Profile

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Matsunami Masatoshi, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus

Date of birth: 01/05/1983

Address: 1076, Kiyuna, Ginowan, Okinawa 901-2720, Japan

E-mail: matsu[at]cs.u-ryukyu.ac.jp

Nationality: Japan

Web sites: ResearchMap, Google Scholar, ResearchGate

RESEARCH INTEREST

• • Genome evolution of vertebrates

  • Ecological developmental evolution of phenotypic plasticity

  • Speciation and natural selection

  • Transcriptome evolution

EDUCATION

01/04/2007 – 23/03/2012 Ph.D. (5-years course)

School of Life Science, Department of Genetics, The Graduate School of Advanced Research (SOKENDAI)/ National Institute of Genetics, Japan,  

Thesis “The evolutionary analysis of the vertebrate two-round whole genome duplications”

Supervisor: Naruya Saitou

01/04/2003 – 25/03/2007 B.Sc

Faculty of Science, Department of Biological Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan

Supervisor: Keiichi Kawano

WORK EXPERIENCES

01/10/2025 –                                  Lecturer at Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Japan

01/01/2019 – 30/09/2025     Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Japan

01/09/2016 – 31/12/2018     Project Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Japan

01/04/2016 – 31/08/2016     Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan

01/04/2015 – 31/08/2016     Postdoctoral fellow at Laboratory of Ecology and Genetics, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

01/04/2012 – 31/03/2015     Postdoctoral fellow at Graduate School of Fisheries Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

01/04/2016 – 31/03/2017     Adjunct teacher for Bioinformatics, at Department of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan

01/04/2015 – 31/03/2017     Adjunct teacher for  Biology, at Hokkaido Rehabilitation College, Japan

01/04/2007 – 23/03/2012     Research Assistant for Molecular experiments, at National Institute of Genetics, Japan

RESEARCH EXPEDITIONS

2. The Short-Stay Study Abroad Program 2011, University of Konstanz Laboratory for Natural History of the Genome, Konstanz, Germany, Aug.15-Sept.30, 2011

1. 7th Japan-Korea-China Bioinformatics Training Course, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea, Mar. 18-21, 2008

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

29/06/2018 – 31/03/2023        Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, JSPS, "Deciphering Origin and Establishment of Japonesians mainly based on genome sequence data" (CI)

01/11/2017 – 31/10/2018        Grand for Basic Science Research Project, Sumitomo Foundation, "Experimental analysis of candidate causal gene of phenotypic plasticity in amphibian" (PI)

01/04/2016 – 31/03/2019        Grand-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), JSPS, "Evolution and molecular mechanism of phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander" (PI)

01/08/2012 – 31/03/2014         Grand-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up, JSPS,  "Transcriptome analysis of phenotypic plasticity in the Hokkaido salamander" (PI)

01/04/2007 – 31/03/2012         The Japan Scholarship Foundation

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

01/22/2021-  Guest editor of Frontiers in Genetics, Research Topic  "Emerging Approaches in Amphibians: Evolution, Development, and Beyond" 

01/04/2018– current        Member. The Anthropological Society of Nippon

01/04/2017 – current        Member. The Zoological Society of Japan

01/04/2009 – current        Member, Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE)

01/04/2009 – current        Member. Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan