Yasuhiro Sato, Ph.D.

Last update on 7 October 2024

Curriculum Vitae
First Name: Yasuhiro
Family Name: Sato
Pronoun: he/him
Current affiliation: Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University
Institutional address: N10W5 Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Hokkaido, Japan
E-mail: yassato”at”ees.hokudai.ac.jp; yassato36c”at”outlook.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-6466-723X
ResearcherID: N-7939-2013
Google scholar citations: https://scholar.google.co.jp/citations?user=HbrGYr8AAAAJ&hl=en
Personal website: https://yassato.github.io/

Education• 23 March 2016. PhD in Science (Biosciences), Center for Ecological Research, Graduate School of
Science, Kyoto University, Japan (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Kudoh) [Thesis title: Associational antiherbivore defense in the trichome dimorphism of Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera (Brassicaceae);
available at https://doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19536]• 25 March 2013. MSc in Science (Biosciences), Center for Ecological Research, Graduate School of
Science, Kyoto University, Japan (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Kudoh)• 24 March 2011. BSc in Agriculture (Bioresource Sciences), Laboratory of Insect Ecology, Faculty ofAgriculture, Kyoto University, Japan (supervisor: Assistant Prof. Dr. Takayoshi Nishida)

Employment history• April 2024–Present. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Group of Ecological Genetics, Section ofEnvironmental Biology, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Japan• April 2021–March 2024. Senior research and teaching assistant (Oberassistent) at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland (PI: Prof. Dr. Kentaro
K. Shimizu)• October 2017–March 2021. Junior Group Leader of Precursory Research for the Embryonic Scienceand Technology (PRESTO) program of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) at Ryukoku
University, Japan (host: Associate Prof. Dr. Atsushi J. Nagano)• April 2016–September 2017. Independent Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (JSPS) at Ryukoku University, Japan (host: Senior Lecturer Dr. Atsushi J. Nagano)• April 2015–March 2016. Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) for
PhD students at Kyoto University, Japan (host: Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Kudoh)• June 2013–March 2014. Research Assistant at the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,
Japan

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Visiting and guest position• October 2017–March 2024. Guest researcher of Research Institute for Food and Agriculture, Ryukoku
University, Japan• August 2017–December 2024. Affiliated member of University Research Priority Program for Global
Change and Biodiversity (URPP GCB), University of Zurich, Switzerland https://www.gcb.uzh.ch/en/
aboutus/people.html• June 2016–September 2016. Visiting postdoctoral researcher, Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics
Group (Shimizu Lab), University of Zurich, Switzerland• April 2016–March 2020. Affiliated scientist of the Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University,
Japan

