Presentations

2024.3.16

Evolution of symbiotic relationships between acoels and Amphidinium dioflagellates

Kawakami A, Hayashi M, Nakano H

The 76th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch. Tokyo, Japan


2024.1.4

Post-settlement growth and staging of the sea slug  Hypselodoris festiva

Hayashi M,  Nakano H

2024 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology Annual Meeting.

Seattle, USA


2023.9.7

Induced spawning from body ruptures in Xenoturbella bocki

Nakano H, Nakano A, Maeno A, Thorndyke M

The 94th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Yamagata, Japan.

2023.7.26

Development of Hypselodoris festiva (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae) with Emphasis on Juvenile Stages

Hayashi M,  Nakano H

EMBO/The Company of Biologists Workshop 'Trans-Scale Biology' using exotic non-model organisms. Okazaki, Japan


2023.6.24

Growth and staging in juveniles of the nudibranch Hypselodoris festiva

Hayashi M, Nakano H

The 2023 Annual Meeting of The Malacological Society of Japan . Funabashi, Japan.

Best Student Presentation Award


2022.9.10

Taxonomic study of an acoel possessing a middorsal appendage

Asai M, Miyazawa H, Yanase R, Inaba K, Nakano H

The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Tokyo, Japan.


2022.9.9

Research on strange marine animals

Nakano H

The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Tokyo, Japan. (invited)


2022.9.9

Possible acquisition of sexual maturity and diversity through chimera formation in placozoans

Bam M, Nakano H

The 93rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Tokyo, Japan. (invited)


2022.5.29

A taxonomic study of parasitic flatworms obtained from chromodorid nudibranchs

Hayashi M, Maeno A, Nakano H

The 91st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Parasitology. Obihiro, Japan.


2022.3.5

Shell matrix proteins of the brachiopod Coptothyris grayi 

Isowa Y, Kito K, Oshima K, Hattori M, Kawashima T, Fujie M, Sato N, Sawada H, Nakano H, Endo K

The 74th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch. Online.


2021.9.2

Records of Xenoturbella from Japanese waters

Nakano H, Miyazawa H

The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Online.


2021.9.2

The differences of seasonal variation in occurrence among placozoan haplotypes

Miyazawa H, Nakano H

The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Online.


2021.9.2

Development of Chromodorididae nudibranchs with emphasis on juvenile stages

Hayashi M, Nakano H

The 92nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Online.


2020.9.5

An Orthonectida that parasitizes Xenoturbella

Nakano H, Miyazawa H

The 91st Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Online.


2020.9.5

Studies on parasitic flatworms of chromodorid nudibranchs

Hayashi M, Nakano H

The 91st Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Online.


2019.11.29

JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys: Recent Progress

Nakano H

6th JAMBIO Forum. Tokyo, Japan.


2019.9.14

Mechanisms of movement in Placozoa

Takatani K, Nakano H

The 90th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Osaka, Japan.


2019.9.13

Diversity and evolution of mitochondrial genomes in Placozoa

Miyazawa H, Nakano H

The 90th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Osaka, Japan. (invited speaker)


2019.9.12

Xenoturbella and the origin of bilateral symmetry

Nakano H

The 90th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Osaka, Japan. (invited speaker)


2019.9.12

Research on an Acoela species with a dorsal protrusion discovered in Shimoda

Asai M, Nakano H

The 90th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Osaka, Japan.


2019.7.21

Animals that can move without nerves and muscles: Strange placozoans

Nakano H

2019 Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch Open Lectures

Tokyo, Japan. (invited speaker)


2019.7.18

Origins and Evolution of Marine Invertebrate Larvae

Nakano H

Shinkishi Hatai International Marine Biology Course 2019

Aomori, Japan.(invited, Keynote Lecture)


2019.3.26

Research on the evolution of metazoan larvae using strange animals

Nakano H

TGTR/IGER Seminar, Nagoya University.

Nagoya, Japan.


2019.3.16

Faunal survey of deep and shallow coastal areas of the Izu Peninsula

Nakano H

The 4th Izu Peninsula Geopark Academic Research Presentation Meeting.

