ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-140122-7
Yano, Tohru
Email: tohruyano@jikei.ac.jp
URL: http://tohruurhot.webnode.com
Affiliation:
Address: Department of Anatomy (Histology and Embryogenesis) 3-25-8 Nishi-Shinbashi Minato-ku Tokyo 105-8461 Japan (Institution website)
Country: Japan
Phone: +81-3-3433-1111
Fax: +81-3-3433-2065
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8501-9357


BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Education:
Ph.D. (D.Life Sci.), Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, March 2012
Title: Morphogenesis of the pectoral fin in teleost
Supervisor: Dr. Koji Tamura
Readers: Dr. Asako Sugimoto, Dr. Takuya Minokawa, Dr. Yasuhisa Matsui, Dr. Harukazu Nakamura

M.Life Sci., Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, March 2009 (Supervisor: Dr. Koji Tamura)

B.S. (Biology), Faculty of Science, Tohoku University, March 2007 (Supervisor: Dr. Hiroyuki Ide, Dr. Koji Tamura)




Academic Positions:

2014 Apr- Part-time Lecturer, The Jikei School of Nursing
Class: Human Anatomy (Part: musculoskeletal system)

2013 Aug- Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy (Histology and Embryogenesis), The Jikei University School of Medicine [Okabe lab website]

2012-2013 Post-doctoral fellow, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University [Tamura lab website]

2010-2012 Part-time Lecture, Miyagi Advanced Dental Hygienist College (Sendai, Japan)
Class: Principle of Biology

2009-2012 Research Fellow supported by JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1) [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)]

2009-2012 IIARE scholorship for "Doctor's course students of the Institute". [Institute for International Advanced Research and Education (IIARE)]

2008-2009 IIARE scholorship for "Master's course students of the Institute". [Institute for International Advanced Research and Education (IIARE)]




Awards and honors:
2013
The Best Poster Presentation Award (19th Japanese Medaka and Zebrafish Meeting, Sendai, Japan)

2011
Travel fellowship from Japanese Society of Divelopmental Biologists (JSDB) for BSDB, BSCB and JSDB joint meeting in University of Warwick (UK)



Peer-Review Contribution
2017: 5 articles
2015: 1 article
2014: 1 article
2013: 1 article
(Publons: tracking my contributions as a reviewer)



Teaching of Students in Courses
2016 Apr-
"Human Developmental Biology" Lecture (Part: Limb Development)
Class: 2nd year Medical Students (Nov, 90 min x1)



2015 Apr-
"Medical English" Exercise
Class: 3rd year Medical Students (April - July, 90 min x10)

"General Histology" Lecture (Part: Extracellular matrix)
Class: 2nd year Medical Students (June, 90 min x1)

"Infection/Immunity" Exercise
Class: 3rd year Medical Students (November, 120 min x1 per year)



2014 Apr-
"Symptomatology" Exercise
Class: 3rd year Medical Students (June, 90 min x2-3)

"Microscopic Histology" Practice (general)
Class: 2nd year Medical Students (September - December, 240 min x6)

"Human Anatomy" Lecture (Part; Musculoskeletal system)
Class: 1st year Nursing School Students (May - June, 90 min x6)



2013 Aug-
"Gross Anatomy" Practice, "Microscopic Histology" Practice (paticular), The Jikei University
Class: 2nd year Medical Students (September - December, 240 min x29)

"Basic Research" Exercise
Class: 3rd year Medical Students (January - Febrary, 6 weeks)



2007-2012
"Developmental Biology and Regeneration" Practice, Tohoku University
Class: 3rd year Undergraduate Students (July, 10 days)




Laboratory Research Supervisory and Training Responsibilities:
2013 Aug- Supervision of 7 medical students and 1 Ph.D. student / in our lab
2009-2013 Support for 4 undergraduate students and 2 graduate students / in our lab



Certificates of Faculty Development (FD) programs
2017 Skills of interactive active learning for medical education (The Jikei University School of Medicine)
2016 Startup program for medical students (The Jikei University School of Medicine)
2014 Skills of creating the MCQ (multiple choice question) exam (The Jikei University School of Medicine)



