Masatoshi Nei
Masatoshi Nei ( Japanese 根 井 正 利 , Nei Masatoshi ; born January 2, 1931 in Miyazaki Prefecture ) is a geneticist and evolutionary biologist of Japanese origin. He is the Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Director of the Institute of Molecular Evolutionary Genetics at Pennsylvania State University .
Life
Nei graduated from Miyazaki University in 1953 and received his doctorate from Kyoto University in 1959 , where he worked until 1962. From 1962 to 1969 he worked at the National Institute of Radiology . After he was professor at Brown University from 1969 to 1972 , he worked from 1972 to 1990 as a professor of population genetics at the Center for Demographic and Population Genetics at the University of Texas in Houston. He has been teaching and researching at Pennsylvania State University since 1990. Together with Walter M. Fitch , Nei founded the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution in 1983 and the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in 1993 . His students included many well-established scientists in the field of molecular evolution .
research
In the early 1970s, Nei developed a new statistical method with which the genetic distance between two populations can be determined ( Nei's distance ) and with which one can estimate the point in time at which the populations of a common ancestor split up. With several statistical methods he tried to test the neutral theory of molecular evolution experimentally. Nei considers mutations and non- natural selection to be the determining evolutionary factor and thus represents a neo-mutationist point of view, which he supported by several statistical studies.
Honors and memberships
- 1977 Japan Society of Human Genetics Award
- 1990 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1990 Kihara Prize from the Genetics Society of Japan
- 1997 member of the National Academy of Sciences , USA
- 2002 International Prize for Biology of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 2003 Barbara Bowman Award from the Texas Geneticist Society
- 2006 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal from the Genetics Society of America
- 2013 Kyoto Prize
Books
- Masatoshi Nei: Molecular Population Genetics and Evolution . North-Holland, Amsterdam and New York. (1975), ISBN 0-444-10751-7
- Masatoshi Nei and Richard K. Koehn (eds.): Evolution of Genes and Proteins. Sinauer Assoc., Sunderland, MA (1983), ISBN 0-87893-604-1
- Masatoshi Nei: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics. Columbia University Press, New York (1987), ISBN 0-231-06321-0
- Arun K. Roychoudhury and Masatoshi Nei: Human Polymorphic Genes: World Distribution. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York (1988), ISBN 0-19-505123-8
- Masatoshi Nei and Sudhir Kumar: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2000), ISBN 0-19-513584-9
Individual evidence
- ↑ 学会 ニ ュ ー ス . (No longer available online.) In: 学 協会 情報 発 信 サ ー ビ ス . Archived from the original on June 11, 2011 ; Retrieved August 2, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Masatoshi Nei: Genetic distance between populations. At the. Nat. 106: 283-292 (1972)
- ↑ Li, WH, T. Gojobori, and Masatoshi Nei: Pseudogenes as a paradigm of neutral evolution. Nature 292: 237-239 (1981)
- ^ Masatoshi Nei: The new mutation theory of phenotypic evolution . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 104: 30, pp. 12235-12242 (2007)
- ↑ Masatoshi Nei: Selectionism and Neutralism in Molecular Evolution . Mol. Biol. Evol. 22:12 pp. 2318-2342 (2005)
Web links
- Homepage of Masatoshi Nei
- Laudation on the award of the Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal by Robert Weir (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nei, Masatoshi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 根 井 正 利 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese geneticist and evolutionary biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miyazaki Prefecture |