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2026.10.07

Eight members from three anthropology laboratories received presentation awards at PSJ-ASN-JSPA-2026

Eight members from three anthropology laboratories received presentation awards at the Joint Conference of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Primate Society of Japan, the 80th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, and the 88th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Physiological Anthropology (PSJ-ASN-JSPA-2026), held from September 10 to 13, 2026. Congratulations! We wish them further success in the future.
 
 
Oota Lab. (Photo 1)
 
Award title: Best Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title: Global-scale microbiome analyses identify an ancestral gut cyanobacterial lineage enriched in African populations
Awardee: Kotaro Murai (a first-year master’s student)
Co-authors: Yutaka Suzuki and Suguru Nishijima
 

Award title: Excellent Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title: Validation of the Phenotypic Impact of Jomon-Derived Genetic Backgrounds Using Cohort data provided by Tohoku Medical Megabank Project
Awardee: Yuka Nakamura (a third-year doctoral student)
Co-authors: Yusuke Watanabe, Hideyuki Tanabe, Koichi Higashi, Ken Kurokawa, Atsushi Toyoda, Tomoaki Kato, Masayoshi Tsukahara, Kae Koganebuchi, Masanori Imamura, Takafumi Ishida, Jun Ohashi, and Hiroki Oota

 

Award title: Excellent Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title: Ancient mitochondrial genomes reveal maternal-line continuity through cultural transitions in the Bolivian Altiplano
Awardee: Risako Kataoka (a first-year doctoral student)
Co-authors: Adrian A. Davin, Miyabi Fujiki, Koki Yoshida, Yoshiki Wakiyama, Yusuke Watanabe, Kae Koganebuchi, Guido Valverde, and Hiroki Oota

 

Award title: Best Poster Presentation Award
Presentation title: Ancient genomic analysis of kinship among individuals from banjo-shuseki-bo (square-shaped bone-pile burial) at the Hobi shell-mound site, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Awardee: Yoshiki Wakiyama (a fourth-year doctoral student)
Co-authors: Yusuke Watanabe, Kae Koganebuchi, Tadayuki Masuyama, Minoru Yoneda, Yasuhiro Yamada, and Hiroki Oota

 

Award title: Excellent Poster Presentation Award
Presentation title: A Pilot Study of Sedimentary Ancient Genome Analysis at the Kitamachi Site, Yamagata Prefecture
Awardee: Koki Kakinuma (a second-year master’s student)
Co-authors: Naho Kondo, Miyabi Fujiki, Yoshiki Wakiyama, Risako Kataoka, Kenji Nagai, Takashi Gakuhari, Minoru Yoneda, Yusuke Watanabe, Kae Koganebuchi, and Hiroki Oota

 
 
Ogihara Lab. (Photo 2)
 
Award title: Best Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title: Forward Dynamics Simulation of Gorilla Knuckle-Walking Based on Three-Dimensional Whole-Body Model
Awardee: Yuta Shimane (Project Assistant Professor)
Co-author: Naomichi Ogihara
 

Award title: Excellent Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title: Biomechanical Analysis of Individual Thumb Muscle Functions Underlying Human Precision Grip Using an Anatomically Accurate Musculoskeletal Model
Awardee: Saki Ishibashi (a second-year master’s student)
Co-author: Naomichi Ogihara

 
Ohashi Lab.  (Photo 3)
 
Award title: Best Oral Presentation Award
Presentation title: Genome haplotype orchestration via synthetic trajectory (GHOST): Reconstructing population-specific linkage disequilibrium for unrepresented ancestries using only summary statistics
Awardee: Jonghyun Kim (a third-year doctoral student)
Co-author: Jun Ohashi
 
 
 
 
From left, Kotaro Murai, Koki Kakinuma, Yoshiki Wakiyama, Risako Kataoka, and Yuka Nakamura (Oota Lab.)
 

From left, Saki Ishibashi and Yuta Shimane (Ogihara Lab.)

 
Jonghyun Kim (Ohashi Lab.)
 

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