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2024.Oct.22	[ Essay ] Prof. Yuuki Watanabe's essay on his field research in the North pole published in the monthly travel magazine "Hitotoki" November issue (WEDGE) (in Japanese)
2024.Oct.16	[ Awarded ] Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators"!
2024.Sep.27	[ Open Campus ] Open Campus will be held on November 16, 2024 (in Japanese).
2024.Sep.24	[ Awarded ] Ryuichiro ISSIKI in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology.
2024.Sep.24	[ Awarded ] Shun MINAMI in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Mathematical Biology.
2024.Sep.10	[ Awarded ] Prof. Y. Satta received the GSJ Kihara Award 2024 from the Genetics Society of Japan!
2024.Aug.29	[ Lectures ] Academic Lectures will be held on Nov. 3rd. (Culture Day) (in Japanese)
2024.Aug.23	[ Recruitment ] Open positions for RCIES Special Researcher (Deadline: 2024.11.25. 12:00 p.m.JST)
2024.Aug.10	[ Textbook ] Prof. Irie's discovery featured in High School Biology Textbook
2024.Aug.8	[ Video streaming ] Prof. Y. Watanabe talks about his resarch on youtube.
2024.Jul.29	[ Booklet ] Center and Course booklet is now available
2024.May.21	[ Arrival ] New Research Fellow has joined RCIES
2024.Apr.9	[ Awarded ] Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology! (in Japanese)

Press Releases

Novel B chromosemes with unknown function are found in the gynodioecious medicinal plant, Atractylodes lancea
2024.Sep.13
Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years
2024.Sep.13
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
The newfound evidence of extinction risk — the invasive Nile perch impacted the genomic structure of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes
2024.Jun.17
Uncovering the reception and processing mechanisms of cockroach sex pheromones and the regulation mechanisms of their courtship behavior
2024.May.15
Palaeoproteomics of dental calculus reveals pathogenic factors of periodontal diseases in the past
2024.May.15
Multi-cusped postcanine teeth are associated with zooplankton feeding in phocid seals
2024.Mar.13
Evolution of parental care in haploid–diploid plants
2024.Mar.11
Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs
2024.Mar.1

Press Release Archives

2024.Sep.27	Open Campus will be held on November 16, 2024 (in Japanese). Registration is required.
2024.Aug.29	Nov. 3rd (Sun, Culture Day) Academic lectures by Dr. Takumi Tsutaya & Dr. Hiroki Higashiyama.
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).
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)
2024.Jul.5	"youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.1. "Global warming in reality! What is polar research?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)
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).
2024.Jul.23	Sep 8th (Sun) - Sep 10th (Tue): The 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology (Japanese) will be held at Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo.
2024.Apr.2	May 11th (Sat) Lectures by Drs. Takayuki Watanabe & Yohey Terai
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).
2024.Jan.17	Dr. Yasu Furukawa, will appear on TV show, "The Profiler" and give a talk about Ms. Umeko Tsuda, who was one of the pioneers of Japanese women's education and founded Tsuda University. She will become the face of the new ¥5000 bill this July. (Jan. 25, NHK BS 21:00-22:00, in Japanese)
2024.Jan.11	Prof. Kentaro Arikawa, will give a lecture on "What do butterflies "see"?" in "JT Biohistory Research Hall event-Lecture” on Feb 17th, 2024 (in Japanese). !! This lecture will be streamed on Youtube!!
2024.Jan.11	Prof. Kentaro Arikawa, will give a lecture on "Color world that butterflies see" in the 363rd Senri Life Scinece Forum, on Jan. 11th, 2024 (Osaka, Senri Life Science Foundation, in Japanese). !! This lecture will be streamed on-demand (registration required)!!
2023.Jan.9	Report of RCIES x MMBS (Univ. of Tokyo, Misaki Marine Biology Station), the 2nd Student exchange meeting on Dec. 13, 2023
2023.Dec.14	Prof. Yohey Terai, will give a lecture on "The origin of the dog in the Japanese archipelago and their transition." in "The forefront of genomic veterinary researches for companion animals”, the 4th Companion Animal Research meeting, on Jan. 20th - 21st, 2024. (This symposium will be in Japanese)
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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.Jul.23

Sep 8th (Sun) - Sep 10th (Tue): The 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology (Japanese) will be held at Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo. blank

