Ethological dynamics in diorama environmentsGrant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)
Achievements
Achievements Information
- 2023.04.04
【2023.05.10 Publish】
A book related to protists, the subject of research by Ethological Dynamics in Diorama Environments, entitled "Dictionary of Protists" (Asakura Shoten) has been published. Seven members of the the planned research group and the publicly offered research group were involved in the project as editors and authors."Dictionary of Protists" (Asakura Shoten)
https://www-asakura-co-jp.translate.goog/detail.php?book_code=17181&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ja - 2023.04.02
April 2, 2023. The research of Assistant Prof. Yu Fukasawa et al. of the publicly solicited group was published in Nihon Keizai Shinbun "Mushroom conversation? Electrical potentials were detected".
Nihon Keizai Shinbun
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO69816960R00C23A4MY1000/ - 2023.03.24
The research team led by Assistant Prof. Yu Fukasawa (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University), a member of the publicly solicited group issued a press release.
Tohoku University (JP)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2023/03/press20230324-01-rainfall.html - 2023.3.15 Assistant Professor Yu Fukasawa (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University), a member of the publicly solicited group, has published 2 papers.
- 2023.03.10
The research team led by Assistant Prof. Yu Fukasawa (Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University), a member of the publicly solicited group issued a press release.
Tohoku University (JP)
https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2023/03/press20230310-02-mycelial.html - 2023.2.23 The research by Prof. Nakagaki et al. in Group B02-01 was reported in the Mainichi Newspaper in an article titled "Amazing Ability of Slime Molds: 'Intelligence' Learned from Single-Celled Organisms", which was published online on the 21st.
- 2023.2.15
The research team led by Prof. Shinya Sato (Team B01-2) in the Planning Group issued a press release.
Fukui Prefectural University
Lake Biwa Museum
PublicationThe discovery of the invasive diatom from Kinki Area has been reported in newspapers and other media.
Yomiuri Shimbun Online
Asahi Shinbun Digital
Mainichi Shimbun
Shiga Prefecture
NHK NEWS WEB - 2023.1.18
Two presentations related to this project, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics in 2022, were selected as "Noteworthy Research in 2022" in Nagare, the Journal of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 41, No. 6 (2022)!
One is entitled “Position-Control Experiments of the Localized Bioconvection of Euglena by Non-Uniform Light Environment” by Prof. Hiroshi Yamashita (Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University), Prof. Nobuhiko J. Suematsu (Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Meiji University) and Prof. Makoto Iima (Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University) et al., who are members of group B02-2. The other is entitled "Microswimming Theory of Odd-elastic Materials" by Prof. Kenta Ishimoto (Research Institute for Mathematical Science, Kyoto University) et al., who is a member of group B01-2.
In addition, a photograph of the experiment taken by Prof. Yamashita was adopted for the cover of Nagare, the Journal of the Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 41, No. 6 (2022)!
- 2023.1.15 January 15, 2023. The research of Professor Nakagaki et al. of B02-01 group was published in Nihon Keizai Shimbun "Learning from Living Things No.13 -The Optimal Route Guided by Slime Molds-".
- 2023.1.12
A study on "force-sensing cilia" (Prof. Ishikawa of Group B01-1 participated) was published in Science.
Press release "Force determines asymmetry in body building"
http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/japanese/2023/01/press20230112-01-leftright.htmlJournal URL
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq8148 - 2022.12.7
Published December 10, 2022
Associate Prof. Kenta Ishimoto (Team B01-2) published a book “Microbial Fluid Mechanics: Exploring Motion, Shape and Flow of Life” (Saiensu-Sha)SAIENSU-SHA WebSite
https://www.saiensu.co.jp/search/?isbn=978-4-7819-1559-3&y=2022
- 2022.11.10
Prof. Takuji Ishikawa (Team B01-1) received the Fluid Science Research Award
- 2022.10.25 The research group of Assistant Professor Kogiku Shiba (Team A01-2) and Professor Kazuo Inaba (Team A01-2) have issued a press release on the scientific paper published online in "Current Biology".
- 2022.10.11、2022.10.17 Senior Scientist Tomoyuki Shikata (Planning Team A01-1) was interviewed by the Asahi Shimbun about the harmful red tide in Hokkaido last autumn. The result was published in the morning edition and the electronic edition of the Asahi Shimbun.