Approved funding and fellowships
1. October 2024–March 2028 [Phase I]. ‘Establishment of quantitative ecological genetics for the control ofplant-plant interactions’, Fusion Oriented REsearch for disruptive Science and Technology (FOREST),Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan (a single lead applicant; direct cost 50,000,000
JPY + indirect cost 15,000,000 JPY)
2. November 2023–October 2024. ‘Using open data to reveal the genomic basis that underpins positiveplant-plant interactions’, Spark rapid funding, Grant ID:CRSK-3_221418, Swiss National Science
Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland (a single lead applicant; total budget 100,000 CHF = 103,616 EUR
upon the currency rate of the starting date)
3. April 2023–March 2027. ‘Joint analysis of plant-plant interactions using field GWAS and RNA-Seq’,
Grant-in-aid for Early-career Scientists, Grant ID:JP23K14270, Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science (JSPS), Japan (a single lead applicant; direct cost 3,600,000 JPY + indirect cost 1,080,000
JPY = 32,116 EUR upon the currency rate of the starting date)
4. April 2020–March 2023. ‘Theoretical consideration of plant biodiversity effects driven by inter-genotypicinteractions’, Grant-in-aid for Early-career Scientists, Grant ID:JP20K15880, Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS), Japan (a single lead applicant; direct cost 3,200,000 JPY + indirect cost
960,000 JPY = 35,049 EUR upon the currency rate of the starting date)
5. October 2017–March 2021. ‘Large-scale omics approach towards a pest control by mixed planting’,
PRESTO project, Grant ID:JPMJPR17Q4, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) (a single
lead applicant; direct cost 40,000,000 JPY + indirect cost 12,000,000 JPY = 391,418 EUR upon thecurrency rate of the starting date + group leader’s own salary) https://www.jst.go.jp/kisoken/presto/
en/project/1112074/1112074_26.html
6. April 2016–September 2017. ‘Genome-wide association study and prediction of pest communities onnatural accessions of the model plant species’, Research Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researcher, Grant
ID:JP16J30005, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (a single lead applicant; direct cost
2,700,000 JPY + indirect cost 810,000 JPY = 27,449 EUR upon the currency rate of the starting date
+ fellow’s own salary)
7. April 2015–March 2016. ‘A test of the mechanism maintaining plant defense polymorphism in a wild
Arabidopsis’, Research Fellowships for PhD Students, Grant ID:JP15J00400, Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science (JSPS) (a single lead applicant; direct cost 1,200,000 JPY + indirect cost 360,000
JPY = 12,101 EUR upon the currency rate of the starting date + fellow’s own salary)

Mentoring
1. Iqra Akram (PhD student at Hokkaido University; Role: supervisor)
2. Lukas Rohr (Master student at the University of Zurich; Role: supervisor)
3. Dr. Chongmeng Xu (former PhD student at the University of Zurich, PhD defended on 17 April 2023;
Role: co-supervisor as ‘Leitung der Dissertation’)4. Elina Jansone (Undergraduate internship at the University of Zurich; Role: supervisor)
5. Kazuya Takeda (Research assistant at Ryukoku University; Role: daily supervisor as an employer)
6. Silvija Milosavljevic (Undergraduate internship at the University of Zurich; Role: co-supervisor)
7. Dimitri Anderfuhren (Undergraduate internship at the University of Zurich; Role co-supervisor)
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Teaching experience
1. May 2024. Special Lecture of Agricultural and Environmental Biology, University of Tokyo, Japan(Role: one-time guest lecturer)
2. September 2021–March 2024. BIO373: Next Generation Sequencing for Evolutionary Functional
Genomics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Role: course management, co-instructor, and examiner;
No. of participants = 15-20)
3. May 2022. BIO334: Practical Bioinformatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Role: temporal
co-instructor during a sabbatical absence of PI; No. of participants = ca. 25)
4. April 2019–May 2019. External Lecturer of Basic Genetics, Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University,
Japan (Role: 90-min. lectures × five times for a liberal art course in Japanese; No. of participants = ca.
50)
5. July 2018–August 2018. International Biology Undergraduate Summer School (BUSS) 2018, Universityof Zurich, Switzerland (Role: supervision of undergraduate student’s fieldwork and presentation; No. ofparticipants = 1)
6. July 2017–August 2017. BIO378: Research Practical in Evolutionary Biology and Systematics, Universityof Zurich, Switzerland (Role: supervision of undergraduate student’s fieldwork, data analysis, andreport writing; No. of participants = 1)
7. September 2013–January 2015. External Teaching Assistant of Programming Practical, Faculty of
Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Japan (Role: teaching assistant of R language; No. ofparticipants = 5-10)

Panels, boards, and reviewing activities
1. January 2019–Present. Editorial board member of the Society for the Study of Species Biology, Japan
2. October 2023–November 2024. Guest editor for the special issue “Ecology and Evolution”, Plant andCell Physiology
3. April 2020–December 2021. Reviewing editor of Journal of Evolutionary Biology
4. December 2022. Organizing committee member of the 52nd symposium of the Study of Species Biology,
Japan, https://sites.google.com/view/sssb2020shiga
5. November 2016. Organizing committee member of 5th Japan-Taiwan Ecology Workshop, Kyoto, Japan,
https://sites.google.com/site/jtecolw5th/
6. Total 54 peer-review activities verified by the Web of Science, https://www.webofscience.com/wos/
author/rid/N-7939-2013.

