Yoshida Kohta

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Specially appointed professor
Homepage URL (1)： https://sites.google.com/view/kohta-yoshida-web

Research field (4)： Molecular biology , Evolutionary biology , Genomics , Genetics

Research keywords (6)： Brain pathology , Speciation , Nematode , Sex chromosome , Chromosome rearrangement , Genome

Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：

2023 - 2025 Establishment of experimental speciation genetics using chromosomal manupulation of nematodes
2018 - 2023 Underlying principles of genome-scale changes that drive evolution of reproductive strategies
2014 - 2016 トゲウオ科魚類における雑種不稔の原因遺伝子の探索
2014 - 2015 ゲノム解読による外来種の適応メカニズムの解明
2009 - 2010 性染色体の出現と進化の分子機構の解析

Papers (30)：

Kohta Yoshida, Hanh Witte, Ryo Hatashima, Simo Sun, Taisei Kikuchi, Waltraud Röseler, Ralf J. Sommer. Rapid chromosome evolution and acquisition of thermosensitive stochastic sex determination in nematode androdioecious hermaphrodites. Nature Communications. 2024. 15. 9649
Shigehiro Kuraku, Mana Sato, Kohta Yoshida, Yoshinobu Uno. Genomic reconsideration of fish non-monophyly: why cannot we simply call them all ‘fish’?. Ichthyological Research. 2023
Satoshi Ansai, Atsushi Toyoda, Kohta Yoshida, Jun Kitano. Repositioning of centromere-associated repeats during karyotype evolution in Oryzias fishes. Molecular ecology. 2023
Radka Reifová, S Lorena Ament-Velásquez, Yann Bourgeois, Jenn Coughlan, Jonna Kulmuni, Agnieszka P Lipinska, Genta Okude, Laurie Stevison, Kohta Yoshida, Jun Kitano. Mechanisms of Intrinsic Postzygotic Isolation: From Traditional Genic and Chromosomal Views to Genomic and Epigenetic Perspectives. Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology. 2023
Jun Kitano, Kohta Yoshida. Do sex-linked male meiotic drivers contribute to intrinsic hybrid incompatibilities? Recent empirical studies from flies and rodents. Current opinion in genetics & development. 2023. 81. 102068-102068

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MISC (6)：

Tomotaka Matsumoto, Kohta Yoshida, Jun Kitano. Gene Flow and Sex Chromosome Evolution. GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS. 2016. 91. 6. 357-357
Kohta Yoshida, Asano Ishikawa, Takashi Makino, Jun Kitano. Hybrid sterility and functional diversification of a chromatin binding protein in threespine sticklebacks. GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS. 2015. 90. 6. 380-380
Kohta Yoshida, Asano Ishikawa, Takashi Makino, Jun Kitano. Test of link between evolution of heterochromatin-binding protein and hybrid sterility in threespine sticklebacks. GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS. 2014. 89. 6. 288-288
Strong link between selfish genetic elements and sex chromosome evolution. 2014. 65. 3. 146-154
Kohta Yoshida, Takashi Makino, Katsushi Yamaguchi, Shuji Shigenobu, Mitsuyasu Hasebe, Masakado Kawata, Atsushi Toyoda, Asao Fujiyama, Jun Kitano. The neo-sex-chromosome formation drove the evolution of protein-coding sequences and transcriptome in three-spine sticklebacks. GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS. 2013. 88. 6. 356-356

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Books (1)：

Lectures and oral presentations (51)：

Evolutionary mechanism of thermosensitive stochastic sex determination of Pristionchus namatodes
(The Future of Nematode Research 2024 2024)
The change of chromosome number of nematodes is invovled in speciation, genomic evolution and evolution of sex determination
(SESJ 2024 2024)
Evolution of androdioecy was involved in acquisition of thermosensitive stochastic sex determination in Pristionchus nematodes
(EvoWorm 2024 2024)
New direction of speciation research using nematodes
(RCIES seminar 2024)
Nematodes as study model for the origin of species : Large-scale genome structural evolution facilitating speciation
(Seminar in Kitasato University 2023)

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Education (4)：

2008 - 2011 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
2010 - 2010 Fred Hatchinson Cancer Research Center, WA, USA Division of Human Biology
2007 - 2008 Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology
2003 - 2007 Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Bioscience and Biotechnology Department of Biosystem

Professional career (3)：

Work history (6)：

2024/01 - 現在 Brain Research Institute, Niigata University Laboratory for Evolutionary Brain Pathology, Dept. of System Pathology for Neurological Disorder, Basic Neuroscience Branch Specially appointed professor
2023/04 - 2023/12 National Institute of Genetics Ecological Genetics Laboratory Project assistant professor
2016/09 - 2023/03 Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen (previously known as Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology) Department for Integrative Evolutionary Biology Senior Staff Scientist
2014/04 - 2016/09 National Institute of Genetics Ecological Genetics Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research JSPS Research Fellow (Postdoctoral fellow)
2011/10 - 2014/03 National Institute of Genetics Ecological Genetics Laboratory, Center for Frontier Research Postdoctoral Fellow

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Awards (4)：

2023/09 - Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan Research Encouragement Award "Understanding genome-stractural evolution facilitating speciation"
2021/09 - Future of the nematodes studies 2021 Next Leader Award Oral Presentation "Evolution of genome structure facilitating speciation in Pristionchus"
2015/09 - The 87th meeting of Genetics Society of Japan Best Paper Award Oral Presentation
2013/09 - The 85th meeting of Genetics Society of Japan Best Paper Award Oral Presentation

Association Membership(s) (2)：

GSJ , SESJ

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