Akira Sasaki

Akira Sasaki is a member of the Evolution and Ecology Program which he joined in September 2005. He is working on the stochastic theory of population genetics, host-parasite coevolution, species packing theory, spatially explicit models of ecology and epidemiology, intrahost dynamics of pathogen and immune system, bet-hedging in changing environment, evolution of cooperation, evolution of mutability in fitness landscapes, restriction avoidance and the evolution of word frequency in phage genome, spatial mosaic formation in Müllerian mimicry system, epidemiology and evolution of virulence in small worlds networks, and on problems in theoretical population biology.

Dr. Sasaki received his Ph.D. from Kyushu University in 1989. He became Assistant Professor of mathematical biology at Kyushu University in 1989. Since 1996, he has been Associate Professor of mathematical biology at Kyushu University. He has been a visiting research fellow at North Carolina State University, USA (1993-1994), the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands (1997), University College London Silwood Park, UK (1998, 1999), Oxford University, UK (1998, 1999), Institute for Advanced Study, USA (2001-2002), and Harvard University, USA (2003).


Last update: 25-SEP-2007

Fukuyo,M. Sasaki,A. Kobayashi,I. (2012)

Success of a suicidal defense strategy against infection in a structured habitat ... More

Iseki,N. Sasaki,A. Toju,H. (2011)

Arms race between weevil rostrum length and camellia pericarp thickness: Geographical cline and theory ... More

Sasaki,A. Dieckmann,U. (2011)

Oligomorphic dynamics for analyzing the quantitative genetics of adaptive speciation ... More

Yamamichi,M. Yoshida,T. Sasaki,A. (2011)

Comparing the effects of rapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity on predator-prey dynamics ... More

Suzuki,S.U. Sasaki,A. (2011)

How does the resistance threshold in spatially explicit epidemic dynamics depend on the basic reproductive ratio and spatial correlation of crop genotypes? ... More

Nakabayashi,J. Sasaki,A. (2011)

A mathematical model of the intracellular replication and within host evolution of hepatitis type B virus: Understanding the long time course of chronic hepatitis ... More

Sasaki,A. Dieckmann,U. (2011)

Oligomorphic Dynamics for Analyzing the Quantitative Genetics of Adaptive Speciation ... More

Nakabayashi,J. Sasaki,A. (2011)

A Mathematical Model of the Intracellular Replication and Within Host Evolution of Hepatitis Type B Virus: Understanding the Long Time Course of Chronic Hepatitis ... More

Omori,R. Adams,B. Sasaki,A. (2010)

Coexistence conditions for strains of influenza with immune cross-reaction ... More

Yahara,K. Fukuyo,M. Sasaki,A. Kobayashi,I. (2009)

Evolutionary maintenance of selfish homing endonuclease genes in the absence of horizontal transfer ... More

Adams,B. Sasaki,A. (2009)

Antigenic distance and cross-immunity, invasibility and coexistence of pathogen strains in an epidemiological model with discrete antigenic space ... More

Nakabayashi,J. Sasaki,A. (2009)

A mathematical model of the stoichiometric control of Smad complex formation in TGF-B signal transduction pathway ... More

Nakabayashi,J. Sasaki,A. (2009)

The function of temporally ordered viral gene expression in the intracellular replication of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) ... More

Adams,B. Sasaki,A. (2007)

The Influence of Cross-immunity on the Coexistence, Invasion and Evolution of Pathogen Strains ... More

Kamo,M. Sasaki,A. Boots,M. (2007)

The Role of Trade-off Shapes in the Evolution and Coexistence of Virulence in Spatial Host-Parasite Interactions: An Approximate Adaptive Dynamical Approach ... More

Yahara,K. Horie,R. Kobayashi,I. Sasaki,A. (2007)

Evolution of DNA Double-Strand Break Repair by Gene Conversion: Coevolution Between a Phage and Restriction-Modification System ... More

Andreason,V. Sasaki,A. (2006)

Shaping the Phylogenetic Tree of Influenza by Cross-Immunity ... More

Nakabayashi,J. Sasaki,A. (2006)

A Mathematical Model for Apoptosome Assembly: The Optimal Cytochrome c/Apaf-1 Ratio ... More

Kawaguchi,I. Sasaki,A. (2006)

The Wave Speed of Intergradation Zone in Two-Species Lattice Muellerian Mimicy Model ... More

Kamo,M. Sasaki,A. Boots,M. (2006)

The Role of Trade-off Shapes in the Evolution of Parasites in Spatial Host Populations: An Approximate Analytical Approach ... More

Nakabayashi,J. Sasaki,A. (2005)

Optimal Phosphorylation Step Number of Intracellular Signal Transduction Pathway ... More

Kamo,M. Sasaki,A. (2005)

Evolution towards Multi-Year Periodicity in Epidemics ... More

Krakauer,D.C. Sasaki,A. (2005)

The Greater than Two-fold Cost of Intergration for Retroviruses ... More

Ohtsuki,A. Sasaki,A. (2005)

Epidemiology and Disease-Control Under Gene-for-Gene Plant-Pathogen Interaction ... More