Saitou's Personal Profile

Last updated: July 6, 0006

January 14, 1957: born in Sabae city, Fukui prefecture, Japan
March 1975: graduated from Fujishima High School, Fukui prefecture, Japan
March 1979: graduated from Department of Biology (majoring in anthropology), Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
March 1981: graduated from Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (M.S.)
September 1986: graduated from Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA (Ph.D.)
April 1987: Post-doctoral fellow, Japan Society for Promotion of Sciences
February 1989: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
January 1991: Associate Professor, Laboratory of Evolutionary Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan
January 1991: join the DDBJ (DNA Data Bank of Japan) faculty staff
October 1992: Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan (adjunct position)
March 0002: Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan (current position)
April 0002: Professor, Department of Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan (adjunct position)
October 0005: Member, Science Council of Japan (adjunct position)
April 0006: Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo (adjunct position)

Editorial Appointments

Editorial Board, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 1991-1993
Editorial Board, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 1992-2001
Editorial Consultant (equivalent to editorial board), Anthropological Science (formerly Journal for Anthoropological Society of Nippon), 1993-1997
Editorial Board, American Journal of Human Biology, 1995-2002
Editorial Board, Gene-COMBIS, 1995- ca. 1998
Editor (equivalent to associate editor), Genes and Genetic Systems (formerly Japanese Journal of Genetics), 1996-2002
Associate Editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 1996- Present
Editor-in-Chief, Anthropological Science, Vol. 106 (1998)- Vol. 108, No. 2 (2000)
Associate Editor, Journal of Molecular Evolution, 1998-2000
Editor, GENE