Active memberships in scientific societies
1. American Society of Naturalists (Permanent membership since October 2017)
2. Ecological Society of Japan (October 2011–Present)
3. Society for the Study of Species Biology (December 2010–Present)
4. European Society for Evolutionary Biology (April 2020–December 2024)
5. The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (January 2018–Present)

Organization of conferences
1. December 2019. Sato Y, Muranaka T. Cutting-edge technology of plant omics and phenotyping (inJapanese). The 51st Symposium of the Society for the Study of Species Biology, Miyazaki, Japan
2. March 2015. Sakata Y and Sato Y. Overview of evolutionary ecology of plant-herbivore interactions(in Japanese). Workshop 12: The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of Japan, Kagoshima,Japan

Prizes and awards
1. 2 February 2018. Inoue Research Award for Early-career Scientists, Inoue Foundation for Science, Japan

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2. 3 December 2016. Kataoka Award for Early-career Researchers, The Society for the Study of Species
Biology, Japan
3. 2 March 2016. Ikushi Prize for Outstanding PhD Students, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS), Japan https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-ikushi-prize/awards_fy2015_01.html
4. April 2011–March 2015. Refund Exemption for Excellent Students, JASSO Scholarship, Japan

Career breaks• June 2024–September 2024. Parental leave at Hokkaido University, Japan

Personal skills
License
1. Swiss driver license
2. Japanese diver license
Computer languages
1. R (package developer level)
2. Python (basic level)
3. Bash (basic level)
Natural languages
1. English (proficient)
2. Japanese (native speaker)

References
1. Prof. Dr. Kentaro K. Shimizu
Position: Full Professor
Relationship: Postdoc advisor
Affiliation: Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies (Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften), University of Zurich, Switzerland
Address: Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 635 6740
E-mail: kentaro.shimizu@uzh.ch
Website: https://www.ieu.uzh.ch/en/staff/member/shimizu_kentaro.html
Keywords: Evolutionary Genomics, Plant Mating System, Polyploidy
2. Prof. Dr. Atsushi J. Nagano
Position: Full professor
Relationship: Postdoc advisor
Affiliation: Faculty of Agriculture, Ryukoku University, Japan (adjunct with Project Professor at theInstitute of Advanced Biosciences of Keio University, Japan)
Address: Yokotani 1-5, Seta Oe-cho, Otsu, Shiga 520-2194, Japan
Phone: +81 77 599 5656
E-mail: anagano@agr.ryukoku.ac.jp
Website: https://researchmap.jp/anagano?lang=en
Keywords: Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics, Plant Physiology
3. Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Kudoh
Position: Full professor
Relationship: PhD supervisor
Affiliation: Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Japan
Address: 509-3, 2-chome, Hirano, Otsu, Shiga 520-2113, Japan
Phone: +81 77 549 8255
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E-mail: kudoh@ecology.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Website: https://www.ecology.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kudoh/en/index.html
Keywords: Molecular Ecology, Plant Ecology, Flowering Phenology