2024.Apr.2

May 11th (Sat) Lectures by Drs. Takayuki Watanabe & Yohey Terai 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

2024.Jan.17

Dr. Yasu Furukawa, will appear on TV show, "The Profiler" and give a talk about Ms. Umeko Tsuda, who was one of the pioneers of Japanese women's education and founded Tsuda University. She will become the face of the new ¥5000 bill this July. (Jan. 25, NHK BS 21:00-22:00, in Japanese) blank

2024.Jan.11

Prof. Kentaro Arikawa, will give a lecture on "What do butterflies "see"?" in "JT Biohistory Research Hall event-Lecture” on Feb 17th, 2024 (in Japanese).
!! This lecture will be streamed on Youtube!! blank

2024.Jan.11

Prof. Kentaro Arikawa, will give a lecture on "Color world that butterflies see" in the 363rd Senri Life Scinece Forum, on Jan. 11th, 2024 (Osaka, Senri Life Science Foundation, in Japanese). blank

!! This lecture will be streamed on-demand (registration required)!! blank

2023.Jan.9

Report of RCIES x MMBS (Univ. of Tokyo, Misaki Marine Biology Station), the 2nd Student exchange meeting on Dec. 13, 2023 blank

2023.Dec.14

Prof. Yohey Terai, will give a lecture on "The origin of the dog in the Japanese archipelago and their transition." in "The forefront of genomic veterinary researches for companion animals”, the 4th Companion Animal Research meeting, on Jan. 20th - 21st, 2024. (This symposium will be in Japanese) blank

