Masato YAMAMICHI, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics / Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
IMS Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Yokohama National University
Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo

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Research Interests:

Rapid evolution and eco-evolutionary dynamics
Population genetics of speciation, adaptation, and polymorphism
Time-series analysis of ecological interactions

Education:

2007-2012: Ph.D., Department of Evolutionary Studies of Biosystems, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
- Advisors: Akira Sasaki, Hideki Innan, & Mariko Hiraiwa-Hasegawa
2003-2007: B.S., Department of Ecosystem Studies, The University of Tokyo
- Advisors: Hiroyoshi Higuchi, Tadashi Miyashita, & Go Fujita

Research Positions:

2023-present: Associate Professor, Theoretical Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems / Genetics Program, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
2020-2023: Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Biology, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland
2017-2020: Lecturer, Department of General Systems Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2014-2017: Program-Specific Assistant Professor, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research / Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
- Mentor: Atsushi Yamauchi
2012-2014: JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
- Mentors: Nelson G. Hairston Jr. & Stephen P. Ellner

Other Positions:

2024-present: Affiliate Associate Professor, Laboratory of Conservation Ecology, Department of Ecosystem Studies, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo
2023-present: IMS Visiting Associate Professor, Laboratory of Microbial Environmental Dynamics, Biosphere Research Unit, Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Yokohama National University
2023-present: Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of the Environment, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland
2019-present: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of International Health and Medical Anthropology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University
2015-2016: Visiting Scholar
- The Hairston lab, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
- The Schreiber lab, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis
- The Boots lab, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
2010, 2011: Visiting Student, the Hairston lab, Cornell University
2009-2012: JSPS Predoctoral Research Fellow (DC1)
2007-2009: The Graduate University for Advanced Studies Research Assistant

Publications:

