Executive Committee
President
Dr. Ryutaro TAO
(Kyoto University)
Vice President
Dr. Katsuhiro SHIRATAKE
(Nagoya University)
Vice President
Dr. Tadahisa HIGASHIDE
(NARO)
Vice President
Dr. Akiko ITO
(NARO)
Secretary General
Dr. Chitose HONSHO
(University of Miyazaki)
Treasurer/Sponsorship
Dr. Takeshi TAKASAKI-
YASUDA
(Kobe University)
JSHS Liaison
Dr. Hisayo YAMANE
(Kyoto University)
Committee Chairs
Scientific Program
Dr. Ryohei NAKANO
(Kyoto University)
Excursion
Dr. Munetaka HOSOKAWA
(Kindai University)
Public Relations
Dr. Shungo OTAGAKI
(Meijo University)
Publication
Dr. Masayoshi SHIGYO
(Yamaguchi University)
Diversity Promotion
Dr. Sumiko SUGAYA
(University of Tsukuba)
Venue / Social Event
Dr. Takaaki NISHIJIMA
(Kyoto Prefectural University)
Young Minds Promotion
Dr. Yukio OZAKI
(Kyushu University)
Opening Event
Dr. Akihiro ITAI
(Kyoto Prefectural
University)
External Relations with Academic Society and Association
Dr. Sachiko ISOBE
(The University of Tokyo)
Collaborative Events
Dr. Satoshi KUBOTA
(Nihon University)
Advisory Board
Dr. Yoshinori KANAYAMA
(Tohoku University)
Dr. Michio SHIBATA
(The University of Tokyo [Emeritus])
Dr. Saneyuki KAWABATA
(The University of Tokyo)
Dr. Motoaki DOI
(Kyoto University [Emeritus])
Tetsuya Higashiyama began his pioneering work on live-cell analysis of plant reproduction at The University of Tokyo, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1999. After serving as an assistant professor in the same department for several years, he joined Nagoya University as a full professor in 2007. During his time at Nagoya, he and his colleagues established the interdisciplinary Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), which brought together biologists and synthetic chemists to advance research on key cell-to-cell signaling molecules in plant reproduction. In 2022, after holding joint appointments at both Nagoya University and The University of Tokyo for three years, Professor Higashiyama fully returned to The University of Tokyo. He currently leads the International Leading Research Program, “Key-Molecule Network in Plant Reproduction (KEPLR),” which involves collaboration with nine principal investigators in Japan and over 20 principal investigators in Europe.
Dr. Hasegawa is an executive researcher at the Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan. After graduating from Kyoto University, he worked as an assistant professor at Kyushu Tokai University and an associate professor at Hokkaido University before joining NARO in 2016.