HIGASHIYAMA, Hiroki

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

UPCOMING

• Japanese translation of Benton's Vertebrate Palaeontology (5th ed.) coming from Asakura Shoten, November 2026 — I translated chapters 4, 5, and 6.
• Hiroki Higashiyama "Developmental Trajectory Divide Underlying Drastic Facial Evolution" in Symposium 13, The 28th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Evolutionary Biology. August 21, 2026. Nagoya University, Japan (in Japanese) (invited)

NEWS

• 2026-07-02.     New publication: Higashiyama & Kanai, Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology, 3rd ed. Biliary anatomy.
• 2026-06-10.      Organised the symposium "Integrative Perspectives on Craniofacial Evo-Devo" at 10th EuroEvoDevo.
• 2025-08-22.      Organised 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.