Nakatani, Yoichiro

Profile

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.

Lab

Abe, Ryuichiro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis

Akira, Shizuo

Division of Host Defense

Department of Host Defense

Arase, Hisashi

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immunochemistry

Ebina, Hirotaka

BIKEN Innovative Vaccine Research Alliance Laboratories

Virus Vaccine Group

Hara, Eiji

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Molecular Biology

Horiguchi, Yasuhiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Bacteriology

Horii, Toshihiro

Endowed Chair

Department of Malaria Vaccine Development

Iida, Tetsuya

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Bacterial Infections

Ikawa, Masahito

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Experimental Genome Research

Ishitani, Tohru

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Homeostatic Regulation

Iwanaga, Shiroh

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Molecular Protozoology

Iwasaki, Masaharu

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Emerging Viral Diseases

Kenji Kamimoto

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Biological Informatics Laboratory of Systems Biology

Kobayashi, Takeshi

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Department of Virology

Kotani, Ai

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Regulation of Infectious Cancer

Matsuura, Yoshiharu

Research Center for Infectious Disease Control

Laboratory of Virus Control

Murakami, Yoshiko

Division of Host Defense

Laboratory of Immunoglycobiology

Nakamura, Shota

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Infection Metagenomics

Shioda, Tatsuo

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Viral Infections

Standley, Daron

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Genome Informatics

Suzuki, Kazuhiro

Division of Host Defense

Department of Immune Response Dynamics

Takakura, Nobuyuki

Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology

Department of Signal Transduction

Tsukamoto, Kentaro

International Research Center for Infectious Diseases

Laboratory of Bacterial Zoonoses

Watanabe, Tokiko

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Molecular Virology

Yamamoto, Masahiro

Division of Infectious Disease

Department of Immunoparasitology

Yamasaki, Sho

Division of Host Defense

Department of Molecular Immunology

Yamasaki, Shotaro

Bioinformatics Center

Department of Biological Informatics Laboratory of RNA Informatics