The 51st In Silico Megabank Research Seminar(December 12, 2014)

The 51st In Silico Megabank Research Seminar will be held on Friday, December 12 . This Time, we will be welcoming Dr. Ryosuke Kimura, University of the Ryukyus as our lecturer, and he will be speaking on “Encouragement of Learning Genome Anthropology”.

・Date/Time: December 12 (Friday) 17:00‐18:30
・Venue : Small Conference Room 2(3rd Floor), Tohoku Medical Megabank
・Title: Encouragement of Learning Genome Anthropology
・Lecturer : Ryosuke Kimura (Faculty of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus)

*This lecture is transferable as a class in the medical research-related lecture course.

・Abstract : Each human being has different combinations of genomes, which creates genomic variations. Thus, there are variations in phenotypes such as people’s appearances and constitutions. In order to understand how human biological variability was shaped and maintained, it is important to know 1) how humans spread all over the world and how they have adapted to their environment, 2) how large the variability generated as a result of chance. At present, in our laboratory, we put special focus on the people in the Ryukyu Chain to deepen our research on the features of genome and phenotypes in Asians and the background on how such features were formed. Furthermore, we are tackling to identify the genomic factors on visible traits such as complexion. The advancement of the recent genome analysis technology and dense catalog of genomic variations have dramatically transformed the strategy of biomedical studies, and it was required for researchers to face a large volume of data. In this seminar, we would like to introduce our study as well as to show the overview of the fast-evolving research methods of population genomics.

・Organizer : Yosuke Kawai, Masao Nagasaki