Morishima Award
Morishima Award for outstanding performance in the Genetics Program
The Morishima Award was established using a donation from the Morishima family honoring the late professor emeritus of NIG, Dr. MORISHIMA Hiroko. It awards students who receive a doctoral degree from the Genetics Program to acknowledge their outstanding performances during PhD studies. Recipients are granted a certificate and an incentive to encourage further achievements.
Eligibility: PhD Degree recipients for each academic year
September, 2025
Islam, Moutushi (Molecular Cell Engineering Laboratory, thesis advisor: KANEMAKI, Masato)
thesis title : Advancing the utility of AID2-based conditional protein knockdown
March, 2025
MINAMI Katsuhiko (Genome Dynamics Laboratory, thesis advisor: MAESHIMA Kazuhiro)
thesis title : Replication-dependent histone (Repli-Histo) labeling dissects the physical properties of euchromatin/heterochromatin in living human cells
IIDA Shiori (Genome Dynamics Laboratory, thesis advisor: MAESHIMA Kazuhiro)
thesis title : How nuclear environment influences chromatin motion and organization
HATOYAMA Yuki (Molecular Cell Engineering Laboratory, thesis advisor: KANEMAKI, Masato)
thesis title : A combinational degron system with AID2 and BromoTag uncovers the relationship between DNA replication and the cell cycle
September, 2024
Biswa, Bhim Bahadur (Mouse Genomics Resource Laboratory, thesis advisor: Koide Tsuyoshi)
thesis title : Role of gut bacteria in domestication of mice
March, 2024
Nishimura Luca (Brain Function Laboratory, thesis advisor: HIRATA Tatsumi)
thesis title : Ancient Viral Discovery and Characterization Using Ancient DNA Sequencing Data
September, 2023
SOMASHEKAR Harsha (Plant Cytogenetics Laboratory, thesis advisor: NONOMURA Ken-ichi)
thesis title : GLUCAN SYNTHASE-LIKE5 promotes anther callose deposition to maintain timely initiation and progression of meiosis in rice (Oryza sativa L.)
March, 2023
BANERJEE Piu (Laboratory of Mammalian Neural Circuits, thesis advisor: IWASATO Takuji)
thesis title : Study of Spontaneous Activity in the Peripheral Structure of Developing Mouse Somatosensory System
September, 2021
NOUREEN Mehwish (Biological Networks Laboratory, thesis advisor: ARITA Masanori)
thesis title : An Algorithmic Approach for Identifying earrangements in Multiple Bacterial Genomes
SATTI Maria Altaf (Biological Networks Laboratory, thesis advisor: ARITA Masanori)
thesis title : Comparative Analysis of Genus Bifidobacterium: Insight into its Host Adaptation
March, 2021
SAITO Raku (Epigenomics Laboratory, thesis advisor: KAKUTANI Tetsuji / Genome Dynamics Laboratory, thesis advisor: MAESHIMA Kazuhiro)
thesis title : Evolution, biochemical properties and single-molecule dynamics of transposon-encoded anti-silencing factor
September, 2020
TADA Ipputa (Biological Networks Laboratory, thesis advisor: ARITA Masanori)
thesis title : Untargeted Metabolomics: Data Analysis Platform for All-Ion Fragmentation Mass Spectrometry
March, 2020
SHIMADA Ryuki (Mammalian Development Laboratory, thesis advisor: SAGA Yumiko)
thesis title : The molecular dissection of NANOS2 function required for male germ cell differentiation
March, 2019
SASAKI Asuka (Genome Dynamics Laboratory, thesis advisor: MAESHIMA Kazuhiro)
thesis title : Analysis of telomeric chromatin using pyrrole-imidazole polyamide probe
September, 2018
NAKAZAWA Shingo (Division of Neurogenetics, thesis advisor: IWASATO Takuji)
thesis title : Dynamic mechanism of neural circuit refinement in neonatal cortex
March, 2018
IMAI Ryosuke (Biological Macromolecules Laboratory, thesis advisor: MAESHIMA Kazuhiro)
thesis title : DNA transactions and physical environment of chromatin
September, 2017
NAGPAL Harsh (Division of Microbial Genetics, thesis advisor: ARAKI Hiroyuki)
(Hosted by Prof. Tatsuo FUKAGAWA, Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, as Special Research Student)
thesis title : The Interaction Network between Centromeric Proteins during Kinetochore Formation
March, 2017
TSUCHIYA Yuki (Division of Centrosome Biology, thesis advisor: KITAGAWA Daiju)
thesis title : The role of Cep295 in centrosome biogenesis of human cells
YAMAMOTO Kazunori (Cell Architecture Laboratory, thesis advisor: KIMURA Akatsuki)
thesis title : A study on inter-cellular forces for blastomere configurations in developing embryos
March, 2016
BABARINDE Isaac Adeyemi (Division of Population Genetics, thesis advisor: SAITOU Naruya)
thesis title : Analyses of genomic changes associated with rodent evolution
March, 2014
KANZAWA Hideaki (Division of Population Genetics, thesis advisor: SAITOU Naruya)
thesis title : Ancient genomic DNA analysis of Jomon people