15 Facts About Takashi Gojobori

Takashi Gojobori is a Japanese molecular biologist, Vice-Director of the National Institute of Genetics and the DNA Data Bank of Japan at NIG, in Mishima, Japan.

Takashi Gojobori is a Professor of Bioscience and Acting Director at the Computational Bioscience Research Center at KAUST.

Takashi Gojobori has been co-appointed as the Special Research Consultant of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, and acts as a visiting professor of Keio University, University of Tokyo, and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Takashi Gojobori is an Associate Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization, a Member of Academia Europea and an Academician Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican.

Takashi Gojobori was a research associate and research assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for 4 years.

Takashi Gojobori was visiting assistant professor at Washington University in St Louis and visiting research fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund in London.

Takashi Gojobori 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.

Takashi Gojobori has served on the editorial boards of 6 international journals including GigaScience.

Takashi Gojobori 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.

Takashi 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.

Takashi Gojobori has served as the Program Director of the Council for Science and Technology Policy of the Government of Japan and is the Science Officer of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, Culture, and Technology.

Takashi Gojobori has had more than 400 publications in peer-reviewed international journals on comparative and evolutionary genomics.

Takashi Gojobori has contributed to the GenBank database construction as well as the H-Invitational human gene database.

Takashi Gojobori is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Takashi Gojobori has received the Gaetano Salvatore Gold Medal from Italy.