Achievements†

Equal contribution; *CorrespondencePeer-reviewed articles
1. Sato Y*, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Takeda K, Schmid B, Nagano AJ*, Shimizu KK*. (2024) Reducing
herbivory in mixed planting by genomic prediction of neighbor effects in the field. Nature Communications 15:8467. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52374-7
2. Stockenhuber R, Akiyama R, Tissot N, Milosavljevic S, Yamazaki M, Wyler M, Arongaus AB, Podolec
R, Sato Y, Widmer A, Ulm R*, Shimizu KK*. (2024) UV RESISTANCE LOCUS 8-mediated UV-B
response is required alongside CRYPTOCHROME 1 for plant survival in sunlight under field conditions.
Plant and Cell Physiology 65:35-48. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcad113
3. The Herbivory Variability Network. (2023) Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain variability
in herbivory. Science 382:679-683. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh8830 [a consortium paper
including Y. Sato as one of 191 co-authors]
4. Xu C† , Sato Y† *, Yamazaki M, Brasser M, Barbour MA, Bascompte J, Shimizu KK*. (2023) Genomewide association study of aphid abundance highlights a locus affecting plant growth and flowering in
Arabidopsis thaliana. Royal Society Open Science 10:230399. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230399
5. Sato Y*, Takahashi Y, Xu C, Shimizu KK*. (2023) Detecting frequency-dependent selection throughthe effects of genotype similarity on fitness components. Evolution 77:1145–1157. https://doi.org/10.
1093/evolut/qpad028
6. Shimizu-Inatsugi R*, Morishima A, Mourato B, Shimizu KK, Sato Y. (2023) Phenotypic variation ofa new synthetic allotetraploid Arabidopsis kamchatica enhanced in natural environment. Frontiers in
Plant Science 13:1058522 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1058522
7. Takimoto H† *, Sato Y† , Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK, Kanagawa A. (2021) Using a two-stage convolutional
neural network to rapidly identify tiny herbivorous beetles in the field. Ecological Informatics
66:101466 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101466
8. Sato Y, Yamamoto E, Shimizu KK*, Nagano AJ*. (2021) Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighborgenotypic identity into genome-wide association studies of field herbivory. Heredity 126(4):597–614.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-00401-w
9. Sato Y† *, Takeda K† , Nagano AJ*. (2021) Neighbor QTL: an interval mapping method for quantitative
trait loci underlying plant neighborhood effects. G3; Genes|Genomes|Genetics 11(2):jkab017.
https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkab017
10. Shimizu-Inatsugi R*, Milosavljevic S, Shimizu KK, Schaepman-Strub G, Tanoi K, Sato Y. (2021)
Metal accumulation and its effect on leaf herbivory in an allopolyploid species Arabidopsis kamchatica
inherited from a diploid hyperaccumulator A. halleri. Plant Species Biology 36(2):208–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/1442-1984.12304
11. Sato Y, Tezuka A, Kashima M, Deguchi A, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Yamazaki M, Shimizu KK*, Nagano
AJ*. (2019) Transcriptional variation in glucosinolate biosynthetic genes and inducible responses
to aphid herbivory on field-grown Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Genetics 10:787. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2019.00787
12. Sato Y, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Yamazaki M, Shimizu KK*, Nagano AJ*. (2019) Plant trichomes and asingle gene GLABRA1 contribute to insect community composition on field-grown Arabidopsis thaliana.
BMC Plant Biology 19:163. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-1705-2
13. Nakadai R† *, Hashimoto K† , Iwasaki T, Sato Y. (2018) Geographical co-occurrence of butterfly
species: the importance of niche filtering by host plant species. Oecologia 186(4):995–1005. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4062-1
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14. Sato Y† *, Ito K† , Kudoh H. (2017) Optimal foraging by herbivores maintains polymorphism in defence
in a natural plant population. Functional Ecology 31(12):2233-2243. https://doi.org/10.1111/13652435.12937
15. Sato Y*, Kudoh H. (2017) Herbivore-mediated interaction promotes the maintenance of trichomedimorphism through negative frequency-dependent selection. The American Naturalist 190(3):E67E77. https://doi.org/10.1086/692603
16. Sato Y*, Kudoh H. (2017) Fine-scale frequency differentiation along a herbivory gradient in thetrichome dimorphism of a wild Arabidopsis. Ecology and Evolution 7(7):2133-2141. https://doi.org/
10.1002/ece3.2830
17. Sato Y*, Kudoh H. (2016) Presence of substitute diets alters plant resistance to specialist and generalist
herbivores: a meta-analysis. Ecosphere 7(11):e01446 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1446
18. Sato Y*, Kudoh H. (2016) Associational effects against a leaf beetle mediate a minority advantage
in defense and growth between hairy and glabrous plants. Evolutionary Ecology 30(1):137-154.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-015-9809-0
19. Sato Y*, Sato S. (2015) Spring temperature predicts the long-term molting phenology of two cicadas,
Cryptotympana facialis and Graptopsaltria nigrofuscata (Hemiptera: Cicadidae). Annals of the
Entomological Society of America 108(4):494-500. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/sav036
20. Sato Y*, Kudoh H. (2015) Tests of associational defence provided by hairy plants for glabrous plants ofArabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera against insect herbivores. Ecological Entomology 40(3):269-279.
https://doi.org/10.1111/een.12179
21. Sato Y, Kudoh H*. (2014) Fine-scale genetic differentiation of a temperate herb: relevance of local
environments and demographic change. AoB PLANTS 6:plu070. https://doi.org/10.1093/aobpla/
plu07022. Sato Y*, Kawagoe T, Sawada Y, Hirai MY, Kudoh H. (2014) Frequency-dependent herbivory by aleaf beetle, Phaedon brassicae, on hairy and glabrous plants of Arabidopsis halleri subsp. gemmifera.
Evolutionary Ecology 28(3):545-559. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-013-9686-3
23. Sato Y*, Kudoh H. (2013) Relative strength of phenotypic selection on the height and number offlowering-stalks in the rosette annual Cardamine hirsuta (Brassicaceae). Journal of Ecology andEnvironment 36(3):151-158. https://doi.org/10.5141/ecoenv.2013.151
24. Sato Y*, Takakura KI, Nishida S, Nishida T. (2013) Dominant occurrence of cleistogamous flowers of
Lamium amplexicaule in relation to the nearby presence of an alien congener L. purpureum. ISRN
Ecology Article ID:476862. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/476862

