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Takashi Gojobori

Takashi Gojobori is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Takashi Gojobori rather than just read about it. In short: Takashi Gojobori (五條堀孝, Gojobori Takashi; born October 24, 1951, Fukuoka) is a Japanese molecular biologist who is vice director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) at NIG in Mishima, Japan. Gojobori is a distinguished professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

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Reference excerpt

Takashi Gojobori (五條堀孝, Gojobori Takashi; born October 24, 1951, Fukuoka) is a Japanese molecular biologist who is vice director of the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) and the DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) at NIG in Mishima, Japan. Gojobori is a distinguished professor at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. He is a professor of bioscience and acting director at the Computational Bioscience Research Center at KAUST. He has also been co-appointed as the special research consultant of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and acts as a visiting professor at Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is an associate member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), a member of Academia Europea and an academician member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican.

Education Gojobori finished his Ph.D. in theoretical population genetics (1979) at Kyushu University, Japan. He was a research associate and research assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) for 4 years (1979–1983). He was also visiting assistant 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, associate 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 six international journals including GigaScience. Previously he was the editor of Journal of Molecular Evolution for eight years (1995–2003). He is leader of the Japanese 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 substitutions, 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, and COVID-19 or virus transmissions. Gojobori has served as the Program Director of the Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP) of the Government of Japan and is the Science Officer of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology (MEXT). He has contributed to databases such as DDBJ/GenBank/EMBL and the H-Invitational human gene database. He has had more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed international journals on comparative and evolutionary genomics. Gojobori has also contributed to the GenBank database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database.

Honors Gojobori is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2005). In 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed 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 Japan in 2009 for a series of his researches to pioneer the early age of "Molecular Evolutionary Studies using Genome Information." In 2022, he was elected as a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.

References

External links Takashi Gojobori publications indexed by Google Scholar

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Takashi Gojobori

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Takashi Gojobori claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Takashi Gojobori before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Takashi Gojobori ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Takashi Gojobori

In research: Takashi Gojobori appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Takashi Gojobori in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Takashi Gojobori is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1951 births, Academic staff of Keio University, Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Takashi Gojobori outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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