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CURRICULUM VITAE Shozo Yokoyama Shozo Yokoyama, Ph. D. Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Biology Department of Biology O. Wayne Rollins Research Center 1510 Clifton Road Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 Tel. 404-727-5379 Fax. 404-727-2880 E-mail: [email protected] Education: B. S. (Biology), Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan, 1968 M. S. (Biology), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 1971 Ph. D. (Biomathematics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1977 Advisor: Dr. Joseph Felsenstein Professional Appointments: Asa G. Candler Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, 2003 - present. Distinguished Professor, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 2002 - 2003. Professor, Department of Biology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, 1991 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Ethology and Evolution, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1987 - 1991 Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, Genetics, & Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, 1980 - 1987 Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, 1978 - 1979 Research Associate (with Dr. Masatoshi Nei), University of Texas at Houston, Houston, 1977 - 1978 Research Assistant (for Dr. Joseph Felsenstein), University of Washington, 1973 - 1977 Teaching Assistant, Division of Biological & Medical Sciences, Brown University, 1972 1 - 1973 Research Assistant (for Dr. Masatoshi Nei), Brown University, 1971 - 1972 Professional Organizations, Editorial Boards and Officers: American Association for the Advancement of Science Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Editorial Board: The Open Evolution Journal (2007 - present) Editorial Board: International Journal of Evolutionary Biology (2009 - present) Associate Editor: Marine Genomics (2007 - 2011) Associate Editor: Gene (1996 - 2011) Associate Editor: Journal of Heredity (2000 - 2008) Associate Editor: Molecular Biology and Evolution (1993 - 2000) Associate Editor: Genetics (1998 - 2008) President-Elect, President, and Past President, American Genetic Association, (2003-2005) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2004 Service on Advisory Committees: 1. Panel Member: National Institutes of Health, Genetics Study Section (1988 - 1991) 2. Cofounder of the Eastern Great Lake Molecular Evolution group (with Dr. Barry G. Hall) (1994). 3. National Chairman for the Search for the President for the Society for the Molecular Biology and Evolution (1996) 4. International Organizing Committee: Symposium on "Evolutionary Genomics," Tokyo (2001). 5. Member: National Institutes of Health, Study Section Boundary team (2002). 6. Co-organizers of the Symposium on “Evolution of Color Vision,” 10th annual meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, 6/26-29, 2003. 7. Organizing Committee for the joint conference between the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution and American Genetic Association “Genomes and Evolution 2004”. 8. Co-organizers of the Symposium on “Nei Legacy Platinum Jubilee,” 13th annual meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, 5/24-28, 2006. 9. International Program Committee, 12th international Conference on Retinal Proteins, June 4-8, 2006. 10. Global organization Committee, SMBE 2011, Kyoto, Japan. 2 Service on Departmental Committees: Syracuse University 1. Graduate Student Recruiting Committee (1992 - 2003). 2. Graduate Student Education Committee (1992 - 1993). 3. Departmental Seminar Committee (1992 - 1994). 4. Chair, Under-represented Faculty Search Committee (1994). 5. Chair, Faculty Search for Cell & Molecular Biologists (1996). 6. Chair, Departmental Chairperson Search Committee (1998). 7. Faculty Search for Developmental Biologists (1999) 8. Faculty Search for Cell/Molecular Biologists (2001) 9. Faculty Search for Cell/Molecular Biologists (2002) Emory University 1. Faculty Search Committee for Molecular Evolutionists (2003-2004) 2. Faculty Search Committee for Molecular Evolutionists (2004-2005) 3. Executive Committee for Genetics & Molecular Biology Program (2003-2008) Invited Talks at Conferences & Workshops: 1. The Conference on "Recent Trends in Medical Genetics," Madras, India, 12/15- 12/17, 1983. 2. Gordon Conference on "Population Biology and Evolution of Microorganisms," 8/17 - 8/21, 1987. 3. The Conference on "The Genetic Variation of Immunodeficiency Viruses", NIH: 7/19 - 7/20, 1988. 4. The Fourth International Symposium on "Population Biology of Genes and Molecules", Tokyo, Japan, 11/17 - 11/18, 1988. 5. The Conference on "Evolution at the Molecular Level", Pennsylvania State University: 6/15 - 6/18, 1989. 