Apr. 1, 2026 Starting this fiscal year, our laboratory has relaunched as the Department of Evolutionary Genomics. Under the reorganization of the Brain Research Institute, six divisions, including ours, have come together to form the Field of Evolutionary Brain Pathology. Evolutionary Brain Pathology will become one of the major research pillars of the Brain Research Institute.

Mar. 13, 2026 Yoshida gave an invited talk at the 2nd PRI Umetaro Suzuki Symposium in RIKEN. It was a highly stimulating symposium, featuring cutting-edge talks from a wide range of biological fields.

Mar. 4–5, 2026 Yoshida was invited to give a presentation at the workshop “Population Genetics in the Era of Population Genomics” held at the National Institute of Genetics.

Mar. 2, 2026 We organized the 16th BRI International Symposium, “Evolutionary Genomics: From Biodiversity to Human Disease,” at the Brain Research Institute. This was an important symposium that helped define the future direction of our research. We sincerely thank all the speakers for their contributions. [Link]

Feb. 23-25, 2026 Yoshida and Ishita participated in the annual meeting of the CREST research area “Cell control”. As always, we were greatly inspired by the outstanding research presented by the participants.

Feb. 15, 2026 Ishita’s new paper was published in Development, Growth & Differentiation. This work was conducted in collaboration with Dr. Misako Okumura at Hiroshima University. [Link]

Feb. 5-6, 2026 Yoshida participated in the annual joint symposium of BRI–NIPS–Ehub in Inuyama. He presented a poster on our new research related to ALS.

Feb. 1, 2026 Ms. Keiko Sasaki joined our laboratory as a technical assistant, succeeding Ms. Kozue Ishizuka. We sincerely thank Ms. Ishizuka for her contributions and warmly welcome Ms. Sasaki to the lab.

Dec 18, 2025 Yoshida wrote a Brain Research Institute column titled “What Are the Evolutionary Origins of Disease? (in Japanese)” [Link]

Oct 6, 2025 Yoshida delivered a special lecture at Nagoya University, summarizing his research achievements on nematodes to date. The students and researchers were highly engaged, leading to stimulating and lively discussions.

Sep 29-30, 2025 Yoshida attended and gave a presentation at the NIG-JOINT workshop "Genome Diversity and Its Understanding from Chromosome Configuration and Karyotype." It was a valuable opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research toward integrating genome biology and cytogenetics.

Sep 4-6, 2025 Yoshida attended the 98th Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan in Nagoya and gave an invited talk at the symposium. It was his first time attending a zoological conference, but the atmosphere was very homey and enjoyable.

Aug 17-Aug 23. 2025 Yoshida gave an invited talk at ESEB 2025. It was a great honor to present our research at a conference attended by 2000 people.

Jun 30-July 1. 2025 Yoshida attended to the workshop of JST CREST "Cell Control" at Hiroshima and talked the recent progress. It was intensive to learn advanced tech for genome editing.

Jun 28-July 2. 2025 Ishita attended to the 25th International Worm Meeting and presented her study in poster session. There were many interesting researches including those with non-C. elegans nematodes, further motivating us to our research.

Jun 21. 2025 Yoshida published a new paper in Journal of Nematology as a co-author [Link]. This is a result from the international collaborative work with Max Planck Institute, Germany.

Jun 19-20. 2025 Yoshida visited DANDRITE [Link], Aarhus University, Denmark and introduced our research in the symposium. It was impressive to see beautifully designed equipments for neouropathology in DANDRITE. BRI has agreements with DANDRITE  to promote our collaborative researches in the future.

May 26. 2025 Yoshida published a column in the web magazine, Evergreen, from Niigata University. "The secret of genome evolution revealed in the small animal" in Japanese [Link]

May 15–16, 2025 We held the regular meeting of the JST CREST "Cell Control" Sugimoto Team at the BRI. In addition to progress reports from the PIs, 15 participants, including students and staff, gave poster presentations, which made very active discussion. We hope this will accelerate collaborative research!

Apr 17. 2025 Yoshida talked in the Niigata Medical Society and introduced advanced fields in evolutionary biology and our strategy to tackle evolutionary brain pathology.

April 16, 2025 An interview with Dr. Naoko Fujito was published on the Brain Research Institute's website. If you are interested in the work of researchers, please take a look. [Link]

Apr 1, 2025 Ms. Kozue Ishizuka has newly joined our lab as a technical assistant. We look forward to the further acceleration of our research.