Mishima, Japan.


2019.3.9

Morphological observations and phylogenetic analysis of Acoelomorpha collected at Shimoda

Asai M, Nakano H

The 71st Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch. Tokyo, Japan.

(Best Poster Award)


2019.3.9

Studies on the motion mechanisms of Placozoa using inhibitors

Takatani K, Nakano H

The 71st Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch. Tokyo, Japan.


2019.1

Discovery of Xenoturbella from Japan. 

Nakano H. 

The Union of the Japanese Societies for Systematic Biology 18th Public Symposium 

Tokyo, Japan. (invited speaker)


2018.12

Placozoa: animals without nerves or muscles.

Nakano H. SMRC Open Center Day Shimoda, Japan.


2018. 12.

Search and Discovery of Xenoturbella in Japan. 

Nakano H

Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratories, Graduate School of Science, Nagoya University Symposium. 

Nagoya, Japan. (invited speaker)


2018.6.22

Investigating culture methods for establishing Japanese placozoans as model organisms

Bam M, Nakano H, Oda T

The 9th Cilia Research Meeting

Koshu, Japan


2018.5

Re-establishment of the anteroposterior axis in regenerating intestines of a sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

Takatani K, Nakano H, & Kondo M.

16th International Echinoderm Conference. Nagoya, Japan


2017.9

Lysozome from Placozoa, an early diverging Metazoa,lyses both gram-positive and negative bacteria

Bam M, Nakano H

The JSFS 85th Anniversary-Commemorative International Symposium 

"Fisheries Science for Future Generations". Tokyo, Japan


2017.9

Discovery of Xenoturbella in Japan

Nakano H, Miyazawa H, Maeno A, Shiroishi T, Kakui K, Koyanagi R, Kanda M, Satoh N, Omori A, Kohtsuka H

The 88th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Toyama, Japan. (invited speaker)


2017.9

Positional identity of the regenerating gut in the sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus

Takatani K, Nakano H, Kondo M

The 88th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Toyama, Japan.


2017.3

Laboratory cultures of Japanese placozoans using Spirulina

Bam M, Kubo T, Oda, T, Nakano H

The 2017 spring meeting of the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science. Tokyo, Japan.


2017.3

Genetic diversity of placozoans around Japan

Miyazawa H, Nakano H

The 69th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch. Tokyo, Japan.


2017.3.

Mysteries of the marine placozoan lysozyme.

Nakano H.

the 2nd University of Tsukuba-KEK collaborative seminar series "Functions and shapes of life"

Tsukuba, Japan (invited speaker)


2016.11.

Placozoa: a free-living animal without nerve cells

Nakano H. 

the 22nd International Congress of Zoology & the 87th meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan

Okinawa, Japan (invited speaker)


2016年.11.

Neuropeptide variations in basal bilaterians and insight into the evolution of early nervous systems

Yoshida M, Morita N, Kurokawa D, Hikosaka A, Hikosaka-Katayama T & Nakano H 

the 22nd International Congress of Zoology & the 87th meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan

Okinawa, Japan


2016.9.

JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys: Revealing Hidden Biodiversity in Japanese Waters

Nakano H. 3rd International JAMBIO Symposium/Tsukuba Global Science Week 2016 

Tokyo, Japan(invited speaker)


2016.8.

Evolution of the Placozoan Mitochondrial Genome

Miyazawa H, Nakano H

18th Annual Meeting of the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan. Tokyo, Japan.


2016.3.

Results and achievements of the JAMBIO Coastal Organisms Joint Surveys

Nakano H、Omori A、Kohtsuka H

JAMBIO Activity Report Meeting. Tokyo, Japan


2016.3.

Studying animal evolution through placozoans

Nakano H,

Shimoda City Fisheries and Marine Science Public Lecture Series. Shimoda, Japan


2015.11

Potential of placozoan lysozyme as a natural antibacterial agent

Bam M. & Nakano H.

