura M.
“The comprehensive analysis of the color tuning residues of pharaonis holorhodopsin by site-saturation mutagenesis”
9th Hokkaido University - Seol National University Joint Symposium “Symposium on Structural Analysis of Biological Macromolecules”, P21, Sapporo (Japan), January 2007

3. Matsunami M., Sumiyama K., Saitou N.
“Evolution of conserved non-coding sequences within Hox clusters through the two-round whole duplications revealed by phylogenetic footprinting analysis”
17th Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Poster 2-101, Iowa (USA), June 2009

4. Matsunami M., Saitou N.
“Identification of conserved paralogous synteny blocks derived from the two-round whole genome duplications”
18th Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, P-S13-28, Lyon (France), July 2010

5. Matsunami M., Saitou N.
“Paralogous conserved non-coding sequences derived from the two-round whole genome duplications”
19th Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, P1-76, Kyoto (Japan), July 2011

Awards and Grant:

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Education:

2007.4-current      Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate University for Advanced Studies
2003.4-2007.3      B. Sc. in the Hokkaido university

Contact:

Post address:   Division of Population genetics, National Institute of Genetics
                      1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
Phone:            +81-55-981-6783
Fax:                +81-55-981-6789
E-mail:            mmatsuna(at)lab.nig.ac.jp

updated: 2011/11/20