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IMAI Yukiko

IMAI Yukiko
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Assistant Professor
Research field  (2): Developmental biology ,  Cell biology
Research keywords  (2): 精子形成 ,  zebrafish
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (8):
  • 2024 - 2027 Analysis of sexual differences in zebrafish meiosis
  • 2021 - 2025 Initiation of meiotic recombination: approach to nuclear dynamics in zebrafish
  • 2022 - 2024 Molecular basis for subtelomeric recombination in meiosis
  • 2019 - 2022 ゼブラフィッシュ精子形成の組換えにおけるDNA二重鎖切断因子の同定
  • 2019 - 2022 The specification of meiotic recombination sites: chromosomal structures, genome and epigenome
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Papers (23):
  • Noriko Miyake, Kentaro Shiga, Yuya Hasegawa, Chisato Iwabuchi, Kohei Shiroshita, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Keiyo Takubo, Fabien Velilla, Akiteru Maeno, Toshihiro Kawasaki, et al. Biallelic TEDC1 variants cause a new syndrome with severe growth impairment and endocrine complications. European Journal of Human Genetics. 2025
  • Marie Raynaud, Paola Sanna, Julien Joseph, Julie Clément, Yukiko Imai, Jean-Jacques Lareyre, Audrey Laurent, Nicolas Galtier, Frédéric Baudat, Laurent Duret, et al. PRDM9 drives the location and rapid evolution of recombination hotspots in salmonid fish. PLOS Biology. 2025. 23. 1. e3002950-e3002950
  • Dmitrij Dedukh, Artem Lisachov, Thitipong Panthum, Worapong Singchat, Yoichi Matsuda, Yukiko Imai, Karel Janko, Kornsorn Srikulnath. Meiotic deviations and endoreplication lead to diploid oocytes in female hybrids between bighead catfish (Clarias macrocephalus) and North African catfish (Clarias gariepinus). Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2024. 12
  • Kenichiro Sadamitsu, Fabien Velilla, Minori Shinya, Makoto Kashima, Yukiko Imai, Toshihiro Kawasaki, Kenta Watai, Miho Hosaka, Hiromi Hirata, Noriyoshi Sakai. Establishment of a zebrafish inbred strain, M-AB, capable of regular breeding and genetic manipulation. Scientific reports. 2024. 14. 1. 7455-7455
  • Kazumasa Takemoto, Toshiya Nishimura, Toshihiro Kawasaki, Yukiko Imai, Karine Levy, Neta Hart, Ivan Olaya, Sean M Burgess, Yaniv M Elkouby, Minoru Tanaka, et al. In Vitro Storage of Functional Sperm at Room Temperature in Zebrafish and Medaka. Zebrafish. 2023
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MISC (5):
Lectures and oral presentations  (21):
  • Initiation of Meiotic Recombination in Zebrafish Males
    (The 12th 3R+3C International Symposium 2024)
  • Initiation of meiotic recombination in zebrafish males
    (2024)
  • Initiation of meiotic recombination in zebrafish males
    (The 18th International Zebrafish Conference 2024)
  • “Meiotic Recombination in telomere bouquet-defective zebrafish”
    (The 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan・Symposium「Diverse mechanisms and principle of meiotic recombination among multiple organisms」 2023)
  • ゼブラフィッシュの減数分裂組換えにおける核膜-テロメア接着
    (第3回有性生殖研究会「生殖の多様性」 2023)
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Education (3):
  • 2011 - 2015 Montpellier University Ecole Doctorale Sciences Chimiques et Biologiques pour la Sante
  • 2009 - 2011 Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
  • 2005 - 2009 Saitama University Faculty of Science Department of Molecular Biology
Professional career (1):
  • Ph.D. Biologie Sante (モンペリエ大学)
Work history (5):
  • 2025/04 - 現在 Saitama University Graduate School of Science and Engineering Assistant Professor
  • 2021/10 - 2025/03 National Institute of Genetics Model Fish Genetics Lab PRESTO researcher
  • 2017/08 - 2018/03 National Institute of Genetics Model Fish Genomics Resource Laboratory Postdoctoral
  • 2016/01 - 2017/06 CNRS Institute of Human Genetics Meiosis and Recombination team Postdoctoral
  • 2011/04 - 2011/09 Kyoto University, Graduate School of Medicine Dpt. Cell biology lab technician
Awards (3):
  • 2024/11 - The 12th 3R + 3C International Symposium Excellent Poster Award Initiation of Meiotic Recombination in Zebrafish Males
  • 2019/06 - 国際ソロプチミスト駿河 ソロプチミスト日本財団 クラブ賞(女性研究者賞)
  • 2019/03 - 日本遺伝学会 日本遺伝学会第一回春季会 ポスター賞 ゼブラフィッシュ精母細胞の相同組換えは Sycp2 に依存してテロメア近傍で始まる
Association Membership(s) (1):
THE GENETICS SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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