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2025.Oct.21 [Awarded] Dr. Katherine Hampson has received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators". Go to "Awards, articles, etc" below.blank
2025.Oct.15 Professor Innan and Professor Ohtsuki has been ranked among the world's top 100,000 scientists by Elsevier's Scopus.
2025.Oct.3 [ Interview ] We've posted interviews with RCIES faculty members!blank
2025.Sep.25 [ Open Campus ] Open Campus of IES will be held on Nov. 8th. (hybrid) (in Japanese)blank
2025.Sep.18 [ Awarded ] IES student, Yuka Yamada won the outstanding presentation award at Joint convention of Japanese Association of Benthology and The plankton society of Japan (in Japanese)blank
2025.Sep.16 [ Awarded ] IES 3 students of IES won the Poster Award at the 5th Summer School for Mathematical Biology! (in Japanese)blank
2025.Sep.5 [ Lectures ] Academic Lectures will be held on Nov. 3rd. (Culture Day) (in Japanese)blank
2025.Jul.30 [ Article ] An article co-authored by PhD student Raiki Nakano and Professor Otsuki was published in the journal "Kagaku (=Science)" (Iwanami Shoten). For details, please visit the 'Outreach' > 'Readings' tab. (in Japanese) blank
2025.Jul.24 [ Closed: Hayama Seminar ] On Aug. 5th (Tue), The 24th Hayama Seminar will be held.blank
2025.Jul.22 [ Lecture ] Sept. 13 (sat),Prof. Terai will give a public lecture on the evolutionary path of dogs. (Free, online live streaming, registration required) blank
2025.Jul.9 [Book] "Deciphering Ancient Human Genomes in Yaponesia" (Asakura Co., Ltd.) is now available. Prof. Gojobori is one of the authors!blank
2025.Apr.21 [Grant] Applications for RCIES academic meeting grants are now open.blank
2025.Apr.1 [Arrival] New faculty member, Asst. Prof. Masahiro Inohana, has joined RCIES!blank
2024.Jul.28 [Awarded] Ayuko KUBO won the Poster Award at the 41st JSSSCP!blank
2024.Aug.8 [ Video streaming ] Prof. Y. Watanabe talks about his resarch on youtube. blank

Press Releases

  • Kutsukake-2025PR2

    Quantitative and systematic behavioral profiling reveals social complexity in eusocial naked mole-rats
    2025.Oct.9


  • WatanabeYY_2025PR

    Shortfin mako sharks show enhanced thermoregulation abilities during deep dives
    2025.Sep.25


  • WatanabeYY_2025PR

    Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets
    (Press Released in Japanese)
    2025.Jun.24


  • KutsukakeHaranoPR-J

    Parental guarding behaviour affects the evolution of egg shapes
    (Press Released in Japanese)
    2025.May.22


  • TanabePR

    From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing
    2025.May.22


  • TsutayaPR

    A new Denisovan mandible from Taiwan
    2025.Apr.11


  • NakanoOhtsukiPR

    Conditions for the establishment of a creole language theoretically revealed: when is a new language born?
    2025.Mar.26


  • Murine Face Atlas

    Developmental Atlas of Murine Face : Deciphering the Evolutionary Transition from Reptilian Jaw to Mammalian Nose
    2025.Mar.3


  • Social Stress

    Friendly but Stressed: A Novel Finding on Social Stress in Wild Japanese Macaques
    2025.Feb.25


  • Civet cat

    Heterogeneity in Host Populations Drives the Evolution of More Virulent Pathogens
    2024.Dec.20


  • Civet cat

    Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids
    2024.Nov.11


  • Atractylodes

    Novel B chromosemes with unknown function are found in the gynodioecious medicinal plant, Atractylodes lancea
    2024.Sep.13


  • Urban Squirrel

    Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years
    2024.Sep.13


  • COVIVIS_Start

    Analysis application tool that predicts the number of infected people in the catchment area on the virus concentration data in sewage
    - “COVIVIS” user acceptance begins -
    2024.Jun.21