Peer-reviewed monographs
1. Sato Y*, Wuest SE*. (2024) The genetics of plant–plant interactions and their cascading effects on
agroecosystems – from model plants to applications. Plant and Cell Physiology https://doi.org/10.
1093/pcp/pcae092
2. Sato Y*. (2018) Associational effects and the maintenance of polymorphism in plant defense against
herbivores: review and evidence. Plant Species Biology 33(2):91-108. https://doi.org/10.1111/14421984.12201
3. Sakata Y*, Sato Y. (2017) Evolutionary ecology of plant defense: integrating different spatial scales
within and among species (in Japanese). Japanese Journal of Ecology 67(3):287-306. https://doi.org/10.18960/seitai.67.3_287

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
1. Kuzuhara H, Takimoto H, Sato Y, Kanagawa A. (2020) Insect pest detection and identification
method based on deep learning for realizing a pest control system. Proceedings of the Society of
Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE) 2020 Annual Conference 2020 . pp. 709–714.
https://doi.org/10.23919/SICE48898.2020.9240458

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Contributions to books
1. Sato Y. (2024) Chapter 7: The maintenance of trichome dimorphism through associational effects: acase study of Arabidopsis halleri and a leaf beetle (in Japanese). In: Ecology of Plant Defense Against
Herbivores (Y. Sakata and T. Tsunoda eds), Species Biology Series, Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Tokyo,
Japan. ISBN:978-4-8299-6211-4.
2. Sato Y, Muranaka T. (eds). (2023) Trans-Scale Biology of Plants: Integrating genomics, phenomics,
and ecology to unveil biodiversity (in Japanese). Species Biology Series, Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan,
Tokyo, Japan. ISBN:978-4-8299-6210-7.

