updated date : 17, December 2020

Course title Credit and Period:

Evolutionary Genomics 　　1 Credit　　　2020 2nd semester

Outline:

After introduction of basic knowledge on various fields of evolutionary and population genetics, such as adaptive evolution, neutral evolution, speciation, symbiosis evolution, and epigenetics evolution, we discuss what kinds of new questions will be possible to answer by employing emerging genomic technologies.

Aim:

Study basics of evolutionary genetics and recently developed genomic tools applied to the field.

Understand what kinds of research questions you can address employing evolutionary genetic and genomic tools.

Grading criteria:

To obtain credit one must attend at least three of the classes and submit a report on either one of the classes or the entire course. The report should summarize what you learnt from the lecture and how you would be able to apply the methods or the ways of thinking to your own research within about 1 page of A4-sized paper. The grades will be A, B, C, and D, which are determined by the quality of the report.

Lecture plan:

After introduction of basic knowledge on various fields of evolutionary and population genetics, such as adaptive evolution, neutral evolution, speciation, symbiosis evolution, and epigenetics evolution, we discuss what kinds of new questions will be possible to answer by employing emerging genomic technologies.

13:30 – 15:10 on Fridays

October 30	Speciation	KITANO Jun
November 13	Protein evolution and nearly neutral evolution	AKASHI Hiroshi
November 20	Genomic signatures of adaptation	MATSUMOTO Tomotaka
November 27	Molecular mechanisms of adaptation	ISHIKAWA Asano
December 4	Phylogenetics and population genetics	SAITOU Naruya
December 11	Epigenome and evolution	KAKUTANI Tetsuji
January 8	Symbiosis evolution	MIYAGISHIMA Shin-ya
January 15	Using metagenomics for evolution research	KUROKAWA Ken

Location:

2F seminar room of the library in National Institute of Genetics

Language:

English