Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak

SARS-CoV-2 variants: Past, present and future.- COVID-19 pandemic and behavioral change: The cases of Florida and Ohio.- Integrating social sciences to mitigate against covid.- Re-thinking the infodemic: Social media and offline action in the COVID-19 pandemic.- Mapping COVID-19 in Japan and greater Tokyo area, socio-spatial and political analysis of the epidemic.-  Application of SARS-CoV-2 serology testing: A case study

Makoto Yano is Chairman of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI); he is also a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University and Sofia University. He is an internationally known researcher who has made a number of substantial contributions in international trade, and especially on economic dynamics. In a series of recent research, Yano proposes market quality theory, addressing various problems in modern economies, including the financial market crisis since 2008 and the recent nuclear accidents in Japan, from the point of view of market quality. Concerning quality of competition, quality of information, and quality of products, market quality is defined as an index jointly determined by the efficiency of an allocation and the fairness of the prices that are achieved in a market. An influence of his theory can be seen in Krishnendu Dastidar's book, Oligopoly, Auctions and Market Quality (2017), included in the same Springer book series as the present volume. Yano received a BA in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1971 and a PhD in economics from the University of Rochester in 1981.

 

Professor Fumihiko Matsuda obtained his PhD from Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine in 1990 under Professor Tasuku Honjo and continued his research with him until 1998. Throughout this period, his work is the organization of the human immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable-region (VH) gene locus. In 1998, he joined Centre National de Genotypage (CNG) in Evry, France, as the head of gene identification. During his stay at CNG for ten years, he played a significant role in numerous comprehensive genetic analyses of multigenetic disorders. Since holding a joint appointment as a Professor of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Kyoto University in 2003, he focused on the trans-ethnic genetic studies of human diseases. Since 2012, he has led an international collaboration with McGill University in genomics and