    • Press Release Archives

Events

2025.Sep.5    Nov. 3rd (Mon, Culture Day) Academic lectures by Dr. Masahiro Inohana & Dr. Lee Boyun. (in Japanese)blank
2025.Jul.24    August 5th (Tue) The 24th Hayama Seminar: A lecture by Dr. Leo Speidel (Group Leader of Mathematical Genomics RIKEN ECL Research Unit, RIKEN) will be held. The title is: "Powerful inference of admixture using joint genealogies of ancient and modern humans". Abstract and online registration hereblank.
2025.Jul.24    (UPDATED) Sep. 9th (Tue) - 11th (Thr): The 5th Summer School for Mathematical Biology at SOKENDAI Hayama campus. Registrartion is now open (deadline: 8/29). Applications for travel expense support (deadline: 8/1 EXTENDED! 7/15 ) and accomodation (deadline: 8/1) are also being accepted. Language would be in Japanese.blank
2025.July.23    On Sep. 13th (Sat), Prof. Terai will give a talk at a public lecture titled "The world of ancient animals revealed by genetics" (in Japanese)blank
2025.July.17    On Jul. 21th, three SOKENDAI IES students will give a relay talk entitled "Beyond the Ripples - From the Cutting Edge of Biology" at the Lica-House, Zushi. They will talk about the marine animals, sea slugs, pufferfish, and sharks they are researching. (in Japanese)blank
2025.Jul.8    Sep. 9th (Tue) - 11th (Thr): The 5th Summer School for Mathematical Biology will be held at SOKENDAI Hayama campus. Registrartion is now open (deadline: 8/29). Applications for travel support (deadline: 7/15) and accomodation (deadline: 8/1) are also being accepted. Language would be in Japanese.blank
2025.Jun.6    June 12th (Thu) The 23rd Hayama Seminar: Lectures by 2 Professors of Evolutionary Biology from Univ. of Oxford; Drs. Ashleigh Griffin and Stuart West will be held. Seminar Information and online registration hereblank.
2025.May.8    May 20th (Tue) The 22nd Hayama Seminar: A lecture by Prof. Yusuke Tomina (Hokkaido Univ.) will be held. The title is: "Whole-brain imaging of small nervous systems: From leech ganglia to freely moving C. elegans ". Abstract and online registration hereblank.
2025.Apr.5    Lectures by Profs. Hideyuki Tanabe & Takumi Tsutaya at IES Course guidance on May 10th (Sat). blank
2025.Apr.4    On Apr. 6th (Sun), Prof. Terai will appear on an NHK (ETV) TV show "Science ZERO — Latest Report: The Road Taken by the Ancient DNA of the Japanese People" (in Japanese)blank
2025.Mar.6    On Mar. 8th, The 8th Miura Science Café, co-hosted by Sokendai, will be held. "What kind of prehistoric and ancient people lived in Miura?" (free addmission. in Japanese)blank
2024.Nov.20    On Dec.9th, Assoc. Prof. Michiyo Kinoshita and Prof. Mariko Hasegawa, former president of SOKENDAI, will give lectures at NIBB symposium (in Japanese) blank
2024.Sep.27    Open Campus will be held on November 16, 2024 (in Japanese). Registration is required. blank
2024.Aug.29    Nov. 3rd (Sun, Culture Day) Academic lectures by Dr. Takumi Tsutaya & Dr. Hiroki Higashiyama.blank
2024.Aug.7    Aug.18 (Sun) Prof. Y. Watanabe will give a seminar titled, "Lives of penguins and sharks revealed by modern science" at Toyota Hands-On Museum, Aichi (in Japanese).blank
2024.Jul.25    "youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.2. "Cutting-edge research on marine animals! Why do we study evolution?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)blank
2024.Jul.5    "youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.1. "Global warming in reality! What is polar research?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)blank
2024.Jul.24    Aug 21st(Wed) - Aug 24th (Sat): "SESJ2024" The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Evolutionary Studies, Japan will be held at Tokai University Shonan Campus (Aug 21st to 23rd) and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (Aug 24th). blank
2024.Feb.24    Lecture Video now available; "What do butterflies "see"?" by Prof. Kentaro Arikawa in "JT Biohistory Research Hall event-Lecture” on Feb 17th, 2024 (in Japanese). blank
 
