3月15日13時に第15期公募情報を公開いたしました。
4月1日13時より応募者登録サイトへの登録が可能です。
Information on the 15th call for applications was opened at 13:00 on 15 March.
Applicants can register on the registration website from 1 April at 13:00.
The following 15 researchers are working at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University.
:Global Type
:Tenure-track Type
Research Interests: Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology, Genome Science
Research Topic: Demonstration of evolutionary processes in multicellular organisms through development of large-scale chromosomal manipulation methods
Host Department: Department of Applied Biosciences, Graduate School of Agriculture
Previous Affiliation: National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences
Multicellular organisms have experienced large-scale chromosomal rearrangements at the key regulatory loci associated with phenotypic evolution. In the Hakubi project, I will develop an experimental system that artificially reconstitutes the large-scale chromosomal rearrangements. This experimental system aims to elucidate how chromosomal rearrangements affect the direction of phenotypic evolution at the molecular level. More specifically, I will establish experimental methods to manipulate chromosomes rearrangements on a large scale in an emerging model organism (harlequin ladybug). With this constructive approach, I aim to understand the evolutionary process of the ladybug by artificially reconstructing the chromosomal rearrangements associated with phenotypic diversification.
I have been focusing on the principles of morphogenesis of beautiful and functional body structures and the evolutionary background of their acquisition at the molecular level. By exploiting the constitutive method of chromosome manipulation that I will develop in this project, I would like to glimpse the evolutionary process by which multicellular organisms have acquired the characteristics of organs with functional beauty and demonstrate the extent to which such manipulation is possible.
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