Kentaro Shimizu
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Research Interests
Molecular basis of biodiversity, evolutionary and ecological genomics, evolution of mating systems, speciation by genome duplication (polyploidization), predicting evolutionary and plastic responses in changing environments
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Education and Professional Positions
2021 - present | Co-director of the University Research Priority Program of Evolution in Action, link |
2019 - present | Full Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
2016 - present | Director of PhD Program in Evolutionary Biology |
2015 | NISTEP Award (Award for nice step researchers) from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan |
2015 - present | Guest Professor at the Kihara Institute for Biological Research, Yokohama City University, Japan |
2015 | Visiting Professor at the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan |
2015 - present | Swiss representative of the Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee |
2011 - 2018 | Associate Professor, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
2006 - 2011 | Assistant Professor, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland |
2003 - 2006 | Research Scholar, Department of Genetics, North Carolina State University, USA |
2002 - 2003 | Postdoctoral fellow, Kyoto University, Japan |
1997 - 2002 | Graduate studies (Ph.D.) in Biology, Kyoto University, Japan |
1993 - 1997 | Undergraduate studies (B.S.) in Biology, Kyoto University, Japan |
Selected Publications
See full publication list on Google Scholar.
- Tsuchimatsu T., Kakui H., Yamazaki M., Marona C., Tsutsui H., Hedhly A., Meng D., Sato Y., Städler T., Grossniklaus U., Kanaoka MM., Lenhard M., Nordborg M., Shimizu KK. (2020). Adaptive reduction of male gamete number in the selfing plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Communications 11: 2885. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16679-7
UZH News English German - Walkowiak S., et al. (2020). Spotlight on global wheat genome variation and impact for modern breeding. Nature 588; 277-283. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2961-x
UZH News English, German - Paape T., Briskine RV., Lischer HEL., Halstead-Nussloch G., Shimizu-Inatsugi R., Hatakeyama M., Tanaka K., Nishiyama T., Sabirov R., Sese J., Shimizu KK. (2018). Patterns of polymorphism and selection in the subgenomes of the allopolyploid Arabidopsis kamchatica. Nature Communications 9: 3909. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06108-1
Nature Link,
UZH News English, German - Shimizu KK., Tsuchimatsu T. (2015). Evolution of selfing: recurrent patterns in molecular adaptation. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, 46:593-622. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-112414-054249
- Tsuchimatsu T., Suwabe K., Shimizu-Inatsugi R., Isokawa S., Pavilidis P., Städler T., Suzuki G., Takayama S., Watanabe M., Shimizu KK. (2010). Evolution of self-compatibility in Arabidopsis by a mutation in the male specificity gene. Nature, 464, 1342-1346. DOI: 10.1038/nature08927
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