- 2022.10.2 The research by Prof. Noritaka Hirohashi, a member of the publicly offered research group, was featured in the Sankei Shimbun's Close-Up Science section as a special feature article titled "The Reality of the Giant Squid of the Deep Sea in Reproduction" (web version and 10/2 Kanto morning edition and 10/17 Kansai evening edition).
- 2022.10.1
Associate Prof. Kenta Ishimoto (Team B01-2) received the 11th Hiroshi Fujiwara Prize for Mathematical Sciences
- 2022.9.22 Associate Professor Kenji Kikuchi (Team A02-2) and his colleagues presented a research paper entitled "Reciprocating intestinal flows enhance glucose uptake in C. elegans" with Professor Takuji Ishikawa (Team B01-1).
- 2022.9.2 Senior Scientist Tomoyuki Shikata (Plannning Team A01-1) was interviewed by the Nishinippon Shimbun about the harmful red tide in a coastal area of Kyushu this summer. The result was published in the morning edition and the electronic edition of the Nishinippon Shimbun.
- 2022.8.24 Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki introduced research results and concepts related to our project on the website “RIKE Lab - Research Institute for Ideal Working Style in Science -"
- 2022.7.6 Prof. Ishikawa (Team B01-1) wrote a commentary article on diorama environment.
- 2022.7.1
Published July 1, 2022
Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Team B02-1) introduced research concepts related to our field in the general interest magazine "Mathematics Seminar" (Nippon Hyoron Co., Ltd.).The article "A Reliable Encounter between Mathematics and Biology in the Hodgkin-Huxley Model" in the special issue "Mathematics at the Boundary: Where Different Fields Meet,"
Vol. 61, NO. 7, 18-23 (2022). - 2022.6.30
Published June 30, 2022
The research by Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki et al. of the painting Team B02-1 was introduced as "Do organisms without brains have intelligence?" in "The Forefront of Life Science: Challenging the Wonder of Being Alive" by Team Pascal, published by Asahi Sensho (Asahi Shimbun Publications). - 2022.6.24
Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Team B02-1) together with Associate Prof. Takaaki Aoki, Faculty of Education, Kagawa University, Associate Prof. Naoya Fujiwara, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Tohoku University, and Prof. Mark Fricker, Oxford University, presented their research paper, "A model for simulating emergent patterns of cities and roads on real-world landscapes.
Press Release
https://www.global.hokudai.ac.jp/blog/all-roads-lead-to-big-cities/Asahi Shimbun web article on July 14, 2022, "Road Leads to Rome, Mucus 'Intelligence' Almost Replicates Italian City."
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASQ7F62K8Q76ULBH00M.htmlThe article "Italian Urban Development Verified by slime mold 'Intelligence';Research Team from Kagawa University, Hokkaido University, and Others Write Paper" appeared in the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper on July 16, 2022.
https://www.asahi.com/articles/DA3S15357963.html - 2022.6.17 Associate Professor Kenta Ishimoto (Team B01-2)'s lecture video for junior and senior high school students "Quickly Understand Academia. Quickly Understand Fluid Mechanics - The World of Microorganisms -" is now available.
- 2022.6.14
Research by Professor Toshiyuki Nakagaki et al. of Project Team B02-1 was introduced in President online as "Rational Behavior without a Brain - An Amazing Single-Celled Organism that Won the Ig Nobel Prize Twice".
https://president.jp/articles/-/58010 - 2022.6.14
Authors: Yusuke Ushijima (Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Meteorological Research Institute) and Yutaka Yoshikawa (Division of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University :Group A01-1)
Titles: Nonlinearly interacting entrainment due to shear and convection in the surface ocean
Abstracts: This study reveals that sheared flow and convection nonlinearly interact in the ocean surface mixed layer, resulting in reduced entrainment of water from below the mixed layer. Overestimated mixed layer depths seen in many ocean general circulation model simulations may likely be ascribed to inappropriate representation of this nonlinear interaction by those models.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14098-w - 2022.06.06
Associate Professor Ishimoto (Team B01-2) of the Planning Team made a press release.
Never too odd to learn how to swim
-Examining the odd locomotion of microswimmers-The content of the announcement has been published in scientific newspapers and other media.