Peer-reviewed Articles

Suzuki et al. (in prep.)
van Velzen et al. (in prep.)
Kuo et al. (in prep.)
Yamamichi M (under review)
Kitano et al. (in revision)
Uematsu et al. (under review)
Toju et al. (in revision)
Shibasaki S, Yamamichi M (in revision) The double-edged effect of environmental fluctuations on evolutionary rescue. bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.09.607399
Gómez-Llano M, Yamamichi M, Siepielski AM (accepted)
Kawaguchi YW, Yamamichi M (in press) A single episode of sexual reproduction can produce large variation in population growth rates under dual stressors. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 38 DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voaf041 (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.26.589870)
Morita K, Yamamichi M (2024) Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2035): 20242145 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2024.2145 [Supplement] [PMC] [Institutional Repository] [GitHub]
Ito H, Yamamichi M (2024) A complete classification of evolutionary games with environmental feedback. PNAS Nexus 3(11): pgae455 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae455 [Supplement] [PMC] [Institutional Repository]
Letten AD, Yamamichi M, Richardson JA, Ke P-J (2024) Microbial dormancy supports multi-species coexistence under resource fluctuations. Ecology Letters 27(9): e14507 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14507 [Supplement] [Zenodo] [GitHub]
Arenas-Castro H, Berdejo-Espinola V, Chowdhury S, Rodríguez-Contreras A, James ARM, Raja NB, Dunne EM, Bertolino S, Emidio NB, Derez CM, Drobniak SM, Fulton GR, Henao-Diaz LF, Kaur A, Kim CJS, Lagisz M, Medina I, Mikula P, Narayan VP, O'Bryan CJ, Oh RRY, Ovsyanikova E, Pérez-Hämmerle K-V, Pottier P, Powers JS, Rodriguez-Acevedo AJ, Rozak AH, Sena PHA, Sockhill NJ, Tedesco AM, Tiapa-Blanco F, Tsai J-S, Villarreal-Rosas J, Wadgymar SM, Yamamichi M, Amano T (2024) Academic publishing requires linguistically inclusive policies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2018): 20232840 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2840 [Supplement] [Zenodo] [PMC] (EcoEvoRxiv DOI: 10.32942/X2NS3K) [Nature News] [Pesquisa Fapesp] [Scimex] [The Conversation]
Otake Y, Yamamichi M, Hirata Y, Odagiri H, Yoshida T (2024) Different photoperiodic responses in diapause induction can promote the maintenance of genetic diversity via the storage effect in Daphnia pulex. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 291(2016): 20231860 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1860 [Supplement] [PMC]
Fujita H, Ushio M, Suzuki K, Abe MS, Yamamichi M, Okazaki Y, Canarini A, Hayashi I, Fukushima K, Fukuda S, Kiers ET, Toju H (2023) Metagenomic analysis of ecological niche overlap and community collapse in microbiome dynamics. Frontiers in Microbiology 14: 1261137 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1261137 [Supplement] [PMC] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.17.524457)
Yamamichi M, Letten AD, Schreiber SJ (2023) Eco-evolutionary maintenance of diversity in fluctuating environments. Ecology Letters 26(S1): S152-S167 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14286 [Supplement] [Institutional Repository] (Special issue: Exploring the border between ecology and evolution)
Yamamichi M, Ellner SP, Hairston NG Jr (2023) Beyond simple adaptation: Incorporating other evolutionary processes and concepts into eco-evolutionary dynamics. Ecology Letters 26(S1): S16-S21 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14197 (Authorea DOI: 10.22541/au.166438574.48839383/v1) [Institutional Repository] (Special issue: Exploring the border between ecology and evolution)
Morita K, Yamamichi M (2023) How does the magnitude of genetic variation affect ecological and reproductive character displacement? Population Ecology 65(4): 220-230 DOI: 10.1002/1438-390X.12097 [Supplement] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2021.02.26.432976) [Institutional Repository] (Special feature: Sex and biological communities, Young Author Award)
Yamamichi M, Tsuji K, Sakai S, Svensson EI (2023) Frequency-dependent community dynamics driven by sexual interactions. Population Ecology 65(4): 204-219 DOI: 10.1002/1438-390X.12165 [Institutional Repository] (Special feature: Sex and biological communities, Editor's choice, Top Cited Article, Top Viewed Article)
Nakazawa T, Katayama N, Utsumi S, Yamawo A, Yamamichi M (2023) When to help juveniles, adults, or both: analyzing the evolutionary models of stage-structured mutualism. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1138138 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1138138 [Supplement]
Fujita H, Ushio M, Suzuki K, Abe MS, Yamamichi M, Okazaki Y, Canarini A, Hayashi I, Fukushima K, Fukuda S, Kiers ET, Toju H (2023) Facilitative interaction networks in experimental microbial community dynamics. Frontiers in Microbiology 14: 1153952 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1153952 [Supplement] [PMC] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.19.524804)
Fujita H, Ushio M, Suzuki K, Abe MS, Yamamichi M, Iwayama K, Canarini A, Hayashi I, Fukushima K, Fukuda S, Kiers ET, Toju H (2023) Alternative stable states, nonlinear behavior, and predictability of microbiome dynamics. Mircobiome 11: 63 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-023-01474-5 [Supplement] [PMC] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2022.08.23.505041) [Institutional Repository]
Yamamichi M, Letten AD (2022) Extending the gleaner–opportunist trade-off. Journal of Animal Ecology 91(11): 2163-2170 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.13813 [Supplement] [PMC] [Institutional Repository]
Hirama F, Urabe J, Doi H, Kazama T, Noguchi T, Tappenbeck TH, Katano I, Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Elser JJ (2022) Terrigenous subsidies in lakes support zooplankton production mainly via a green food chain and not the brown food chain. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 956819 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.956819 [Supplement]
Yamamichi M, Gibbs T, Levine JM (2022) Integrating eco-evolutionary dynamics and modern coexistence theory. Ecology Letters 25(10): 2091-2106 DOI: 10.1111/ele.14078 [Supplement] [PMC] [Institutional Repository]
Yamamichi M (2022) How does genetic architecture affect eco-evolutionary dynamics? A theoretical perspective. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 377(1855): 20200504 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0504 [PMC] [Institutional Repository] (Theme issue: Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation: from loci to causative mutations)
Kasada M, Yamamichi M (2022) Idea paper: Controlling trait adaptation to decrease population densities for conservation and management. Ecological Research 37(4): 475-480 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12300 (Special feature: Promoting idea sharing via Idea Paper 2)
Yamamichi M, Letten AD (2021) Rapid evolution promotes fluctuation-dependent species coexistence. Ecology Letters 24(4): 812-818 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13707 [Supplement] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.05.239053) [Institutional Repository] [Faculty Opinions]
