Hirai Junya

ヒライジュンヤ | Hirai Junya

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Lecturer
Research theme for competitive and other funds (8)：

2024 - 2028 カイアシ類を用いたゲノム時代の気候変動リスク評価
2023 - 2027 Functional characteristics of marine viruses associated with cosmopolitan copepods
2022 - 2025 Diversity analyses of marine zooplankton under climate changes
2020 - 2024 Ecological role of marine viruses infecting zooplankton
2020 - 2022 Resolving taxonomic problems of copepods in the North pacific Ocean and its application to a marine biomonitoring

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Papers (38)：

Junya Hirai, Seiji Katakura, Hiromi Kasai, Satoshi Nagai. Ecological interactions between marine RNA viruses and planktonic copepods. Communications Biology. 2024. 7. 1507
Toru Kobari, Ayane Taniguchi, Manami Hirata, Gen Kume, Mutsuo Ichinomiya, Tomohiro Komorita, Masafumi Kodama, Fumihiro Makino, Junya Hirai. Comparison of the trophic sources and pathways of mesozooplankton and ichthyoplankton in the Kuroshio current and its neighboring waters. Progress in Oceanography. 2024. 229. 103356
Tom Iwanicki, Jessica W. Chen, Junya Hirai, Hunter DeTurk, Mireille Steck, Erica Goetze, Megan Porter. Shining new light on naupliar eyes: A novel molecular phylogeny for Pleuromamma (Family: Metridinidae) and the characterization of luciferase and opsin expression. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2024. 201. 108200
Jun Inoue, Chuya Shinzato, Junya Hirai, Sachihiko Itoh, Yuki Minegishi, Shin-ichi Ito, Susumu Hyodo. phyloBARCODER: A web tool for phylogenetic classification of eukaryote metabarcodes using custom reference databases. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2024. 41. msae111
Wu Y, Hirai J, Zhou F, Iwataki M, Jiang S, Ogawa H, Inoue J, Hyodo S, Saito H. Diversity and Biogeography of Dinoflagellates in the Kuroshio Region Revealed by 18S rRNA Metabarcoding. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2024. 11. 1361452

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MISC (4)：

Junya Hirai, Masaki Miya, Tetsuichi Fujiki, Akira Kuwano-Yoshida, Shigeyoshi Otosaka, Hideki Kaeriyama, Shin'ichiro Kako, Tomoya Kataoka, Daisuke Matsuoka, Mitsuko Hidaka, et al. Decadal Vision in Oceanography 2021: New methods and problems. Oceanography in Japan. 2021. 30. 5. 227-253
Fuminori Hashihama, Shinya Kouketsu, Yoshiko Kondo, Yoshi N. Sasaki, Shusaku Sugimoto, Kazutaka Takahashi, Takeyoshi Nagai, Jun Nishioka, Hakase Hayashida, Junya Hirai. Decadal Vision in Oceanography 2021: Mid-latitude Ocean. Oceanography in Japan. 2021. 30. 5. 131-158
Junya Hirai. Molecular-based approach for revealing community structure and diversity of marine zooplankton. Oceanography in Japan. 2021. 30. 1. 1-13
Metagenetic community analysis of copepods using high throughput sequencing. 2015. 62. 1. 73-78

Lectures and oral presentations (47)：

Integrated molecular approaches reveal the ecological responses of a planktonic copepod to complex marine environments in a coastal-offshore transition zone
(15th international conference on Copepoda 2024)
Reference sequence data for marine zooplankton in the era of high-throughput sequencing
(ICES/PICES 7th Zooplankton Production Symposium 2024)
Copepod-virus interactions revealed by molecular and morphological approaches
(ICES/PICES 7th Zooplankton Production Symposium 2024)
Metabarcoding analysis of zooplankton communities during a period of sea ice in the Okhotsk Sea
(The 38th International Symposium on Okhotsk Sea & Polar Oceans 2024 2024)
動物プランクトンの分子生態学のこれまでと今後
(オーシャンDNAテック2023 2023)

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Education (3)：

- 2014 The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Aquatic biology (Ph.D.)
- 2010 University of Southampton MSc Oceanography (Master)
- 2009 The University of Tokyo Faculty of Agriculture Aquatic bioscience (Bachelor)

Professional career (1)：

Work history (4)：

2024/02 - 現在 Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Lecturer
2016/11 - 2024/01 Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo Research Associate
2018/03 - 2020/02 University of British Columbia Visiting Researcher
2014/04 - 2016/10 National Research Institute of Fisheries Science JSPS posdoc

Committee career (2)：

Awards (4)：

2024 - 令和6年度東京大学卓越研究員
2020 - The Oceanographic Society of Japan Okada prize
2018 - The Plankton Society of Japan Young Investigators Award of the Plankton Society of Japan
2017 - The Plankton Society of Japan Best Paper Award of the Plankton Society of Japan (coauthor)

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