Saitou's Presentations Given in English

AS 0009 (AD 2009)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  November 5, 0009: All biology aspire to evolution. SOKENDAI School of Life Science and School of Advanced Studies joint seminar. Tsumagoi Resprt, Kekegawa, Japan
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  October 22, 0009: Evolutionary patterns of gene homogenization between primate-specific paralogs after human and macaque speciation. PICB Workshop on Cpmparative Sequence Analysis 2009. CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  October 9, 0009: Evolutionary patterns of gene homogenization between primate-specific paralogs after human and macaque speciation. NIG Colloquium. National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  September 12, 0009: MISHIMA - Method for Inferring Sequence History In terms of Multiple Alignment. PICB Minisymposium on Current Challenges in Computational Biology. CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai, China.
• Saitou N., Ezawa K., Ikeo K. and Gojobori T. (poster)
  June 5, 0009: Evolutionary Pattern of Gene Homogenization between Primate-Specific Paralogs after Human and Macaque Speciation. SMBE Annual Meeting 2009, Iowa City, USA.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  May 29, 0009: Possibility of ancient DNA study at Farmana Site. Informal Meeting on Indus Civilization. Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  March 10, 0009: Evolution of vertebrate-specific, primate-specific and mammalian-specific highly conserved non-coding genomic region. Japan-Germany Colloquium 2009 "Evolutionary Genomics", Bonn, Germany.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  February 28, 0009: Evolution of protein non-coding DNA region in vertebrates. 8th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Symposium. Kyoto University, Kyoto.

AS 0008 (AD 2008)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  August 22, 0008: Welcome to world of phylogenetic networks! Symposium S3: Phylogenetic Networks for Evolutionary Studies. SESJ annual meeting, University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus, Tokyo.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  March 28, 0008: Utility of phylogenetic network for deciphering nucleotide sequence history. Invitation to the NIG International Symposium. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  March 20, 0008: Some examples of evolutionary genomics study. 7th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course. Jeju University, Korea.

AS 0007 (AD 2007)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  November 6, 0007: Introduction to Evolutionary Genomics. Seoul National University,Seoul, Korea.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  November 6, 0007: Comparative genomics of various mammalian species with special reference toward human evolution. Seoul National University,Seoul, Korea.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  September 21, 0007: Evolutionary analysis on primates. the 79th Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Japan, Okayama, Japan.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  June 27, 0007: Evolution of ultra-conserved elements in mammals. SMBE Annual Meeting 2007, Hallifax, Canada.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  June 8, 0007: Neccessity of Non-Tree Structure in Nuclear DNA Phylogeny. A tree of life constructed by genome-wide information, Tibet, China.

AS 0006 (AD 2006)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  July 5, 0006: Comparative genomic analyses of mammalian species including human. RIKEN Brain Science Center, Wako, Japan.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  June 28, 0006: Relic of ancient recombinations in gibbon ABO blood group genes suggests transspecific polymorphism. GlycoT2006, Tsukuba, Japan.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  May 2, 0006: Phylogenetic trees and networks. Nankai University Center for Combinatorial Mathematics, Tenjin, China.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  April 29, 0006: Power and limit of evolutionary genome sequence analysis. Shanghai Center for Bioinformation Technology, Shanghai, China.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  April 27, 0006: Phylogenetic analyses to genetic and linguistic data. MPI-CAS Partner Institute of Computational Biology, Shanghai, China.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  March 15, 0006: Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution. 5th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course. National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  January 21, 0006: Role of DDBJ for constructing Asian Network on Bioinformatics-related Researches. Sokendai International Symposium on Networks on Science and Culture Exchanges among Asian Countries. Sokendai, Hayama, Japan.

AS 0005 (AD 2005)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  October 31, 0005: . Iscia Island, Italy.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  September 29, 0005: Promises and Pitfalls on DNA Barcoding. Japanese Genetics Society 77th Annual Meeting, Mini-Symposium 13, DNA Barcoding of Life. Tokyo.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  September 9, 0005: What kind of information can we extract from evolutionary genome sequence analysis? KOGO meeting, Symposium 10, Comparative Genomics. Seoul, Korea.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  September 9, 0005: Tree and non-tree structure of evolutionary relationship of genes. KRIBB, Daejong, Korea.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  August 1, 0005: Genetic relationship of human populations in and around Japanese Islands. Symposium organized by McDonald Institute, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  July 28, 0005: Tree and non-tree structure of evolutionary relationship of genes. EBI, Hinxton Hall, UK.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  June 8, 0005: Relationship between genetic and linguistic differentiation of people in Eurasia. Symposium on Ethnogenesis in Central and South Asia. Kyoto.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  February 28, 0005: Comparative genomics/transcriptomics of human, chimpanzee, and gorilla HOXA clusters. Symposium on Structural and Evolutionary Genomics. Puentarenas, Costa Rica