Event Archives

2024.Oct.16	Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Tsutaya Doi, Katagiri, Sawafuji, Yoneda. Anthropological Science (2024) DOI:10.1537/ase.230718
2024.Sep.11	B chromosome and its non-Mendelian inheritance in Atractylodes lancea Hara, Kikuchi, Inoue, Tsusaka, Sakurai, Tanabe, Shirasawa, Isobe. PROS ONE (2024) DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0308881
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, Uchida, Kutsukake, Shimamoto, Asari, Terai. Conservation Genetics (2024) DOI:10.1007/s10592-024-01631-9
2024.Aug.1	Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy. Onishi. J Gen Philos Sci (2024) DOI:10.1007/s10838-023-09667-0
2024.Aug.3	East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review. Sawafuji, Tsutaya, Takahata, Pedersen, Ishida. Quaternary Science Reviews 333:1 June 2024, 108669 DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108669
2024.Jun.17	Severe Bottleneck Impacted the Genomic Structure of Egg-Eating Cichlids in Lake Victoria. Imamoto, Nakamura H, Aibara, Hatashima, Kimirei, Kashindye, Itoh, Nikaido. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41(6):June 24, msae093 DOI:10.1093/molbev/msae093
2024.May.29	Who is a Leader in the Leading Eight? Indirect Reciprocity under Private Assessment. Fujimoto, Ohtsuki. PRX Life 2, 023009 DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162
2024.May.29	Different Host–Endogenous Retrovirus Relationships between Mammals and Birds Reflected in Genome-Wide Evolutionary Interaction Patterns. Zheng, Gojobori, Suh, Satta. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(4):April 2024, evae065 DOI:10.1093/gbe/evae065
2024.May.15	Interactive parallel sex pheromone circuits that promote and suppress courtship behaviors in the cockroach. Tateishi, Watanabe T, Domae, Ugagin, Nishino, Nakagawa, Mizunami, Watanabe. PNAS nexus 3(4):April2024, pgae162 DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162
2024.May.15	Palaeoproteomic investigation of an ancient human skeleton with abnormal deposition of dental calculus. Uchida-Fukuhara, Shimamura, Sawafuji, Nishiuchi, Yoneda, Ishida, Matsumura, Tsutaya. Scientific Reports 14:Article:5938 DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-55779-y
2024.Feb.22	Multi-cusped postcanine teeth are associated with zooplankton feeding in phocid seals. Ishihara, Miyazaki, Yurkowski, Watanabe YY. Marine Ecology Progress Series v729:233-245 DOI:10.3354/meps14509
2024.Feb.14	Evolution of parental care in haploid–diploid plants. Bessho, Sasaki. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 15:1680 DOI:10.1098/rspb.2023.2351
2024.Feb.23	Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs. Gojobori, Arakawa, Xiaokaiti, Matsumoto, Matsumura, Hongo, Ishiguro, Terai. Nature Communications 15:1680 DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-46124-y
2024.Feb.13	Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat. Yamakawa, Miura, Kutsukake.Animal Behaviour DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.005
2023.Dec.15	Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Tsutaya, Doi, Katagiri, Sawafuji, Yoneda. Anthropological Science 132(1):27-38 DOI: 10.1537/ase.230718
2023.Oct.26	The adaptation front equation explains innovation-driven taxonomic turnovers and living fossilization. Ito, Sasaki. The American Naturalist 202(6):E163-E180 DOI: 10.1086/727046
2023.Sep.5	Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important? Hase. Animal Cognition 26:1905-1913 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.001
2023.Aug.10	Genome sequencing reveals the genetic architecture of heterostyly and domestication history of common buckwheat. Fawcett,... Ota, et al. Nature Plants 9:1236–1251. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01474-1
2023.Jul.19	Kangaroo endogenous retrovirus (KERV) forms megasatellite DNA with a simple repetition pattern in which the provirus structure is retained. Koga, Nishihara, Tanabe, Tanaka, Kayano, Matsumoto, Endo, Srikulnath, O'Neill. Virology 586:56-66. DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.07.005
2023.Jun.27	Conserved Evolution of MHC Supertypes among Japanese Frogs Suggests Selection for Bd Resistance. Lau, Iagawa, Kosch, Dharmayanthi, Berger, Skerratt, Satta. Animals 13:2121 DOI: 10.3390/ani13132121
2023.Jun.23	Spatial and temporal diversity of positive selection on shared haplotypes at the PSCA locus among worldwide human populations. Iwasaki, Satta. Heredity 131:156–169 DOI: 10.1038/s41437-023-00631-8
2023.Jun.22	Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants. Mizuno, Ranjeewa, Kutsukake, Padmalal. J Ethology DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00790-5
2023.Jun.3	Allometric Growth of the Enigmatic Deep-Sea Megamouth Shark Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, and Struhsaker, 1983 (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae). Yun, Watanabe YY. Fishes 8(6):300. DOI: 10.3390/fishes8060300
2023.May.9	Evolutionary stability of cooperation in indirect reciprocity under noisy and private assessment. Fujimoto, Ohtsuki. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 120:e2300544120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300544120
2023.Apr.18	‘Color’ processing in the butterfly visual system. Kinoshita, Arikawa. Trends in Neurosciences. 46:338-340. DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.02.006
2023.Apr.12	Thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate mirrors biogeographic differences between teleosts and elasmobranchs. Watanabe YY, Payne. Nature communications 14:2054. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37637-z
	Publication Archives

2024.Oct.16

Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Tsutaya Doi, Katagiri, Sawafuji, Yoneda. Anthropological Science (2024)
DOI:10.1537/ase.230718 blank

2024.Sep.11

B chromosome and its non-Mendelian inheritance in Atractylodes lancea Hara, Kikuchi, Inoue, Tsusaka, Sakurai, Tanabe, Shirasawa, Isobe. PROS 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, Uchida, Kutsukake, Shimamoto, Asari, Terai. Conservation Genetics (2024)
DOI:10.1007/s10592-024-01631-9 blank

2024.Aug.1

Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy. Onishi. J Gen Philos Sci (2024)
DOI:10.1007/s10838-023-09667-0 blank

2024.Aug.3

East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review. Sawafuji, Tsutaya, Takahata, Pedersen, Ishida. Quaternary Science Reviews 333:1 June 2024, 108669
DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108669 blank

2024.Jun.17

Severe Bottleneck Impacted the Genomic Structure of Egg-Eating Cichlids in Lake Victoria. Imamoto, Nakamura H, Aibara, Hatashima, Kimirei, Kashindye, Itoh, Nikaido. Molecular Biology and Evolution 41(6):June 24, msae093
DOI:10.1093/molbev/msae093 blank

2024.May.29

Who is a Leader in the Leading Eight? Indirect Reciprocity under Private Assessment. Fujimoto, Ohtsuki. PRX Life 2, 023009
DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162 blank

