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 |
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| 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 |
