NISHIGAMI YukinoriAssociate Professor
- Laboratory
- Laboratory of Physical Ethology
- Research Theme
- Mechanisms of behavior of protists
- Research Keywords
Protists, Amoeba, Ciliates, Cellular locomotion, Behavior, Cilia, Actin, Myosin, Imaging
Overview of Research
Analysis of the genomic information exhibited that animals, plants, and fungi are a tiny part of the diversity of eukaryote and almost diversity of eukaryote is composed of protists. The behavior of protists affects to the environment. To understand the earth’s environment, it’s necessary to elucidate the mechanisms of behavior of protists. Then I intend to clarify the mechanisms of various types of behavior of protists.
Charge
- School of Science:
Biological Science course (Macromolecular Functions), Collaborative Laboratories - Graduate School of Life Science:
Division of Soft Matter, Soft Matter Biophysics
Message
Protists are unique microorganism and fluently defy our conventional wisdom. For example, some kind of protists crawls on a wall using leg-like-structure without any nerve system. If you are interested in this strange phenomena, I welcome you, who have any academic backgrounds.
Representative Publications
“Light-sheet microscopy reveals dorsoventral asymmetric membrane dynamics of Amoeba proteus during pressure-driven locomotion” Atsushi Taniguchi†, Yukinori Nishigami†, Hiroko Kajiura-Kobayashi, Daisuke Takao, Daisuke Tamaoki, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Shigenori Nonaka, Seiji Sonobe (†equally contributed) Biology Open, 12, bio059671 (2023)
“Switching of behavioral modes and their modulation by a geometrical cue in the ciliate Stentor coeruleus” Syun Echigoya, Katsuhiko Sato, Osamu Kishida, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Yukinori Nishigami† (†corresponding author) Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10, 1021469 (2022)
“Binocular stereo-microscopy for deforming intact amoeba” Kenji Matsumoto, Yukinori Nishigami, Toshiyuki Nakagaki Opt. Express, b, 2424-2437 (2022)
“Near-wall rheotaxis of the ciliate Tetrahymena induced by the kinesthetic sensing of cilia ” Takuya Ohmura†, Yukinori Nishigami†, Atsushi Taniguchi, Shigenori Nonaka, Takuji Ishikawa, Masatoshi Ichikawa (†equally contributed) Sci. Adv., 7, eabi5878 (2021)
“Influence of cellular shape on sliding behavior of ciliates” Yukinori Nishigami†, Takuya Ohmura†, Atsushi Taniguchi, Shigenori Nonaka, Junichi Manabe, Takuji Ishikawa, Masatoshi Ichikawa (†equally contributed) Commun. Integr. Biol., 11, e1506666 (2018)
“Simple mechanosense and response of ciliate motion reveal the intrinsic habits of ciliates” Takuya Ohmura†, Yukinori Nishigami†, Atsushi Taniguchi, Shigenori Nonaka, Junichi Manabe, Takuji Ishikawa, Masatoshi Ichikawa (†equally contributed) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 115, 3231 (2018)
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Note
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– Time: Anytime during the lecture period
– Place:Research Institute for Electronic Science (RIES) Building, #02-107
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E-mail: nishigami[at]es.hokudai.ac.jp