About

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Shigehiro Kuraku, Ph.D.

Specialty: genome archaeology

Unit Leader
Phyloinformatics Unit
RIKEN Center for Life Science Technologies
shigehiro.kuraku (at) riken.jp
Twitter: @clst_gras

Details at LinkedIn



Resources

Author's publications at PubMed

A review article on molecular evolution of chondrichthyan genes (only in Japanese)

Gene prediction settings for the program Augustus developed by my team in Konstanz.
   sea lamprey Petromyzon marinus
   ghost shark (or elephant shark) Callorhinchus milii (also see Dessimoz et al., 2011)



Teaching

At University of Konstanz

Summer semester
  Vertiefungskurs Molecular Evolutionary Biology - 2007-2011
  Evolutionary Organismal Biology - 2010

Winter semester
  Praktikum Bauplane und Organisationsformen des Tierreichs
                                         - 2007/08 - 2011/12
  Evolutionsbiologie - 2007/08 - 2011/12
  Computational Life Science - 2008/09, 2011/12 - for Graduate School KoRS-CB 
  IMPRS Organismal Biology Course 'Molecular Evolution' - 2010/11