・The Nikkei
・Phys.org - 2022.5.29
Published May 29, 2022
Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Planning Team B02-1 introduced their research in the general-interest magazine "Ale -Genre indefinite culture magazine-".Interview article in the special feature "Rehabilitation of Gathering": "Toward a Slime Mold Life: On the Way of Physical Ethology of Cells"
Vol. 11, 186-217 (2022). - 2022.5.1
Published May 1, 2022
Prof. Toshiyuki Nakagaki (Team B02-1) introduced their research in the magazine "Eureka" (published by Seidosha).The article "Ethological Dynamics in Diorama Environments of Scleromycetes - Foraging Behavior in a Maze as an Example" in the special issue "The World of Fungi - Mushrooms, Molds, and Yeasts"
Vol. 54-6, NO.789, 277-281 (2022). - 2022.02.03
The joint research team of Assistant Professor Shojiku Shiba (Team A01-2) and Professor Kazuo Inaba (Team A01-2) of the project team issued a press release.
Morphological differences in tardigrade spermatozoa induce variation in gamete motility
・TSUKUBA JOURNAL - Biology & Environment
・Press Release PDF (JP)
・Articles - Nazology.net
・paper & Detail - 2021.12.14
Associate Professor Kikuchi of the Planning Team made a press release.
・School of Engineering, Tohoku University
・Facebook
・TwitterThe content of the announcement has been published in scientific newspapers and other media.
- 2021.12.11 Associate Prof. Kenta Ishimoto (Team B01-2) received the MIMS Mimura Award.
FY2021 Achievements
【Journal Article】
- Sugiura K, Shiba K, Inaba K, Matsumoto M，Morphological differences in tardigrade spermatozoa induce variation in gamete motility. BMC Zoology, Vol.7, 8 (2021)
- Atul Srivastava, Kenji Kikuchi and Takuji Ishikawa, Microbial Brazil nut effect. Soft Matter, Vol.17, 10428-10436 (2021)
- T. Omori, K. Kikuchi, M. Schmitz, M. Pavlovic, C.-H. Chuang, T. Ishikawa, Rheotaxis and migration of an unsteady microswimmer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.930, A30 (2021)
- Hiroki Kitamura, Toshihiro Omori and Takuji Ishikawa, Impact of rheological properties on bacterial streamer formation. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Vol.18, 20210546 (2021)
- K. Okuyama, Y. Nishigami, T. Ohmura, M. Ichikawa, Accumulation of Tetrahymena pyriformis on Interfaces. Micromachines, Vol.12, 1339(2021)
- Yu Xu, Nami Takayama, Yui Komasu, Naho Takahara, Hiroyuki Kitahata, Makoto Iima and Satoshi Nakata, Self-propelled camphor disk dependent on the depth of the sodium dodecyl sulfate aqueous phase. Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Vol.635, 128087 (2021)
- Shiba K, Inaba K，The roles of two CNG channels in the regulation of ascidian sperm chemotaxis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol.23, 1648 (2022)
- Asai M, Miyazawa H, Yanase R, Inaba K, Nakano H，A new species of Acoela possessing a middorsal appendage with a possible sensory function. Zoological Science, Vol. 39, 147-156 (2022)
- Nakano H, Isowa Y, Inaba K，JAMBIO and its coastal organism joint surveys: Network of marine stations explores Japanese coastal biota. Zoological Science, Vol. 39, 1-6 (2022)
- Kitanobo S, Toshino S, Morita M，Genetic variation in released gametes produces genetic diversity in the offspring of the broadcast spawning coral Acropora tenuis. Scientific reports Vol 12, 5026 (2022)
- Kitanobo S, Iwao K, Fukami H, Isomura N, Morita M, First evidence for backcrossing of F1 hybrids in Acropora corals under sperm competition. Scientific reports Vol 12, 5356 (2022)
- Takuji Ishikawa, Lubrication theory and boundary element hybrid method for calculating hydrodynamic forces between particles in near contact. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol.452, 110913 (2022)
- C. Darveniza, T. Ishikawa, T. J. Pedley, and D. R. Brumley, Pairwise scattering and bound states of spherical microorganisms. Physical Review Fluids, Vol.7, 013104 (2022)