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Recent Publications

2025.Oct.8    Quantitative and systematic behavioral profiling reveals social complexity in eusocial naked mole-rats.
Yamakawa M , Ezalo T, Watarai A, Kutsukake N , Miura K, Okuyama T
J. Science Advances. (2025) 11(41)    DOI:10.1126/sciadv.ady0481 blank
2025.Oct.6    Joint Effects of Balancing Selection and Population Bottlenecks on the Evolution of a Regulatory Region of Human Antiviral APOBEC3.
Naoko T. Fujito*, Sundaramoorthy Revathidevi,Yoko Satta, Ituro Inoue
Genome Biol. Evol. (2025) 17(10):evaf186    DOI:10.1093/gbe/evaf186 blank
2025.Aug.29    Enhanced thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes.
Tokunaga S , Chiang W-C, Nakamura I, Matsumoto R, Watanabe YY.
J. Animal Ecol. (2025)    DOI:10.1111/1365-2656.70116 blank
2025.Aug.3    Economic Rationality and International Humanitarianism: Ryōkichi Sagane’s Advocacy Regarding the Introduction of Foreign Nuclear Reactors to Japan.
Inohana M
Ber. Wissenschaftsgesch. (2025) 48:112-126     DOI:10.1002/bewi.202400018 blank
2025.Jun.5    Global tracking of marine megafauna space use reveals how to achieve conservation targets.
Sequeira AMM, Rodriguez JP, Marley SA,, Watanabe YY ,,, and Eguiluz VM (+372 authors)
Science (2025) 388(6751)    DOI:10.1126/science.adl0239 blank
2025.May.30    Parental guarding behaviour affects the evolution of egg shapes.
Kudo S, Harano T , Tsai J-F, Yoshizawa K, Kutsukake N
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society (2025) 145(1):blaf019    DOI:10.1093/biolinnean/blaf019 blank
2025.May.21    From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing.
Gusareva ES, Ghosh AG,,, Tanabe H ,, and Kim HL (48 authors)
Science (2025) 388(6748)    DOI:10.1126/science.adk5081 blank
2025.Apr.10    A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan.
Tsutaya T , Sawafuji R ,,, Kaifu Y, Chang C-H, Cappellini E, and Welker F (+9 authors)
Science (2025) 388(6743):176-180     DOI:10.1126/science.ads3888 blank
2025.Mar.28    Many-strategy games in groups with relatives and the evolution of coordinated cooperation.
Kristensen NP, Chisholm RA, Ohtsuki H
J. Theor. Biol. (2025) 605:112089     DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112089 blank
2025.Mar.18    Conditions for the establishment of creole languages from an evolutionary game theoretic perspective.
Nakano R , Ohtsuki H
J. Theor. Biol. (2025) 605:112090     DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112090 blank
2025.Mar.5    Purifying selection of the lysosomal enzymes arylsulfatase A and beta-galactocerebrosidase and their evolutionary impact on myelin integrity.
Luetzen, M. A, R. Chakraborty, O. A. Moreno-Ramos, O. Y. Echeverri-Peña, Y. Satta, A. M Montaño*
Journal of Lipid Research. (2025) 66(4):100769    DOI:10.1016/j.jlr.2025.100769 blank
