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Tomonari Nozaki

postdoc (JSPS PD)

National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan

Tomonari Nozaki is interested in the ecological significance of polyploidy, especially tissue-specific polyploidy. He has focused on social insects (termites), and recently, He added aphids and the symbiotic bacteria Buchnera as new materials. What is the significance of polyploidy in both bacteriocytes (specialized host cells) and the symbionts; this is his main project in the Evolutionary Genomics Lab.

Interests

  • Polyploidy
  • Insect-bacterial symbiosis
  • Eusociality
  • Insect reproductive ecology
  • Ovary

Education

  • PhD, 2019

    Kyoto University

  • MSc, 2016

    Kyoto University

  • BSc, 2014

    Kyoto University