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Imai Hiroo

今井啓雄 | Imai Hiroo

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor
Homepage URL (1)： http://www2.ehub.kyoto-u.ac.jp/sections/molecular_biology/index.html

Research field (3)： Biophysics , Animals: biochemistry, physiology, behavioral science , Physical anthropology

Research keywords (7)： sense , taste , primate , biochemistry , molecular biology , molecular physiology , molecular physiology and biochemistry

Research theme for competitive and other funds (35)：

2024 - 2028 GPCR型光遺伝学ツールを利用した腸内感覚受容体の機能解析
2022 - 2026 Function of taste receptors in the intestines of primates
2022 - 2026 霊長類消化管オルガノイドを用いたホルモンと神経伝達物質の検出法の確立
2021 - 2025 Molecular studies of mammalian evolution around Wallacea
2018 - 2022 Advancement of sensory ecology and genomics of primates by contrasting New and Old Worlds

2019 - 2021 Elucidation of age-related relationship between genotype of taste receptors and phenotype using primate organoids.

2015 - 2019 Molecular Basis of Primate Feeding Behaviors

2016 - 2018 ターゲット遺伝子法によるグリアネットモデルサルの同定と繁殖の試み

2015 - 2018 Project to create international glial researcher network: mainly focusing on Japan-Germany research exchange

2015 - 2018 Integrative sensory evolution in primates revealed by population genetic analysis of olfactory, taste, and color vision receptor genes

2014 - 2018 Speciation and secondary contact between two Sulawesi macaque species

2015 - 2017 Intraspecific variation in fore-stomach microbial communities of proboscis monkeys

2014 - 2017 The visual adaptation causes the diversity of species

2014 - 2017 DNA barcording analysis on oral mircorbiome in ancient dental calculus Japanese skeltal remain

2013 - 2017 Investigation of feeding strategies of African cercopithecids by using genetic and/or morphological methods

2014 - 2016 ターゲット遺伝子法によるグリアネットモデルサルの同定と繁殖の試み

2013 - 2016 Structural, functional, and evolutionary properties of sweet taste receptors

2012 - 2016 Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Primate Chemical Senses.

2013 - 2015 Genetic screening of Japanese macaque aiming at discovery of primate models for psychiatric disorders

2012 - 2015 Reconsideration of feeding behavior of primates from the view of genome and minor components

2010 - 2014 Evolutionary diversity and adaption of sensory genes evaluated for natural populations of primates

2010 - 2011 Toward the rise of comparative cognitive genomics : Crosstalk between comparative cognitive science and comparative genomics

2009 - 2011 Elucidation of the intra- and inter- species characteristics ofsensory functions based on the genome divergence

2008 - 2010 低分子と受容体の相互作用を基盤とした霊長類フェロモン受容機構解明の試み

2006 - 2007 Understanding of the photoreceptor cell function in vision by molecular replacement (knock-in) methods

2004 - 2004 光信号変換におけるソフトな分子間相互作用の果たす役割

2003 - 2004 ノックインマウスを用いた生体内環境における光情報伝達機構の研究

2000 - 2001 光受容蛋白質分子の性質と視細胞の応答特性の関係の解明

2000 - 2000 膜蛋白質の相互作用様式と遺伝子構造の比較研究

色覚の分子機構

視細胞内の光情報伝達機構

視物質の光情報伝達機構

Molecular Mechanisms of Color Vision

Phototransduction Mechanism in Photoreceptor Cells

Phototransduction Mechanism of Visual Pigment

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Papers (151)：

Tao Huang, Arthur Radley, Ayaka Yanagida, Zhili Ren, Francesca Carlisle, Somayyeh Tahajjodi, Dongwan Kim, Paul O'Neill, James Clarke, Madeline A Lancaster, et al. Inhibition of PRC2 enables self-renewal of blastoid-competent naive pluripotent stem cells from chimpanzee. Cell stem cell. 2025
Srishti Tripathi, Hiroo Imai, Ikuma Adachi. Behavioral (reaction time) and prefrontal cortex response revealed differences in grief vs. sadness perception. Scientific reports. 2025. 15. 1. 6356-6356
Arisa Ishimura, Ken Iwatsuki, Hiroo Imai. Establishment of Intestinal Organoids from Common Marmosets. Organoids. 2025
Liu Zhijin, Xiongfei Zhang, Peipei Wang, Minheng Hong, Xiaochan Yan, Xiaoqiu Qi, Qian Zhao, Zhenghao Chen, Huajian Nie, Hui Li, et al. Living on the Rocks: Genomic Analysis of Limestone Langurs Provides Novel Insights into the Adaptive Evolution in Extreme Karst Environments. Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics. 2025
Matteo Caldon, Giacomo Mutti, Alessandro Mondanaro, Hiroo Imai, Takayoshi Shotake, Gonzalo Oteo Garcia, Gurja Belay, Jordi Morata, Jean-Rémi Trotta, Francesco Montinaro, et al. Gelada genomes highlight events of gene flow, hybridisation and local adaptation that track past climatic changes. Molecular Ecology. 2024. 33. 19. e17514