2025.Feb.28    On the Maxillofacial Development of Mice, Mus musculus .
Higashiyama H , Kuroda S, Iwase A, Irie N , Kurihara H
J. Morphol. (2025) 286(3):e70032     DOI:full10.1002/jmor.70032 blank
2025.Feb.21    Influence of proximate individuals on self-scratching behaviour in wild Japanese macaques.
Sekizawa M , Kutsukake N
Animal Behaviour (2025) 222     DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123111 blank
2024.Dec.19    Metapopulation heterogeneities in host mobility, productivity, and immunocompetency always increase virulence and infectiousness.
Sato M , Dieckmann U, Sasaki A
PNAS (2024) 121(52):e2309272121     DOI:10.1073/pnas.2309272121 blank
2024.Oct.2    Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids.
Nakabayashi M, Tsutaya T , Abdul H Ahmad, Sasaki Y, Ogawa NO, Ishikawa NF, Ohkouchi N
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (2024) 11:53     DOI:10.1186/s40645-024-00655-6 blank
2024.Sep.11    B chromosome and its non-Mendelian inheritance in Atractylodes lancea .
Hara K, Kikuchi S, Inoue M, Tsusaka T, Sakurai M, Tanabe H , Shirasawa K, Isobe S
PLOS ONE (2024)     DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0308881 blank
2024.Aug.13    Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years.
Takahata Y , Uchida K, Kutsukake N , Shimamoto T, Asari Y, Terai Y
Conservation Genetics (2024)     DOI:10.1007/s10592-024-01631-9 blank
2024.Aug.9    Adaptive Evolution and Functional Differentiation of Testis-Expressed Genes in Theria.
Katsura Y*, S. Shigenobu, Y. Satta
Animals (2024) 14(16):2316     DOI:10.3390/ani14162316 blank
2024.Aug.1    Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy.
Onishi Y
J Gen Philos Sci (2024)56:77-95     DOI:10.1007/s10838-023-09667-0 blank
2024.May.28    Who is a Leader in the Leading Eight? Indirect Reciprocity under Private Assessment.
Fujimoto Y , Ohtsuki H
PRX Life (2024) 2:023009     DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162 blank
2024.May.24    Severe Bottleneck Impacted the Genomic Structure of Egg-Eating Cichlids in Lake Victoria.
Imamoto M, Nakamura H , Aibara M, Hatashima R, Kimirei IA, Kashindye BB, Itoh T, Nikaido M
Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024) 41(6):msae093     DOI:10.1093/molbev/msae093 blank
2024.May.4    East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review.
Sawafuji R , Tsutaya T , Takahata N, Pedersen MW, Ishida H
Quaternary Science Reviews (2024) 333(1):108669     DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108669 blank
2024.Apr.15    Interactive parallel sex pheromone circuits that promote and suppress courtship behaviors in the cockroach.
Tateishi K, Watanabe T , Domae M, Ugagin A, Nishino H, Nakagawa H, Mizunami M, Watanabe H
PNAS nexus (2024) 3(4):pgae162     DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162 blank
 
