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Masafumi Nozawa

Postdoctoral Scholar

311 Mueller
Phone: 865-1034
Lab: Nei
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Education:

  1. Ph.D. in Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, JAPAN, 2006
  2. M.S. in Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, JAPAN, 2002
  3. B.S. in Biology, Tokyo Metropolitan University, JAPAN, 2000

Postdoc Training:

  1. Postdoctoral Fellow in Pennsylvania State University, April 2006-Present

Honors and Awards:

  1. Postdoctoral Student Poster Award. The 2007 SMBE Conference. Halifax, Canada.
  2. JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad (2009-2011)

Selected Publications:

  • Kawahara, Y., Matsuo, T., Nozawa, M., Shin-I, T., Kohara, Y., and Aigaki, T. 2004. Comparative sequence analysis of a gene-dense region among closely related species of Drosophila melanogaster. Genes Genet. Syst. 79 (6):351-9.
  • Nozawa, M., Aotsuka, T., and Tamura, K. 2005. A novel chimeric gene, siren, with retroposed promoter sequence in the Drosophila bipectinata complex. Genetics 171 (4):1719-1727.
  • Nozawa, M., Kumagai, M., Aotsuka, T., and Tamura, K. 2006. Unusual evolution of interspersed repeat sequences in the Drosophila ananassae subgroup. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23 (5):981-987.
  • Nozawa, M., and Nei, M. 2007. Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila species. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104 (17):7122-7127.
  • Nozawa, M., Kawahara, Y., and Nei, M. 2007. From the Cover: Genomic drift and copy number variation of sensory receptor genes in humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104 (51):20421-20426.
  • Das, S., Nozawa, M., Klein, J., and Nei, M. 2008. Evolutionary dynamics of the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes in vertebrates. Immunogenetics 60 (1):47-55.
  • Nei, M., Niimura, Y., and Nozawa, M. 2008. The evolution of animal chemosensory receptor gene repertoires: roles of chance and necessity. Nat. Rev. Genet. 9 (12):951-963.
  • Nozawa, M., and Nei, M. 2008. Genomic drift and copy number variation of chemosensory receptor genes in humans and mice. Cytogenet. Genome Res. 123 (1-4):263-269.
  • Nozawa, M., Suzuki, Y., and Nei, M. 2009. Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (16):6700-6705.
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    Research Interests:

    Evolutionary Biology:
    Genetics:
    Genomics: