*anese molecular biologist

Takashi Gojobori (五條堀 孝, Gojobori Takashi, born October 24, 1951, *uoka) is a *anese molecular biologist, Vice-Director of the National Ins*ute of Genetics (NIG) and Distinguished Professor at Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of *an (DDBJ) in NIG, Mishima, *an. He has also been co-appointed as the Special Research Consultant of the National Ins*ute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), as a Visiting Professor of Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Ins*ute of Technology and as a Visiting Research Director of RIKEN.

Contents

• 1 Education
• 2 Research
• 3 Honors
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Education

After finishing his Ph.D. (1979) at Kyushu University, *an, he was Research *ociate and Research *istant Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) for 4 years (1979–1983). He was also Visiting *istant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis (1985, 1986) and Visiting Research Fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) in London (1989).

Research

He is the Founding Editor of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution, the Executive Editor of the journal Gene, Academic Editor of FEBS Letters, *ociate Editor of Molecular Biology and Evolution and PLOS Genetics, and Section Editor of Computer Genomics in BMC Genomics. He has served on the editorial boards of 6 international journals including GigaScience. Previously he was the Editor of Journal of Molecular Evolution for 8 years (1995–2003). He is leader of the *anese 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.

Gojobori has worked extensively on the rates of synonymous and non-synonymous subs*utions, 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.

Gojobori has served as the Program Director of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) of the Government of *an 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.

Honors

Prof. Gojobori is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and Fellow of the American *ociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2005). 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). He was awarded the Kihara Memorial Foundation Academic Award in 1995 and the Purple Ribbon Medal and the Medal of Honor of *an in 2009 for a series of his researches to pioneer the early age of “Molecular Evolutionary Studies using Genome Information”.

References

External links

• Takashi Gojobori publications indexed by Google Scholar