Hiroki HIGASHIYAMA Ph.D

I’ll be giving a talk on craniofacial evolution at this year’s SVP (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology) symposium.🐸🐔🐭💀👽️
See you in Birmingham! 　#SVP2025 #2025SVP

We are thrilled to share our new preprint entitled “The origin and molecular evolution of the mammalian liver cell architecture” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

NeuroSC is a new #OpenAccess tool that lets researchers interactively explore neuronal morphology, membrane contacts and synaptic connectivity across #CElegans development.
buff.ly/Dd9Kqvs

For centuries, anatomists debated true origin of levator veli palatini—vital for speech & swallowing. Researchers found it arises from cartilaginous Eustachian tube not petrous bone, reshaping understanding of vocal tract evolution
Pagano et al: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

【フェア】誠品生活日本橋にて、今月から「みすず書房 在庫僅少本フェア」が始まりました。入口付近で、ふだん店頭に並ぶことの少ない書籍を中心に約90点を展開中です。10/19まで。ぜひお早めにお立ち寄りください。

17歳の時に描いた絵。
My drawing from when I was 17.

オオミズアオ♂Japanese Luna Moth
“Actias aliena”

Material: Colored pencil.
Kent paper(Post card)

エゾシマリス
Tamias sibiricus lineatus

colored pencil, kent paper.

#SciArt

『第15回 自然の生命を描く12人展』
来月10月8日より、2年に一度開催される生物画家と科学イラストレーター達によるグループ展・「第15回 自然の生命を描く12人展」に私も参加いたします。
図鑑や絵本などでお馴染みの作家の皆さまによる作品は、どれも圧巻です。ご都合のつく方は、ぜひお立ち寄りください。

2025年10月8日(水)〜14日(日)
10:00〜18:30
会場: 文房堂ギャラリー
千代田神田神保町1-21-1 文房堂ビル4F

出展者: 梅村有美・大片忠明・大田黒摩利・川崎映・菊谷詩子・小島由利子・小堀文彦・杉浦千里・田中豊美・地本義信・箕輪義隆・渡辺のり子

I’ll be giving my talk “A Tale of Two Premaxillae: From Ancestral Jaw Tip to Mammalian Nose”
at the #SVP2025 symposium Multidisciplinary Approaches to Skull Function & Evolution.

It’s scheduled for the final afternoon (Nov 15)… hope everyone sticks around till then 😅

A reminder about the #SVP2025 workshop "Palaeoart Past and Present: the view from the UK" for those last-minute early-bird [=cheap] conference registrants! It's shaping up to be a great one-day pre-conference event: please come along if you're a #paleoart fan attending SVP!

At Tsukuba again this year—mentoring “Vertebrate Precision Anatomy” and working on dissection + sketches of the Arctic lamprey (Lethenteron camtschaticum).

Teaching “Animal Morphology and Evolution” at Musashino Art University 武蔵野美術大学 again this year.
…Wait, it starts next week already?😵

Birthday present from my wife. Ex Libris of Fáfnir, Guardian of the Hoard.📔🐉✨️

📢 Call for Papers!
AR Special Issue: Evolution of Birth Difficulties

✨ Focus: Obstetrical dilemma, pelvic anatomy, neonatal & primate adaptations
📅 LOI: Sept 1 | 📝 Manuscript: Dec 1

Guest Editors: Nicole Torres Tamayo & Cédric Cordey
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/as...

Huge thanks to everyone who joined our symposium at the Society of Evolutionary Studies, Japan!
Nagahama was such a charming city — classic streets and great food.

Next up: I’ll be speaking at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) symposium. See you in Birmingham this November! #SVP2025

CT-scanning a rare perinatal Gavialis gangeticus (critically endangered gharial) reveals unique skull + sinus features differing from adults. Researchers share a free 3D atlas for future crocodylian ontogeny research.
Maria Castillo & Maria Gold:
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This week, the Society for the Evolutionary Study, Japan (SESJ2025) will be held at Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology.
I am organizing a symposium with three guest speakers on the theme of "Theory, Plant, and Animal── Evolvability of Morphology." (in Japanese)

#ICVM2025 (International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, online) I will give a talk on the evolution of the head-trunk interface and the heart.

In the session General Morphology and Morphological Evolution 3.

International conference
"Limb Development and Regeneration: Quantitative, Ecological, and Diversification Studies"
cscenter.co.jp/limbdev26/

23-27 March, 2026. Tokyo, JAPAN.

New study reveals surprising jaw diversity in early ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)!
Using XCT, researchers analyzed mandibles of 19 Devonian species—showing considerable variation in size, structure, and teeth.
Research by Ben Igielman et al.: anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

"How the Face Came to Be" | Seitai no Kagaku, 76(3) 2025 imis.igaku-shoin.co.jp/journal/425/... (in Japanese)

A short Japanese review I wrote was apparently popular enough to get featured. Available FREE to read online (browser only, no PDF) until the end of August 2025.

⇩figures I drew.

顔の来た途 | 生体の科学 76巻3号 (2025年6月発行) | 医学書院 雑誌電子版 imis.igaku-shoin.co.jp/journal/425/...

以前出版された短い総説ですが、好評だったらしくピックアップ記事に選ばれました。2025年8月末までweb上で無料で読めるらしいです（ブラウザのみ. PDFは無し）。

⇩こんな図を描いたよ。

It is not a political statement to note the fact that science enhances our well being, expands our knowledge of the world, and drives economic growth 🧪

New from the lab! Announcing MORPHOVIEW a powerful tool to quantify in high throughput the 3D structures of cells and tissues during organ morphogenesis. Great work by Sam Norris. 🧪

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dvdy.70061

Last Saturday, we had the kickoff symposium for MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (B): "Detecting Evolvability Dynamics" @evol-dynam.bsky.social
detecting-evolvability-dynamics.com/en/

Are you a scientist with an interest in photography? We're delighted to announce that the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition is now open for entries until 15 August 2025! 🎉 Find out more: royalsociety.org/journals/pub... #RSPphotocomp

Abstract submission completed.
　ICVM-14
SVP 85th Annual Meeting