Kunifumi Tagawa

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Affiliation: Associate Professor (Director), Seto Inland Sea Carbon-neutral Research Center, Blue Innovation Division, Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University

Degree: Master of Science(Mar, 1994, Kyoto University)
Doctor of Science(Mar, 1997, Kyoto University)

Other name(s) (e.g. nickname): Kuni Tagawa
Researcher number: 00403577
J-GLOBAL ID: 200901036979273005
researchmap Member ID: 5000088796

Evolutionary developmental biology on the enteropneust hemichordates and acoel flatworms.

Research Areas

Life sciences / Developmental biology /

Research History

Nov, 2023 - Nov, 2025

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University of Surabaya, Indonesia
Apr, 2022 - Mar, 2024

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang, Indonesia
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2024

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang, Indonesia
Nov, 2021 - Nov, 2023

VIsiting Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University of Surabaya, Indonesia
Nov, 2019 - Nov, 2023

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University of Surabaya, Indonesia
Apr, 2023

所長・准教授, 瀬戸内CN国際共同研究センターブルーイノベーション部門臨海実験所, 広島大学
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2023

Director & Associate Professor, Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Life, Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University
Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2022

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University of Malang, Indonesia
Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2019

Director, Graduate School of Science, Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University
Apr, 2007 - Mar, 2019

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University
Oct, 2013 - Mar, 2014

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University
Apr, 2012 - Mar, 2013

Part-time Lecturer, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi Univeristy
Apr, 2007 - Sep, 2007

Part-time Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Kochi University
Apr, 2005 - Mar, 2007

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, Marine Biological Laboratory, Hiroshima University
Apr, 2004 - Mar, 2005

Teacher, Junior High School, Kwansei Gakuin
Nov, 2003 - Mar, 2004

Research Associate, Health Science Center at Houston, The University of Texas
Feb, 2001 - Jul, 2003

Assistant Reseacher, Pacific Biomedical Research Center, University of Hawaii
Nov, 1998 - Jan, 2001

Research Fellowship for Young Scientist (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Jun, 1997 - Jul, 1998

Postdoctoral Fellow, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas
Apr, 1997 - May, 1997

Assistant Research Staff, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University

Education

Apr, 1994 - Mar, 1997

Kyoto University
Apr, 1992 - Mar, 1994

Kyoto University
Apr, 1986 - Mar, 1990

Kyoto University of Education

Awards

Sep, 2011

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE Award 2011（日本動物学会 2011年度論文賞）,日本動物学会 2011年度藤井賞, Hemichordate Ptychodera flavaの再生過程を記載したこの論文は，半索動物の再生と発生を研究する上で基本的な研究資料として，今後も長く引用され続ける内容を持っている。今後半索動物のゲノム解析データが公開され，cDNAクローン等研究ツールが整備されることで，この論文に記載された再生過程はその進化的側面だけでなく，生物の再生原理そのものの理解にも資する資料となると期待, 日本動物学会会長長濱嘉孝

Papers

Transcriptomic evidence for <scp>Brachyury</scp> expression in the caudal tip region of adult <scp>Ptychodera flava</scp> (Hemichordata)

Asuka Arimoto, Koki Nishitsuji, Kanako Hisata, Noriyuki Satoh, Kuni Tagawa

Development, Growth & Differentiation, Aug 30, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Highlights in Fisheries Science Research

Fisheries Science, 88(4) 310-310, Jul 15, 2022 Invited
Ancestral Stem Cell Reprogramming Genes Active in Hemichordate Regeneration

Humphreys T, Weiser K, Arimoto A, Sasaki A, Uenishi G, Fujimoto B, Kawashima T, Taparra K, Molnar J, Satoh N, Marikawa Y, Tagawa K

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10 1-11, Feb 15, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Advances in single cell analysis and its application in evolutionary developmental biology

Precision Medicine, 4(8) 53-56, Aug 15, 2021
A draft nuclear-genome assembly of the acoel flatworm Praesagittifera naikaiensis.

Asuka Arimoto, Tomoe Hikosaka-Katayama, Akira Hikosaka, Kuni Tagawa, Toyoshige Inoue, Tatsuya Ueki, Masa-Aki Yoshida, Miyuki Kanda, Eiichi Shoguchi, Kanako Hisata …

GigaScience, 8(4), Apr 1, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Xenacoelomorph-Specific Hox Peptides: Insights into the Phylogeny of Acoels, Nemertodermatids,and Xenoturbellids

Tatsuya Ueki, Asuka Arimoto, Kuni Tagawa, Noriyuki Satoh

Zoological Science, 36(5) 395-401, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Regeneration in the enteropneust hemichordate, Ptychodera flava, and its evolutionary implications

Asuka Arimoto and Kuni Tagawa

Development, Growth & Differentiation, 60(6) 400-408, Aug 14, 2018 Peer-reviewedInvited
Magnetically tunable control of light reflection in an unusual optical protein of squid

