Yukinori Nishigami

Profile Information

Affiliation: Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University

Degree: 博士(理学)(兵庫県立大学)

Researcher number: 80639021
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9996-8606
J-GLOBAL ID: 201401011440031188
researchmap Member ID: 7000010667

External link: http://pel.es.hokudai.ac.jp/

Research Interests

Research Areas

Committee Memberships

May, 2023 - Present

科学技術専門家ネットワーク・専門調査員, 文部科学省科学技術・学術政策研究所科学技術予測・政策基盤調査研究センター
Apr, 2023 - Present

分野別専門委員（細胞形態形成）, 日本生物物理学会
Apr, 2022 - Present

運営委員会委員, 第五期ナショナルバイオリソースプロジェクトゾウリムシ
Oct, 2021 - Present

活性化委員会委員, 日本原生生物学会
Oct, 2021 - Present

評議委員, 日本原生生物学会
Nov, 2014 - Present

編集委員, 日本原生生物学会
Apr, 2019 - Mar, 2022

運営委員会委員, 第四期ナショナルバイオリソースプロジェクトゾウリムシ
Oct, 2018 - Sep, 2021

評議委員, 日本原生生物学会

Awards

Oct, 2018

第51回日本原生生物学会大会ベストプレゼンテーション賞, 日本原生生物学会

西上幸範
Nov, 2014

奨励賞, 日本原生生物学会

西上幸範

Papers

Cellular Ethological Dynamics in Diorama Environments

Yukinori Nishigami, Itsuki Kunita, Katsuhiko Sato, Toshiyuki Nakagaki

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Dec 15, 2023 Peer-reviewedInvited
Three-dimensional architecture and assembly mechanism of the egg-shaped shell in testate amoeba Paulinella micropora

Mami Nomura, Keisuke Ohta, Yukinori Nishigami, Takuro Nakayama, Kei-Ichiro Nakamura, Kenjiro Tadakuma, Josephine Galipon

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 11, Sep 4, 2023 Peer-reviewed
Caenorhabditis elegans transfers across a gap under an electric field as dispersal behavior

Takuya Chiba, Etsuko Okumura, Yukinori Nishigami, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Takuma Sugi, Katsuhiko Sato

Current Biology, 33(13) 2668-2677.e3, Jul, 2023 Peer-reviewed
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

Biology Open, 12(2) 10.1242/bio.059671, Feb 15, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Switching of behavioral modes and their modulation by a geometrical cue in the ciliate Stentor coeruleus

Echigoya, S., Sato, K., Kishida, O., Nakagaki, T., Nishigami, Y.

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 10 1021469, Nov 1, 2022 Peer-reviewedLast authorCorresponding author
Simple dynamics underlying the survival behaviors of ciliates

Takuya Ohmura, Yukinori Nishigami, Masatoshi Ichikawa

Biophysics and Physicobiology, 19 e190026, Aug, 2022 Peer-reviewedInvited
Dynamic control of microbial movement by photoswitchable ATP antagonists

Sampreeth Thayyil, Yukinori Nishigami, Md. Jahirul Islam, P. K. Hashim, Ken{\textquotesingle}ya Furuta, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Jian Yu, Min Yao, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Nobuyuki Tamaoki

Chemistry – A European Journal, 28(30) e2022008, Mar 25, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
Binocular stereo-microscopy for deforming intact amoeba

Kenji Matsumoto, Yukinori Nishigami, Toshiyuki Nakagaki

Optics Express, 30(2) 2424, Jan 17, 2022 Peer-reviewed
Accumulation of Tetrahymena pyriformis on Interfaces

Kohei Okuyama, Yukinori Nishigami, Takuya Ohmura, Masatoshi Ichikawa

Micromachines, 12(11) 1339-1339, Oct 30, 2021 Peer-reviewed
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

Science Advances, 7(43) abi5878, Oct 22, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Uni-cellular integration of complex spatial information in slime moulds and ciliates

Schenz, D., Nishigami, Y., Sato, K., Nakagaki, T.

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 57 78-83, Aug, 2019 Peer-reviewed
Influence of cellular shape on sliding behavior of ciliates

Nishigami, Y., Ohmura, T., Taniguchi, A., Nonaka, S., Manabe, J., Ishikawa, T., Ichikawa, M.

Communicative and Integrative Biology, 11(4), 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Simple mechanosense and response of cilia motion reveal the intrinsic habits of ciliates

Ohmura, T., Nishigami, Y., Taniguchi, A., Nonaka, S., Manabe, J., Ishikawa, T., Ichikawa, M.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(13) 3231-3236, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
The neck deformation of Lacrymaria olor depending upon cell states

Yukinori Nishigami

Journal of Protistology, 51 1-6, 2018 Peer-reviewedLead author
Active Materials Integrated with Actomyosin

Hiroaki Ito, Masahiro Makuta, Yukinori Nishigami, Masatoshi Ichikawa

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN, 86(10) 101001, Oct, 2017 Peer-reviewed
Protein import complexes in the mitochondrial outer membrane of Amoebozoa representatives

Dorota Buczek, Malgorzata Wojtkowska, Yutaka Suzuki, Seiji Sonobe, Yukinori Nishigami, Monika Antoniewicz, Hanna Kmita, Wojciech Makalowski

BMC GENOMICS, 17, Feb, 2016 Peer-reviewed
Non-periodic oscillatory deformation of an actomyosin microdroplet encapsulated within a lipid interface

Yukinori Nishigami, Hiroaki Ito, Seiji Sonobe, Masatoshi Ichikawa

SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 6, Jan, 2016 Peer-reviewedLead author
Wrinkling of a spherical lipid interface induced by actomyosin cortex

Hiroaki Ito, Yukinori Nishigami, Seiji Sonobe, Masatoshi Ichikawa

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 92(6), Dec 21, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead author
Reconstruction of Active Regular Motion in Amoeba Extract: Dynamic Cooperation between Sol and Gel States

Yukinori Nishigami, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Toshiya Kazama, Ryo Kobayashi, Teruo Shimmen, Kenichi Yoshikawa, Seiji Sonobe

PLoS ONE, 8(8), Aug 5, 2013 Peer-reviewedLead author

Misc.