Patents and licenses
None

Computer programs
1. Sato Y*, Yamamoto E, Shimizu KK, Nagano AJ. (2021) ‘rNeighborGWAS’. R package available at theComprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), https://cran.r-project.org/package=rNeighborGWAS
2. Sato Y*, Takeda K, Nagano AJ. (2021) ‘rNeighborQTL’. R package available at CRAN, https://cran.rproject.org/package=rNeighborQTL
And the other source codes for published research, personal utilities, and teaching materials are available atthe GitHub repository, https:// github.com/ yassato

Conference contributions
1. Sato Y, Takahashi Y, Xu C, Shimizu KK. Detecting frequency-dependent selection through the effects
of genotype similarity on fitness components. biology24 : The largest conference of organismal
biology in Switzerland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (19 January 2024, poster)
2. Sato Y, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Takeda K, Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK. Genome-wide neighbor effects predictgenotype pairs reducing herbivory in mixed planting. Biodiversity Convention - From Science to
Implementation, Monte Verita, Ascona, Switzerland (27 June 2023, talk)
3. Sato Y, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Takeda K, Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK. Keystone pairs of Arabidopsis
accessions increase plant resistance to field herbivory. In Concurrent 15: Arabidopsis relatives fromlaboratories to natural fields (organized by Prof. K.K. Shimizu and H. Kudoh). The 33rd International
Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2023), Chiba, Japan (7 June 2023, talk)
4. Sato Y, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Takeda K, Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK. Keystone genotype pairs increase
plant resistance to herbivory. Gordon Research Conference: Plant-Herbivore Interaction
2023 , Ventura, CA, USA (2 March 2023, poster)
5. Sato Y, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Takeda K, Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK. Keystone genotype pairs increase
population-level resistance to herbivory. SwissPLANT 2023 Symposium, Les Diablerets, Switzerland(23 January 2023, talk)
6. Sato Y, Shimizu-Inatsugi R, Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK. Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighborgenotypic identity in genome-wide association study of field-grown Arabidopsis thaliana. ‘From place
to space - Tracing the spatial dimension of plant sciences’ by Plant Science Center Symposium2022 , P30, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (7 December 2022, poster)
7. Sato Y, Takahashi Y, Xu C, Shimizu KK. Detecting frequency-dependent selection using a genetic
marker regression of fitness components. In: S24 ‘Progress and Prospects in Adaptation Genomics’. The
2022 Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Prague, Czech Republic (18August 2022, reviewed talk)
8. Sato Y, Nagano AJ, Shimizu KK. Genomics of within-species mixed planting against insect herbivores.
In: MON3-b ‘From the species to the individual: investigating plant diversity on the scale that mattersmost’ (organized by Drs. P. Villa and M.C. Schuman). World Biodiversity Forum 2022 , Davos,
Switzerland. (29 June 2022, reviewed talk) https://www.worldbiodiversityforum.org/

79. Kuzuhara H, Takimoto H, Sato Y, Kanagawa A. Insect pest detection and identification method basedon deep learning for realizing a pest control system. The Society of Instrument and Control
Engineers (SICE) Annual Conference 2020 . Chiang Mai, Thailand [changed into an online
meeting due to COVID-19] (25 September 2020, talk)
10. Sato Y. Using personal legacy data to reveal the molting phenology of Japanese cicadas. In: S19 ‘Ongoing Cicada Research in East Asia’ (organized by Prof. J. Yikweon), The 8th EAFES International
Congress, Nagoya, Japan (April 2018, invited talk)And the other 7 English posters and 35 contributions in Japanese (4 invited talks, 10 talks and 21 posters)

Outreach activities
1. Teaching assistant for making a botanical specimen at Japanese School in Zurich (Japanische Schule in
Zuerich), Uster, Switzerland. (1 July 2023, in Japanese)
2. Sato Y, Sato S. (2016) 12-years cicada monitoring. Proceedings of the Natural History Museum
Mt. Fujiwara 38:1–5 (in Japanese)-> Plain-text Japanese summary of Sato and Sato (2015) Annals of the Entomological Society of America
108(4):494–500.

Preprint
Currently none8