AS 0004 (AD 2004)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Before and after encountering neutral theory. Mishima Workshop, Hakone, Japan, November 26, 0004
• Saitou N. (Informal talk)
  Human and ape comparative genomics. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolcutta India, November 23, 0004
• Saitou N. (Plenary Lecture)
  What can we extract from comparative genomic analysis? ICONIP 2004, Kolcutta India, November 22, 0004
• Saitou N. (Invited talk at the main symposim)
  Human and ape genome comparison as a model for evolutionary genomics of closely related species. Symosium on human evolution. SESJ annual meeting 2004, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, August 4, 0004
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Human and hominoid specific changes and conservation during primate evolution. Genomes & Evolution 2004, Penn-State University, State College. USA, June 18, 0004
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Comparative genome analysis of human/ape and mouse/rat. KRIBB, Deajong, Korea, April 30, 0004
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Silver project: simultaneous analysis of human and ape genome sequences. HOPE symposium, Kyoto, Japan, March 7, 0004
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Comparative genomics of human and apes. Heron Island, Australia, February 6, 0004

AS 0003 (AD 2003)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Human-specific coding and non-coding changes. Mishima Workshop, Hakone, Japan, November 14, 0003
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Comparative genomics of human/chimpanzee and mouse/rat. Montreal, Canada, October 28, 0003
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Toward genomic and phenotypic comparison of human and apes. Toulouse, France, June 18, 0003

AS 0002 (AD 2002)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Toward genomic and phenotypic comparison of human and apes. Symposium on Molecular Basis of Evolution. Heisei Plaza, Tokyo, December 4, 2002
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Esper And Netview: Softwares For Phylogenetic Network Reconstruction. CSHL Meeting on Human Origins and Disease. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA, November 2, 2002
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Molecular evolutionary analyses of HoxA gene cluster of human and apes. 2002 workshop "Beyond the Identification of Transcribed Sequences: Functional, Expression and Evolutionary Analysis". Washington, D.C., USA, October 28, 2002
• Saitou N., Akazawa T., and Jaume Bertranpetit (organizers)
  Inter-Congress Symposium CS 8: Origin and Dispersal of Modern Humans Viewed from DNA Level and Reconstructing the Image of Neanderthals. Inter-Congress of IUAES 2002, Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan, September 23, 2002
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Farewell to Races. Symposium: Is race a universal idea?. Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan, September 19, 2002
• Saitou N. and Ueda S. (Invited talk)
  In-Yan hypothesis on geographical distribution of languages in Eurasia. The 11th Annual Conference of he International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL-11). Aichi Prefectural University, Nagoya, Japan, August 20, 2002
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Evolutionary genomics of HoxA gene cluster in mammals. Gordon Research Conference on Genomics & Structural/Evolutionary Bioinformatics. Mount Holyoke College, USA, July 29, 2002
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolution of ABO and Rh blood group genes. University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, July 15, 2002.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolutionary genomics of humans and apes. SMBE meeting. Sorrento, Italy, June 13-16, 2002
• Saitou N. (poster)
  Evolutionary genomics of humans and apes. Human Genome Mapping 2002. Shanghai, China, April 15-17, 2002
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  In search of human specific changes from comparative genomics of human and apes. Toulouse, France, March 13, 2002.
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  In Search of Human Specific Change from Comparative Genomics of Human and Apes. Waterfront Symposium of Human Genome Science. National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, Japan, March 2, 2002

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AS 0001 (AD 2001)

• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Ape Genome Project Silver. GEMINI (Genes and Minds Initiative) Workshop on Ape Genomics. Hotel Inter-Continental Tokyo Bay, Tokyo, Japan, March 14 and 15, 2001
• Saitou N. (poster)
  Ape Genome Project "Silver" - A comparison of closely related species. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Genome Sequencing and Biology. Cold Spring Harbor, USA, May 10-14, 2001
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Comparative genome analysis of apes and human. AMERICAN GENETIC ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, San Diego, USA, May 19-20, 2001
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Genetic affinity of human populations in East Eurasia. Symposium "EVOLUTION, GENETICS, ECOLOGY AND BIODIVERSITY", Vladivostok, Russia, September 28-30, 2001
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Evolutionary genomics of humans and apes. Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics, Atami, Japan, Nov. 4-6, 2001
• Saitou N. (Invited talk)
  Comparison of Hox A Gene Cluster in Humans and Apes. Symposium on "Explaining Humans", Salk Institute for Biological Sciences, La Jolla, California, USA, November 16-18, 2001

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AS 0000 (AD 2000)

• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolution of ABO and Rh blood group genes in primates and Ape Genome Project Silver. Toulouse, France, February 12.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolution of ABO blood group genes in primates and Ape Genome Project Silver. Nimejen, Netherland, February 15.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolution of ABO blood group genes in primates and Ape Genome Project Silver. Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Anthropology, Leipzig, Netherland, February 16.
• Saitou N., Kitano T., and Kobayakawa H. (poster)
  Project Silver: an ape genome project toward deciphering genetic changes responsible for creating humanness. International Symposium "Evolution 2000" at Tokyo, March 5-7.
• Kitano T. and Saitou N. (poster)
  Evolutionary history of the Rh blood group-related genes in vertebrates. International Symposium "Evolution 2000" at Tokyo, March 5-7.
• Kitano T., Sumiyama K., Noda R., Ferrell R.E., and Saitou N. (poster)
  Gene diversity of chimpanzee ABO blood group genes elucidated from intron 6 and exon 7 sequences. International Symposium "Evolution 2000" at Tokyo, March 5-7.
• Noda R., Kitano T., Sumiyama K., Takenaka O., and Saitou N. (poster)
  Evolution of the ABO blood group gene in primates. International Symposium "Evolution 2000" at Tokyo, March 5-7.
• Liu Y-H., Kitano T., Kobayakawa H., Koide T., Shiroishi T., Moriwaki K.,and Saitou N. (poster)
  Conspicuous differences among gene genealogies of 21 nuclear genes of five Mus musculus subspecies. International Symposium "Evolution 2000" at Tokyo, March 5-7.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Silver: Ape Genome Sequencing Project. Symposium on Great Apes - Phenotypes and genotypes. Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA, March 19-22.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Network representation of trees. German-Japanese Seminar on "Methods of reconstructing evolutionary historyof genes". National Institue of Genetics , Mishima, March 26-28.
• Kitano T., Kobayakawa H., Liu Y.-H., Ueda S., Ferrell R.E., and Saitou N. (poster)
  Silver Project: Ape genome project toward deciphering genetic changes responsible for creating humanness. American Association of Physical Anthropoologists annual meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA, April 14.
• Kikuchi M., Misu S., Imanishi T., and Saitou N. (poster)
  CAMUS DB: Development of a structured database for efficient homology search. RECOMB2000, Tokyo Bigsight, Tokyo, April 9-11.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Influence of introgression depicted from multiple comparison of gene genealogies. Workshop "Neutralism and Selectionism: the end of a debate". Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Benthos Ecology Laboratory, Ischia Porto, Italy, May 4.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolution of hominoid genome with special reference to blood group genes. Institute of Botany, University of Duesseldorf, Germany, June 7.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Simultaneous Sequence Joining (SSJ): a new method for constructing phylogenetic networks. Workshop "Combinatorial Methods in Biological data analysis". Department of Mathematics, University of Bielefeld, Germany, June 8.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Ape genome project Silver with special reference to evolution of blood group genes in hominoids. Department of Biological Evolution, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spein, June 13.
• Liu Y-H., Kitano T., Kobayakawa H., Koide T., Shiroishi T., Moriwaki K.,and Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Conspicuous differences among gene genealogies of 21 nuclear genes of five Mus musculus subspecies. Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE2000). Yale University, New Haven, USA, June 19.

