DATE2022.09.26 #Awards & Prizes

Assistant Professor Hokuto Nakayama received the Encouragement Award from the Botanical Society of Japan

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Assistant Professor Hokuto Nakayama

　Dr. Hokuto Nakayama, Assistant Professor of Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, received an Encouragement Award at the annual meeting of the Botanical Society of Japan held in Kyoto, Japan on September 18, 2010. Dr. Nakayama received his Ph.D. degree from the Department in 2010, and has held post-doctoral positions at Kyoto Sangyo University and the University of California, Davis, respectively. During this period, Dr. Nakayama has successively clarified the formation mechanism and evolutionary mechanism of leaf-like "pseudobranchs," which are deformed stems in Asparagus species, the regulatory mechanism that separates submerged and aerial leaves in Brassica species, and the genetic background that causes differences in leaf morphology among tomato varieties. The consistent theme is the genetic background of the differences in leaf morphology among tomato varieties. He has consistently elucidated the mechanisms of leaf morphological diversification in non-model plants, using a wide variety of methods. Since joining the Department, he has been working hard to extract the gene network that forms the basis of leaf morphogenesis in angiosperms using Amborella, a rare plant that is cultivated only in the Graduate School Botanical Gardens and the Kyoto Botanical Garden in Japan. The Society of Botany, Japan's Botanical Society of Japan's Encouragement Award was given to him this time because of his past achievements and future research prospects, and because the society has high expectations for his future work. He is currently studying in the U.S. for a year under a special program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and is scheduled to return to Japan next year. We look forward to his further activities.

The Botanical Society of Japan Award
https://bsj.or.jp/jpn/members/information/202219.php

(Responsibility: Professor Yuichi Tsukatani, Department of Biological Sciences)