August, 2022
Shigeki gave a talk entitled “Paleogenomic analysis on human demography and adaptation in insular East Asia” at the Kyoto University Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology.
Shigeki gave a talk on our paleogenomic research at the 33rd Takato Molecular Cell Biology Symposium.
Shigeki gave a talk entitled “A paleogenomic time-travel through agricultural transformation at the edge of Asia” at the RIKEN IMS Seminar.
July, 2022
Shigeki joined World Archaeological Congress - 9 and gave a talk entitled “A tripartite ancestry model of modern Japanese genomic origins”.
Shigeki gave a talk on the tripartite genomic origins of modern Japanese in a research seminar at Department of Statistical Genetics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
June, 2022
Niall successfully defended his PhD viva. Congratulations, Dr. Cooke!
Lara and Shigeki co-chaired a session “The Genomics of Hunter-Gatherer Populations” at the 13th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS13). Niall gave a talk entitled “Genomic insights into the insular hunter-gather-fisher Jomon of Japan” in this session.
April, 2022
Oluwatimilehin Oshundaro from M.Sc. Genomic Medicine joined the lab. Timi will work on functional annotation on selection signals identified from ancient populations.
November, 2021
Niall joined Human Evolution - From Fossils to Ancient and Modern Genomes and gave a poster on our recent ancient genomic work entitled “A time series of ancient genomes from the Japanese Archipelago”.
September, 2021
Urslar Madden, an undergraduate student from Molecular Medicine, joined the lab and has started her project on trancing evolution of complex traits using ancient and modern human genomes.
A collaborative paper was published in Science Advances.
A new paper from the lab was published in Science Advances.
Media coverage: The Irish Times, REUTERS, Technology Networks, Genomeweb, Phys.org, LIVE SCIENCE, Science Daily
April, 2021
John Fox from M.Sc. Genomic Medicine joined the lab. John will work on polygenic risk profiling of ancient individuals.
October, 2020
Madeleine Murray, a PhD student, joined the lab.
September, 2020
Caolann Brady, an undergraduate student from Molecular Medicine, joined the lab and has started her project on the evolutionary perspective on human-SARS-CoV-2 interactions.
August, 2020
A new paper from the lab was published in Communication Biology.
May, 2020
Louis Cairn from M.Sc. Molecular Medicine joined the lab. Louis will work on the computational prediction of bacterial antigens triggering inflammatory bowel disease.
February, 2020
A collaborative paper was published in Evolutionary Human Sciences.
A new paper from the lab was published in Genes & Immunity.
Shigeki gave a talk entitled“Systematic profiling of the T cell receptor repertoire in intestinal inflammation” at the Kyoto University Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Biology.
January, 2020
Alice Murphy, an undergraduate student from Human Health & Disease, joined the lab and has started her project on the metatranscriptomic analysis of gut bacteria.
September, 2019
Glen Byrne, an undergraduate student from Molecular Medicine, joined the lab and has started his project on the chromatin accessibility landscape of thymocytes during V(D)J recombination.
July, 2019
Niall and Shigeki joined the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution 2019 Meeting (Manchester Central, Manchester, UK). The titles of the presentations are: “Statistical inference of the origin of natural selection in an admixed population” by Niall and “Inferring the model and onset of natural selection under varying population size from the site frequency spectrum and haplotype structure” by Shigeki.
June, 2019
Ciarán O'Connor and Naoise Rasmussen from B.Sc. Human Genetics joined the lab for their summer research projects. Ciarán will work on immunogenomics analysis of inflammatory bowel disease, and Naoise will work on population genomics modelling on human evolution.
May, 2019
Niall joined the 9th Annual Irish Next Generation Sequencing Meeting (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland) and gave a 3in3 lightning talk entitled “Genomics and The Future of Prehistory”.
April, 2019
Gregory Hodkinson from M.Sc. Molecular Medicine joined the lab. Greg will work on the computational analysis of gut bacteria.
Niall and Shigeki joined the European Mathematical Genetic Meeting 2019 (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland).
February, 2019
A new paper from the lab was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
January, 2019
Shigeki joined Transeurasian millets and beans, languages and genes (University of Jena, Jena, Germany) and gave a joint-talk on “The dual structure hypothesis after 30 years”.
December, 2018
A collaborative paper was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Keerthana Saravanarajan joined the lab as a research assistant.
November, 2018
Choongwon Jeong, Group Leader of the Population Genetics/MHAAM Group at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, visited the lab and gave a talk entitled “Tracing evolution of inner Eurasian genetic structure using genome-wide data”.
October, 2018
Shigeki joined Future Perspective on Ancient Genomics in East Asia (Tokyo National Museum Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan) and gave a talk entitled “Identifying the Origin of Natural Selection in Modern Japanese”.
September, 2018
Niall and Shigeki joined Irish Society of Human Genetics 2018 (Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland). Niall presented his poster entitled “A simulation study on the origin of natural selection in an admixed population”.
Anastasija Walsh, an undergraduate student from Molecular Medicine, joined the lab and has started her project on genomic profiling of immune cells.
July, 2018
Our review paper was published in Current Opinion in Genetics & Development.
A collaborative paper was published in Science.
April, 2018
Two master students (Keerthana Saravanarajan and Blánaid Ní Chuinneagáin) from M.Sc. Molecular Medicine joined the lab. Keerthana will work on immunogenomic profiling, and Blánaid will work on computational analysis of human genetic variation.
December, 2017
Shigeki had a meeting with the Lithuanian Ambassador in Ireland, Egidijus Meilūnas, and discussed research collaborations.
November, 2017
Oisin Roche-lancaster, an undergraduate student from Molecular Medicine, joined the lab and has started his project on immunogenomics.
September, 2017
Niall Cooke, a PhD student, joined the lab.
June, 2017
Evan Koch, a PhD student (Novembre lab) at University of Chicago, visited the lab and gave a talk on "The effects of demography on deleterious variation: population differences and selection inferences".
A collaborative paper was published in PLOS ONE.
April, 2017
Shigeki joined European Mathematical Genetics Meeting 2017 (Estonian Genome Center, Tartu, Estonia) and presented a talk on "Estimating the onsets of selection on new mutations and standing variation in human populations".
A collaborative paper was published in The Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
March, 2017
Shigeki visited Nanyang Technological University (Singaopore) to join the GenomeAsia 100K meeting and gave a short talk.
February, 2017
Shigeki joined Immunogenomics of disease: accelerating to patient benefit (Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK) and presented a poster entitled "Testing a host-microbiome interaction in the susceptibility of TNFSF15 to Crohn’s disease in the Ryukyu Islands".
Our paper was published in Human Genetics.
November, 2016
A collaborative paper was published in Nature Communications. The paper was highlighted in Nature News and Science News.
September, 2016
Shigeki started Ussher Assistant Professor in Genomic Medicine at School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.