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I explore general relationships between vertebrate development and evolution from molecular perspectives.
Assistant Professor UESAKA Masahiro
| Campus | Aobayama campus |
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| Laboratory |
Organ Morphogenesis
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| Tel | +81-22-795-6677 |
| masahiro.uesaka.d5＠tohoku.ac.jp | |
| Website | https://masahirouesaka.org/ja/ |
| Career |
Mar. 2010 Bachelor of Science, Kyoto University
Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2015 JSPS Research Fellow (DC1), Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University Mar. 2015 Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University Apr. 2015 – Mar. 2018 JSPS Postdoctoral fellow (PD), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo Apr. 2018 – Aug. 2022 Research Scientist, Laboratory for Evolutionary Morphology, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research Sep. 2022 – Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University |
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| Selected Publications |
Publication list
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| Activities in Academic Societies |
Society for Evolutionary studies, Japan
The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists The Molecular Biology Society of Japan |
Recent Activities
Diverse multi-cellular animals originally evolved from a simple unicellular organism. Similarly, animal development generally proceeds from a single-celled zygote to a complex multi-cellular organism. This tendency has inspired scientists to propose a relationship between development and evolution so far (e.g., Haeckel's recapitulation theory and developmental hourglass model).
What are the general relationships, if any, between development and evolution? This question has long been central to the fields of evolutionary developmental biology. A better understanding of the relationships between development and evolution not only helps to infer the ancestral state of the common ancestor, but also provides insights into how animals have diversified by modifying their developmental programs. Nonetheless, there are still many related questions left unanswered.
Focusing mainly on the evolution of vertebrates, I’m tackling this theme from the molecular perspective using bioinformatics and molecular experiment approaches.