2024.May.29

Different Host–Endogenous Retrovirus Relationships between Mammals and Birds Reflected in Genome-Wide Evolutionary Interaction Patterns. Zheng, Gojobori, Suh, Satta. Genome Biology and Evolution 16(4):April 2024, evae065
DOI:10.1093/gbe/evae065 blank

2024.May.15

Interactive parallel sex pheromone circuits that promote and suppress courtship behaviors in the cockroach. Tateishi, Watanabe T, Domae, Ugagin, Nishino, Nakagawa, Mizunami, Watanabe. PNAS nexus 3(4):April2024, pgae162
DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162 blank

2024.May.15

Palaeoproteomic investigation of an ancient human skeleton with abnormal deposition of dental calculus. Uchida-Fukuhara, Shimamura, Sawafuji, Nishiuchi, Yoneda, Ishida, Matsumura, Tsutaya. Scientific Reports 14:Article:5938
DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-55779-y blank

2024.Feb.22

Multi-cusped postcanine teeth are associated with zooplankton feeding in phocid seals. Ishihara, Miyazaki, Yurkowski, Watanabe YY. Marine Ecology Progress Series v729:233-245
DOI:10.3354/meps14509 blank

2024.Feb.14

Evolution of parental care in haploid–diploid plants. Bessho, Sasaki. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 15:1680
DOI:10.1098/rspb.2023.2351 blank

2024.Feb.23

Japanese wolves are most closely related to dogs and share DNA with East Eurasian dogs. Gojobori, Arakawa, Xiaokaiti, Matsumoto, Matsumura, Hongo, Ishiguro, Terai. Nature Communications 15:1680
DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-46124-y blank

2024.Feb.13

Helping syndrome is partially confirmed in the eusocial naked mole-rat. Yamakawa, Miura, Kutsukake.Animal Behaviour
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2024.01.005 blank

2023.Dec.15

Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Tsutaya, Doi, Katagiri, Sawafuji, Yoneda. Anthropological Science 132(1):27-38
DOI: 10.1537/ase.230718 blank

2023.Oct.26

The adaptation front equation explains innovation-driven taxonomic turnovers and living fossilization. Ito, Sasaki. The American Naturalist 202(6):E163-E180
DOI: 10.1086/727046 blank

2023.Sep.5

Grouping rule in tadpole: is quantity more or size assortment more important? Hase. Animal Cognition 26:1905-1913
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.001 blank

2023.Aug.10

Genome sequencing reveals the genetic architecture of heterostyly and domestication history of common buckwheat. Fawcett,... Ota, et al. Nature Plants 9:1236–1251.
DOI: 10.1038/s41477-023-01474-1 blank

2023.Jul.19

Kangaroo endogenous retrovirus (KERV) forms megasatellite DNA with a simple repetition pattern in which the provirus structure is retained. Koga, Nishihara, Tanabe, Tanaka, Kayano, Matsumoto, Endo, Srikulnath, O'Neill. Virology 586:56-66.
DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2023.07.005 blank

2023.Jun.27

Conserved Evolution of MHC Supertypes among Japanese Frogs Suggests Selection for Bd Resistance. Lau, Iagawa, Kosch, Dharmayanthi, Berger, Skerratt, Satta. Animals 13:2121
DOI: 10.3390/ani13132121 blank

2023.Jun.23

Spatial and temporal diversity of positive selection on shared haplotypes at the PSCA locus among worldwide human populations. Iwasaki, Satta. Heredity 131:156–169
DOI: 10.1038/s41437-023-00631-8 blank

2023.Jun.22

Collective movements during visits to water bodies in wild Asian elephants. Mizuno, Ranjeewa, Kutsukake, Padmalal. J Ethology
DOI: 10.1007/s10164-023-00790-5 blank

2023.Jun.3

Allometric Growth of the Enigmatic Deep-Sea Megamouth Shark Megachasma pelagios Taylor, Compagno, and Struhsaker, 1983 (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae). Yun, Watanabe YY. Fishes 8(6):300.
DOI: 10.3390/fishes8060300 blank

2023.May.9

Evolutionary stability of cooperation in indirect reciprocity under noisy and private assessment. Fujimoto, Ohtsuki. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 120:e2300544120.
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2300544120 blank

2023.Apr.18

‘Color’ processing in the butterfly visual system. Kinoshita, Arikawa. Trends in Neurosciences. 46:338-340.
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2023.02.006 blank