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Awards, articles, etc.

2025.Oct.21 Dr. Katherine Hampson received the Anthropological Science Achievement Award for Young Investigators from the Anthropological Society of Nippon, based on the research conducted during doctrate at the University of Tokyo. The subject article (Hampson and Kondo 2023) can be read hereblank. The research is on medieval human skeletons excavated from the coastal area of Kamakura, near SOKENDAI.
2025.Sep.18 Yuka Yamada (ESB student) won the outstanding presentation award at Joint convention of Japanese Association of Benthology and The plankton society of Japan. (in Japanese)blank
2025.Sep.16 Ryuichiro Issiki (IES, D1) and Raiki Nakano (IES, D2) in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Best Poster Award, Shun Minami (IES, D1) won the Excelllence poster award at the 5th Summer School for Mathematical Biology. (in Japanese)blank
2025.May.19 One of Prof. Terai's research themes, "the roots of Japanese dogs", was featured in the Mainichi Newspapers (paper, E-version in JA)blank .
2025.Apr.22 A reconstructed model of the Makimuku dog, which was excavated at the Makimuku ruins and in which Associate Professor Tera was also involved, was unveiled. It has been featured in the Asahi Shimbun, Nara Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Yomiuri Shimbun, and other local newspapers (online and print), Youtubes, and has been broadcast on many television stations. (Search for "Makimuku dog")
2025.Apr.17 A paper by Assistant Professor Tsutaya and others on the human fossils excavated in Taiwan (explaining its origin as Denisovans) has been broadcast and published in many media outlets, including NHK News (in JA)blank 、 The Asahi Shimbun (E-version EN)blank 、 The Japan News (by the Yomiuri shimbun) (E-version, EN)blank 、 JijiCOM (E-version, in JA)blank 、 NIKKEI (E-version, in JA)blank 、 Yaeyama Mainichi shimbun (E-version, in JA)blank
2025.Apr.1 New faculty member, Asst. Prof. Masahiro Inohana, has joined RCIES!blank
2024.Jul.28 Ayuko KUBO (ESB, Tsutaya Lab.) won the Poster Award at the 41st Conference of the Japan Society for Scientific Studies on Cultural Properties (JSSSCP)"
2025.Mar.21 Soma TOKUNAGA (ESB D4) won the Best Award for Oral English Presentation Award, at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan on "Extraordinary thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes" blank
2025.Mar.21 Ryuichiro ISSHIKI (IES D1) won the Poster Award for a poster presentation entitled "Can Female Choice Hypothesis Explain the Evolution of Lek?" at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan. blank
2025.Feb.23 An article about Assoc. Prof. Yohey Terai has published in Tokyo shimbun（e-edtion blank & in print)
2025.Feb.12 An article "Fisher equation" by Assoc. Prof. Hisashi Ohtsuki was published in 'Suugaku (=Mathematics) Seminar' (in Japanese) blank
2025.Jan.19 An article about Assoc. Prof. Yohey Terai has published in NIKKEI（e-edtion on Jan.18blank & in print on Jan 19)
2024.Dec.23 Soma Tokunaga's (IES, D4) research presentation on shortfin mako sharks at Taiwan's Ministry of Agriculture has been reported in Taiwanese newspaper, Liverty Times Net (e-editionblank & in print)
2024.Nov.23 An article about Prof. Innan's research has published in NIKKEI（e-editionblankon Nov.23 & in print on Nov. 24)
2024.Oct.16 Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators"!blank
2024.Sep.24 Ryuichiro Issiki (IES, D1) in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology for his presentation on "A Theoretical Study on Female Preference Hypothesis in Lek Mating Systems".blank
2024.Sep.24 Shun Minami (IES, D1) in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Mathematical Biology for his presentation on "New Red Queen Dynamics in Fungus-Virus Interaction".blank
2024.Sep.12 Prof. Yoko Satta received the Kihara Award 2024 from the Genetics Society of Japan for “Data Driven Science in Evolutionary Genetics”. blank
2024.Aug.30 Articles about Prof. Hongo's research has published in Nikkei digital online (2024.8.28), and in print (2024.8.29) (in Japanese)blank. In the article, the new academic field “Integrated Evolutionary Science” by RCIES was also introduced.
2024.Aug.7 Articles about Prof. Terai's research has published in Nikkei digital online (2024.3.24, in Japanese)blank , Science Japan (2024.5.23, JST, cited from Science News）blank , Nikkei Science (Special Edition, vol.269, 2024.6.29, reprinted of Nikkei Science (2024.Feb. Special Edition)), The Sankei Shimbun (2024.7.7 E-version)blank, and The Sankei Shimbun (2024.7.21, in print)
2024.Aug.7 'COVIVIS' by Prof. Sasaki's research has published in Science News (2024.7.19, in print) (Jump to SOKENDAI's page)blank
2024.May.21 New Research Fellow, Dr. Hiroki Higashiyama has joined RCIES blank
2024.Apr.20 Two articles about Prof. Terai’s research has published in The Science News (2024.Mar.29, Paper), JKC Gazette (2024, May). (in Japanese)blank
2024.Apr.9 Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (in Japanese) blank
 
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