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Evolutionary Genetics Lab
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An evolutionary genetics lab that reads the process of biological evolution from genome data.
AboutAbout the lab
Tracing evolutionary history through the traces left in genomes.
The Evolutionary Genetics Lab studies how organisms have evolved, from the perspectives of population genetics, population genomics, and human evolution.
To infer past evolution from present-day genome data, the lab works on both data analysis and theoretical research.
In addition to examining population history and signatures of adaptive evolution from genomic diversity data, the lab works to elucidate the evolution of human mental functions.
Key terms
- Population genetics
- The field that studies how genetic differences within a population change through mutation, natural selection, and other processes
- Genomic diversity
- Differences in the genome seen among individuals or populations. It is shaped by mutation, population history, adaptation, and other factors
- Population history
- The history of population structure, population differentiation, and speciation
- Adaptive evolution
- Evolution that proceeds in a direction that adapts organisms to their environment. Its traces remain in genomic diversity
- Trait
- A characteristic that appears in an individual, such as an organism's form or properties
ResearchResearch themes
This lab infers evolutionary events of the past from present-day genome data. It pursues this on two fronts: the analysis of genome data, and theoretical and simulation studies aimed at developing and improving analytical methods.
*Illustrative imageHow Much Can Genomes Tell Us About Evolution?
Population history and signatures of adaptation can be studied, but information from the distant past tends to be lost, and recent events are said to be difficult to detect. Using theory and simulations, the lab investigates how much data is needed to resolve evolutionary history in how much detail.
*Illustrative imageVisualizing Biological Evolution
Evolutionary processes leave characteristic features in genomic diversity. The lab aims to build a system that computes such features across the whole genome and presents them in a form that can be understood intuitively.
*Illustrative imageLinking the Evolution of Traits and Genes
Many traits involve multiple genes, and a single gene may affect multiple traits. When signatures of adaptation are found in a gene, the lab works on the problem of adaptation detection: determining which trait the adaptation was acting on.
*Illustrative imageEvolution of Human Mental Traits
The lab is attempting to detect the changes that made humans human and shaped socially oriented people. By analyzing genes associated with psychiatric disorders, it hopes to clarify the evolution of human mentality and sociality.
MembersFaculty
The Evolutionary Genetics Lab consists of faculty members and PhD, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKosuke Teshima
- Associate ProfessorToshiyuki Hayakawa
- Assistant ProfessorTakahiro Sakamoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Researcher beside Vials closed by cotton plugs and filled with Fruit fly larvae” Robert Cudmore from Marseille, France / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- How Much Can Genomes Tell Us About Evolution?: “Phylogenetic tree for the evolution of TYR” Bhatchhetrbb / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Visualizing Biological Evolution: “Phylogenetic Tree of Life-es” User:Crion de la traducción Pitana / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Linking the Evolution of Traits and Genes: “SimpleGenotypePhenotypeMap” Alphillips6 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Evolution of Human Mental Traits: “Creation by Evolution (1928) p320 brain of human child” Grafton Elliot Smith / Public domain (cropped)
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- Related lab (Chromosome Function Lab): “XBio illustration – DNA Ligase” explorebiology / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Environmental Microbial Ecology Lab): “Bioremediation at INL” ENERGY.GOV / Public domain (cropped)
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