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【基因體醫學中心特別演講】-The Future of Medical Genomics: Beyond Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) for Disease-sensitive Gene Hunting

發佈日期：2012/11/27

******************************************************************* 題目：The Future of Medical Genomics: Beyond Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) for Disease-sensitive Gene Hunting 講員：Dr. Takashi Gojobori, Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG), Mishima, Japan 時間：12月3日（星期一）， 4:00PM-5:30PM 地點：統一健康大樓B1何曼德講堂 活動網頁：http://cgm.ncku.edu.tw/news/cgm_20121203.html ******************************************************************* Dr. Takashi Gojobori is Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and Professor at Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) in NIG, Mishima, Japan. Prof. Gojobori is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006). In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Prof. Gojobori as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He has received the Gaetano Salvatore Gold Medal from Italy (2004). In 2009 he was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal and the Medal of Honor of Japan for a series of his researches to pioneer the early age of “Molecular Evolutionary Studies using Genome Information”. Prof. Gojobori is leader of the Japanese team of the H-Invitational international consortium who was tasked with creating a database linking the 21,037 validated human genes to their biological function. He has worked extensively on the rates of synonymous and non-synonymous substitutions, positive selection, horizontal gene transfer, viral evolution, genome evolution, and comparative gene expression. In recent years, he has focused on the evolution of the brain and Central nervous system. Prof. Gojobori had served as the Program Director of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) of the Government of Japan and is the Science Officer of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology (MEXT). He has contributed to the DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database. In addition, Prof. Gojobori is the Editor for several outstanding journals including Genome Biology and Evolution, Gene, FEBS Letters, Molecular Biology and Evolution and PLoS Genetics.