HIGASHIYAMA, Hiroki

This is the personal website of Hiroki Higashiyama,
 who study the morphological evolution of vertebrates.

UPCOMING

• 東山大毅　"哺乳類の鼻の進化的起源：比較形態学における「かたち」の問い"「かたち」の定量ワークショップ 九州大学　2026年7月27-28日 (invited)
• Hiroki Higashiyama, Tatsuya Hirasawa, Masato Hoshino, Kentaro Uesugi, Naoki Irie "Fundamental Reorganization of the Amniote Facial Developmental Framework in Mammalian Evolution" Euro Evo Devo (10th European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology). June 9-12 2026. Glasgow, UK. (invited)

NEWS

• 2025-08-22.      Hosted the symposium "Theory, Plants, Animals — The Evolvability of Morphology" at SESJ2025.
• 2025-04-01.      Starting new fellowship: JSPS research fellow RPD at RCIES, SOKENDAI.
• 2025-02-28.      New publication: Higashiyama et al., Journal of Morphology. Development of murine face.
• 2024-12-03.       New publication: Meguro et al., Journal of Anatomy
• 2024-11-25.        New publication: Hayashi et al., BioScience. 
• 2024-04-01.       Starting new job at  Research Center for Integrative Evolutionary Science, SOKENDAI.
• 2024-03-25.       °˖✧˖° 10th anniversary of my Ph.D degree °˖✧
• 2023-12-22.        New publication: 『生物の科学 遺伝』(in Japanese)
• 2023-08-22.       New publication: Mizukami et al., 2023. eLife. Origin of Coronary artery.
• 2023-04-06.      New publication: Chi et al., 2023. Journal of Veterinary Medical Science. Ear anatomy of the fruit bat.
• 2023-03-29.       My award-winning article was published in SESJ News. (in Japanese)
• 2023-03-24.       New publication: Muramatsu et al., 2023. The Anatomical Record. The gross anatomy of hagfish.
• 2023-03-01.        Presentation at Gordon Research Conference: Neural Crest and Cranial Placodes (Italy).
• 2022-12-13.         New preprint; Muramatsu et al., 2022. bioRxiv. Gross anatomy of hagfish.
• 2022-12-03.        MBSJ2022 Science Pitch Award (PROFILE)
• 2022-09-12.        New preprint: Mizukami et al., 2022. bioRxiv. The evolution of coronary arteries.
• 2022-08-26.       New publication: Higashiyama et al., 2022. Evolution & Development. See PUBLICATION.
• 2022-08-18.        Added a new presentation at the annual meeting of Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan.
• 2022-06-24.       New contributed preprint paper (Iwase et al., 2022. bioRxiv) was added in the PUBLICATIONS.
• 2022-06-24.       I won the Young Scientist Initiative Award, SESJ (Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan) (PROFILE)
• 2022-04-02.       English page has released.
• 2022-03-15.　 　Started the website.