Ecological Genetics Laboratory

Our crater lake paper is now available on line (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.234/full). (Apr.28.2012)
Kohta's paper on the sex chromosome evolution and female meiotic drive has been accepted in Evolution! (Apr.22.2012)
Asano's review paper on the variation in thyroid hormone signaling in humans and animals has been accepted in Thyroid Hormones (online open book)! (Apr.14.2012)
A new member Maiko Kawajiri has joined our lab as a postdoc. She will work on the ecological genomics of medakas. (Apr.1.2012)
I was invited to an Okazaki conference on Speciation and Adaptation. All talks were really great and stimulating! (Mar.19-23.2012)
A new lab member Mark Ravinet has joined the lab as a JSPS postdoctoral researcher! (Feb.10.2012)
Our paper on the crater lake sticklebacks has been accepted for Ecology and Evolution! (Feb.14.2012)
Our paper on sex steroid divergence between closely related species has been accepted for PLoS One (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029253)! (Nov.23.2011)
Students of Fuji High School came to my lab for a lab tour. (Oct.28.2011)
A new paper was accepted by Journal of Fish Biology. (Oct.15.2011)
I gave lectures about Ecological Genetics and Genomics at Kyoto University . Thanks for inviting! (Oct.12-13.2011)
Makoto and I have organized a symposium titled "Integrating Genomics into Physiology at the Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan (Asahikawa, Hokkaido). Adam, Mark, and Asano - Thanks for giving great talks. It was a great meeting! (Sep.23.2011)
Seiichi and I have organized a symposium on the past and future of stickleback ethology at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Ethological Society. Hiroshi, Manabu, and Tomoyuki - thanks for coming over to Keio University to give excellent talks. (Sep.10.2011)
I gave a talk at the Conservation Genomics Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society at Seattle. (Sep.7.2011)
Students of Nirayama High School came to my lab and did some molecular biology experiments. (Aug.10.2011)
I had a great chance to give an invited talk at the SMBE meeting in Kyoto and obtained many constructive feedbacks from the audience. (Jul.27.2011)
We've got a big news that we are receiving the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the MEXT! (Jul.26.2011)
A review paper was published on line. Kitano and Peichel (2011). Turnover of sex chromosomes and speciation in fishes. Env. Biol. Fish. in press. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-011-9853-8 (Jun.4.2011)
The site has been opened. (May.23.2011)