The Other Educational Affairs in The Jikei University
・"Medical Student Life Advisory Committee" member (2019- present)
・Medical Student Life Adviser (2nd-year medical students) (2019- present)
・Proctoring of the university entrance examination (2014- present)
・Creating and Proctoring of the written examination at mid-term (2nd-year medical students, August) (2015- present)
・Creating and Proctoring of the written examination for promotion (2nd-year medical students, January) (2014- present)
・Creating and Proctoring of the oral examination for promotion (2nd-year medical students, January) (2015- present)



Activities for Scientific Communities
The Zoological Society of Japan (2007- present)

The Japanese Society of Developmental Biologists (2009- present)

The International Society of Developmental Biologists (2009- present)

The Molecular Biology Society of Japan (2009- present)

The Japanese Association of Anatomists (2015- present)




I have started my research about fin-to-limb evolution since 2006, when I was an undergraduate student.
My current topics include fin development, fin regeneration, and appendage evolution in vertebrates.

Model organisms: Zebrafish, Polypterus senegalus


PUBLICATIONS
Moriyama, Y., Ito, F., Takeda, H., Yano, T., Okabe, M., Kuraku, S., Keeley, F.W., Koshiba-Takeuchi, K. (2016) Evolution of the fish heart by sub/neofunctionalization of an elastin gene. Nature communications. 7:1039710397
Yano, T., Abe, G., Yokoyama, H., Kawakami, K., and Tamura, K. (2012) Mechanism of pectoral fin outgrowth in zebrafish development. Development (Cambridge, England). 139(16):2916-2925

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
(*;corresponding author(s))

2019
〇Nagasawa T., Kawaguchi M., Yano T., Isoyama S., *Yasumasu S., Okabe M.
Translocation of promoter-conserved hatching enzyme genes with intron-loss provides a new insight in the role of retrocopy during teleostean evolution.
Scientific Reports 2019 Feb 21;9(1):2448.
PubMed, DOI

2016
〇Tatsumi N., Kobayashi R., Yano T., Noda M., Fujimura K., Okada N., *Okabe M.
Molecular developmental mechanism in polypterid fish provides insight into the origin of vertebrate lungs.
Scientific Reports 2016 Jul 28;6:30580.
PubMed, DOI

〇Nagasawa T., Kawaguchi M., Yano T., Sano K., Okabe M., *Yasumasu S.
Evolutionary changes in the developmental origin of hatching gland cells in basal ray-finned fishes.
Zoological Science 2016 Jun;33(3):272-81.
PubMed, DOI

〇*Moriyama Y., Ito F., Takeda H., Yano T., Okabe M., Kuraku S., Keeley FW. and *Koshiba-Takeuchi K.
Evolution of the fish heart by sub/neofunctionalization of an elastin gene.
Nature Communications 2016, 7, 10397.
PubMed, DOI


2015
〇Hayashi S., Kobayashi T., Yano T., Kamiyama N., Egawa S., Seki R., Takizawa K., Okabe M., Yokoyama H. and *Tamura K.
Evidence for an amphibian sixth digit.
Zoological Letters 2015, 1:17
PubMed, DOI


2014
*Yano T., Matsubara H., Egawa S., Onodera K., and Tamura K.
"Chapter 22 Fins and Limbs: emergence of morphological differences".
in New Principles in Developmental Processes Kondoh, Hisato; Kuroiwa, Atsushi Eds. Springer
Springer, DOI


2013
〇Shimada A., Kawanishi T., Kaneko T., Yoshihara H., Yano T., Inohaya K., Kinoshita M., Kamei Y., Tamura K. and *Takeda H.
Trunk exoskeleton in teleosts is mesodermal in origin.
Nature Communications 2013, 4, 1639.
PubMed, DOI

*Yano T. and Tamura K.
The making of differences between fins and limbs.
Journal of Anatomy 2012, 222, 100–113.
PubMed, DOI


2012
Yano T., Abe G., Yokoyama H., Kawakami K., and *Tamura K.
Mechanism of Pectoral Fin Outgrowth in Zebrafish Development.
Development 2012, 139, 2916-2925.
PubMed, DOI, "Apical ectodermal ridge" in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2018 Dec-), Essay on the Node, Post by Dr. Masselink


2008
〇*Tamura K., Yonei-Tamura S., Yano T., Yokoyama H., and Ide H.
The autopod: its formation during limb development.
Development Growth and Differentiation 2008, 50, Suppl 1, S177-187.
PubMed, DOI