Nakatani, Yoichiro

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Dr. Nakatani was educated at the University of Tokyo, where he received a B.S. degree in 2001 (Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science) and an M.S. in 2003 (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences) followed by a Ph.D. in 2007 (Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences) for his research on the genome evolution of vertebrates and teleosts. After working as a Project Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences) and a Research Fellow at the University of Dublin (Department of Genetics, Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin), he became a Specially Appointed Associate Professor at Osaka University (Department of Cancer Genome Informatics, Graduate School of Medicine) in 2019. He was appointed to his current position as Professor at the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases (RIMD) in 2024.

Publication

(1) Comprehensive genomic profiling of neuroendocrine carcinomas of the gastrointestinal system. Yachida, S. et al. Cancer Discov (2022) 12, 692–711.
(2) Reconstruction of proto-vertebrate, proto-cyclostome and proto-gnathostome genomes provides new insights into early vertebrate evolution. Nakatani, Y., et al. Nat Commun (2021) 12, 1–14.
(3) Genomes as documents of evolutionary history: a probabilistic macrosynteny model for the reconstruction of ancestral genomes. Nakatani, Y. & McLysaght, A. Bioinformatics (2017) 33, i369–i378.
(4) Chromatin-associated periodicity in genetic variation downstream of transcriptional start sites. Sasaki, S., et al. Science (2009) 323, 401–404.
(5) Reconstruction of the vertebrate ancestral genome reveals dynamic genome reorganization in early vertebrates. Nakatani, Y., et al. Genome Res (2007) 17, 1254–1265.
(6) The medaka draft genome and insights into vertebrate genome evolution. Kasahara, M., et al. Nature (2007) 447, 714–719.

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