Recent events

Aug 17-Aug 23. 2025 Gave an invited talk at ESEB 2025. It was a great honor to present our research at a conference attended by 2000 people! [Link]

Jun 30-July 1. 2025 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 21. 2025 Published a new paper in Journal of Nematology as a co-author. Congratulation, Walli and Christian!!

Jun 19-20. 2025 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.

May 26, 2025 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 Organized 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!

Mar 26, 2025 Held a lab tour during the public event "Let’s Take a Look at the Human Brain and Mind." and presented an overview of evolutionary genomics and how it connects to research on brain diseases. It was a very enjoyable to talk with highly motivated students (from high school to university level).

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

Feb 5–6, 2025 Participated in the 14th Joint Symposium of the BRI, NIPS, and EHUB, held in Okazaki, Aichi. It was a valuable opportunity to hear about cutting-edge research all in one place. I presented in the poster session.

Nov 8, 2024: A new paper has been published in Nature Communications representing new findings of the evolution of sex determination in nematodes! [Link]