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• We have developed a new transgenic reporter experimental system and three-dimensional imaging analysis system using Xenopus embryos 2024-04-25
• Lecture at the 7th Yuzawa Geopark Research Results Presentation. 2024-03-05
• Participated in the 2nd meeting of the academic transformation area (B) sex chromosome cycle. 2024-03-01
• Gave a lecture at the 2023 Symposium series of National Institute of Physiological Sciences “Extreme Environment Adaptation” 2023-11-15
• Rapid and accurate determination of the long mitochondrial genome of the “Hot-spring frog” (Ryukyu Kajika frog, Buergeria japonica) 2023-11-03
• Talk at Nanopore Day, Osaka 2023 2023-06-28
• Joint research with Shimane University won the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 2023 Chugoku-Shikoku Regional Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan. 2023-06-15
• Explanation lecture of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022-12-13
• We participated in the 45th Molecular Biology Society of Japan 2022-12-02
• Appeared on Hiroshima FM’s Shigeki Ohkubo’s 9ji Radio 2022-11-07

I’m Takeshi Igawa who is working at Amphibian Research Center and Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Hiroshima University. I recognize my self as an evolutionary biologist and have interest in genetic and genomic differentiation of organisms through evolutionary processes. My interest includes many topics spanning multiple discipline, speciation, adaptive evolution, sex determination, ethological evolution, microbiology.  
Born in 24th March, 1980 and raised in Kirikushi, Etajima Island, Hiroshima, Japan. I have been interested in genetics and evolutionary biology since I was in high school. During my undergraduate course, I learned basic molecular biological experiments through the study for molecular cloning and characterization of neuro-functional receptors in silkworms. I started studying phylogenetic evolution and genetics of amphibians in graduate school and was honored Ph.D. in 2008 at Institute for Amphibian Biology, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University. As Post-doc, I worked at Hayama Institute for Advanced Studies, Graduate University of Advanced Studies for evolution and genetics of humans and great apes and backed to Hiroshima University in 2009 as Assistant Professor. In 2014 I had worked in Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University. In 2017 I have been transferred again to Amphibian Research Center (previously Institute for Amphibian Biology). From 2022 Oct. I’m an associate professor at ARC.

CONTACT ADDRESS

Amphibian Research Center, Hiroshima University
1-3-1 Kagamiyama
Higashi-hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan
E-mail: tigawa [at] hiroshima-u [dot] ac [dot] jp
Phone/Fax: +81-82-424-5284

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