- K. Matsumoto, Y. Nishigami, T. Nakagaki, Binocular stereo-microscopy for deforming intact amoeba. Optics Express Vol. 30, pp. 2424-2437 (2022)
- S. Thayyil, Y. Nishigami, M.J. Islam, P.K. Hashim, K. Furuta, K. Oiwa, J. Yu, M. Yao, T. Nakagaki, N. Tamaoki, Dynamic control of microbial movement by photoswitchable ATP antagonists. Chemistry. doi: 10.1002/chem.202200807 (2022)
- E. A. Gaffney, M. P. Dalwadi, C. Moreau, K. Ishimoto, B. J. Walker, canonical orbits for rapidly deforming planar microswimmers in shear flow. Physical Review Fluids, Vol.7, L022101 (2022)
- Shigeru Kuroda, Nariya Uchida, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Gait switching with phase reversal of locomotory waves in the centipede Scolopocryptos rubiginous. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, Vol.17, 026005 (2022)
【Award】
- 2021.11Yusuke Fujita, Student Best Presentation Award（28th Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics, Chushikoku-Kyushu Branch)
- 2021.12Kenta Ishimoto, Mimura Award for Young Scientists in Mathematical Sciences
- 2022.1Shuichi Nakamura, Tohru Minamino, Biomolecules, 2021 Best Paper Awards
- 2022.2Kazuo Inaba, BEST FACULTY MEMBER, University of Tsukuba 2021
【Press】
- 2021.10Toshiyuki Nakagaki, NHK BS1 World Documentary, "Mucus: Brainless Genius"
- 2021.11Yukinori Nishigami, University Journal Online, "Uncovering how microbes that don't flow downstream automatically go against the flow."
- 2021.11Yukinori Nishigami, Environmental Outlook, Domestic News "Kyoto University and others clarify how aquatic microorganisms move upstream" (Japanese only)
- 2021.12Kenji Kikuchi, Kagaku Shimbun, "Large Particles Rise, Small Particles Settle, Discovering an Interesting Phenomenon of Microbial Origin"
- 2022.1Yukinori Nishigami, Yomiuri Shimbun, "Microorganisms Swimming Against the Current.
- 2022.3Shiba Kogiku, Science Newspaper, "High-speed photography of swimming tardigrades sperm.
【Outreach】
- 2021.10Kyosuke Shinohara, Minami Tama Secondary School (Joint High School-University Experimental Research), "Analysis of the conditions and physiological functions for the development of muscularis motility in the green lacewing moth, Aster kantoensis.
- 2021.10Hironori Ueno, Obu Higashi High School, Aichi, Japan "Microbial Habitat and Cell Biology" Lecture on microorganisms in water, observation of microorganisms in water using microscope, lecture on habitat and diversity, science biology elective
- 2021.10Toshiyuki Nakagaki, book "Let's Talk Disability! ~"Kotonone" thought about disability and welfare" (edited by Kikuo Satomi), "Brainless slime mold solves the maze".
- 2021.10Makoto Iima, Hirameki☆Tokimeki Science "Gaze at Each Other, Passing Each Other - Experiencing Phase Synchronization of the Kalman Vortex
- 2021.12Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Panel discussion & talk event at "Challenge Field Hokkaido Seminar: What is fusion?
- 2021.12Nakagaki, Toshiyuki, "Outstanding Research Achievement" introduction site "Kawaijuku Miraibu Plus Miraibukku" in collaboration with Cabinet Office
- 2021.12Toshiyuki Nakagaki,Hokkaido University Website Research News「Two Ig Nobel laureates discuss “Research that makes people laugh and then think”」
- 2021.12Hironori Ueno, Aichi University of Education Senior High School "Lecture on microorganisms in water, examples of bioluminescence by ATP, habitat and bio-use"
- 2022.1Yukinori Nishigami, Hokkaido Keisei High School SSH "Exploring the behavior of protists
- 2022.1Yukinori Nishigami, Shun Echigoya, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, SSH Hokkaido Keisei High School (University training: Hokkaido University, Research Institute for Electronic Science and Intelligent Mathematics), "Behavior and Ecology of Protists".
- 2022.3Kenji Kikuchi, Lecturer at the 10th Trans-Grade Laboratory Course "Fluorescence Microscope Assembly Practice" Junior high and high school students and teachers