International Symposium 'Conservation of Marine Biodiversity under Global Environmental Change'

Tokyo, Japan

Student Poster Award


2015.10

Functional analysis of a lysozyme from Placozoa

Bam M. & Nakano H.

67th Society for Biotechnology, Japan Annual Meeting. Kagoshima, Japan.


2015.9

Japanese Association for Marine Biology and JAMBIO Coastal Organism Joint Surveys

Nakano H.

The 86th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Niigata, Japan. (invited speaker)


2015.9

Importance of marine biological stations in faunal studies

Kohtsuka H, Sekifuji M, Omori A, Nakano H

The 86th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Niigata, Japan. (invited)


2015.9

DNA barcoding and taxonomic studies of Japanese sea urchins

Hirose M, Kiyomoto M, Yoshida Y, Naruse T, Omori A, Yaguchi S, Nakano H

The 86th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Niigata, Japan.


2014.12.

What is Xenoturbella?

Nakano H.

The 30th International Symposium in conjunction with 

Award of the International Prize for Biology. Tokyo, Japan. (invited speaker)


2014.12.

Molecular evolution of glycoside hydrolase in echinoderms.

Bam M, Nakano H, Omori A, Kurokawa D, Morino Y, Wada H, Yoshida M, Ogura A.

The 11th Echinoderm Research Conference. Miura, Japan.


2014.12.

DNA barcoding and taxonomic studies of Japanese sea urchins

Hirose M, Kiyomoto M, Yoshida Y, Naruse T, Omori A, Yaguchi S, Nakano H

The 11th Echinoderm Research Conference. Miura, Japan.


2014. 9.

Strange and simple placozoans- 'biologically immortal' animals?

Nakano H. 

Tsukuba Global Science Week 2014. Tsukuba, Japan. (invited speaker)


2014. 9.

Placozoa- Free-living animals without nerve cells or muscle cells

Nakano H. 

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Sendai, Japan. (invited speaker)


2014. 9.

Exploring glycosidases in Placozoa

Bam M, Nakano H. 

The 85th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Sendai, Japan.


2014. 6.

Establishing an experimental system for Japanese placozoans 

Nakano H. 

Directors' Meeting of the Japanese National Marine and Inland Water Stations 

Mini-symposium. Okayama, Japan. (invited speaker)


2013. 9.

Evolution and origins of marine invertebrate larvae 

Nakano H. 

The 84th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Okayama, Japan. (invited speaker)


2013. 9.

Towards genome decoding of all the animal phyla  4: Acoelomorphs, Waminoa and Praesagittifera

Kanda M, Hikosaka-Katayma T, Hikosaka A, Tagawa K, Ueki T, Yoshida M, 

Nakano H, Koyanagi R, Fujie M & Sato N

The 84th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Okayama, Japan.


2013.2.

Development of Xenoturbella and the evolution of metazoan larvae

Nakano H. 1st International JAMBIO Symposium. Tokyo, Japan. (invited speaker)


2012.12

Studies on Japanese Placozoa

Nakano H.  The 31st Seto Marine Biology Seminar. Shirahama, Japan.


2012.11

Placozoa with no nerve cells- Strange primitive animals.

Nakano H. The 3rd Annual Open Center at SMRC. Shimoda, Japan.


2012. 9.

Development and Diversity of Japanese Placozoa

Nakano H. The 19th Annual Meeting of the Community of young biologists around the sea.

Sugashima, Japan.


2012. 9.

Development of Xenoturbella bocki

Nakano H. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Osaka, Japan.


2012. 6.

The non-brooded direct development of Xenoturbella bocki

Lundin K, Nakano H, Obst M & Funch P. 12th International Symposium on Flatworm Biology

Stockholm, Sweden


2012. 3.

Are Xenoturbella and Acoelomorpha really deuterostomes? 

Nakano H

The 64th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch. 

Funabashi, Japan. (invited speaker)


2011. 11.

Placozoa, Acoelomorpha, and Xenoturbella- Strange primitive animals. 

