Shigeru Saito, Ph.D.     Associate Professor

Department of Animal Bioscience

Faculty of Bioscience

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

Work address:

1266 Tamura-cho, Nagahama, Shiga 526-0829, Japan

Email: s_saito@nagahama-i-bio.ac.jp

Tel: +81-749-64-8122

Fax: +81-749-64-8140

Education:

1999-2004

Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Awarded the degree of Ph. D. for the thesis entitled ‘Determination of the positions and comparison of the flanking nucleotide sequences of the replication origins in mitochondrial DNAs for several phylogenetically diverged insect species’.

Work supervised by Dr. Koichiro Tamura and Dr. Tadashi Aotsuka.

1997-1999

Evolutionary Genetics Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University. 

Awarded the degree of M. S. for the thesis entitled ‘Frequent hybridization in the hybrid zone between two types of body color populations of the Japanese freshwater crab, Geothelphusa dehaani revealed by molecular population genetic analysis’.

Work supervised by Dr. Tadashi Aotsuka.

1993-1997

Laboratory of Systematics, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Hirosaki University.

Awarded the degree of B. S. for a thesis entitled ‘Genetic diversity of endangered short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus’.

Work supervised by Dr. Masaki Kuro-o.

Work History:

2023-Present

Associate professor

Department of Animal Bioscience, Faculty of Bioscience, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

2018-2023

Assistant professor

1Thermal Biology Group, Exploratory Research Center on Life and Living Systems (ExCELLS), Japan 2 Division of Cell Signaling, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan

2015-2018

Assistant professor

Division of Cell Signaling, Department of Biosensing, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience (National Institute for Physiological Sciences), Japan

2010-2015

Project assistant professor

Division of Cell Signaling, Department of Biosensing Reserach, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience (National Institute for Physiological Sciences), Japan

2009-2010

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Division of Cell Signaling, Department of Biosensing Reserach, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience (National Institute for Physiological Sciences), Japan

2005-2009

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

21st century COE program, Faculty of Engineering, Iwate University, Japan 

2004-2005

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Cryobiosystem Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Japan

Awards:

June, 2017. Young Scientist Initiative Award (The Zoological Society of Japan)

“Elucidation of species diversity and molecular basis for thermosensation”

Aug. 2014. Award for oral presentations.

16th Annual Meeting of the society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan.

“The evolution of thermal perception by functional changes of thermal sensors: comparative analysis of clawed frog species with different optimal temperatures”.

July, 2013. Young Scientist Initiative Award (Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan)

“Investigation on functional evolution of thermal receptors by molecular evolutionary and physiological approaches”

March, 2013. Kiichi Sagawa Award (Poster Prize)

The 90th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan (Tokyo, Japan)

“Diversity of nociceptive thermal and chemical sensitivity in TRPA1 channels among vertebrates”.

June, 2007. 1st prize of the Postdoctoral Poster Prize

15th Annual Meeting for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (Halifax, Canada).

“Positive Darwinian selection drives rapid evolution of uncoupling protein-1 and conferred novel nonshivering thermogenesis on eutherian mammals”.

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