Letten AD, Yamamichi M (2021) Gleaning, fast and slow: In defense of a canonical ecological trade-off. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118(5): e2022754118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2022754118 [PMC]
Kazama T, Urabe J, Yamamichi M, Tokita K, Yin X, Katano I, Doi H, Yoshida T, Hairston NG Jr (2021) A unified framework for herbivore-to-producer biomass ratio reveals the relative influence of four ecological factors. Communications Biology 4: 49 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-01587-9 [Supplement] [Dryad] [PMC] (Authorea DOI: 10.22541/au.159121368.85843146)
Yamamichi M, Kyogoku D, Iritani R, Kobayashi K, Takahashi Y, Tsurui-Sato K, Yamawo A, Dobata S, Tsuji K, Kondoh M (2020) Intraspecific adaptation load: a mechanism for species coexistence. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35(10): 897-907 DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.05.011 [Supplement] (Cover Article)
Yamamichi M, Koizumi I (2020) Toxic males: Density-dependent male mating harassment can explain geographic parthenogenesis. Ecological Research 35(2): 281-288 DOI: 10.1111/1440-1703.12097 [Supplement] (Award/Cover Article)
Yamamichi M, Lyberger K, Patel S (2019) Antagonistic coevolution between multiple quantitative traits: Matching dynamics can arise from difference interactions. Population Ecology 61(4): 362-370 DOI: 10.1002/1438-390X.12022 [Supplement] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/509885) (Award/Cover Article, Top Downloaded Paper 2018-2019/2019-2020)
Cortez MH, Yamamichi M (2019) How (co)evolution alters predator responses to increased mortality: extinction thresholds and hydra effects. Ecology 100(10): e02789 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2789 [Supplement]
Schreiber SJ, Yamamichi M, Strauss SY (2019) When rarity has costs: coexistence under positive frequency-dependence and environmental stochasticity. Ecology 100(7): e02664 DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2664 [Supplement] [GitHub] (bioRxiv DOI: 10.1101/161919)
Yamamichi M, Hairston NG Jr, Rees M, Ellner SP (2019) Rapid evolution with generation overlap: the double-edged effect of dormancy. Theoretical Ecology 12(2): 179-195 DOI: 10.1007/s12080-019-0414-7 [Supplement] [Free full-text view] (Special issue to honor Alan Hastings’ 65th birthday)
Yamamichi M, Klauschies T, Miner BE, van Velzen E (2019) Modelling inducible defences in predator–prey interactions: assumptions and dynamical consequences of three distinct approaches. Ecology Letters 22(2): 390-404 DOI: 10.1111/ele.13183 [Supplement]
Yamamichi M, Kazama T, Tokita K, Katano I, Doi H, Yoshida T, Hairston NG Jr, Urabe J (2018) A shady phytoplankton paradox: when phytoplankton increases under low light. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285(1882): 20181067 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1067 [Supplement] [Dryad] [PMC]
Toju H, Peay KG, Yamamichi M, Narisawa K, Hiruma K, Naito K, Fukuda S, Ushio M, Nakaoka S, Onoda Y, Yoshida K, Schlaeppi K, Bai Y, Sugiura R, Ichihashi Y, Minamisawa K, Kiers ET (2018) Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems. Nature Plants 4(5): 247-257 DOI: 10.1038/s41477-018-0139-4 [Free full-text view]
Toju H, Yamamichi M, Guimarães PR Jr, Olesen JM, Mougi A, Yoshida T, Thompson JN (2017) Species-rich networks and eco-evolutionary synthesis at the metacommunity level. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(2): 0024 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0024 [Supplement] [Free full-text view]
Yamamichi M, Hoso M (2017) Roles of maternal effects in maintaining genetic variation: Maternal storage effect. Evolution 71(2): 449-457 DOI: 10.1111/evo.13118 [Supplement]
Adachi T, Costa DP, Robinson PW, Peterson SH, Yamamichi M, Naito Y, Takahashi A (2017) Searching for prey in a three-dimensional environment: hierarchical movements enhance foraging success in northern elephant seals. Functional Ecology 31(2): 361-369 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12686 [Supplement] [FE Spotlight]
Yamamichi M, Ellner SP (2016) Antagonistic coevolution between quantitative and Mendelian traits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1827): 20152926 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.2926 [Supplement] [Dryad] [PMC]
Yen JDL, Cabral RB, Cantor M, Hatton I, Kortsch S, Patrício J, Yamamichi M (2016) Linking structure and function in food webs: maximization of different ecological functions generates distinct food web structures. Journal of Animal Ecology 85(2): 537-547 DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12484 [Supplement]
Sato NJ, Tanaka KD, Okahisa Y, Yamamichi M, Kuehn R, Gula R, Ueda K, Theuerkauf J (2015) Nestling polymorphism in a cuckoo-host system. Current Biology 25(24): R1164-R1165 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.028 [Supplement]
Yamamichi M, Miner BE (2015) Indirect evolutionary rescue: prey adapts, predator avoids extinction. Evolutionary Applications 8(8): 787-795 DOI: 10.1111/eva.12295 [Supplement] [PMC] [Institutional Repository]
Yamamichi M, Meunier CL, Peace A, Prater C, Rúa MA (2015) Rapid evolution of a consumer stoichiometric trait destabilizes consumer–producer dynamics. Oikos 124(7): 960-969 DOI: 10.1111/oik.02388 [Supplement] [Oikos blog] (Woodstoich III Article)
Kasada M, Yamamichi M, Yoshida T (2014) Form of an evolutionary tradeoff affects eco-evolutionary dynamics in a predator–prey system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111(45): 16035-16040 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406357111 [Supplement] [PMC] [Institutional Repository] (Cover Article)
Tezuka A, Kasagi S, van Oosterhout C, McMullan M, Iwasaki WM, Kasai D, Yamamichi M, Innan H, Kawamura S, Kawata M (2014) Divergent selection for opsin gene variation in guppy (Poecilia reticulata) populations of Trinidad and Tobago. Heredity 113(5): 381-389 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2014.35 [Supplement]
Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Sasaki A (2014) Timing and propagule size of invasion determine its success by a time-varying threshold of demographic regime shift. Ecology 95(8): 2303-2315 DOI: 10.1890/13-1527.1 [Supplement] [Institutional Repository]
Yamamichi M, Sasaki A (2013) Single-gene speciation with pleiotropy: Effects of allele dominance, population size, and delayed inheritance. Evolution 67(7): 2011-2023 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12068 [Supplement]
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2012) Estimating the migration rate from genetic variation data. Heredity 108(4): 362-363 DOI: 10.1038/hdy.2011.83
Yamamichi M, Gojobori J, Innan H (2012) An autosomal analysis gives no genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(1): 145-156 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr172 [Supplement] [PMC]
Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Sasaki A (2011) Comparing the effects of rapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity on predator-prey dynamics. The American Naturalist 178(3): 287-304 DOI: 10.1086/661241 [Supplement]
Matthews B, Narwani A, Hausch S, Nonaka E, Peter H, Yamamichi M, Sullam KE, Bird KC, Thomas MK, Hanley TC, Turner CB (2011) Toward an integration of evolutionary biology and ecosystem science. Ecology Letters 14(7): 690-701 DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01627.x [Eco-Evo Evo-Eco blog]

