Tenure-track assistant prof at Hokkaido University. Working on plant ecological genetics with quantitative tools🌿🧬🖥️. 🇯🇵(Kansai; PhD+postdoc)→🇨🇭(Zurich; senior postdoc)→🇯🇵(Hokkaido; now). Mainly in English (he/him) https://yassato.github.io
Yasuhiro (Yasu) Sato
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If you are working on crop diversification, plant–plant interactions, agroecology, or related topics, join us in Paris-Saclay !
📅 7–9 October 2026 — Paris-Saclay, France
📢 Abstract submission deadline: June 15th
More information:
mix4agroecology.colloque.inrae.fr
Next fall, Paris-Saclay will host what promises to be a major scientific event for agroecology: the Mix4Agroecology conference.
New paper out in Philosophical Transactions B @royalsociety.org Neighbor #GWAS here shows that NFDS underlies #overyielding through neighbour genotypic effects in #Arabidopsis thaliana. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Why are leaves the shape that they are? What controls intraspecific, genetic variation in leaf shape?
New from my lab, in collaboration with many others, led by PhD student Amanda Peake: mapping the leaf shape polymorphism in Ipomoea hederacea.
... and here is the press-release from Hokkaido University (only in Japanese, sorry). www.hokudai.ac.jp/news/2026/06...
This is a part of the theme issue “Exploring negative frequency dependent selection across levels: from genetics to ecology and back again.” I’m honored to be listed there. doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
I deactivated my X account as it's not been seen frequently. Goodbye to Twitter👋