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1999

• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of Rh blood group genes and their homologous genes. Special Lecture, Nanjing Normal University Department of Biology, Nanjing, China, January 30.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Multiple star-like clusters observed in mtDNA tree of Circum-Pacific human populations. International Symposium "Recent Progress in the Studies of the Origins of the Japanese", International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, February 22.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of blood group genes in vertebrates. Symposium on Genome Diversity and Evolution, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA, June 13.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Phylogenetic relationship of muscle tissues deduced from superimposition of gene trees. Frank Ruddle Lab., Yale University, New Haven, USA, June 16.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Phylogenetic networks and superimposition of gene trees. Columbia Genome Center, Columbia University, New York, USA, June 19.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of ABO and Rh blood group genes. Mini-mini symposium on molecular evolution, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, USA, June 21.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of glycosyltransfererase genes. XVth International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Hotel East21, Tokyo, Japan, August 27.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  ABO blood groups in mammals. Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Evolution, Hayama, Japan, October 28.

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  1998

• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Simultaneous sequence Joining (SSJ): a new method for constructing phylogenetic networks. The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE6). University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 19.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Divergence between primates and rodents based on Rh blood group gene and its homologous 50kD glycoprotein. International Symposium on the Origin of Mammalian Orders. Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan, July 24.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolution of blood group genes. Fukuoka International Symposium on Population Genetics. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, August 23.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Methods for constructing phylogenetic trees and networks of closely related sequences. International Symposium on Biodiversity. International Institute of Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan, December 3. Programs for constructing phylogenetic trees and networks of closely related sequences.IIAS International Symposium on "Biodiversity", International Institute of Advanced Studies, Kyoto, Japan, December 3-5.

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  1997

• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Genetic relationship of human populations. Symposium on Ibero-America. Japan-Germany Society Hall, Berlin, Germany, March.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of blood group genes with special reference to the ABO and Rh blood groups: a review. International Symposium on Genetics. Institute of Zooogy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, April.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolution of ABO and Rh blood group genes. Human Genetics Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA, August 6.

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  1996

• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank International DNA database and a "Tsunami" of biological information. Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 11.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Introduction to molecular phylogeny - a basic descripter of evolution. Institute of Zooogy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, March 11.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  A population genetic study of Kaoshan people of Taiwan. Institute of Genetics, National Yan-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 12.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Molecular evolution of ABO blood group genes in humans and non-human primates. National Taiwan University Medical School, Taipei, Taiwan, March 12.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolution of ABO blood group genes. International Symposium on Network and Evolution of Molecular Information, Tokyo, Japan, April 20.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolution of ABO blood group genes in humans and non-human primates. The Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE4), Tucson, USA, June 9.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of ABO blood group genes. The Fifth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB5), Budapest, Hungary, August 18.

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  1995

• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Contrasting gene trees and population trees on human evolution. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, April 4. Abstract
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolution of the ABO blood group genes. SMBE3 Workshop, Hamaya, Japan, August 25. Abstract
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Human evolution viewed from species trees, gene trees, and population trees. Department of Mathematics, University of Hamburg, Hambrug, Germany, September 20.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Reconstruction of Gene Trees from Sequence Data. Department of Ecology and Genetics, Aarfus University, Denmark, September 26.

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  1994

• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolutionary rate of insertions and deletions in nucleotide sequences of primates. ASN-SMBE-SSE-SSB Joint Annual Meeting, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A., June 18.

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  1993

• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolution of ABO blood group genes. International Symposium on Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics, Mishima, Japan, April.
• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Evolutionary rate of insertions and deletions in nucleotide sequences of primate non-coding region DNA. NIH, Frederick, USA, June.

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  1992

• Saitou N. (informal seminar)
  Genetic affinity of human populations. NIH, Bethesda, USA, June.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Evolution of insertions and deletions. Society for the Study of Evolution, Berkeley, California, USA, June.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Genetic affinity networks of the present Mongoloid populations. The first World Conference on Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals, Tokyo, Japan, November.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolutionary rate of insertions and deletions in nucleotide sequences of primate non-coding region DNA. J.B.S. Haldane Birth Centenary Celebrations, Calcutta, India, December.

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  1991

• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Methods for constructing molecular phylogenetic trees. Sequence Analysis Conference, Bielefeld, Germany, June.
• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Genetic affinity of human populations in Pacific and Circum- Pacific area. 17th Pacific Science Congress, Honolulu, U.S.A., July.
• Saitou N. (invited talk)
  Evolutionary rate of insertions and deletions in nucleotide sequences. 17th Taniguchi International Symposium on Population Paleo- Genetics, Mishima, Japan, November.

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  1990

• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  The Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB4), Maryland, USA, July

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1989

• Saitou N. (oral presentation)
  Seattle, USA, July