Book Chapters

Hairston NG Jr, Fox JA, Yamamichi M (2024) Dormancy and Diapause. In: Scheiner SM (ed), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 3rd edition, Vol. 6, 15-20. Elsevier Inc. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00075-X
Yamamichi M (2022) Chapter 10: Single-gene speciation, balanced polymorphism, and antagonistic coevolution in left-right asymmetry of land snails. In: Hori M, Takahashi S (eds), Lateral Asymmetry in Animals: Predator-Prey Interactions, Dynamics, and Evolution: 275-295 (Ecological Research Monographs book series). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-1342-6_10 (peer-reviewed)
Yamamichi M (2020) Chapter 2: Effects of rapid evolution on population cycles and extinction in predator-prey systems. In: Mougi A (ed), Diversity of Functional Traits and Interactions: Perspectives on Community Dynamics: 19-49 (Theoretical Biology book series). Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7953-0_2 (peer-reviewed)
Yamamichi M (2019) Eco-evolutionary feedback from the perspective of ecological stoichiometry. In: Kadowaki K, Tachiki Y (eds), Evolutionary Community Ecology, 289-306, Kyoto University Press, Kyoto (peer-reviewed, in Japanese)
Yamamichi M (2013) Statistical inference in phylogeography and future perspectives. In: Ikeda H, Koizumi I (eds), Phylogeography: Plant Species Biology 36: 261-293, Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan Co. Ltd., Tokyo (peer-reviewed, in Japanese)

Translation

Mittelbach GG, McGill BJ (translated by Kadowaki K, Yamamichi M, Utsumi S) (2023) Community Ecology, Second Edition. Maruzen Publishing, Tokyo.

Peer-reviewed Articles (in Japanese)

Shinohara N, Yamamichi M (2021) A modern synthesis of coexistence mechanisms in community ecology. Japanese Journal of Ecology 71(2): 39-63 DOI: 10.18960/seitai.71.2_35
Kadowaki K, Yamamichi M, Fukano Y, Ishizuka W, Mimura M, Nishihiro J, Yokomizo H, Utsumi S (2020) An evolutionary approach to conservation ecology and ecosystem management. Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology 25(2): 221-234
Yamamichi M, Hiraiwa-Hasegawa M (2012) Research object biases in Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology. Japanese Journal of Conservation Ecology 17(2): 199-210
Yamamichi M, Kadoya T (2009) An introduction to parameter estimation of simulation models by Bayesian calibration. Japanese Journal of Ecology 59(2): 207-216

Non-reviewed Articles (in Japanese)

Yamamichi M (2022) Fluctuation-dependent species coexistence driven by rapid evolution. Communications of the Operations Research Society of Japan 67(1): 27-33
Yamamichi M (2020) To adapt or go extinct: Indirect evolutionary rescue and hydra effects. Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Kokyuroku 2165: 54-58
Yamamichi M (2018) Speciation, the maintenance of genetic variation, and coevolution in land snails. Newsletter of the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology 85: 2-6
Yamamichi M (2017) The storage effect that maintains diversity in fluctuating environments. Newsletter of the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology 81: 18-19
Shikayama D, Itaki Y, Yamamichi M (2015) Why are there a few popular and many unpopular comics? Distribution predictions of comic series periods by using the popularity-vote model. Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Kokyuroku 1966: 34-40
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2012) An introduction to ecogenomics (7) Future perspectives of ecogenomics studies. Japanese Journal of Ecology 62(1): 95-109
Yamamichi M (2011) The effects of rapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity on population dynamics. Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences Kokyuroku 1751: 140-147
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2011) An introduction to ecogenomics (6) Detecting the signatures of natural selection (2). Japanese Journal of Ecology 61(2): 237-249
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2010b) An introduction to ecogenomics (5) Detecting the signatures of natural selection (1). Japanese Journal of Ecology 60(2): 293-302
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2010a) An introduction to ecogenomics (4) The theory and analysis of DNA polymorphism data (2). Japanese Journal of Ecology 60(1): 137-148
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2009b) An introduction to ecogenomics (3) The theory and analysis of DNA polymorphism data (1). Japanese Journal of Ecology 59(3): 339-349
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2009a) An introduction to ecogenomics (2) Genome-wide association mapping. Japanese Journal of Ecology 59(1): 105-113
Yamamichi M, Innan H (2008) An introduction to ecogenomics (1) Local adaptation and the divergence of phenotypic traits. Japanese Journal of Ecology 58(3): 241-247
Yamamichi M (2008) Hierarchical Bayes and its application to reaction-diffusion model. Newsletter of the Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology 56: 10-15
Yamamichi M (2007) What we can learn from long-term surveys of citizens' participation using hierarchical Bayes model. Bird Research News 4(12): 2