Amoeboid movement utilizes the shape coupled bifurcation of an active droplet to boost ballistic motion

H. Ebata, Y. Nishigami, H. Fujiwara, S. Kidoaki, M. Ichikawa

Feb 6, 2024
原生生物の行動と運動ー単細胞真核生物の生存戦略ー

西上幸範

可視化情報, 44(169) 11-14, Jan 1, 2024 InvitedLead authorLast authorCorresponding author
Voltage Response of STM Tunneling Currents on Microtubules: Proposal of a New Neural Model by Quantum Reduction with Entanglement

Yutaro Teranishi, Keiji Nakatsugawa, Yukinori Nishigami, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Koichi Ichimura, Yuta Fukuda, Satoshi Tanda

Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (LT29), May 22, 2023
First person – Atsushi Taniguchi and Yukinori Nishigami

Biology Open, 12(2), Feb 15, 2023
Linear contraction of stress fibers generates cell body rotation

Chika Okimura, Syu Akiyama, Yukinori Nishigami, Ryota Zaitsu, Tatsunari Sakurai, Yoshiaki Iwadate

Jan 7, 2023
Environment-adaptive transport network in Physarum plasmodium

BSJ-Review, 13 151, Aug, 2022 Peer-reviewedInvited
Fluid Dynamic Model Reveals a Mechano-sensing System Underlying the Behavior of Ciliates

Takuya OHMURA, Yukinori NISHIGAMI, Masatoshi ICHIKAWA

Seibutsu Butsuri, 61(1) 016-019, Jan, 2021 Peer-reviewedInvited
Mechanism of bleb-driven amoeboid locomotion

Yukinori Nishigami, Hiroaki Ito, Masatoshi Ichikawa

Japanese Journal of Protozoology, 49 17-25, 2016 Peer-reviewedLead author
Studies on bleb-driven cell locomotion using reconstituted systems

Yukinori Nishigami, Hiroaki Ito, Masatoshi Ichikawa

BSJ-Review, 6 82-91, 2015 Peer-reviewedLead author

Books and Other Publications

原生生物学事典

梁瀬隆二, 西上幸範 (Role: Contributor, 3-7 運動関連装置)

朝倉書店, May, 2023 (ISBN: 9784254171815)
原生生物学事典

谷口篤史, 西上幸範 (Role: Contributor, 2-2-2 ツブリネア)

朝倉書店, May, 2023 (ISBN: 9784254171815)
原生生物学事典

谷口篤史, 西上幸範 (Role: Contributor, 2-2-1 ディスコセア)

朝倉書店, May, 2023 (ISBN: 9784254171815)
原生生物学事典

谷口篤史, 西上幸範 (Role: Contributor, 2-2 アメーボゾア)

朝倉書店, May, 2023 (ISBN: 9784254171815)

Teaching Experience

Dec, 2020 - Present

Soft Matter Physics Nonlinear Phenomenon (Hokkaido University)
Dec, 2020 - Present

Functional and Regulatory Life Science Nonlinear Phenomenon (Hokkaido University)
Apr, 2019 - Present

Freshman Seminar Science in our daily life (Hokkaido University)
Sep, 2019 - Sep, 2019

Special Lecture in Biology (Konan University)

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

環境連成力学を基盤とした微生物行動シミュレータの開発

科学研究費助成事業, 学術変革領域研究(A), 日本学術振興会, Sep, 2021 - Mar, 2026

石川拓司, 上野裕則, 西上幸範
再構成アプローチで解明するダイナミンの膜切断機構とその破綻に起因する疾患発症機序

科学研究費助成事業, 国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(B)), 日本学術振興会, Oct, 2019 - Mar, 2023

竹田哲也, 内橋貴之, 竹居孝二, 西上幸範, 谷知己
Analysis of higher order F-actin structures in bleb-driven amoeboid locomotion using a reconstituted system

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020
Active bio & soft matters studied through interface-induced phenomena

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2019

Ichikawa Masatoshi, Nishigami Yukinori
新規モデルシステムを用いたアメーバ運動機構の解明

科学研究費助成事業, 特別研究員奨励費, 日本学術振興会, 2010 - 2012

西上幸範

Media Coverage

流れに逆らって泳ぐ微生物

読売新聞, くらしサイエンス, Jan 16, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
下流に流されない微生物たちの、自動的に流れに逆らう仕組みを解明

大学ジャーナルオンライン, https://univ-journal.jp/125014/, Oct 28, 2021 Internet
京大など、水生微生物が上流に向かって移動する仕組みを解明

環境展望台, 国内ニュース, https://tenbou.nies.go.jp/news/jnews/detail.php?i=32647, Oct 21, 2021 Internet

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