2023.Apr.12

Thermal sensitivity of metabolic rate mirrors biogeographic differences between teleosts and elasmobranchs. Watanabe YY, Payne. Nature communications 14:2054.
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37637-z blank

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Recruitment


2024.Aug.23	Open positions for RCIES Research Fellow, SOKENDAI (Deadline: 2024.11.25, 12:00 p.m.JST)

2024.Aug.23

Open positions for RCIES Research Fellow, SOKENDAI (Deadline: 2024.11.25, 12:00 p.m.JST) blank

2024.Sep.24	Ryuichiro ISSIKI 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".
2024.Sep.24	Shun MINAMI 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".
2024.Sep.12	Prof. Yoko Satta received the Kihara Award 2024 from the Genetics Society of Japan for “Data Driven Science in Evolutionary Genetics”.
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). 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), Science Japan (2024.5.23, JST, cited from Science News）, 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), 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)
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)
2024.Apr.9	Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (in Japanese)
2024.Feb.19	An article about Prof. Ohtsuki’s research has published in Diamond online (2024.Feb.16). (in Japanese)
2023.Dec.28	An article about Prof. Terai’s research has published in Nikkei Science (2024, Feb). (in Japanese)
2023.Dec.20	Prof. Hisashi Ohtsuki has been awarded the 20th (FY2023) JSPS Prize. (in Japanese)
2023.Nov.8	Prof. Takayuki Watanabe has been awarded the 32nd Yoshida Encouragement Prize for the 2023 academic year.
2023.Sep.29	The Presentation by the Research Group (including Prof. Tatsuya Ota) received Excellent Presentation Award (Presentation Number 116) at the 144th Lecture Meeting (Autumn Meeting of the 5th year of Reiwa) of the Japanese Society of Breeding for collaborative research. In the same event, Yasuo Yasui, Prof. at Kyoto University (Collaborative Researcher), conducted an online press conference regarding another collaborative research (Presentation Number 114). (in Japanese)
2023.Sep.8	Prof. Tatsuya Ota's collaborative research (co-authored paper)was featured in the Yomiuri Shimbun, ascii.jp, Nikkei Biotech, Asahi Shimbun 1・2・3 (English), Kyoto Shimbun, Nikkei, Jiji Press News, JIJI.COM, MIT Technology Review, The Science News, JAcom, Tsukuba Science News, and Nikkan. (Links other than the link mark will jump to each Japanese media site)
2023.Sep.5	Dr. Yuga Fujimoto received the 18th Japan Society for Mathematical Biology Research Encouragement Award.
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2024.Sep.24

Ryuichiro ISSIKI 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 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”.

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.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)

2024.Feb.19

An article about Prof. Ohtsuki’s research has published in Diamond online (2024.Feb.16). (in Japanese) blank

2023.Dec.28

An article about Prof. Terai’s research has published in Nikkei Science (2024, Feb). (in Japanese) blank

2023.Dec.20

Prof. Hisashi Ohtsuki has been awarded the 20th (FY2023) JSPS Prize. (in Japanese)

2023.Nov.8

Prof. Takayuki Watanabe has been awarded the 32nd Yoshida Encouragement Prize for the 2023 academic year. blank

2023.Sep.29

The Presentation by the Research Group (including Prof. Tatsuya Ota) received Excellent Presentation Award (Presentation Number 116) blank

at the 144th Lecture Meeting (Autumn Meeting of the 5th year of Reiwa) of the Japanese Society of Breeding for collaborative research. In the same event, Yasuo Yasui, Prof. at Kyoto University (Collaborative Researcher), conducted an online press conference blank

regarding another collaborative research (Presentation Number 114). (in Japanese)

2023.Sep.8

Prof. Tatsuya Ota's collaborative research (co-authored paper) blank

was featured in the Yomiuri Shimbun, ascii.jp, Nikkei Biotech, Asahi Shimbun 1・2・3 (English) blank

, Kyoto Shimbun, Nikkei, Jiji Press News, JIJI.COM, MIT Technology Review, The Science News, JAcom, Tsukuba Science News, and Nikkan. (Links other than the link mark will jump to each Japanese media site)

2023.Sep.5

Dr. Yuga Fujimoto received the 18th Japan Society for Mathematical Biology Research Encouragement Award.

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