Presentations:

Invited Talks

Yamamichi M. "How does rapid evolution prevent population extinction and promote species coexistence?" Special plenary symposium 2 "Social traits and community under climate change and biological invasion," The Joint Meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology and Taiwan-Japan Ecology Workshop 2024 in Okinawa. Times Building, Naha, Okinawa. November 15-17, 2024. (SPS-2-04) [abstract]
Yamamichi M. "Evolutionary rescue with interspecific interactions" (Keynote). "Mathematical models of evolutionary rescue", Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (organized by Hildegard Uecker & Matthew Osmond). Plön, Germany. June 5-8, 2023.
Yamamichi M. "The effects of rapid evolution on ecological dynamics." School of Biological Sciences, Monash University (hosted by Tim Connallon). Melbourne, Australia. October 27, 2022.
Yamamichi M. "Integrating genetics, evolution, and ecology toward a new population biology." New Frontiers in Genetics (hosted by Jun Kitano). National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan. September 4, 2022.
Yamamichi M. "Coexistence theory with eco-evolutionary feedbacks" (Keynote). DynaTrait Conference. Potsdam, Germany (via Zoom). October 4-7, 2021.
Yamamichi M. "Rapid evolution promotes species coexistence via sexual interactions and temporal fluctuations." Biodiversity Research Seminar (hosted by Rachel M. Germain). University of British Columbia, Canada (via Zoom). September 29, 2021.
Yamamichi M. "How does rapid evolution promote species coexistence?" IITE Theoretical Ecology webinar (hosted by György Barabás). May 4, 2021. [YouTube]
Yamamichi M. "Speciation, adaptation, and coevolution of snakes and snails with left-right asymmetry." Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (hosted by Masatoshi Katabuchi) via Zoom. June 2, 2020.
Yamamichi M. "Speciation genomics: 159 years since Darwin." Speciation genomics: How new species are formed (organized by Naoki Osada & Tim Nicolai Siegel). 14th JGFoS (Japanese-German Frontiers of Science) Symposium. Kyoto, Japan. September 6-9, 2018.
Yamamichi M. "Modeling evolution of left-right asymmetry of snakes and snails" / "Eco-evolutionary dynamics: Theory and experiments." 10th Ecology and Evolution Summer School, Sun Yat-sen University (hosted by Weini Huang). Guangzhou, China. July 21-27, 2018.
Yamamichi M. "How do adaptation processes affect eco-evolutionary feedbacks?" Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich (hosted by Owen L. Petchey). Zurich, Switzerland. March 13, 2017.
Yamamichi M. "Effects of adaptation processes on eco-evolutionary feedbacks." Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto (hosted by Peter A. Abrams). Toronto, Canada. October 30, 2015.
Yamamichi M. "Timing and propagule size of invasion determine its success by a time-varying threshold of demographic regime shift." Plenary Symposium B: Scaling from Life History Traits to the Population Dynamics (organized by William A. Nelson & Takehiko Yamanaka). 30th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology. Tsukuba, Japan. October 10-12, 2014.
Yamamichi M. "Rapid evolution of phenotypic plasticity in a predator-prey system." MS21: Modeling the interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes: fast, slow, and everything in between (organized by Michael H. Cortez). SMB2013. Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. June 10-13, 2013.
Yamamichi M, Sasaki A. "Single-gene speciation revisited: Allele dominance and pleiotropy". SMBE 2011. Kyoto, Japan. July 26-30, 2011. (Selected as Oral Presentation)
Yamamichi M, Innan H. "No genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees." Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution: SMBE 2008. Barcelona, Spain. June 5-8, 2008. (O-136) (Selected as Oral Presentation)