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MISC (215)：

松井伸祐, 有永理峰, 坂口恒介, 稲葉明彦, 山根拓実, 大石祐一, 今井啓雄, 岩槻健. 霊長類消化管オルガノイドからの単層培養系構築と味細胞様細胞の解析. 日本栄養・食糧学会大会講演要旨集. 2023. 77回. 243-243
吉田七桜, 稲葉明彦, 神田春香, 山根拓実, 大石祐一, 今井啓雄, 岩槻健. 霊長類における味細胞マーカーの探索. 日本栄養・食糧学会大会講演要旨集. 2023. 77回. 299-299
吉光良世, 竹村孝一, 坂口恒介, 山根拓実, 大石祐一, 今井啓雄, 岩槻健. 霊長類味蕾オルガノイドを用いた味乳頭特異的な味覚受容機構の解明. 日本栄養・食糧学会大会講演要旨集. 2023. 77回. 302-302
糸井川壮大, 戸田安香, 石丸喜朗, 今井啓雄. Functional evolution of sweet taste receptors in the family Indriidae. 霊長類研究. 2023. 39. Supplement
Hiroo Imai, Akihisa Terakita. Function of animal rhodopsins and related proteins: Report for the session 9. Biophysics and physicobiology. 2023. 20

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Books (18)：

霊長類学の百科事典 = The encyclopedia of primatology
丸善出版 2023 ISBN:9784621308042
ヒトゲノム事典
一色出版 2021 ISBN:9784910389127
もっとよくわかる!食と栄養のサイエンス : 食行動を司る生体恒常性維持システム
羊土社 2021 ISBN:9784758122092
霊長類の味覚(おいしさの科学的評価・測定法と応用展開)
シーエムシー出版 2016
光と生命の事典
朝倉書店 2016

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Lectures and oral presentations (127)：

サルのふり見て我がふり省みる
(第19回京都大学附置研究所・センターシンポジウム松本講演会 2024)
Unique preference for the specific foods in primate species based on the molecular properties of receptors
(2023)
Roles of CaSR in the gum feeding behavior of common marmosets
(The 19th International Symposium on Molecular and Neural Mechanisms of Taste and Olfactory Perception 2023)
「スバンテ・ペーボ博士の功績・古代ゲノム研究が私たちにもたらしたもの」
(2022年ノーベル賞からみる最新研究講演会 2022)
霊長類の遺伝研究
(第76回日本人類学会大会・第38回日本霊長類学会大会連合大会シンポジウム 2022)

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Education (4)：

- 1996 Kyoto University
- 1996 Kyoto University Graduate School, Division of Natural Science
- 1991 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
- 1991 Kyoto University Faculty of Science

Professional career (1)：

Doctor of Science (Kyoto University)

Work history (5)：

2018/04 - 現在 Kyoto University Institute for Evolutionary Origin of Human Behavior Professor
2005/12 - 2018/03 Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University Associate professor
1999 - 2005 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
1999 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Facalty of Science, Kyoto Univarsity
2005 - - Associate Professor, Promate Research Institute, Kyoto University

Committee career (5)：

2018/04 - 2020/03 日本比較生理生化学会編集委員
2016/01 - 2019/12 視覚科学フォーラム運営委員
2015/01/01 - 2016/12/31 - -
2007/01/01 - 2011/12/31 - -
2001 - 日本生物物理学会会誌編集委員

Awards (2)：

1998 - 井上学術奨励賞
1998 - 日本比較生理生化学会吉田奨励賞

Association Membership(s) (8)：

日本味と匂学会 , 日本霊長類学会 , 日本分子生物学会 , 日本神経科学会 , 日本進化学会 , 日本比較生理生化学会 , 日本動物学会 , 日本生物物理学会

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