Kentaro K. Shimizu
Director and Professor of the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich🇨🇭, ieu.uzh.ch/en/staff/member/shi…
plant polyploidy, fieldwork, language evolution 英語と日本語で主に研究について
- Our new publication from the 10+ Wheat Genome Project in Cell Reports! The combined effect of #polyploidy and expression on selection will inform the target of future #wheat breeding to mitigate the effect of deleterious variants. By a former PhD Gwyn and a postdoc Moeko www.cell.com/cell-reports...
- Our new publication on HOBIT, a software tool for polyploid gene expression analysis. Compared with our previous method HomeoRoq (2014), HOBIT enables direct and higher-quality analysis of complex allohexaploid species such as bread wheat.
- HOBIT: LRT to detect homeolog expression shifts in allopolyploids Sun et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Press release in English about the new paper in Nature Communications thanks to the Earlham Institute doi.org/10.1038/s414...
- Interviewed by Nikkei Science (Japanese edition of Scientific American). The photo shows a Swiss Alps village where a new species, Cardamine insueta, formed in the past 150 years via hybridization and genome duplication. The article also covers wheat and Arabidopsis kamchatica.
- Excited to be featured in Nature Digest’s “Japanese Author” series! They wrote about some of my work in Nature and sister journals. #genome #evolution #wheat #linguistics #polyploidy #biodiversity #Darwin Article (Japanese): doi.org/10.1038/ndig...
- Reposted by Kentaro K. Shimizu📰When populations meet, they exchange genes, but also language features. According to a new study by NCCR researchers, contact between human populations increases the resemblance between their languages to similar extents all over the world, but differently. evolvinglanguage.ch/capturing-la...
- New paper out in Science Advances! We studied language & genetic evolution using the GeLaTo database—focusing on burrowing and schismogenesis. Link: doi.org/10.1126/scia... Special thanks to @chiarabarbieri.bsky.social @annagraff.bsky.social @balthasarbickel.bsky.social @nccrlanguage.bsky.social
- Our new preprint introduces HOBIT, a bioinformatics tool for allopolyploid RNA-seq. It’s directly applicable to allohexaploid species like bread wheat and outperforms our previous method, HomeoRoq, in 2014. Software: github.com/bitdessin/he... by Jianqiang Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Press release: Preserving #biodiversity within the crop species wheat is valuable for food security. Thanks to collaborators, particularly the partnership with Kyoto University, my alma mater. doi.org/10.1007/s001... @kajung.bsky.social www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/... in English and in German
- New publication on #wheat disease resistance by my group member Kathi Jung (PhD in Science and Policy)! Using the genome assembly of the Japanese cultivar Norin 61, she identified yellow rust resistance loci in landraces from the Himalayan region. doi.org/10.1007/s001... @kajung.bsky.social
- A fundamental and groundbreaking study by Jordi Bascompte, a colleague from our department: The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- A major milestone on global biodiversity by our colleague, the Florian Altermatt group — just published in Nature.
- Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5
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- Congratulations to Kathi on successfully defending her PhD! 🎉🎓 As the tradition, her PhD hat made by the lab members showcases her fascinating research on Asian wheat cultivars. Well done, Kathi! 🌾👏
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- A new review, published on Valentine's Day! We explore the future of the study of contemporary polyploid speciation such as Cardamine insueta in Switzerland, building on discussions from the Polyploidy 2023 conference led by Doug & Pam Soltis, Patrick @nicrodemo.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph.20437
- A new paper online! Improved GO annotation of the bread wheat genome will be useful, thanks to the first author Yasuyuki and the last author Atsushi. The homeolog expression was studied using 25 Asian cultivars including Norin 61. @plantcellphysiol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pcp/...
- Reposted by Kentaro K. ShimizuThe Shimizu group seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher in population genomics at the University of Zurich to study genetic and language evolution. Applications are open now. More info: jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/postd… #postdoc
