眼の進化と生物多様性を研究しています。
The eye is one of the most elaborate organs in animals and the study of its evolution is of particular interest. It has been difficult to understand how this complex organ arose. Molluscs provide a good example of the application of evolutionary genomics, as all eye types have evolved in one lineage.
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SMBE Symposium "Origin and diversification of sensory organs"
I and Katsuhiko Mineta will organize the following symposium;
Symposium 12: Origin and diversification of sensory organs
Organized by: Atsushi Ogura and Katsuhiko Mineta
Speakers: to be announced
Time and Room: 9:30-12:00, July 28, room S-1
The sensory organ is a part of nervous system and is connecting inner side and outer side of organisms by handling various kinds of information. It consists of sensory receptors, neural networks, and parts of the brain related to the sensory processing. Evolutionary study of sensory organs does not only aim for the evolution of the particular organs but for understanding the role of the organs in the species evolution. Moreover, the understandings of sensory organs are also important and useful for the understanding of nervous system evolution. A large number of studies on the developmental biology and molecular biology of sensory organs have revealed that there is a shared developmental process and a common gene regulatory network. Recent studies also reported that not only the core gene regulatory network for sensory organ development but also genes downstream of the network and other peripheral genes related to the function and structure of sensory organs have been conserved among animals at least since the split of bilaterian animals. This workshop focus on the origin and the diversification of sensory organs from the viewpoint of molecular evolution, developmental biology including recent omics approaches.
