Epernicus: Masafumi Nozawa, Ph.D.

Masafumi Nozawa, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Biology

Pennsylvania State University (University Park, PA)
Advisor:
Masatoshi Nei
Degrees:

Ph.D., Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Tokyo, Japan)

M.S., Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Tokyo, Japan)

B.Sc., Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University (Tokyo, Japan)
Past Advisors:

Koichiro Tamura (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)

Tadashi Aotsuka (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
Other Experience:
2002-2004 Teaching Assistanship, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Honors:
2009-2011 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad

2007 Postdoctoral Student Poster Award. The 2007 SMBE Conference. Halifax, Canada.

Communities:

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Masafumi Nozawa's Publications (13)

Evolutionary Changes of the Target Sites of Two MicroRNAs Encoded in the Hox Gene Cluster of Drosophila and Other Insect Species.
Miura S, Nozawa M, Nei M

Genome biology and evolution. 2011 Jan;3:129-39
The neutral theory of molecular evolution in the genomic era.
Nei M, Suzuki Y, Nozawa M

Annual review of genomics and human genetics. 2010 Sep 22;11:265-89
Is positive selection responsible for the evolution of a duplicate UV-sensitive opsin gene in Heliconius butterflies?
Nozawa M, Suzuki Y, Nei M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2010 Jun 8;107(23):E96; author reply E97
Origins and evolution of microRNA genes in Drosophila species.
Nozawa M, Miura S, Nei M

Genome biology and evolution. 2010;2:180-9
Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods.
Nozawa M, Suzuki Y, Nei M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2009 Apr 21;106(16):6700-5
The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity.
Nei M, Niimura Y, Nozawa M

Nature reviews. Genetics. 2008 Dec;9(12):951-63
Evolutionary dynamics of the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes in vertebrates.
Das S, Nozawa M, Klein J, Nei M

Immunogenetics. 2008 Jan;60(1):47-55
Genomic drift and copy number variation of chemosensory receptor genes in humans and mice.
Nozawa M, Nei M

Cytogenetic and genome research. 2008;123(1-4):263-9
Genomic drift and copy number variation of sensory receptor genes in humans.
Nozawa M, Kawahara Y, Nei M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Dec 18;104(51):20421-6
Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila species.
Nozawa M, Nei M

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2007 Apr 24;104(17):7122-7
Proceedings of the SMBE Tri-National Young Investigators' Workshop 2005. Unusual evolution of interspersed repeat sequences in the Drosophila ananassae subgroup.
Nozawa M, Kumagai M, Aotsuka T, Tamura K

Molecular biology and evolution. 2006 May;23(5):981-7
A novel chimeric gene, siren, with retroposed promoter sequence in the Drosophila bipectinata complex.
Nozawa M, Aotsuka T, Tamura K

Genetics. 2005 Dec;171(4):1719-27
Comparative sequence analysis of a gene-dense region among closely related species of Drosophila melanogaster.
Kawahara Y, Matsuo T, Nozawa M, Shin-I T, Kohara Y, Aigaki T

Genes & genetic systems. 2004 Dec;79(6):351-9

Masafumi Nozawa's Posters and Presentations (7)

Genomic drift and copy number variation of olfactory receptor genes in humans and mice. (poster)
Masafumi Nozawa, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Masatoshi Nei

The 2009 SMBE conference; 06/2009
Genomic maps and birth-and-death evolution of microRNA genes in several plant and animal species. (poster)
Sayaka Miura, Masafumi Nozawa, and Masatoshi Nei

The 2009 SMBE conference; 06/2009
Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila species (poster)
Masafumi Nozawa and Masatoshi Nei

The 2007 SMBE conference; 06/2007
Genome-wide explosion of a repeat sequence during the evolution of the Drosophila ananassae subgroup (presentation)
Masafumi Nozawa, Masahiko Kumagai, Tadashi Aotsuka, and Koichiro Tamura

SMBE Tri-National Young Investigator's Workshop; 06/2005
Genome-wide explosion of a repeat sequence during the evolution of the Drosophila ananassae subgroup (presentation)
Masafumi Nozawa, Masahiko Kumagai, Tadashi Aotsuka, and Koichiro Tamura

The 2005 SMBE conference; 06/2005
Origin of sirene: a paradigm of exon shuffling and gene duplication in Drosophila (poster)
Masafumi Nozawa, Tadashi Aotsuka, and Koichiro Tamura

The 2004 SMBE conference; 06/2004
Functions and molecular evolution of a new Adh duplicated gene (Adh-bip) discovered in Drosophila ananassae species subgroup (poster)
Masafumi Nozawa, Koichiro Tamura, and Tadashi Aotsuka

Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics; 11/2001

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