Naruya SAITOU, Professor of Division of Population Genetics, was awarded “Docteur Honoris Causa (an honorary doctorate)” from Université Toulouse III. The award presentation ceremony was held on October 8th in Toulouse, France.
　Established in 1220, Université Toulouse III is one of the oldest and prestigious Universities. The university is also known as Paul Sabatier University after Paul Sabatier who received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry with François Auguste Victor Grignard in 1912.
Three other recipients are from Belgium, the United States, and Spain.

Division of Population Genetics • Saitou Group

Pradeep Lal (Postdoctoral Researcher at Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology Laboratory) presented a poster at the 20th Japanese Medaka and Zebrafish Meeting, 20-21 September 2014 held at Tokyo, Japan and he received Best Poster Award for his presentation. The title of his poster was “Genetic dissection of neural circuits mediating fear-learning in zebrafish”.

Division of Molecular and Developmental Biology • Kawakami Group