Contributed Talks

Tsuji K, Uematsu J, Yamamichi M. "Empirical test of the adaptation load theory with an ant community." Special plenary symposium 2 "Social traits and community under climate change and biological invasion," The Joint Meeting of the Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology and Taiwan-Japan Ecology Workshop 2024 in Okinawa. Times Building, Naha, Okinawa. November 15-17, 2024. (SPS-2-01) [abstract]
Otake Y, Yamamichi M, Otsuki H, Hirata Y, Odagiri H, Yamada K, Urabe J, Yoshida T. "How was the genetic structure of Daphnia pulex population in a small lake developed from the early colonization? Examination by paleolimnology, laboratory experiment and theoretical analysis". Cladocera XII Conference: Ecology, Evolution and Genomics. Verbania, Italy. October 6-12, 2024.
Yamamichi M, Shibasaki S. "Prey rapid evolution can promote fluctuation-dependent species coexistence". Australasian Evolution Society Conference. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. December 13-15, 2023.
Letten AD, Yamamichi M, Richardson J, Ke P-J. "Not-so-simple assembly rules supports multi-species coexistence in pulsed resource environments". Australasian Evolution Society Conference. Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. December 13-15, 2023.
Morita K, Yamamichi M. "Character displacement or priority effects: Immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution". ESA CSEE Annual Meeting. Montréal, Quebec, Canada. August 14-19, 2022. (COS 48-4) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Gibbs T, Levine JM. "Evolutionary rescue of coexistence theory". ESA CSEE Annual Meeting. Montréal, Quebec, Canada. August 14-19, 2022. (COS 32-1) [abstract]
Morita K, Yamamichi M. "How does the magnitude of genetic variation affect eco-evolutionary dynamics in character displacement?". 106th ESA Virtual Annual Meeting. August 2-6, 2021. (COS 104) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Letten AD. "How to make a gleaner-opportunist trade-off from the slow-fast continuum". 106th ESA Virtual Annual Meeting. August 2-6, 2021. (COS 45) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Letten AD. "Rapid adaptation promotes species coexistence via relative nonlinearity". 105th ESA Virtual Annual Meeting. August 3-6, 2020. (COS 60) [abstract]
Schreiber SJ, Yamamichi M, Strauss S. "When rarity has costs: Coexistence under positive frequency-dependence and environmental stochasticity". 104th ESA Annual Meeting. Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A. August 11-17, 2019. (COS 4-8) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Ellner SP, Hairston Jr. NG. "Double-edged effect of dormancy on rapid evolution: Contemporary evolution meets storage effect". 103rd ESA Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. August 5-10, 2018. (COS 28-8) [abstract]
Yamamichi M. "Toward an integration of population genetics and eco-evolutionary dynamics". DynaTrait Meeting 2017. Hannover, Germany October 9-13, 2017.
Yamamichi M, Hairston Jr. NG, Ellner SP. "Rapid evolution affects how populations respond to environmental fluctuations". 102nd ESA Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. August 6-11, 2017. (COS 166-6) [abstract]
Hairston NG, Schaffner LR, Miner BE, Bonner E, Spaak P, Yamamichi M, Ellner SP. "Daphnia eco-evolutionary process meets the clear water phase: seasonal plankton dynamics when the consumer evolves". ASLO 2017 Aquatic Sciences Meeting. Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. February 26-March 3, 2017.
Yamamichi M, Kazama T, Tokita K, Katano I, Doi H, Yoshida T, Hairston Jr. NG, Urabe J. "A shady phytoplankton paradox: Why phytoplankton increases under low light". 101st ESA Annual Meeting. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. August 7-12, 2016. (COS 29-3) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Ellner SP. "Antagonistic coevolution between quantitative and Mendelian traits". American Society of Naturalists Conference 2016. Asilomar, California, U.S.A. January 10-14, 2016.
Yamamichi M. "Modeling adaptation processes in eco-evolutionary feedbacks". Experimental Evolution and Community Dynamics (EECD) Minisymposium 2015. Hanko, Finland. October 13-15, 2015.
Yamamichi M, Hoso M. "Effects of genetic architectures on polymorphism dynamics under negative frequency-dependent selection". Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution (MMEE) 2015. Paris, France. July 8-10, 2015. [abstract]
Yamamichi M. "Feedbacks between ecology and evolution in predator-prey systems". 4th Taiwan-Japan Ecology Workshop. Hualien, Taiwan. November 15-17, 2014.
Adachi T, Costa D, Robinson P, Yamamichi M, Naito Y, Takahashi A. "Searching prey in 3D environment: hierarchical foraging behaviour of northern elephant seals". The 5th International Bio-logging Science Symposium. Strasbourg, France. September 22-27, 2014. (OB-02)
Yamamichi M, Ellner SP. "Coevolution mediated by continuous predator and discrete prey traits". JSMB/SMB 2014 Meeting. Osaka, Japan. July 28-August 1, 2014. (CS 13)
Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Sasaki A. "Introduction timing of genetic diversity in eco-evolutionary dynamics". 98th ESA Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. August 4-9, 2013. (COS 128-2) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Sasaki A. "Single-gene speciation with functional pleiotropy: effects of allele dominance, population size, and maternal effect". Evolution Ottawa: 1st Joint Congress on Evolutionary Biology. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. July 6-10, 2012.
Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Sasaki A. "Invasion timing determines settlement success in an endogenously oscillating system". 96th ESA Annual Meeting. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. August 7-12, 2011. (COS 71-7) [abstract]
Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Sasaki A. "The effects of rapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity on aquatic predator-prey dynamics". 95th ESA Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. August 1-6, 2010. (COS 116-4) [abstract]
Fujita G, Yoshio M, Miyashita T, Yamamichi M, Tatsuta H. "When landscape genetics meets population ecology: an integrative study of population expansion patterns of sika deer on the Boso peninsula". The 23rd Symposium of the Society of Population Ecology: Spatial structure and dynamics of ecological system. Sapporo, Japan. October 19-21, 2007.

