Special Symposium to Celebrate over 50,000 citations of

Saitou & Nei (1987)'s Neighbor-Joining Method paper

Date: Saturday, June 2nd, AS 0018 (2018 AD)
Place: Auditorium, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan

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Saitou Naruya and Nei Masatoshi (1987)
The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.
Molecular Biology and Evolution, volume 4, issue 4, pages 406-425.

Google Scholar Citation number of this paper exceeded 50,000 on February 6th, AS 0018 (2018 AD).
Google Scholar Citation is 51,026 as of May 24th, AS 0018 (2018 AD).

Anyone is welcome to attend this special symposium.
All talks will be given in English.
Lunches will be provided only for speakers.
Dinner Party is free and open to anyone.
Please contact symposium secretary Mizuguchi Masako (mmizuguc@nig.ac.jp) 
if you are interested to attend this symposium.

Program 
10:00-10:05  Opening Remarks

10:05 - 11: 45 Session A: Human to mammalian evolution 
Chair: Dr. Sumiyama Kenta

Talk 1: Genetic relationship between ancient and modern Japanese
Dr. Kanzawa-Kiriyama Hideaki
Researcher, National Museum of Science and Nature, Tsukuba

Talk 2: Trees and networks of human populations after Out-of-Africa
Dr. Timothy A. Jinam
Assistant Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

Talk 3: Haplotype diversity of human populations inferred from genome-wide data
Dr. Kawai Yosuke
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo

Talk 4: Helicobacter pylori suggests early human migration in Asia
Dr. Suzuki Rumiko
Assistant Professor, Fuculty of Medicine, Oita University

Talk 5: Phylogenetic classification and transcriptome analysis of endogenous retrovirus in mammalian genomes
Dr. Takahashi Ueda Mahoko
Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara

11:45-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:40 Session B: Vertebrates to virus evolution 1
Chair: Dr. Imanishi Tadashi

Talk 6: Phylogeography and phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander, Hynobius retardatus
Dr. Matsunami Masatoshi
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa

Talk 7: Evolution of immunoglobulin genes in vertebrates
Dr. Ota Tatsuya
Associate Professor, School of Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Hayama

Talk 8: Phylogenetic trees of Eptatretus species constructed by the neighbor-joining method
Dr. Kitano Takashi
Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi

Talk 9: Inference of vertebrate ancestral state before whole genome duplication event
Dr. Sumiyama Kenta
Unit Leader, RIKEN  QBIC, Osaka

Talk 10: Phylogenetic trees explain mysteries of complete genomes
Dr. Kirill Kryukov
Post-doctoral Fellow, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara

14:40-15:00 Tea Break

15:00-16:20 Session C: Vertebrates to virus evolution 2
Chair: Dr. Takezaki Naoko

Talk 11: Molecular evolutionary virology
Dr. Suzuki Yoshiyuki
Professor, Nagoya City University, Nagoya

Talk 12: Approach for model construction of disease molecular mechanism from NGS sequence data
Dr. Ikeo Kazuho
Associate Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

Talk 13: Divergence and convergence in the evolution of Drosophila neo-sex chromosomes
Dr. Nozawa Masafumi
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo

Talk 14: "Hitchhiking" and adaptive protein evolution: Why do fast-evolving proteins show reduced codon usage bias in Drosophila
Dr. Akashi Hiroshi
Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

16:20-16:40 Tea Break

16:40 -18:40 Session D: Methods for phylogeny construction
Chair: Dr. Suzuki Yoshiyuki

Talk 15: The evolutionary metrics for phylogeny
Dr. OOta Satoshi
Senior research scientist, RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics, Wako

Talk 16: Phylogeny construction from allele frequency data
Dr. Takezaki Naoko
Professor, Kagawa University, Kagawa

Talk 17: Phylogenetic trees and the sequential kernel association test (SKAT)
Dr. Misawa Kazuharu
Assistant Professor, Tohoku Medical Megabank, Tohoku University, Sendai

Talk 18*: Regional differences of the Japanese population based on a genome-wide SNP analysis of the Horai collection
Dr. Imanishi Tadashi
Professor, School of Medicine, Tokai University, Isehara

Talk 19: Neighbor-joining and other distance methods in the history of systematic biology
Dr. Minaka Nobuhiro
Former Chief Researcher, Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba

Talk 20: Importance of initial processings of sequence data for phylogeny reconstruction
Dr. Saitou Naruya
Professor, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima

19:00 - 20:30 Dinner Party (at NIG Auditorium; Buffet & standing style)

*Dr. Tamura Koichio was supposed to give his talk, but he has some important matter at his university on June 2nd.
Dr. Imanishi kindly accepted to give his talk.

This symposium is supported by a special fund given by Mr. Sato Atsushi. We are grateful to him.
Saitou Naruya planned this symposium and Saitou Laboratory is managing this symposium.

As of May 24, AS 0018 (2018 AD)