M. Iwasaka, K. Tagawa, Y. Kikuchi

AIP ADVANCES, 7(5), May, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Acorn worms: Interesting deuterostomes lurking in sandy mud sea bottom

Kuni Tagawa

55(5) 308-310, Apr 20, 2017 Peer-reviewedInvited
Hemichordate models

Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 39 71-78, Jun 18, 2016 Peer-reviewedInvited
ギボシムシのゲノムから考察する新口動物の起源

ライフサイエンス新着論文レビュー, Nov 19, 2015 Invited
Hemichordate genomes and deuterostome origins

Oleg Simakov, Takeshi Kawashima, Ferdinand Marletaz, Jerry Jenkins, Ryo Koyanagi, Therese Mitros, Kanako Hisata, Jessen Bredeson, Eiichi Shoguchi, Fuki Gyoja …

NATURE, 527(7579) 459-+, Nov, 2015 Peer-reviewed
無脊椎動物と脊椎動物の間

細胞工学別冊, 188-195, Sep 5, 2015
ゲノムで進化の謎を解く!第13回無脊椎動物と脊椎動物の間

佐藤矩行, 高橋弘樹, 田川訓史

細胞工学, 134(1) 90-94, 2015 Invited
Hedgehog Expression During Development and Regeneration in the Hemichordate, Ptychodera flava

Asuka Arimoto, Kuni Tagawa

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 32(1) 33-37, Jan, 2015 Peer-reviewed
On a Possible Evolutionary Link of the Stomochord of Hemichordates to Pharyngeal Organs of Chordates

Noriyuki Satoh, Kunifumi Tagawa, Christopher J. Lowe, Jr-Kai Yu, Takeshi Kawashima, Hiroki Takahashi, Michio Ogasawara, Marc Kirschner, Kanako Hisata, Yi-Hsien Su …

GENESIS, 52(12) 925-934, Dec, 2014 Peer-reviewed
A cDNA Resource for Gene Expression Studies of a Hemichordate, Ptychodera flava

Kuni Tagawa, Asuka Arimito, Akane Sasaki, Mizuki Izumi, Satoko Fujita, Tom Humphreys, Asao Fujiyama, Hiroshi Kagoshima, Tadasu Shin-, Yuji Kohara …

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 31(7) 414-420, Jul, 2014 Peer-reviewed
ヒメギボシムシPtychodera flavaのcDNAリソース

JAMBIO News Letter, 5(12), 2014 Invited
Identification of an intact ParaHox cluster with temporal colinearity but altered spatial colinearity in the hemichordate Ptychodera flava

Tetsuro Ikuta, Yi-Chih Chen, Rossella Annunziata, Hsiu-Chi Ting, Che-huang Tung, Ryo Koyanagi, Kunifumi Tagawa, Tom Humphreys, Asao Fujiyama, Hidetoshi Saiga …

BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 13, Jun, 2013 Peer-reviewed
Identical Genomic Organization of Two Hemichordate Hox Clusters

Robert Freeman, Tetsuro Ikuta, Michael Wu, Ryo Koyanagi, Takeshi Kawashima, Kunifumi Tagawa, Tom Humphreys, Guang-Chen Fang, Asao Fujiyama, Hidetoshi Saiga …

CURRENT BIOLOGY, 22(21) 2053-2058, Nov, 2012 Peer-reviewed

Misc.

A cDNA Resource for Gene Expression Studies of a Hemichordate, Ptychodera flava (vol 31, pg 414, 2014)

Kuni Tagawa, Asuka Arimoto, Akane Sasaki, Mizuki Izumi, Satoko Fujita, Tom Humphreys, Asao Fujiyama, Hiroshi Kagoshima, Tadasu Shin-, Yuji Kohara …

ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 31(12) 862-862, Dec, 2014

Books and Other Publications

Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 2450)

Edited by Simon Blanchoud, Brigitte Galliot (Role: Joint author)

Springer Nature, 2022
Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide

Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019
基礎生物科学

高橋純夫、高橋裕一郎、峰雪芳宣、竹内栄、坂本尚昭、山本卓、御輿真穂、坂本浩隆、富岡憲治、三村徹郎、田川訓史、奥田敏統、角野康郎 (Role: Joint author)

培風館, Jul, 2016 (ISBN: 9784563078218)
Hemichordate embryos; procurement, culture, and basic methods

(Role: Joint author)

Elsevier Press, 2004
Developmental mechanisms underlying the origin and evolution of chordate

(Role: Joint author)

Springer, 2000

Presentations

The history of Ptychodera flava research

Kuni Tagawa

The 88th Annual Meetings of the Zoological Society of Japan, Sep 21, 2017 Invited

Research Projects

Vertical transfer of symbiotic algae in Acoela: How far has the integrity between host and symbiotic algae evolved?

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Hikosaka Akira

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