Posters

Yamamichi M, Sasaki A. "Ecological speciation via pleiotropy: fixation probability of the speciation gene". Joint Meeting of the 59th Annual Meeting of ESJ and the 5th EAFES International Congress. Otsu, Japan. March 17-21, 2012. (P2-160J) [abstract] (Excellent Poster Award)
Yamamichi M, Sasaki A. "Ecological speciation of snails by right-handed snakes: Red queen or evolutionary stasis?". Evolution 2010. Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. June 25-29, 2010 (P1139)
Yamamichi M, Yoshida T, Sasaki A. "The ecological and evolutionary stability of the plastic prey". International Forum for Ecosystem Management Applying to Ecosystem Adaptability Science I. Robustness and Stability of Organisms and Ecosystems. Sendai, Japan. February 21-24, 2010. (P4)

Symposia

Yamamichi M, Gorochowski TE. Biology/Life Sciences "Experimental evolution to understand and engineer life". The 4th UK-Japan Frontiers of Science (UK-Japan FoS) Symposium. London, UK. June 16-19, 2025.
Yamamichi M, Fricke WF, Munoz-Torres M. Biology/Life Sciences "Animal Linguistics: Origins and Evolution of Language". The 4th Japanese-American-German Frontiers of Science (JAGFoS) Symposium. Dresden, Saxony, Germany. October 5-8, 2023.
Shinohara N, Yamamichi M. Symposium "Toward a modern synthesis of community ecology through the lens of coexistence theory". The 70th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan (ESJ70). Online. March 17-21, 2023.
Yamamichi M, Fricke WF, Pincus Z. Biology/Life Sciences "Synthetic Biology, Artificial Organisms, and Artificial Ecosystems". The 3rd Japanese-American-German Kavli Frontiers of Science (JAGFoS) Symposium. Irvine, California, U.S.A. September 15-18, 2022.
Ishimoto K, Yamamichi M. RIMS Workshop "Toward an integration of fluids, ecology, and evolution". Biofluids 2021. Online. July 5-7, 2021.
Tsuji K, Yamamichi M. Symposium "Sex and ecological communities". The Joint Meeting of the eDNA Society & the Society of Population Ecology. Online. November 14-16, 2020.
Shinohara N, Yamamichi M. Symposium "Toward an integration of diverse concepts in community ecology". Ecological Society of Japan, Kanto Branch. Tokyo, Japan. October 5, 2019.
Kadowaki K, Yamamichi M. Symposium "Evolutionary Community Ecology 2014". Ecological Society of Japan, Kinki Branch. Kyoto, Japan. September 2, 2014.

Workshop Participation:

2015: Kyoto Winter Research Program in Mathematical Biology Next Wave 2015 in Kyoto, Japan
2014: Woodstoich III in Sydney, Australia
2013: Complex Systems Summer School 2013 at Santa Fe Institute, U.S.A.
2012: NESCent Workshop "Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics" in Durham, U.S.A.
2011: OIST Summer School and Workshop "QECG2011: Linkage and Recombination in Genome Sequences" in Okinawa, Japan
2009: Eawag Ph.D. summer school "Interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic systems" in Kastanienbaum, Switzerland

Awards and Honors:

The Young Scientists' Award (2023, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT))
Miyadi Award (2020, Ecological Society of Japan)
Young Scientist Initiative Award, SESJ (2019, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan)
JSMB Young Scholar Award (2017, Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology)
Best English Presentation Award (2017, The 64th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Evolution section)
Population Ecology Young Scientist Award (2016, Society of Population Ecology)
Excellent English Presentation Award (2015, The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Evolutionary Ecology of Animals section)
Young Scholar Award (Suzuki Award) (2015, Ecological Society of Japan)
Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists (2015, Inoue Foundation for Science)
Excellent Poster Award (2012, 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Population Ecology)
Excellent Poster Award (2012, Joint Meeting of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan and the 5th EAFES International Congress, Evolution section)
Best Poster Award (2012, Japan-Indonesia Academic Exchange Seminar by Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), & The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
SOKENDAI President's Award (2010, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Excellent Poster Award (2010, The 57th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Animal Population section)
The Dean Award for Academic Excellence (2007, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo)

Fellowships and Grants:

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Co-Investigator with Toshitaka Suzuki, 2025-2029, JSPS)
Research Grant of Strategic Research Project (2024-2026, Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Inamori Research Grant (2024-2026, Inamori Foundation)
CREST Bio-DX (as a Collaborator with Hirokazu Toju, 2023-2029, JST)
Environment Research and Technology Development Fund (as a Research Collaborator with Mayuko Nakamaru, 2023-2028, ERCA)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (as a Co-Investigator with Jun Kitano, 2022-2027, JSPS)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Co-Investigator with Masaki Hoso, 2022-2025, JSPS)
Discovery Project (as a Partner Investigator with Simon Hart, 2022-2024, ARC (Chief Investigator until 2023))
Faculty of Science COVID Research Recovery Fund (2021-2022, Faculty of Science, The University of Queensland)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Co-Investigator with Takehito Yoshida, 2021-2025, JSPS)
Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) (as a Co-Investigator with Masaki Hoso, 2020-2026, JSPS)
RIMS Research Project "Mathematical Biofluid Mechanics" (2021, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University)
Strategic Partnership Teaching and Research Collaboration Seed Grant (with Jonathan M. Levine, 2019-2020, Princeton University & The University of Tokyo)
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists (2019-2024, JSPS)
Young Scholars Overseas Visit Program (2019, The University of Tokyo)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Co-Investigator with Masaki Hoso, 2018-2021, JSPS)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Co-Investigator with Takehito Yoshida, 2017-2021, JSPS)
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (2016-2019, JSPS)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Co-Investigator with Michio Kondoh, 2016-2019, JSPS)
John Mung Program (2015-2016, Kyoto University)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) (as a Co-Investigator with Jotaro Urabe, 2015-2018, JSPS)
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (as a Research Collaborator with Takehito Yoshida, 2014-2017, JSPS)
Hakubi Research Fellowship (2014-2019, Kyoto University)
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research Abroad (2012-2014, JSPS)
Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration Grant (2012, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
The Short-Stay Study Abroad Program (2011, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
Excellent Young Researchers Overseas Visit Program (2010, JSPS)
Research Fellowship for Young Scientists (Doctoral Course Students, DC1) (2009-2012, JSPS)
JASSO Scholarship (2007-2009, JASSO)