Nakano H

2011 Zoological Society of Japan Kanto Branch Open Video Lectures.

Tokyo, Japan. (invited speaker)


2011. 11.

Development and Larval Morphology of Xenoturbella- Do Developmental Data Support Xenacoelomorpha?

Nakano H, Lundin K, Obst M & Funch P. 

 Xenacoelomorpha Genome Project Meeting. 

Berlin, Germany (invited speaker)


2011. 9. 

Discovery of Placozoa from Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba.

Nakano H. 

The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Asahikawa, Japan.


2011. 6. 

Larval morphology of Xenoturbella bocki

Obst M, Lundin K, Nakano H & Funch P. 

2nd International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology

Cambridge, USA


2010. 9.

Phylogeny and evolution of Xenoturbella bocki. 

Nakano H

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Tokyo, Japan.


2010. 7.

Evolution and phylogeny of the enigmatic animal Xenoturbella bocki. 

Nakano H

Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan 12th Annual Meeting. Tokyo, Japan.


2009. 9. 

Evolution and development of the enigmatic animal Xenoturbella. 

Nakano H

The 80th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Shizuoka, Japan. (invited speaker)


2008. 10. 

Developmental studies of Xenoturbella. 

Nakano H, Bourlat SJ, Obst M, Nakano A, Telford MJ & Thorndyke MC. 

 ICREA Conference on the Origin and Early Evolution of Metazoans. Barcelona, Spain


2008. 8.

Developmental studies of Xenoturbella

Nakano H, Bourlat SJ, Obst M, Nakano A, Telford MJ & Thorndyke MC.   

1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology. Copenhagen, Denmark


2008. 7. 

Phylogenetic and Developmental Studies of Xenoturbella

Nakano H, Bourlat SJ, Obst M, Nakano A, Heyland A, Moroz LL, Telford MJ  & Thorndyke MC.  

Human Frontier Science Program Eighth Awardees Annual Meeting. Berlin, Germany


2006. 7. 

Studies on the development and evolution of Xenoturbella. 

Nakano H, Bourlat S, Obst M, Stach T, Dupont S, Telford M & Thorndyke M.  

Human Frontier Science Program Sixth Awardees Annual Meeting. Paris, France


2005.7

SALMFamide immunoreactivity as a tool for animal taxonomy? 

Dupont S, Kånneby T, Stach T, Nakano H & Thorndyke MC. 

Society for Experimental Biology Annual Main Meeting. Barcelona, Spain 


2004. 9. 

Development of the nervous system of the stalked crinoid echinoderm Metacrinus rotundus. 

Nakano H, Nakajima Y & Amemiya S.  

The 75th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Kobe, Japan.


2003. 11.

Development and growth of a feather star Decametra tigrina (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the Notojima Island, Japan Sea. Kohtsuka H & Nakano H.

 Joint Meeting of the Plankton Society of Japan and The Benthos Society of Japan. Tokyo, Japan.


2003. 10.

Development of the sea lily Metacrinus rotundus: Comparisons with feather stars. 

Nakano H, Hibino T, Hara Y, Oji T & Amemiya S. 

11th International Echinoderm Conference. Munich, Germany.


2003. 1.

Development of the stalked crinoid Metacrinus rotundus (Echinodermata: Crinoidea). 

Nakano H, Hibino T, Oji T, Hara Y & Amemiya S. 

The 152nd Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. Yokohama, Japan. (invited speaker)


2002. 10.

Morphological changes accompanying stalk loss in  the stalked crinoid Metacrinus rotundus. 

Nakano H, Hibino T, Hara Y, Oji T & Amemiya S.  

The 73rd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Kanazawa, Japan.


2002. 5.

Development of the stalked crinoid Metacrinus rotundus. 

Nakano H, Hibino T, Hara Y, Oji T & Amemiya S. 

Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchins XIV. Woods Hole, USA.


2001. 10

Development of the stalked crinoid Metacrinus rotundus. 

Nakano H, Hara Y, Oji T, Amemiya S & Hibino T. The 72nd Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan. Fukuoka, Japan.