6. The Fifth International Workshop on "Enzymology and Molecular Biology of Carbonyl Metabolism", Purdue University, 6/12 - 6/15, 1990. 7. The third Annual Meeting on the "New England Molecular Evolution", Brown University, 11/8, 1992. 8. The International Conference on “Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution,” Mishima, Japan, 4/16 - 4/17, 1993. 9. The Second Annual Meeting for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Univ. of Georgia, 6/15 - 6/19, 1994. 10. The Twenty-Third Annual Meeting for the American Society for Photobiology, Washington, DC, 6/17 - 6/22, 1995. 11. The Fourth International Congress of Comparative Physiology and Biochemistry, Birmingham, UK: 8/6 - 8/11, 1995. 12. The International Conference on "Diversity of Homeotic Genes and Evolution of the Eye," Kyoto University, Japan, 11/17 - 11/18, 1995. 13. Te International Conference on "Network and Evolution of Molecular Information," Tokyo, Japan, 4/20 - 4/22, 1996. 14. The Fourth annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, 3 Tucson, AZ, 6/8 - 6/11, 1996. 15. The annual meeting of the Australian Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Canberra, Australia, 9/29 - 10/2, 1996. 16. The Summer Conference on "Oscillation" at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan, 9/24 - 9/27, 1997. 17. The International Symposium on “Population Genetics on Evolutionary Mechanism,” Fukuoka, Japan, 8/18 - 8/22, 1998. 18. The annual meeting on the "New England Molecular Evolution", New York University, 10/31, 1998. 19. The Symposium on “Genomic diversity and evolution,” American Genetics Association, Pennsylvania State University, 6/11-13, 1999. 20. The Gordon Conference on Molecular Evolution, Hayama, Japan, 11/24-29, 1999. 21. The symposium on "Evolution 2000", Tokyo, Japan, 3/3 - 5, 2000. 22. The symposium on "Neutralism and selectionism: The end of a debate," Ischia, Italy, 5/4 - 6, 2000. 23. The symposium on "Beyond the Identification of Transcribed Sequences: Functional d Expression Analysis," Heidelberg, Germany, 10/28 - 31, 2000. 24. Workshop Faculty on "Molecular Evolution," MBL, Woods Hole, MA, 7/31 - 8/11, 2000. 25. The symposium on "Chromosomes: structure, function and evolution", Guanacaste, Costa Rica, 1/8 - 12, 2001. 26. Workshop Faculty on "Molecular Evolution," MBL, Woods Hole, MA, 7/29 - 8/10, 2001. 27. The symposium on "Natural selection and Neutral Theory," at the 8th Annual Meeting for the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Capri, Italy, 10/28 - 30, 2001. 28. The symposium on "Evolutionary Genomics", Atami, Japan, 11/3 - 7, 2001. 29. The symposium on "Adaptive evolution of proteins", Sorrento, Italy, 6/13-16, 2002. 30. The 10th International Retinal Protein Conference, Seattle, WA, 8/20-24, 2002. 31. Workshop Faculty on "Molecular Evolution," MBL, Woods Hole, MA, 7/28 - 8/9, 2002. 32. The symposium on “Evolution of Color Vision” at the 10th annual meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Newport Beach, CA, 6/26-29, 2003. 32. The 17th Symposium of the International Color Vision Society, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 7/11-15, 2003. 33. The 2nd European Conference on Avian Colour Vision, Paris, France, 10/20-22, 2003. 34. Workshop Faculty on "Workshop on Molecular Evolution," MBL, Woods Hole, MA, 7/28 - 8/9, 2004. 35. The Mishima Workshop on “Population genetics and molecular evolution: past, present, and future,” Hakone, Japan, 11/25-27, 2004. 36. The Symposium on Structural and Evolutionary Genomics “Genome and RNA: Expression and functions,” Puntarenas, Costa Rica, 2/26-3/2, 2005. 37. Plenary speaker at the South Carolina Bioinformatics Symposium, Columbia, SC, 3/19/2005. 4 38. Workshop Faculty on "Workshop on Molecular Evolution," MBL, Woods Hole, MA, 7/24 - 8/12, 2005. 39. The Symposium on “Omics informatics symposium,” Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, 3/20-21, 2006. 40. The Symposium on “Evolution and adaptation,” 13th annual meeting of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 5/24-28, 2006. 41. The 12th International Retinal Protein Conference, Awajishima, Japan, 6/4-8, 2006. 42. The Optical Society of America Vision Meeting, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, 10/6-8, 2006. 43. The International Conference on “Marine Genomics,” Sorrento, Italy, October 28- November 1, 2006. 44. The “Symposium on Evolutionary Genomics,” San Jose, Costa Rica, January 7- 12, 2007. 45. The keynote speaker in the “Workshop on the Evolution of Opsin Genes,” Taipei, Taiwan, May 26-June 1, 2007. 46. The “New Insight of Genome Evolution into Fundamental Life Activities,” Tokyo, Japan, March 27-28, 2008. 47. The international satellite symposium on “Evolutionary Studies for High School Students,” Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Hayama, Japan, August 21, 2008 48. The symposium on