Reviewer:

The American Naturalist (11), Behavioral Ecology, Biology Letters (2), Development, Growth & Differentiation, Dynamic Games and Applications, Ecography, Ecological Complexity, Ecological Monographs (3), Ecological Research (2), Ecology (7), Ecology and Evolution (3), Ecology Letters (16), eLife, Evolution (3), Evolution Letters, Evolutionary Applications (5), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2), Functional Ecology (7), Genetics Research, Global Change Biology, Interface Focus, Journal of Animal Ecology (6), Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Complex Networks, Journal of Ecology (2), Journal of Evolutionary Biology (3), Journal of Mathematical Biology, Journal of Theoretical Biology (6), Limnology and Oceanography (3), Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Limnology and Oceanography: Methods (2), Mathematical Biosciences, Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2), Nature Communications (2), Nature Ecology & Evolution (2), Oikos (6), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, PLOS Biology, PLOS Computational Biology (2), PLOS ONE, Population Ecology (5), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2), Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (16), Scientific Reports, Theoretical Ecology (2), Theoretical Population Biology (2), Theory in Biosciences, Trends in Ecology & Evolution (2), Trends in Genetics, Japanese Journal of Ecology (2), Axios Review (2), Book chapter (4)
Research grant: DAAD P.R.I.M.E. Fellowship (Germany), NSF Grant (2) (U.S.A.), NERC Grant (U.K.), ARC DECRA (Australia), NSERC Discovery Grant (2) (Canada)
PhD thesis: University of Konstanz (2023), University of Tokyo (2020-2021, 2024), SOKENDAI (2025)

Teaching:

Special Lecture on Mathematical and Life Sciences C (Instructor, 2024, Hiroshima University)
Integrative Biology, Online Course I (Co-Instructor, 2023, Kyushu University)
Mathematical Biology (Co-Instructor, 2021, Kyushu University)

SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)

Evolutionary Genomics (Co-Instructor, 2024)

The University of Queensland

Natural Resource Mathematics (MATH3070) (Co-Instructor, 2021)
Biostatistics & Experimental Design (BIOL2006/2106) (Co-Instructor, 2021-2022)
Analysis of Scientific Data (STAT1201/7120) (Co-Instructor, 2021-2023)
Introduction to Big Data Biological Research (QBIO7007) (2021)
Dynamic Modelling of Biological Systems (QBIO7003) (Course coordinator, 2021-2022, "Stochastic Models and Statistical Inference" in 2021)
Genes, Cells & Evolution (BIOL1020/7020) (Co-Instructor, 2020-2022)

The University of Tokyo

Conservation Ecology (Co-Instructor, 2024)
Special Lecture in Biological Science IV/International Lecture in New Basic Bioscience 4 (Instructor, 2022)
Sociobiology I (Instructor, 2019)
Field Biology (Instructor, 2018-2019)
Evolutionary Theory (Co-Instructor, 2018)
Biodiversity and Ecosystems (Co-Instructor, 2018-2019, 2025)
Introduction to Systems Science II (Co-Instructor, 2019)
Introduction to Systems Science I (Co-Instructor, 2017-2018)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology I (Co-Instructor, 2017-2019)
Ecology (Co-Instructor, 2017-2019)
Experiments in Biosphere Sciences (Co-Instructor, 2017)

Kyoto University

Special Lecture on Biological Sciences 3 (Instructor, 2025)
Advanced evolutionary biology (Co-Instructor, 2016-2017)
Understanding life: From molecule to ecosystem (Co-Instructor, 2015)
Ecological Science (Co-Instructor, 2015)
Interdisciplinary Life Science Course (Co-Instructor, 2014-2016)

Professional Activities:

Frontiers of Science (FoS) Planning Group Member (2019–2023, 2024-2025, JSPS)
Director (2021-present, Society of Population Ecology)
Member of Editorial Board for "Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan" News (2014–present, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan)
Member of Strategic Planning Committee (2016–present, Ecological Society of Japan)
Councilor (2018–2022, 2024-2026, Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan)
Award Selection Committee Member (2019–2021, Society of Population Ecology)
Member of Annual Meeting Planning Committee (2018–2021, Ecological Society of Japan)
Volunteer judge for Lotka and Volterra Prize (2013, 2016–2018, 2021, ESA Annual Meeting)

Contact:

Theoretical Ecology and Evolution Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research, National Institute of Genetics, 1111 Yata, Mishima, Shizuoka 411-8540, Japan
Email: myamamichi (a) nig.ac.jp

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